[78-L] Western swing festival on now!

[David Lennick]

We took pronunciation of foreign languages in the Radio-Television Arts course 
at Ryerson. French, Spanish, German, Italian. And Arabic..guess which week I 
happened to skip. Who knew? And the 6-Day War was that year.

dl

On 3/25/2011 12:03 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> And people wonder why we should take foreign languages in school.
>
> Ron L'Herault  (larow is close)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Cary Ginell
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 11:24 AM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on now!
>
>
> Cajun pioneer Leo Soileau's last name was just pronounced "so-LAY" instead
> of "swa-LOW," as it should be pronounced, one of many mangled pronunciations
> on WKCR's western swing broadcast today.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> From: soundthink at live.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:10:40 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on now!
>>
>>
>> If you go to the first of my two links, there are two options for clicking
> on the live broadcast. You can do it with Real Player or via MP3 Stream. I'm
> using the former and have had it on since I got up this morning. The
> announcer is really pretty pathetic. Sounds like a total beginner. There is
> really no learning to be done here - a string of maybe 8-10 songs by one
> artist are played in a row with minimal back announcing of just tune titles.
> No personnel, no instrumentation, not even any intelligent programming. They
> just played about a half hour of Jimmie Revard/Modern Mountaineers and are
> now playing a string of Washboard Wonders Bluebirds, which are hard to take
> played all in a row. I suppose if you want a western swing jukebox, this is
> your place, but so far, nothing at all has been said about the music. Makes
> me yearn to be back in radio...
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:57:54 +0000
>>> From: julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on now!
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> WKCR's weekend western swing festival has begun. They've started off
> by playing strictly music from the '20s and '30s. The music is great but the
> announcing is pretty horrible. I turned on the show just now and already
> heard halting talk and Jimmie Revard's name mispronounced.
>>>>
>>>> Here's the link to the streaming.
> http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/
>>>>
>>>> And here's the program schedule for the weekend:
> http://honkytonkinradio.blogspot.com/
>>>>
>>>> "The Milton Brown Guy" is on at 1 p.m. EDT.
>>>>
>>>> Cary Ginell
>>>>   		 	   		
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Where's the link?
>>>
>>>        Julian Vein
>>> ___________________________