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The Lost 45s: Over 800 artist interviews!

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From a previous thread: >interviews with some guy desperately trying to rekindle what's left of a career on the Topsfield Fair/Hampton Beach Casino/Holiday Inn Lounge circuit.

I always find it so amusing how people on this board can be so bitchy; it's like The Golden Girls in here! (great TV show theme too). Last week's interviews on "The Lost 45s" included such has-beens performing at your local Holiday Inn as Brian Wilson, Lindsey Buckingham & George Clinton of Parliament/Funkadelic. This week we have Nile Rodgers of Chic, Gordon Lightfoot and Percy Sledge (on Bette Midler's "When a Man Love's a Woman" from "The Rose.") Anyone can play the songs, but hearing stories behind them is (as American Express says) priceless. As for TV themes: They are part of our culture. Playing the "One Day at a Time" theme last week (yeah, all 60 seconds of it) provoked responses from people who watched the show for 11 years of their life. Let's try not to make terrestrial radio any more boring by refusing to see the bigger picture in a retro show: bringing back the period sonically. It takes a lot of hard work, but listeners love it. This show has always been true to its mission. We don't stray from it. Once again, anyone can play the songs...
 
Isn't the "things you can't buy" a MasterCard promo?

I don't listen to your show since I'm younger than your demo, but keep making your audience happy.
 
Barry Scott said:
Playing the "One Day at a Time" theme last week (yeah, all 60 seconds of it) ...[/b][/color]
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Anything that brings an image of the lovely Valerie Bertinelli to my mind is well worth the price of admission. ;D
 
>it's like The Golden Girls in here! (great TV show theme too).

Just after I posted this, word came out that Andrew Gold has passed away at 59. He had hits with "Lonely Boy" and "Thank You for Being a Friend"--which later became the theme to that show. Plus he was Linda Ronstadt's 70s bandleader & arranger and he guest starred on hits from Eric Carmen, Art Garfunkel & more...He'll be missed. I had him on my show in March talking about a real 'shuddabeen' hit: his UK hit "Never Let Her Slip Away." The beat for that "Lost 45" was later stolen by the Eagles for "Heartache Tonight." Classic story about it too...
 
Barry have you ever tried to get an interview with Carol Kaye?

She recorded with everybody!

I would kill to see the documentary "The Wrecking Crew"
 
So her " Guitars 1965 California Creamin' " record does not count?

http://www.carolkaye.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=72&osCsid=


"In 1965, I cut a multi-guitar album in an attempt to make a name commercially on guitar as I missed guitar (bass chops were beginning to take their toll on my hands for guitar which require more sensitivity for fine jazz playing), and I had some great musicians on that album (now called) Carol Kaye: 1965 Guitars..but the dumbest tune Ice Cream Rock got on the charts so I told them "pull that, I can't see myself playing that on guitar the rest of my life" and settled back down to do studio work thereafter on elec. bass, forgetting about guitar totally......until.....now.....years later, I can play jazz guitar again, and am doing jazz guitar gigs...you can't imagine how great I feel to do that..God is good!"
 
<So her " Guitars 1965 California Creamin' " record does not count?

Sadly, no. Even we have chart limits!
 
For everyone else that is reading this and has no idea wtf I am talking about, Carol Kaye was a studio musician, best known for electric bass, who was part of what became known as " The Wrecking Crew" a group of studio musicians that played on thousands of songs in the 60's without credits.

Everyone from Bobby Darrin to the Monkees, and everyone in between.

google her or watch this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofByti7A4uM&feature=share
 
>Congrats Barry, and keep those interviews coming!

#802 on Monday was Ian Gillan of Deep Purple (and the original Jesus--on the soundtrack that is). #803 & 804 on Tuesday were Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (virtually every hit from the Sound of Philly) and next Monday #805 is Dave Mason! (not Dan Mason).

Gotta do something to set yourself apart from a jukebox!
 
Barry Scott said:
>Congrats Barry, and keep those interviews coming!

#802 on Monday was Ian Gillan of Deep Purple (and the original Jesus--on the soundtrack that is).
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Is this online? I would love to here it. Btw Deep Purple blew house down Tuesday night at the Wang!!
 
Come on, Roger... after a couple of weeks of every Anthony Weiner pun imaginable, you could rephrase that last statement... ::)
 
Barry Scott said:
>Congrats Barry, and keep those interviews coming!

#802 on Monday was Ian Gillan of Deep Purple (and the original Jesus--on the soundtrack that is). #803 & 804 on Tuesday were Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (virtually every hit from the Sound of Philly) and next Monday #805 is Dave Mason! (not Dan Mason).

Gotta do something to set yourself apart from a jukebox!
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Now Barry, would you say your biggest competition comes from that automated station down the dial? A frequency that you were once on when it was a different format? Oh btw, I should put in a interviewer request. I never got a chance to hear the Weird Al Yankovic interview, it would be nice to hear that one. And oh, while we are at it, Dr. Demento's interview also. :)
 
>Now Barry, what would you say was your biggest competition?

Frankly, there isn't a show like "The Lost 45s." No one spends a work week tracking down artists, researching them fully, editing interviews and airing over 15,000 :30 -:60 cuts from these performers. Add in over 25,000 TV, movie & news clips and every Top 40 hit from the era and you start to get the scope of this show. Anyone can play songs, but hearing Lindsey Buckingham talk about "Tusk" and a body part is priceless (insert Mr. Weiner joke here). In order to make listeners care about a specialty show on terrestrial radio, where content should be King, it has to special. With competition from every other source, smart radio programmers know this fact. Either way, I love what I do each week. Absolutely love it.
 
Barry Scott said:
No one spends a work week tracking down artists, researching them fully, editing interviews and airing over 15,000 :30 -:60 cuts from these performers.
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That's because everyone else is busy working during the work week, what do you do every day besides looking for "content"?
 
>That's because everyone else is busy working during the work week, what do you do every day besides looking for "content"?

Once again, seems like everyone is full of negativity on this board. Let's see: published a book and writing another; released two CDs in "The Lost 45s" series and working on another; writing/producing a TV pilot based on the show interviews and just have begun producing a weekly show for other markets. (Other markets: pay attention!) Also, maintain/design a web site with more traffic than most radio stations! And, I am a realtor. Busy, yep. Time for something I love: always.
 
Hi Barry, I try to keep positive on these boards mostly, but it is the negativity and lack of true discussion that keeps me from comming here often. It was more fun a few years ago, but not anymore. :(
 
>I try to keep positive on these boards mostly, but it is the negativity and lack of true discussion that keeps me from comming here often.

Let's rise above it, ok?!
 
Barry - THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO! I've been a listener for 20 years! My wife and I (me 29, her 25) pick up your show on our Grace internet radio and HAVE A BLAST listening! This is the best music-based show on the radio!
 
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