Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from May 9, 2023 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting May 9, 2023: The Wiggle Room with MarkTime-Presents NBC Monitor (1955-1975)

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Ben Grauer  NBC Monitor Promo - circa 1955   Favoriting
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Art Fleming  NBC Monitor 10/22/1972   Favoriting
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Gene Rayburn  NBC Monitor 12/30/1972 including Jean Shepherd interview   Favoriting
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Ken Nordine  NBC Monitor 01/29/1966   Favoriting
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Ken Nordine  Radio spot - Music From Big Pink   Favoriting
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Ken Nordine  Radio spot - Quaker Oats granola bars   Favoriting
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John Batholomew Tucker  NBC Monitor - 01/26/1975   Favoriting
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Listener comments!

Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:25pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:35pm
Krys O.:

Howdy, Austin. Hope you had a nice birthday yourself.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @7:35
T'was fairly quiet. As it often is these days.
Avatar 🎸 7:58pm
MarkTime:

Hello all!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Krys O.:

Hey, MarkTime!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Feldy:

hey all!
Avatar 8:01pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy!
Avatar 🎸 8:01pm
MarkTime:

Hey Krys!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:01
Howdy!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Austin Rich:

Get Ready To Get Monitor-ed!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Krys O.:

I watched Art on Jeopardy as a kid.
Avatar 🎸 8:04pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:02
Took me some time to get used to Alex Trebek hosting
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:04
Right!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:05pm
Austin Rich:

Was Trebek known for anything prior to taking over Jeopardy? Or was that his first gig?
  8:05pm
Listener Robert:

I would sometimes hear "Monitor" on the radio. I never "got it". It didn't seem to be a program so much as a label for "whatever we got at the moment".
Avatar 🎸 8:05pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:05
He took over "Concentration" from Hugh Downs
Avatar 🎸 8:06pm
MarkTime:

And Trebek did some other show before Jeopardy
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:05
Looks like Trebek did a bunch of stuff! Woah!
Avatar 8:06pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Speaking of game shows, who remembers when contestants on Wheel of Fortune would trade their winnings for prizes at the end?
  8:06pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Austin Rich @8:05
I recall him from other game shows previously.
Avatar 🎸 8:07pm
MarkTime:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:06
The ceramic dalmation was a hoot
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Austin Rich:

I'm on the younger side, so all my gameshow memories are decidedly 80's.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:06
The Wizard of Odds in 1973.
Avatar 8:08pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Treasure Hunt
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:08pm
Krys O.:

Then High Rollers. That sounds memorable.
Avatar 8:09pm
Cp304:

Yesteryears news is much more uplifting than todays
Avatar 🎸 8:09pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:08
That one I remember ... probably why I didn't take Trebek on Jeopardy serious at first
Avatar 8:10pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

On one show a man won golf clubs. Then won an Isetta. You cannot fit golf clubs into an Isetta.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Austin Rich:

In the last 20 years of my grandmothers life, she didn't really watch much TV, except Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy. She mostly read in those years.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Krys O.:

Jerry Reed was huge back then. My ex's dad was close friends with him. They went on ski trips together and such. That's how my ex ended up playing on a Jerry Reed soundtrack for W.W. and the Dixie Dance Kings. HA!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:10
I feel like there were a lot of cases like that on Price is Right.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Krys O.:

I think Jerry had a summer TV show or something.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:12
Woah! That's excellent.
Avatar 8:13pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @8:10
Wheel and Jeopardy were my grandma's favorite shows besides As Schools Match Wits
Avatar 8:14pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @8:12
Like the wheelchair bound woman who won a treadmill
Avatar 🎸 8:15pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:12
Reed had a show briefly in the early 1970s ... one of those variety shows common in those days, heavy on comedy people I think
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Krys O.:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:14
That's almost like Bob & Ray material.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:15
Thanks. Mac Davis and Jim Stafford also went down that route trying to replicate the Johnny Cash Show success, but they weren't Mr. Cash.
Avatar 🎸 8:17pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:16
I liked the Johnny Cash show as it was more about the music
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Krys O.:

Leroy Neiman! LOL!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Krys O.:

Ooh, I love this My Sweet Lord cover!
Avatar 8:19pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Is this Living Strings?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Austin Rich:

I love the Monitor bumper music. That is VERY cool.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:20pm
Krys O.:

Could have been Percy Faith.
Avatar 8:25pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ferrari is available on Kindle for $11
Avatar 🎸 8:25pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:20
Darn both Living Strings and Percy Faith had the standard easy listening vocals
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:25
Maybe it was the Violinaires....
Avatar 🎸 8:30pm
MarkTime:

Darn Ferrari in the Bedroom not available in any of the San Bernardino County libraries
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Austin Rich:

Jean Shepherd gets better and better the more I hear him.
  8:30pm
Listener Robert:

Shep was totally unfair with this stuff. Josephine the plumber was always depicted as having finished some big job and then tossing in a side comment about the tea stains, and selling the client on Comet. The sponsor never tried to say this was the main focus of people's lives, nobody would've believed that.
Avatar 8:31pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ MarkTime @8:30
$11 Amazon Kindle
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Austin Rich:

Ken Nordine too! Hell yeah!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Krys O.:

It's always been interesting that the Ray Charles Singers sound nothing like Ray Charles.
  8:34pm
Listener Robert:

↳ Austin Rich @8:30
I'll have to tell you about when I met him. You probably should try to hear from various people who met Shep, and put that jigsaw together.
Avatar 8:34pm
Mr Fab:

↳ Krys O. @8:33
It’s a different Ray Charles. The white Ray Charles.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Krys O.:

↳ Krys O. @8:33
There had to be folks to bought the wrong album innocently. Were they upset or did they keep an open mind?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:34
Yup, well aware of that.
Avatar 8:36pm
Cp304:

That was a helluva dripping sound effect
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Krys O.:

↳ Cp304 @8:36
It was perfect.
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Mr Fab:

↳ Austin Rich @8:30
I have a Jean Shepherd show he did about working at an advertising agency, he literally uses the phrase “Mad men.”
Avatar 8:37pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

I wonder what ads would have been like if they had radio in 1804
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:37pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:36
I think I recall you talking about that! He's got some very interesting stories that I quite love.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Krys O.:

↳ Mr Fab @8:36
It was how the Madison Avenue guys referred to themselves and their ilk.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:37
Good question! I never looked into the history of ads. I'm sure there were dumb ads from 1804... I can't imagine a time when we DIDN'T have dumb commercials.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Krys O.:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:37
That's a great concept.
Avatar 🎸 8:39pm
MarkTime:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:37
Snake Oil, in the no deposit/no return bottle
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Krys O.:

Sheena's should use that suggestion. Throw away your dial!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:39pm
Austin Rich:

Mr. Nordine is so cool. I might have to listen to more of him after my show tonight.
Avatar 8:39pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Imagine sticking Jean Shepherd in a room with Robert Fulghum.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Krys O.:

I belong to a Facebook group that shares bizarre images and some of the ads from the 19th century are exceedingly strange and downright lies.
  8:41pm
Listener Robert:

I wound up kind of backing Shep into a corner in terms of what I'd heard about him, and he pretty much denied everything. This was at WPRB eating pizza after his annual show. My date was impressed anyway, since she'd only recently seen him on TV, but I was temporarily snowed by him, then realized the next day how full of it he was.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:41pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:40
If I return to FB, you'll have to jump me into that group.
Avatar 8:41pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Krys O. @8:40
So nothing has changed
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Krys O.:

Did Ken say Los "In" did that In Crowd cover? That's what I see on SecondhandSongs.com.
Avatar 🎸 8:43pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:42
Lawrence Welk said he
Avatar 8:43pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ MarkTime @8:43
Bubbles!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:43
Huh, that's interesting. That's not indexed on 2ndHand.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Austin Rich:

There's a part of me that has always wished he was Ken Nordine.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Krys O.:

Tony Bennett never fails.
Avatar 8:45pm
Mr Fab:

I have the Ken Nordije album “Colors” but don’t remember If that chartreuse bit was on it.
Avatar 🎸 8:45pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:44
The talking-to-myself-in-stereo is especially appealing
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:45
Yeah, some of that didn't sound like the recorded version. Must have been an early take.
Avatar 🎸 8:47pm
MarkTime:

↳ Mr Fab @8:45
I wanna say yes
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Austin Rich:

These are excellent airchecks this week, MarkTime. Thanks!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Krys O.:

Mel Allen. How about that....
Avatar 🎸 8:48pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:47
You're welcome!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Austin Rich:

Is he calling in that Sports Report?
Avatar 🎸 8:51pm
MarkTime:

Ooh, bowling on radio
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:51
Yes!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Austin Rich:

I have heard that there were calls on the air as early as '59, but this might be the earliest phone call I've heard in an aircheck.
Avatar 8:52pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ MarkTime @8:51
Brought to you by Andy's canned anchovies
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Song: "Radio spot - Music From Big Pink" by "Ken Nordine"
Ha!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

"Unexpected!"
Avatar 8:55pm
Mr Fab:

This is such a grown-up radio. I feel like I should be wearing a suit. We should all be eating fondue.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Krys O.:

I remember JBT's show on TV.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Mr Fab @8:55
I'm wearing a bolo tie and I'm gonna eat some tacos. Does that count?
Avatar 🎸 8:56pm
MarkTime:

↳ Mr Fab @8:55
This was a 3-Martini hour
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, MarkTime. It's always a treat to travel back in time like this.
Avatar 8:57pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

The perfect response to this song is Fings ain't wot they used to be.
Avatar 🎸 8:57pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:57
You're welcome!
  8:59pm
FKA Kat in Chicago:

Ack! I missed MarkTime!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
WR:

Thank you, that was wondrous. Memories.
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