Keener 13

An all-request Keener Podcast this week with email from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for Edwin Starr, a pair of Keener Covers, a course in creating jingles, another Credibility Gap and Pat St. John’s final WKNR appearance. Want to add your two cents? Click here to contact us.

The Links:
Edwin Starr on AllMusic.com
The Pietasters
Geoff Byrd
Pat St. John.com

This week, its an all jingle extravaganza with a montage of logos from yesterday and today and our exclusive interview with jingle preservationist Ken R.

The Link List:
KenR.com
Jingles.com
ReelWorld.com
TM Century

We received an email recently from a faithful Keener Podcast listener asking to hear un-edited air check material, to get a feel for what Keener really sounded like. So on this week’s show, that’s just what you’ll hear. All Keener Music and all Keener DJs, including J. Michael Wilson, Swingin Sweeney, Dick Purtan, Jerry Goodwin, Bill Phillips, Mac Owens and Bob Green. It’s 30 straight minutes of uninterrupted Keener excellence. Enjoy!

On This week’s Keener13 Podcast, farewell to Dean Wormer, The Yarbirds sell Chevys,Susan Whitall talks about Russ, Paul and reunions. The Wilson Sisters sing in Vegas with Al and the Boys. We answer a Keener Q&A: What was the first major studio to produce a prime time cartoon for network television? We meet Sondra Lowell, the Tap Dancing Podcaster and we turn back the clock to 1969 to hear what our boys listened to in Vietnam. And on the way out, they spanned 9 labels in three years, recorded 12 forgettable songs and one Motor City Hit.. Who are they?

The Link List:
John Vernon at IMDB
Warner Brothers Cartoon Filmography
ReelRadio.com
OpenPodcast.org
Paul Is Alive and Super Popular

On this week’s Keener Podcast, our tribute to Johnny Carson, with some air-checks you may not have heard, Harry Shearer’s dead-on Tonight Show parody and the tale of how a song sung by Annette became one of Television’s most recognizable theme songs.

The Link List:

Slate’s David Edelstein on Johnny Carson
The Credibility Gap
Tims TV Showcase Tonight Show Page
The Official Johnny Carson Web Page
Ed Ames Famous Fronteer Circumcision
Jokes for Dave – NYT
Johnny’s New Yorker Profile from 1978
The Man In Front of the Curtain – Steve Martin
Harry Shearer in The Onion

On this week’s Keener Podcast, as Scott struggles with laryngitis, Brian Ibbott talks about his Coverville Podcast, a program dedicated to cover versions of rock hits. Former Detroit DJ Tom Shannon announced his retirement this week and we cross the river to hear a 1976 aircheck from his days at CKLW. Rick Dees is the guest. In honor of Coverville, we play a Keener Double Shot, a song that appeard on the WKNR music guide at two different times, by two different artists. Jim Heddle plays a Bunny Sigler Keener cover. And author/journalist Susan Whitall joins us to talk radio, 60s and motown music.

The Link List
The Motor City Music Conference
Coverville.com
Tom Shannon”s Career
The CKLW Line-Up through the years

On this week’s Keener Podcast, the late, great Tom Rivers’ memorial service is being held this weekend. Few know that the legendary 1050 CHUM jock worked at Keener. Jim Donahue tells the tale and we hear Tom on Keener (as Tom Neal) and on CHUM. We meet Todd Cochrane, the host of the Geek News Central podcast, Jim Heddle takes us into The Vault for a Rock-a-Billy rarity that topped the WKNR Music Guide in May of 1967. From the news desk: WXDX goes progressive, Thayrone is canned again, Analog reel-to-reel tape becomes an endangered species, obits for two 60s rockers and some James Bond trivia.

The Keener Podcast Link List
Thayrone’s Website
Unknown Hinson
Bubble Puppy’s Bio
Starz Encore
1050 Chum Website
Tom Rivers’ Airforce
Geek News Central
Jim Heddle’s Weblog
Early Today Show Trivia
Mickey’s First Day on the Air

Errata: It’s WQKL, not WOKL

On this week’s Keener13 Podcast, an interview with Chris McIntyre, creator of PodcastAlley.com, a website with a directory of over 600 podcasts and a Top 10 list of the most popular programs. Jim Heddle opens The Vault to present a Detroit Garage Band rarity. And we listen to a 1970 WKNR-FM aircheck from the early days of underground radio, featuring Mitch Ryder. There’s also news about Bobby Darin, the Animals, WiFi/voip and more.

The Link List:

Learn Spanish with this Podcast
PodcastAlley.com
250 Houses of the Rising Sun
Bobby Darin’s Detroit Roots
Ann Arbor Alive

On WKNR’s 41st birthday, we recount the WKNR story with a podcast of the 2003 Woodward Dream Cruise documentary hour. We also talk about the growing influence of podcasting and shares some upcoming podcast program notes. 15.8MB