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#244- September 10, 2016
A Tony Bennett salute! Tony’s gone now, but was alive and well on the original air-date of this Bottomless Pit show.
Here’s my original post about it from back then:
On this week’s Bottomless Pit, for nearly the full hour, we shine the audio spotlight on the utterly great Tony Bennett, who celebrated his 90th birthday on August 3rd. Phyllis Schlafly is dead and gone but Tony Bennett still lives, breathes, and sings! Sometimes there’s Righteousness in this world…
Apologies for taking a cheap shot at Mrs. Schlafly, but I couldn’t resist; I think she’d just passed away when I wrote that post. Her name doesn’t come up at all during the program itself, I promise.
Then the show shifts gears for part 3:
We'll also hear some selections from a great CD that I just got my hands on (a friend gave me his copy, actually), called "Panorama City". It's a collaboration between Double-Naught Spy Car (genius, eclectic LA Rock band), and brilliant singer-songwriter Stew. This music will have you awe-struck and laughing and the same time.
All this and more on this quite-good installment of The Best of The Bottomless Pit..
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I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)
I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.
It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.
I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!..
MC
