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SOWNY » I Could Not Believe The Radio Station Playing In My Doctor's Office » May 30, 2025 5:22 pm |
Not a doc’s office but in a thrift shop a while back heard two Roxy Music tunes back to back over the p.a. (Roxy Muzak?). Both from the Manifesto album, “Angel Eyes” and “Dance Away”. I didn’t hang around long enough to hear if “Trash” was cued up to play next.
SOWNY » A Radio Archivist After My Own Heart » May 30, 2025 6:06 am |
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*rimshot*
SOWNY » Guitar Great Rick Derringer Dies At 77 » May 27, 2025 7:06 pm |
One of my fondest memories of a weekend trip to Cleveland for the RR Hall of Fame and an Indians’ game was the 8th inning playing of the Official Rock and Roll Song of Ohio, “Hang On Sloopy”. Everyone’s up for that one spelling out O H I O.
The Ohio State Buckeyes Marching Band also do a credible job at halftime.
SOWNY » Racism & Misogyny: Another Huge Scandal Rocks CBS » May 26, 2025 10:06 am |
Too bad a tabloid paper has to be the source. I'd also say that it's too bad he won.
The same tabloid that broke the Biden Laptop from Hell story?
SOWNY » This Classic Song Will Be Beamed Into Space On May 31st » May 25, 2025 4:47 pm |
The aliens might be appreciative but would likely request more of that Chuck Berry fella.
SOWNY » Give Me A "Break!" How To Get To The Bathroom When You're On Air » May 23, 2025 12:30 pm |
Gotta go on the overnight shift?
Three tunes on carts, station ID and turntable.
God bless the inventors of the end of cart silent tone and the sequencer. Play your cards (or carts) right and you could enjoy fifteen minutes in the bog.
SOWNY » BBC's Highest Paid Talent Leaving After Antisemitism Controversy » May 22, 2025 6:57 pm |
Good riddance to bad rubbish. I’m surprised it was his hot takes on The Jewish Question that finally cost this dimbulb his job. Before anyone says, “Gee, just like Don Cherry”, wrong ‘em boyo. Linekar is one of the most hypocritical woke scolds in the biz. All for illegal immigrants invading the shores and damn you for saying they shouldn’t be allowed in. Make room in your home to these poor souls, you peons. Oi Gazza, you’ve got some extra real estate you’re not occupying, how’s about letting some of these strapping, military age males bunk in your place? What’s that? No room at the inn, you say? Shame about that, it sounded like you really had your heart set on helping those who have crossed eighteen borders to arrive on British soil and claim asylum.
Don’t cry for this clown just yet. He’s part owner of Goalhanger media, producers of The Rest Is History/Politics/Politics U.S./Sports/Antisemitism (coming soon).
Buh bye Gazza, you wanker.
SOWNY » The Latest Hallmark Movie: A Buffalo Bills Love Story » May 22, 2025 8:18 am |
Exterior: Gray dull late morning. Muddy field standing in as large parking lot. Zubaz pants as far as the eye can see.
Hero is seen stumbling about the bed of rusted out but surprisingly still road-legal Chevy pickup. Hero tips a bowling ball to his mouth and swallows the peppermint Schnapps secreted in the finger holes. Dumping down the bowling ball Hero tilts backwards over the tailgate and falls onto folding table.
Heroine is seen coming into frame. Dressed in far too small cutoffs, a midriff exposing Joe Ferguson Fan Club t-shirt and Buffalo red, white and blue facepaint although the red is likely blood. Heroine shows great compassion to the fallen Hero as she gently leans over his prone body amongst the shattered remnants of the folding table.
Heroine vomits on Hero.
End Scene.
SOWNY » This Great Canadian Superstore ad, is pretty good » May 22, 2025 6:30 am |
Not bad. Now do one where the shelf stockers are slapping “Made In Canada” faketriotism stickers and emblems on everything from navel oranges to walnuts.
SOWNY » Happy Birthday WIVB [WBEN] » May 14, 2025 2:56 pm |
The cost of televisions back in the day isn’t all that surprising but the added cost of outdoor antennas is a shocker. Would these be the rooftop or tower antennas? Our home in the early 60’s Scarberia (as well as everyone else on our street) were the of the tower variety.
Eight year old me made the discovery that climbing up the tower to retrieve a ball from the roof was much easier than trying to climb down! A belated nod of grateful thanks to my neighbour Mr. Norton for getting that idiot me down safely.
SOWNY » Wait…What?? » May 14, 2025 9:20 am |
Former CBC News correspondent Neil Macdonald is in hot water for making disparaging comments about the funeral for Pope Francis. Big deal you might think, that’s just standard operating procedure for anyone at the CBC when mocking Christianity.
The kicker…Macdonald is married to former CBC and CTV correspondent Joyce Napier, the current Canadian ambassador to the Holy See, y’know, the Vatican.
I don’t know if you guys are history buffs or not but you might not remember Neil Macdonald was the older brother of some guy named Norm.
Interesting that this is not the first, admittedly tenuous Weekend Update connection that SNL has with the Vatican. Father Guido Sarducci was a frequent guest as gossip columnist for L’Osservatore Romano.
SOWNY » TV Commercials That Became Hit Records » May 12, 2025 6:46 pm |
The lyrics for "We've Only Just Begun" were by Paul Williams. That helped launch his long writing career, which included an Oscar and "Phantom of the Paradise."
Paul Williams. Paul Williams? Oscar winner and “Phantom of the Paradise”?
Ohh, you mean Little Enos from “Smokey and the Bandit”
Anyway, can I suggest toons by "established" artists I first heard in Apple iTunes and iPod commercials? When these were first introduced I was well past being knowledgeable about the new, hip, with it music the kids were listening to but these kicked me in the pants and told me these were pretty good songs.
Jet “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” and Franz Ferdinand “No You Girls”. I had to ask one of the kids in the office who did these songs and immediately downloaded them. I’ve since taken a deep dive into all things Franz and have become a big fan (although my wife thinks Franz Ferdinand is one of the band members…). Also to tie this all into radio, their name was used as a WKRP punch line during a Johnny Fever live read about beer (I think)…”Just look for the smiling face of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the can.”
SOWNY » About that new Ryan Reynolds Tim Hortons commercial... » May 12, 2025 3:05 pm |
Van Halen’s infamous contract rider stipulated all brown M&M’s were to be removed from the dressing room M&M bowls.
Merely a hilarious ploy to make sure promoters like Harvey and Corky were paying attention to the fine print. Brown M&M’s in the bowl? Looks like Mr. Promoter didn’t do his job…so what else did he skimp on when setting up the venue?
SOWNY » A Question For Jody Thornton » May 5, 2025 10:33 am |
I guess we’ll just have to wait for that very special episode of How It’s Made
SOWNY » 60 Minutes Producer's Resignation Sends Shockwaves Through CBS News » May 4, 2025 10:36 pm |
Canada’s election to defeat Trump was contested a week ago and yet some continue the campaign.
SOWNY » Trump Orders Funding Cut To NPR & PBS. What Does This Mean For WNED? » May 2, 2025 9:13 am |
What does this mean for WNED?
Time to reanimate the corpses of Mike and Goldie!
SOWNY » Martin Short To Host Match Game On ABC » April 30, 2025 4:37 pm |
“Alice was worried her BLANK wouldn’t satisfy her boyfriend. Alice was worried her BLANK wouldn’t satisfy her boyfriend.”
Cue Brett’s smutty, smokey cackle…C.N. Reilly’s double entendres…Richard Dawson wanting to grab at Fannie Flagg, Elaine Joyce/Joyce Bulifant.
Didn’t know until I looked up some of the panelist names on IMDB that MAD Magazine’s Dick DeBartolo was a writer for the show.
Always thought Gene’s microphone was really cool. I guess CBS had a crate of them since Bob Barker also used one on The Price Is Right.
SOWNY » Leafs Radio Game Airing On 680 News, Due To 590's Jays Commitment » April 30, 2025 6:30 am |
Red Sox 10 - Jays 2
Senators 4 - Leafs 0
Guess it really didn’t matter who covered the games. A turd sandwich is still a turd sandwich.
SOWNY » Political songs » April 26, 2025 3:39 am |
Taxman - Beatles
Political Science - Randy Newman
Apolitical Blues - Little Feat / Van Halen
SOWNY » The Pope has passed » April 22, 2025 1:55 am |
Cardinal Sicola, not to be confused with the Swiss prelate Cardinal Ricola.
SOWNY » Complaints After Visiting TV Reporter Did This During Mon. Jays' Game » April 15, 2025 3:44 pm |
Yeesh, the pearl clutching and fainting couch, uhhh, fainting has really gotten tedious. Have some fun, why don’t ya? A guy with a microphone and camera has a few chuckles with some pretty ladies in a waste of time laugher of a game and it’s an affront to the holiest of holies “journalism”. Trust me if Hazel Mae were allowed to do the same with some guys, or gals (I don’t judge…), would panties be in a perpetual twist?
SOWNY » El Macombo Renowned Toronto Music Venue On The Market » April 12, 2025 10:24 am |
mace wrote:
According to the photograph, it is El Mocambo.
Heh, I was wondering when someone would call out my annoying correction clownship, and rightfully so.
SOWNY » El Macombo Renowned Toronto Music Venue On The Market » April 10, 2025 1:06 pm |
El Macombo? Can’t be all that renowned. Now if you’re talking about the El Mocombo…
SOWNY » Hilarious Proof That The Camera Never Lies » April 9, 2025 10:40 pm |
Meow! Haven’t heard such kitty kat hissing since that time the two neighborhood strays got into a scrap outside my bedroom window.
This hilarious thread’s better than anything on The View.
SOWNY » NHL Team Takes Extraordinary Radio/TV Measures To Cover Milestone » April 6, 2025 11:58 pm |
Over thirty years ago witnessing Gretzky surpass the unsurpassable goal scoring record held by Howe, I was pretty sure I’d never live to see that record of Gretzky’s be surpassed as well.
Never say never, I guess.
Good on Ovie.
SOWNY » Historic Beatles Audition Tape Discovered in Vancouver Record Store » March 27, 2025 11:03 am |
Brian Thigh will be vindicated.
SOWNY » Hey ex-radio types...do you still get "the dream"? » March 26, 2025 7:22 am |
Dreams? Nope.
Nightmares? Hugh Betcha.
For some reason I’m wandering the hallways, years after I left the station, and is pulled into the studio and told to start doing the show as nobody else in the building is able. Touchscreens? Sliders not pots? Why are spots on a different touchscreen? Where’s the paper log?
I didn’t even know where the microphone on/off button was located. Not that I had anything interesting to say.
The only saving grace was that the nightmare didn’t sound all that different from what’s being broadcast over the station these days.
SOWNY » VOA latest target of Trump cuts » March 25, 2025 6:01 pm |
Wouldn’t happen all that often but once in while I’d intro/extro that with the same Hungarian accent. Always saw this PSA on Saturday and Sunday mornings between Farm Report and Lamp Unto My Feet whilst waiting for cartoons to crank up.
SOWNY » Another Ex-Broadcaster Running In The Next Election For Toronto Seat » March 20, 2025 8:37 am |
Hey, it was over ten years ago…what’s the big deal? I’m more interested in Solly’s entanglements with fellow Eurasia Group comrades like Diana Carney and Gerald Butts.
How many passports does Solly hold?
SOWNY » Anti-U.S. Soup TV Ad (No, Really!) Stirs Controversy » March 17, 2025 3:49 pm |
We are this close to entering Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast territory.
There are a lot of folks out there with far too much time on their hands.
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