When you mentioned Spazz's suggestion that you play "Rubber Room" for three hours it reminded of a DJ named Jason on WTTS' (Bloomington IN) late evening "New Music" slot who played Flipper's "Brainwash" repeatedly for around 30 minutes. What a wonderful radio moment that was for me, it put me in a good mood for weeks. He was fired, however.
4:15pm
listener simon:
You know, even though I'm not interested in every single goddam thing you play, I find that I love you as a person...
...in a creepy sort of way.
:p
4:15pm
Erik:
I actually listened to some of the lyrics of the Dr. Stephen Baird song and had an impression different from yours: I thought he was singing from the pro-science, pro-chaos, pro-evolution corner. I checked on it and found http://www.scientificgospel.com/cgi-bin/drbaird/showpage.pl?page=bio:
"Stephen Baird was raised for twelve years in the Bible Belt. [...] After moving to California and attending Stanford University he underwent a conversion to rationalism. Almost immediately he noticed the dearth of scientific gospel music..."
He is not a submarine for the fundamentalists but a rationalist on a mission!
4:44pm
Ken:
Erik - Sorry about that, I mis-spoke. Baird is clearly an anti-creationist, not anti-evolution as I said.
Simon - thanks, you creep me out too! just kidding.
Jeffersonic - in 1980 when I was Program Director of my student station in Ann Arbor, we played "It's My Party" for 24 hours after Reagan was elected president.
-ken
11:14am
Editor B:
I think it was during this show that I heard some great but unusual organ playing, with very audible clicking of keys and the organist singing along wordlessly at one point. Who was that?
12:07pm
Editor B:
Sorry, disregard my question, it was later in the day.
11:14am
bb:
no jesus christ superstar, ken?
4:44am
trent:
Dear Ken, thanks for completely fucking up my plan to play that Bobby Conn song first thing on Monday morning!!! Very considerate!!!
1:27pm
Miqel.com:
Bill Mac ROCKED the House! That was awesome .. heard it live & was amazed but the video makes it all the more "real". This was a classic cosmic WFMU moment! So glad the marathon was a success, If WFMU folded it could well mean the end of the world. Long Live FREEFORM RADIO.