Episodes
Tuesday May 03, 2022
BILLY MAY – Billy SPEAKS of Tweety, Sylvester and Sinatra!!!
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Tuesday May 03, 2022
Billy May was Frank Sinatra’s swingin’est arranger. In this RARE INTERVIEW Billy May speaks about his amazing career, from his earliest studies, through arranging for Charlie Barnet, Glenn MILLER, having hits with children’s music and Tweety and Sylvester cartoons to writing groovy albums for Sinatra like Come Fly With Me.
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BILLY MAY – Billy SPEAKS of Tweety, Sylvester and Sinatra!!!
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Saturday Apr 30, 2022
JIMMY RUSHING & COUNT BASIE – a SWINGIN’ FRIENDSHIP! RARE Interview!
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Jimmy Rushing was best known as the bluesy vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. In fact, as you will hear, Basie originally started it as Rushing’s backing group. Their swingin’ friendship resulted in the longest partnership of a singer with a big band! I made this documentary in 2002 for BBC Radio 2. The story is told by “Mr. Five By Five”, Rushing himself in a rare interview - along with British jazz legend Humphrey Lyttleton, jazz pianist Dave Frishberg, and authors Gene Lees, Will Friedwald, Chris Albertson and Stephanie Stein Crease.
JIMMY RUSHING & COUNT BASIE – a SWINGIN’ FRIENDSHIP! RARE Interview!
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Friday Apr 29, 2022
WINNER! UKSC BEST SONG Johnny Schaefer / Melissa Manchester interview
Friday Apr 29, 2022
Friday Apr 29, 2022
UK Songwriting Contest Best Original Song Winner “You Can’t Hide the Light” JOHNNY SCHAEFER tells of the creation of the award-winning duet with GRAMMY® Award-winning legend MELISSA MANCHESTER and Producer/Arranger Stephan Oberhof at Creation Station. How the song was conceived, written, produced – with the epic sound of 55 vocal tracks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFPN...
WINNER! UKSC BEST SONG Johnny Schaefer / Melissa Manchester interview
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Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
PEGGY LEE & Benny GOODMAN! How Pot gave them a HIT! A SPECIAL POT-CAST!
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Featuring a rare interview with PEGGY LEE herself, we learn how she got her start UPFRONT with the King of Swing, BENNY GOODMAN at the age of 19. And in this POT-CAST, she tells why their big hit “Why Don’t You Do Right” was actually about Marijuana!
Also interviewed in my 2002 documentary, her daughter, Nicky LEE Foster, friend Phoebe Jacobs, authors Stephanie Stien Crease, David Hajdu, Will Friedwald and Gene Lees.
APOLOGY: The sound of this documentary has some minor distortion, but we felt the CONTENT overrides the TECHNICAL considerations. Thanks for your understanding and don’t let that stop you subscribing!
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PEGGY LEE & Benny GOODMAN! How Pot gave them a HIT! A SPECIAL POT-CAST!
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Sunday Apr 17, 2022
SARAH VAUGHAN & BILLY ECKSTINE – with Bop, Bird & Diz!!!
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
I wrote and hosted a series called “Upfront” for BBC Radio 2 in 2002. At the end of the 1940s, the musical world was changing. Bebop was growing and the big bands only had a few years to live. But the rich baritone of Billy Eckstine met the divine alto of Sarah Vaughan and stars were born! Here is the story of how Vaughan got her start at 19 from Eckstine, told by Sarah Vaughan herself, critic Stephanie Stein Crease, writer Will Friedwald and Vaughn’s biographer Leslie Gourse.
SARAH VAUGHAN & BILLY ECKSTINE – with Bop, Bird & Diz!!!
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Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
MEL TORMÉ & ARTIE SHAW – A Meeting of Minds!
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
Wednesday Apr 13, 2022
In 2002, I wrote and hosted a series of documentaries called “Upfront” – about singers who made their names upfront with the big-bands. Here, I present the hippest of all singers Mel Tormé making his name with the most intellectual of bandleaders, Artie Shaw. Uber-talented Tormé was an actor, author, pianist, guitarist, arranger, songwriter (“The Christmas Song”), and drummer! He was singing with his vocal group, The Mel-Tones, when Shaw, the most successful bandleader in America wanted to expand his sound. This is the story of what can happen when two supreme talents collaborate - both a meeting of minds and a butting of heads! The music was as sublime as their infamous arguments!
The show features interviews with, Mel Tormé himself, Ginny Mancini (of the Mel-Tones), and writer Will Friedwald.
MEL TORMÉ & ARTIE SHAW – A Meeting of Minds!
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Friday Apr 08, 2022
Radio Richard Episode 100! The Story of HERB ALPERT & The Tijuana Brass
Friday Apr 08, 2022
Friday Apr 08, 2022
In 2001 I wrote and presented two series of “The Arrangers” for BBC Radio 2, examining the creators of iconic sounds in jazz & pop.
The fascinating story of HERB ALPERT & the Tijuana Brass is told in interviews with Alpert and his musicians, John Pisano, Bob Edmondson, and Pat Senatore. The music is sometimes dismissed, but the band had fifteen #1 albums, many hit singles and became the 4th biggest selling act of their time – a time that included The BEATLES!
Radio Richard Episode 100 The Story of HERB ALPERT & the Tijuana Brass
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
ESQUIVEL! The King of SPACE AGE LOUNGE MUSIC!
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
In 2001, I wrote and presented a documentary series for BBC Radio 2, “The Arrangers” produced by @elizabethclark. It featured Robert Farnon, Neal Hefti, Herb Alpert, Stan Kenton, Quincy Jones, Pete Rugolo and Mexican arranger/composer JUAN GARCIA ESQUIVEL.
His daring, explosive, utterly original arrangements fueled by jazz, pop, film and loaded with instrumental effects, led to a new style in the 1960s: SPACE AGE POP or SPACE AGE BATCHELOR PAD. Here is his story told by experts, critics, and by Esquivel himself!
ESQUIVEL! The King of SPACE AGE LOUNGE MUSIC!
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Saturday Mar 26, 2022
BOBBY ELI – THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (International!)
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
Saturday Mar 26, 2022
PIR (Philadelphia International Records) took over from Motown as the preeminent black music label of the Seventies.
I interviewed producer, songwriter, guitarist, and arranger BOBBY ELI for the BBC and for my book, “The Invisible Artist” in 2008. Bobby was a member of Mother Father Sister Brother playing guitar on many of the most successful PIR hits of the 1970s, working with their biggest artists and most significant arrangers.
As a founder member of the PIR team, Bobby was able to give us an articulate and detailed understanding of the genesis and history of the Philadelphia Sound - Producers and Arrangers THOM BELL, GAMBLE & HUFF, BOBBY MARTIN, MFSB, TSOP, The O’JAYS, The DELPHONICS, LTD, and more!
Here, for the first time, is our complete interview.
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BOBBY ELI – THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (International!)
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Friday Mar 25, 2022
BOB MALONE talks sings & plays: Bob Seger John Fogerty Ringo & More!
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
BOB MALONE is the kind of party your neighbors come upstairs to tell to turn down, and then enjoy the music so much they stay all night dancing, getting high and plooking your Auntie!
Malone, armed only with a pillaged and deflowered piano, has thrown that party for Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Seger. The singer/songwriter brings that same bacchanalian revelry to all of his solo albums.
Here, egged on by Richard Niles, Malone demolishes his piano, shreds his songs, propositions his wife (Karen Nash, who needed little encouragement) and created Looziana licentiousness. We suggest you watch this video barefoot with a bottle of almond oil and a friend who can cut a rug!
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