The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 192 - Bill Trousdale and Everyone's Favorite Songs
Happy Holidays! It's time for end-of-the-year lists, but we've done that one better. Here are some all-time favorite songs from John, Don, and music historian Bill Trousdale! Some are obscure, some familiar - maybe they'll become your favorites, too!
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INTERESTING FACT: in 1971, Bill Chase and his self-named band released the jazzy tune you hear on this episode of the Innertube, "Get It On." Over in England, a funky band called T-Rex released a song called "Get It On." But when T-Rex went to distribute their record in America, the record company feared confusion with Chase's record, so the T-Rex single was re-named "(Bang A Gong) Get It On."
SOMETHING ELSE FUN: If you have Netflix, check out the episode of David Letterman's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction" that features Adam Sandler. In it, Sandler says he wanted an expensive guitar, but his father wouldn't buy it for him until he mastered "Malaguena" (played in this Innertube episode by Roy Clark) on his old guitar.
Bill Trousdale is a self-described veteran of radio broadcasting and sales, as well as a "Baby-Boomer Marketer." He was born in Philadelphia, and has lived in Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, and central Pennsylvania. He attended Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, and began his broadcasting career at Susquehanna's college station WQSU, where he did color commentary on the first known broadcast of a Hearts tournament. From there, he worked at stations in Towanda, PA, Franklin, NJ, Elmira, NY, Lancaster, PA, and York, PA. He worked weekends at WPEN in Philadelphia before landing at WKBO in Harrisburg, where he worked with Don for a couple of years. Bill finished his radio career as a salesman for a number of stations in central Pennsylvania. He is founder and president of the Pennsylvania Museum of Music and Broadcast History.
