Really a brilliant idea.
Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp
https://www.awphooey.com/retrofit/autumn
Full list at https://www.awphooey.com/retrofit
(I only know this from your post, so thank you. Just mentioning in case KBHR piques someone's interest more than WKRP. I loved both TV shows.)
Glad the show didn't do this. The writers let these two DJs be the typical 70's DJs who made their own playlists and to hell with the record companies.
Would be interesting to know how much thought the show's writers put into music selection since every song on the playlist was a song noted on the show. It's a nice cross section of American music from mid 60s to early 80s.
I heard that they didn't license the original music for DVD, etc when the show ran, only for reruns, so that the DVDs and so on only have snippets of replacement music.
I wonder, is this replacement music, or the original tracks?
Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay.
The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the side of the road looking for all the world like a cat that wanted you to forget you'd just seen it do something beneath its dignity.
The radio station was portrayed as promoting a big concert through most of that episode, barely mentioning The Who by name that I recall, and it seemed like a "normal" installment for the first part of the television programme. The latter minutes somberly dealt with the tragedy and tried to bring attention to problems with "festival" (general admission) seating for such venues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_concert_disaster
A search says WKRP "In Concert" episode is viewable at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeWECDb3YM
Edit: s/never/barely/;s/20 minutes or so/part/
Still, very cool, and a little jealous of the on-air staff that get to work there.
Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watching it. In contrast, the soundtrack to The Hobbit sounds completely generic and boring, and the result is unwatchable.
Another example is Star Wars. The first two movies had amazingly good soundtracks. The later sequels had boring music, and whaddya know, the sequels were boring.
It just wasn't an issue that was seriously considered by a lot of studios(?) at the time and it's not like back catalog TV shows are usually these big money-makers that warrant a lot of time and cost to get in order.
And think of how few people will watch the show solely because it features copyright music.
It should be the other way around, i.e. Stranger Things should send the record company a bill for the resurgence of "Running up that hill".
So we taped off the area around his desk and started calling him Les. He was like 22 and had no idea what that was about, but he liked the nickname. It's decades later and he still goes by Les. Love it.
[Hugh] Wilson recalled that Dr. Johnny Fever "would always say, 'More music and less Nessman.' And he (Les) never got it."> Other stations have adopted similar branding in reference to the series. In 1986, a Salt Lake City FM station (now KUMT) changed its calls letters to KRPN, and branded itself as WKRP, using the similarity of the spoken letter "N" to the word "in" for a sound-alike station identification: "W KRPN Salt Lake City".
Meta: I'm still learning new things about the 70s and 80s.
There's a scene where Herb is talking his family up as he attempts to casually throw a football with his kid. It quickly becomes obvious Herb has never played with his son, who makes no attempt to catch the ball and just keeps getting hit with it.
Ooh, it's even better than I remembered-- Herb steals his son's stuffed animal from him to get him to play catch:
The conceit of the show (pilot episode) was that the station had been a staid and lame radio station (out of Cincinnati) that suddenly came under new ownership (I think?). The staff now get to build a new (and cooler) brand for the station and there are no longer any guardrails.
a. dead
b. in a nursing home
c. retired
d. one of the above
e. none of the above
The fact that someone posted a link to the article that you probably didn’t read also refutes this premise.
https://classictvhistory.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/turkeys-aw...
CLARKE BROWN: The turkey drop was actually a real incident. ... Although the turkeys were thrown off the back of a truck, as opposed to how it was depicted on the [show].
The Hackers soundtrack made more money than the actual movie. There was a sequel to the soundtrack but not the movie and unless you are involved in development, almost nobody knows the movie but you still hear songs from the soundtracks at nightclubs today.
I'm having trouble coming up with an example, but my dad told me that "Warsaw Concerto" was composed for the movie "Dangerous Moonlight". The movie was bad, but was popular because people really liked "Warsaw Concerto".
I could probably be proved wrong( I don’t think it’s entirely causal but more “they won’t pay for good music if they won’t pay for a good script” kind of thing.
That said, I would absolutely buy (and wear) a Xanadu jacket if I saw one for a reasonable price.
She’s never caught one, even the younger ones. It seems like they can actually fly easier than the adults.
At the same time, they dont seem to be able to fly well when they panic. I let my dogs out one morning not knowing there was a turkey in their fenced area. The turkey freaked out and flew straight into the fence. Never seen a dog move as fast as my 70lb chow/cattle dog mix moved that morning.
And, yes, he destroyed that turkey.
The only reason there was a competing evolutionary theory is because it was erroneously thought that birds have a clavicle and dinosaurs don't, so instead it was proposed that birds and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, and that dinosaurs lost the clavicle. Now that they have excavated many more bones paleontologists have since discovered therapod clavicles.
The scientific consensus today is that the evidence supports the idea that not all the dinosaurs died out when the Chicxulub comet struck 66 million years ago. The ones that could fly or quickly learn how to fly survived and even thrived, and their grandkids are in your back yard right now.
https://www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12/21/its-official-birds-...