The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 206 - Summer Music Spectacular!
Musically, Bill's head is still in the 60s. Don still lives in the 70s. Glenn's time is the 80s. John's head is full of lots of things, including his dad's favorite tunes. Here are a few of their favorite summer songs. You may not have heard these songs for a long time, if at all.
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Okay, one more summer song, and one more story - this one from Don: it's called
"Neil Diamond Slapped My Thigh"
I was student station manager at my college radio station, KXLU, at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, when I got called to the dean's office. Neil Diamond has just released the soundtrack to the movie Jonathing Livingston Seagull (it's a real movie, look it up!) and his public relations guy wanted him to come to LMU to answer questions from students about his music and career as part of the PR drive for the movie. They wanted the audio from the Q&A session taped and edited so they could send it to radio stations across the country, promising us scholarships and equipment upgrades as payment.
I gathered about 25 students that I figured would ask intelligent questions. My buddy Tad Stones, who was programming the station, was set to do the editing. Then I heard from the dean again. Why not do the recording in the campus' brand new TV studio? He wanted to show it off, and get some experience for the TV production students. I didn't care, as long as the audio was good.
The day arrived, Neil arrived. I was introduced to him. First thing he said to me was, "Hey, it would be a great video shot if you panned across the kids' faces to me answering their questions." I told him I'd see what I could do. (I actually had nothing to do with the videotaping.)
The session lasted about half an hour, the students asked great questions, Neil was very good about answering them sincerely. When it was over, the kids rushed up to Neil for autographs. His PR guy wanted to get Neil out of there, so he pulled me aside and said if I got a list of the students' names Neil would send each one an autographed album. I hopped up on the stool Neil had been sitting upon and made that announcement. As the students drifted away, Neil turned to me and said, "Good job!" Normally, his had would have landed on my back, but since I was up on the stool, his hand landed on my thigh. Neil Diamond slapped my thigh. Then he was gone.
Tad edited the audio and sent it along to Neil's PR guy. We played it on our air at KXLU, but it was never sent to any other radio stations. We got no scholarships or equipment. No student ever received an autographed album.
Despite that, here's one of my favorite Neil Diamond summer tunes, one that takes place during a hot August night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K398Q4DYCW8&list=RDK398Q4DYCW8&start_radio=1
Program Director/Mornings - The River 97.3 WRVV at iHeartMedia Inc.
March 16, 1992 - Present
The microphone is my stage. From the moment I started talking, I’ve been entertaining audiences of all sizes. From the couch in my parents' living room, to thousands listening on the Radio, I have spent a long time making a name for myself. I'm a passionate professional Voiceover Artist, working in broadcasting and VO since the age of 14.
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.
