[78-L] WKRC Western swing festival on now!

Fri Mar 25 11:19:14 PDT 2011

As we all know WKCR is a college station . This one owned by Columbia 
University.
All programs are hosted and produced by college students, many of whom are 
without the requisite traning, historical
knowledge or perspective.
Many of the jazz festivals I listen to suffer the same fate. Just last year 
one of the announcers told us that he would now play "Begin The Begyne"
by Arty Shaw.
On the other hand they play the original 78's in many cases, and it is the 
only station in the country regularly broadcasting Jazz, Folk and Country 
Music  Festivals sourced from 78's.
They do week-long Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Roy Eldridge, Count Basie 
and dozens of other salutes.
Much of the jazz material is run and organized by Phil Schaap, the well 
known discographer and historian, but even Phil has to resort to the student 
bench during these 24 hour per day, 7 days per week jamborees.
Obviously, the students have manifold responsibilities and their WKCR chores 
only account for a small part of their university days.
They are volunteers and their expertise ranges from awful to pathetic in 
many but not all cases.
I'm grateful to this station and to the University that sponsors, what to 
most of the metro audience amounts to esoterica.
Long Live WKCR.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2011 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] WKRC Western swing festival on now!

>
> Listened to the interview again as it was broadcast and I retract my 
> statement about the interviewer. He did a pretty good job. He didn't 
> interrupt, he kept his comments relevant, and they did virtually no 
> editing. It went well, I think.
>
> And I'm gratified to hear that I didn't use "you know" and "like" at all.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
>> From: soundthink at live.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:02:05 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] WKRC Western swing festival on now!
>>
>>
>> My interview hour has begun. They're playing "Down By the O-H-I-O" by 
>> Milton Brown.
>>
>> Cary Ginell
>>
>> > From: soundthink at live.com
>> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:01:49 -0700
>> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on now!
>> >
>> >
>> > The person who interviewed me sounded very disengaged. He had prepared 
>> > a list of questions, but, like most interviewers, didn't engage me in 
>> > conversation about the subject; he simply moved from one question to 
>> > the next. I was able to answer them all with some detail but nothing 
>> > that I said prompted any kind of meaningful follow-up questions. One 
>> > comment that irked me a little was when he made the statement that 
>> > Milton Brown wasn't a musician. Just because you don't play an 
>> > instrument doesn't mean you're not a musician. Milton could read and 
>> > write music and he sang with the fluidity of a musician, changing 
>> > melodies and improvising. That's a musician to me.
>> >
>> > The female announcer who is on the air now has a fairly good grasp of 
>> > Cajun French pronunciations, but she still doesn't seem to be doing 
>> > more than summarizing liner notes she is probably referring to. Her 
>> > comments are very basic. She just mispronounced Harry Choates' name (it 
>> > should be "Shoats," not "Choates"). I suppose you have to understand 
>> > that these are probably students that are on the air, but they should 
>> > have a little better grasp of their material.
>> >
>> > Cary Ginell
>> >
>> > > From: sternth at attglobal.net
>> > > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> > > Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 11:43:08 -0500
>> > > Subject: Re: [78-L] Western swing festival on now!
>> > >
>> > > Hi Cary,
>> > >   Depressing to hear they are mangling this opportunity.  Did the 
>> > > person who interviewed you sound as if they knew anything about
>> > > the music/performers?  Perhaps these comments should go to the 
>> > > producer in the hope that there won't be 3 days of displayed
>> > > ignorance.  Or perhaps put together a  pronunciation guide for their 
>> > > neophytes.
>> > >   Best wishes, Thomas.
>> > >
>> > > -----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 10:24 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
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