Newsletter July 17-23, 2009

This is a highly edited version of the AM 740 Yahoo Group Newsletter available to members of that group.

Radio Quote:

"Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, "Think again, bat man."" (Jack Handy, Saturday Night Live)

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Feds: NY woman misused UN funds meant for Iraq

By CAROLYN THOMPSON (AP) – 2 days ago

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An American woman and an Iraqi-born associate are charged with misusing some of the $350,000 the United Nations gave them to start a radio station to promote women's rights in Iraq.

The U.S. Attorney's Office has accused Deborah Bowers and Steve Jabar, who ran a not-for-profit group near Buffalo, of using about $65,000 meant for Radio Almahaba in Baghdad to pay off personal loans, credit cards and property taxes.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jw9xI8rZtg1rsrbyPI-SD_bzKI-gD99EFIB00

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Radio Programming Highlights

AM 740

SATURDAY

APPLAUSE 4-6 p.m. Saturday July 18th 2009

With this program you can now here APPLAUSE in full High Fidelity & Stereo on the internet www.am740.ca.

July 18, 2009

Part One

Film music in cover versions with the Boston Pops conducted by Arthur Fiedler: "Tom Jones" (1963); "The Longest Day" (1963); with "Manha de Carnaval" from the 1959 picture "Black Orpheus" - RCA Victor

Selections from the 1994 original cast recording of "Only The Lonely - The Roy Orbison Story" starring Canadian Larry Branson: "Claudette"; "Only The Lonely"; "Running Scared"; "The Great Pretender"; "Oh Pretty Woman" - First Night

Selections from "Tom Jones" - the musical - a studio recording was made around the mid 1960's starring Bob Roman as Tom with music and lyrics by Ruth Batchelor and Bob Roberts: Opening; "Girls, Beautiful Girls"; "How Can I Thank You"; "Believe Me" - LP Theatre Productions

Selections from the soundtrack to the Disney picture "Up" with music by Michael Giacchino: "Up With Titles"; "Memories Can Weigh You Down"; "The Spirit of Adventure"; "Up With End Credits" - Walt
Disney

Part Two

Themes to television westerns with the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra: "The Virginian"; "High Chaparral"; "Wagon Train"; "Bonanza" - Silva Screen

Selections from the 10th anniversary edition of the revival of Kander and Ebb musical "Chicago" currently in its 13th year on Broadway: "Entre'acte"; "When You're Good to Mama" sung by Lynda Carter;
"Roxie" sung by Brooke Shields; "Loopin' the Loop" - a 1975 demo recording with Fred Ebb & John Kander, vocals (song was cut from the show) - Masterworks Broadway

Selections from the original London cast recording of "Robert and Elizabeth" starring John Clements, June Bronhill and Keith Michell based on "The Barretts of Wimpole Street": Overture; "The Family
Moulton-Barrett"; "I'm The Master Here"; "Frustration"; "I Know Now" - DRG

A salute to Fred Astaire with the Boston Pops conducted by John Williams featuring music associated with him and his films - much of written with him in mind: "Top hat, white tie and tails" (Irving Berlin) introduced by Astaire in the movie "Top Hat" (1935); "The carioca" (Vincent Youmans from the movie "Flying down to Rio" (1933); "Dancing in the Dark" (Arthur Schwartz) from the 1931movie "The Bandwagon"; "I won't dance" (Jerome Kern) from "Roberta"; "The continental" (Con Conrad) from The Gay Divorcee" - Philips

Enjoy!

Michael

Michael Englebert
APPLAUSE - Zoomer Radio AM 740
michael@radioapplause.com
www.radioapplause.com

10am-3pm :: Live in The City with Frank Proctor
Live from the Ontario 300 fresh-water sailing race, Marilyn Lightstone's art on display opening today at the Arta Gallery and Production of " Bare", a new Rock musical at Heart House July 17th – August 1st.


4pm-6pm :: Applause with Michael Englebert
Michael has selections from "Tom Jones - the musical", "Only The Lonely - The Roy Orbison Story" and "Up"...just to name a few. Later in the show, themes to television Westerns and a salute to Fred
Astaire.


6pm-7pm :: Back to Live with Jean deBeaubassein
Blues masters provide the live concert entertainment on this Saturday's "Back to Live" - B.B.King with his guitar 'Lucille', along with Bobby 'Blue' Bland play classics like "Stormy Monday Blues', 'Three O'Clock in the Morning', and 'Let the Good Times Roll'.

SUNDAY

noon-1pm :: Mike Filey's Toronto
Mike remembers Toronto's first automatic traffic lights, stories about High Park and landing on the moon in 1969. Tune in for featured music from Duke Ellington, George Olsen, Neil Diamond and more!


1pm-2pm :: Celebrity Spotlight with Larry Jackson
It's "Diva Summer" on Celebrity Spotlight and featured this week are the hits from Motown legend, Diana Ross. Since the beginning of her career with The Supremes and as a solo artist, Ross has sold more than 100 million records.


2pm-4pm :: Vintage Favourites with Gene Stevens
AM 740 is a media sponsor of this year's Collingwood ElvisFest the weekend of July 24-26, and we'll have a salute to "The King of Rock'n'Roll", and his exciting break through in the mid-1950s. It also happens to be the 55th anniversary of the release of his very first local hit - 'That's All Right'. Our salute to Elvis in the 50s, is this Sunday 2-3pm.; in the following hour, 3-4pm., a full hour of "Moon Songs" from the 'moon-June-spoon' vintage era.


4pm-6pm :: A Little Breath of Scotland with Denis Snowdon
Old songs like "O Gin I Were A Baron's Heir", new songs like "The Lion Roars Inside Me" and the sounds of the Strathclyde Police Pipe Band from our vinyl vault, are all included in this weeks show.

7pm-midnight :: Big Band Sunday Night with George Jonescu

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Treasure Island Oldies

Programming Note

Please note that we have made a few changes to our programming schedule. We have added a new special on July 26, Cover Tunes, with in-studio guest, Tom Locke. Tom is a long time friend who researches and writes the weekly feature, Moment In Time. Our annual Instrumental Gems - Wordless Wonders Special returns Sunday, August 2nd.Our Labour Day Weekend "Back To School" Special will now take place on August 30 instead of September 6th. On September 6 we will have a brand new Motown Special, incorporating the fantastic documentary, The Motown Story. This will not be a live show as I will be away on vacation for that week.

Thanks for another fun show again this week. The Chat Room was hopping with the regular Nuts in the Hut, plus new friends including Shirley from Cincinnati, Ohio, Paul in Ellicott City, Maryland, and Carl from Quebec City, Quebec. It's great to have them join us. And we'd love to welcome you as well. Click Chat on the Menu to find out how to log into the Chat Room. We look forward to seeing you.

I heard from Alan in Seattle, Washington. He is madly trying to find out the title and artist for a song he remembers from the 1950s. The lyrics to the chorus are: "Leadfoot, leadfoot speed was all he craved, his right foot on the floorboard and his left foot in the grave". If you have any idea, please let me know so that I can pass on the info to Alan. Get in touch with me by email: michael@treasureislandoldies.com and thanks in advance for any help you can provide. It will mean a lot to him.

I always welcome your requests and there's two ways to get in touch with me. First click the Requests button on any page of the website to send your message. You can also call our 24/7 Listener Request Line at 206-203-4678 and record your voicemail message. I'll play back both your message and your song request on the show.

The Treasure Island Oldies Blog features The Fleetwoods in a live performance clip from American Bandstand and they are introduced by Dick Clark. Enjoy!

Voice Your Choice spotlights Connie Francis with two of her many hit songs: Breakin' In A Brand New Heart and Don't Break The Heart That Loves You. Cast your vote by clicking the Voice Your Choice button on any page of the website and make your selection. We'll play the winning song in Hour 3 of next week's show.

I still invite you to submit your photo for the Listener Gallery. There are already a lot of listeners appearing and it would be great to have your participation too. Send your photo, name, city and country to michael@treasureislandoldies.com and our webmaster, Eddy Fisher, will post your picture very soon.

Have a great week.

Bye for now.

Michael

http://www.treasureislandoldies.com/pages/start.html

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Randy's Vinyl Tap

The Vinyl Highway has led us to Motor City... Detroit Michigan for the second part of Randy Bachman's look at the legendary Motown label. This week we'll hear music from Diana Ross and the Supremes,
The Tempattions, Marvin Gaye, Martha Reeves and The Vandellas and believe it or not, there is even a little bit of Canadian content. You don't have to wait to hear it through the grapevine... just tune in to Vinyl Tap this week.

Broadcast Time:
Saturdays at 7 p.m. (8 p.m. AT, 8:30 p.m. NT) on CBC Radio One
CBC Radio 1 Sirius Channel 137

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BBC Radio 4

For a comprehensive list of all our programmes, see our schedule pages:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm

Monday 20 July

The King of Scotland, 2.15-3.00pm
By Richard Hurford. In the early days of Queen Victoria's reign, a boy and a teenage girl go on an adventure through the chimneys of Buckingham Palace.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lc9ff

Give Me the MoonLite, 9.00-9.30pm
Richard Hollingham tells the story of the British MoonLITE project and the lunar ambitions and achievements of the other space-exploring nations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lnycv

The First Men in the Moon, 10.45 Weekdays
Broadcast as part of Radio 4's 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, Tim Pigott-Smith reads from the 1901 novel by HG Wells which offers us a very different picture of Earth's satellite than that
encountered when Neil Armstrong took his small step onto the moon's surface on July 20th 1969.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lnmxy

Tuesday 21 July

Stories with Latitude, 3.30-3.45pm
Three stories specially commissioned for the Latitude Festival. Tues: Emma Kennedy remembers going to see the Rolling Stones with her parents; Wedn: Matt Thorne's story tells of a fan's obsession with
an obscure musician; and on Thursday Stephen K Amos, best known for his stand-up, performs his specially written piece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lp15r

BBC 6 Music

6Music Plays It Again, Overnight

Tuesday 30th June onwards Alan Freeman presents 'The Story of Pop' in 52 parts.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/piao/

BBC Radio 7

Dad's Army
Ser 1. 1/20 The Man and The Hour
Bank manager George Mainwaring sets up the Walmington-on-Sea division of the Home Guard. We start a re-run of the classic comedy from the Home Guard, starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. From January 1974.
Mondays at 8am, 12pm and 7pm

Kenny Everett's Radio Days
More of the much-missed DJ's best bits put together especially for BBC Radio 7.
Wednesday at 11pm

Gielgud's Letters
The remarkable life of the legendary actor is told through his letters. The letters cover his life up until his 90s, when he was still acting, and tell us of his tremendous range of experiences, which include travelling to Hollywood to star alongside James Mason and Marlon Brando in the film version of Julius Caesar in 1952. Read by Derek Jacobi (pictured), and produced by Emma Harding.
Monday to Friday at 2:45pm and 4:45am

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/programmes/schedules

Note: Remember you can always listen via the archives on each site up to 7 days after the broadcast.

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July 24, 2009 at 12:30 AM
History Detectives
Tokyo Rose Recording - A HISTORY DETECTIVES viewer has a recording he thinks holds evidence used in the World War II treason trial of Iva Tugori, aka Tokyo Rose. Toguri was an American citizen who hosted a Japanese propaganda radio show broadcast to U.S. troops serving in the Pacific. These broadcasts were at the center of what was then the costliest trial in U.S. history. The viewer has never been able to play his oversized record, but family lore says it reveals the role his uncle played in this infamous show trial. HISTORY DETECTIVES host Gwendolyn Wright consults with experts from Long Island to Los Angeles. Her answer flips assumptions of guilt and innocence, and gives viewers a fresh angle on what actually happened in and around that trial.Crazy Horse Photo - Twenty-five years ago, someone gave a leather purse to a Lakota businessman. Inside the purse he found a photograph and a note, dated 1904, written in the Lakota language. An elderly man from the Lakota community translated the note.

In brief, it says, "This is a photograph of Crazy Horse." Does the contributor have the Holy Grail of the Wild West: a photo of the Lakota warrior who defeated General Custer? Historians are suspicious of most photos purported to be of Crazy Horse. The Lakota leader avoided cameras, believing they would rob his soul. To verify the photo, HISTORY DETECTIVE host Elyse Luray tracks down a Crazy Horse
descendant and visits the Crazy Horse Memorial. Finally, she puts the photo in context with other works by the same photographer at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC.WWII DIARY (Encore presentation) - A man in Lexington, North Carolina, has a poignant diary written by a World War II pilot. He inherited the diary 20 years ago from his father, who said it once belonged to a close friend whom he fought alongside in WWII, until the war took his friend's life in 1944. Keeping the last thoughts of this fallen solider is now too great a burden for the contributor. Can HISTORY DETECTIVES return it to a living relative? The stakes are raised as the diary pages reveal the story of a young American pilot stationed in England, racing against time and all odds to return home before the birth of his first child. Host Wes Cowan heads to Florida on a quest to reunite the diary with the pilot's surviving family.
Duration: 00:56:15 TVG CC STEREO
http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/

July 24, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star
BOB HOPE: HOLLYWOOD'S BRIGHTEST STAR is an affectionate portrait of one of America's most beloved entertainers, whose career spanned from Vaudeville and Broadway, to radio, film and television. The program is hosted by Les Brown, Jr., son of Hope's bandleader of 49 years, and includes interviews with Larry Gelbart, the creator of M*A*S*H and one of Hope's first writers. Les Brown, Sr., Hy Averback, announcer and actor on Hope's radio and TV shows, and Hope himself also lend their voices to the program.
Duration: 00:58:47 TVG CC STEREO


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Videos This Week

There are comments listed on each video page, they can on occasion be offensive, be careful if you look)

The Dad's Army Story (see BBC shows this week)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHCc-olG8mY

Coca-Cola salutes the Blue Jays (1993)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rzBMdq2ISQ

OK, Blue Jays 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSUcFx0ZJGs

And finally...

Take Me Out To The Ball Game (1908)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-gsdLSSQ0


Funnies:

According to the Chicago Tribune, the following statistic was given in the press notes for the June 7 Chicago-Oakland game:

The Oakland Athletics are 32-0 in games in which they have scored more runs than their opponents.

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The Cleveland Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. There is an extensive section where the bass players don't play for twenty minutes of so. One of them decided that, rather than stand around on stage looking bored and stupid, they'd all just file offstage during their tacit-time and hang out backstage, then return when they were about to play. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

On the night of the performance, the bass players filed off as planned. The last one had barely left the stage when the leader suggested, "Hey we've got twenty minutes, let's fun across the street to the bar for a few!"

This idea was met with great approval, so off they went, tuxedos and all, to loosen up. Fifteen minutes and a few rounds later, one of the bass players said, "Shouldn't we be heading back? It's almost time."

But the leader announced, "Oh don't worry, we'll have some extra time - I played a little joke on the conductor. Before the performance started, I tied string around each page of his score so that he'd have to untie each page to turn it. The piece will drag on a bit. We've got time for another round!"

So another round they did, and finally - sloshed and staggering - they made their way back across the street to finish Ludwig's 9th.

Upon entering the stage, they immediately noticed the conductor's haggard, drawn and livid expression.

"Gee," one player queried, "Why do you suppose he looks so tense?"

"You'd be tense, too," laughed the leader. "It's the bottom of the ninth, the score is tied and the basses are loaded."


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