Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from August 8, 2023 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EST) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting August 8, 2023: The Wiggle Room with MarkTime: Tribute to Dick Biondi

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Dick Biondi  The Pizza Song   Favoriting
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Dick Biondi  WKBW Buffalo, NY 6/24/1959   Favoriting
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Joel Sebastian, Dick Biondi  WCFL Chicago, IL 1/3/1969   Favoriting
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Dick Biondi  WMAQ Chicago, IL 7/13/1972   Favoriting
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Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Krys O.:

Hi, Austin!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 7:53pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @7:04
Howdy! Just settling in, and sort of cleaning my office while I listen...
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:00pm
Austin Rich:

Hooray! It's starting!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Kat in the chat:

I'm sure it only gets better from here :)
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:03pm
Krys O.:

Howdy, Kat!!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:02
"The Sheena's Motto."
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:04pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:04
Ha!
  8:06pm
Androu B.:

↳ Song: "WKBW Buffalo, NY 6/24/1959" by "Dick Biondi"
Jackson Beck!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Austin Rich:

Woah! I see what you mean... I usually wanna hear the music, too. Weird.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:06pm
Krys O.:

Hi, Androu!
  👻 Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
WR:

Hi
  8:07pm
Androu B.:

↳ Krys O. @8:06
Hi, Krys O.!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:07pm
Krys O.:

Howdy, WR!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Krys O.:

Chock full o' drop-ins!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:09pm
Krys O.:

Like that bowling bit. Love it!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:10pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Krys O. @8:09
I liked how it wasn't tied to any particular bowling emporium, just "you should go bowling, it's fun"
  8:10pm
Androu B.:

He was clearly among the personalities of radio's Golden Era who perpetuated the stereotypically jovial and jaunty on-air delivery.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Krys O.:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:10
Indeed. Endorsing fun in general.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Austin Rich:

"Go outside. It's good for you!"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Krys O.:

↳ Androu B. @8:10
That approach goes back far. I was just thinking of films from the 30s and 40s that featured radio shows.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Kat in the chat:

I used to pick up WCFL on my radio in Georgia at night in the mid-70s. I remember thinking how impossibly cold the temperatures sounded and how could anyone possibly live there?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Krys O.:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:14
Wow! That's interesting.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:15pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Krys O. @8:14
It was pretty faint but I was craving anything that wasn't local
Avatar 8:15pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Ahoy
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:15
Howdy! Great to see you in the chat tonight!
Avatar 8:16pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @8:16
Good to see you too
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Krys O.:

Hello, Imaginos!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:16pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:15
I can relate to that. When I got my first radio, I would just turn the dial, trying to find anything that wasn't in the Mid-Valley. Sounds from elsewhere just sounded more interesting.
Avatar 8:17pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Krys O. @8:16
Hello, Krys O.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:18pm
Austin Rich:

I can't tell if "Teddy Bear" is amazing or corny. Maybe it's both? I'm not sure I've ever been sure, now that I think about it.
Avatar 8:19pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @8:16
I remember having a shortwave radio and listening to British radio
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Austin Rich @8:16
Everyday People, one of my favorite songs as a kid!
Avatar 8:20pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Good song
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:19
I had a radio - I think it was a shortwave - where I could "listen" to TV stations, and stuff from Canada, and all sorts of places. I remember, as a kid, if I was "grounded" from TV, I would listen to the shows I was missing, trying to fill in the visual of what happened in my head.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:18
In the early days, Elvis poked fun at himself and his adoring fans. He was incredibly funny. Check out the early TV appearances. It was almost like what the Monkees later had. The army changed him incredibly.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Kat in the chat:

I actually just bought a tiny shortwave, but I keep forgetting to get batteries for it
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Austin Rich:

"That's where the girls are!"

I love this song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Austin Rich @8:21
haha that was clever!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Krys O.:

↳ Austin Rich @8:21
My dad brought a Grundig radio when the family came to the States in 1955. I used to listen to shortwave on it with my father. It was so fascinating.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:22pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:21
That's a good point! I guess "Teddy Bear" is the sweet spot for his sense of humor. Maybe it "reads" better if you see him perform it.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:22
I think that's why I like radio theater so much.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:23pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Austin Rich @8:23
That makes so much sense!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:24pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:23
Certainly, I was grounded a lot, so I had to figure something out.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:25pm
Krys O.:

I think I had a transistor radio in 1969. I would take it with me when I would follow my brother on his paper route. I had an AM radio in my bedroom too. It was probably from the Salvation Army or on the street. Dad could fix things.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:26pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:22
I miss listening to that weird radio. The last time I was talking to The Weatherman, he was going on about listening to all sorts of radio bands, and it made me long for that old radio.
Avatar 👻 8:26pm
MarkTime:

Howdy at last
Avatar 8:27pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Remember when radio Shack sold crystal sets?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Krys O.:

Mom had to chase me around the apartment to give me cough medicine. Ugh.

Hi, MarkTime!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:25
My parents had a radio in the living room, but when I was 10 I got one for my room, with a cassette deck. And I got 10 tapes: five blank, and five with albums on them, from my mom's collection. I was so excited to get that radio!
Avatar 👻 8:27pm
MarkTime:

↳ Androu B. @8:06
Yes! One of my favorite commercial announcers
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:28pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:26
Mark! You're-not-late.-You're-on Time
Avatar 👻 8:29pm
MarkTime:

I remember that coooooooold New year's weekend
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:29pm
Kat in the chat:

Haha those are the weather reports I marveled at. A high of ten degrees!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Krys O.:

YES!! Stagger Lee....
Avatar 👻 8:30pm
MarkTime:

I had to sleep in the living room, as my bedroom was too cold (so many windows)
Avatar 8:31pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

Austin, consider this.. Vampire Blanks
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:31
They would probably have to be, if they were very old. Maybe one of those young ones could manage credit tubes and keeping current ID.
Avatar 👻 8:33pm
MarkTime:

Ear-jolting transition from WCFL winter to WMAQ summer. Jamestown Massacre one-hit wonder
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:30
We managed to have plenty of quilts, but the walk to school during that kind of weather filled me with dread. Still does.
Avatar 8:34pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Austin Rich @8:32
I could believe Breughal.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:34pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:33
Nice!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Austin Rich:

↳ ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova @8:34
Absolutely.
Avatar 8:36pm
ImaginosBuzzardoDesdinova:

↳ Krys O. @8:33
Grew up on Cape Cod, so I know all about walking in several feet of snow
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:36pm
Austin Rich:

↳ Krys O. @8:33
I am fairly lucky, as the Mid-Valley - even when I was a kid - never got TOO cold, and while we occasionally had snow... it was never for very long, and never the blisteringly low temps Chicago gets. Honestly, I've never experienced a "cold" winter. Just cold my Mid-Valley standards.
Avatar 👻 8:37pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:36
Where is "Mid-Valley"?
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:37
Whoops! In Oregon... between Portland and Eugene.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:38pm
Austin Rich:

(Though, as I have found, the phrase "Mid-Valley" is fairly nebulous, with actual boundaries, if you ask around... so I've always loved the phrase, as it seems specifically vague.
Avatar 👻 8:39pm
MarkTime:

Ah yes ... the few days of winter I spent in Portland Feb. 2021 was quite tolerable
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:40pm
Austin Rich:

↳ MarkTime @8:39
Yeah... if they could say the even get a winter.

Once, every five years or so, Portland and other cities get a "big" snow, the streets freeze, it lasts for a few days, and everyone panics. It's sort of funny, in a weird way. We get so used to the mild weather here.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:44pm
Krys O.:

Wilbur Mills! Ha!
Avatar 👻 8:45pm
MarkTime:

I know Sargert Shriver wound up as the VP candidate, but I recall a messier lead-up than the news report gave
Avatar 8:45pm
laurapanic:

love reading all these radio memories on the board. I am also a radio nerd and massive fan....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Krys O.:

Sounds like Alexander Scourbie.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Krys O.:

Scourby, sorry for the misspelling.
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:46pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @8:45
"We Are All Ra-Dio. (Nerds)"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:47pm
Krys O.:

Wilbur Mills was caught with stripper Fanne Fox.
Avatar 👻 8:47pm
MarkTime:

↳ laurapanic @8:45
This is pretty much the monthly radio nerd hangout ha
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @8:47
yes, it's heavenly
Avatar 👻 8:48pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:47
Something about the reflecting pond near the Washington Monoment?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:48pm
Krys O.:

Hi, laurapanic! Nice to see you again.
Avatar 👻 8:49pm
MarkTime:

Or do you say "Smythe"
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ MarkTime @8:49
hahaaa
  8:50pm
Androu B.:

↳ MarkTime @8:27
That was soon after his contract with Paramount expired. He moved on to radio anouncing. But he wouldsoon be back working for Paramount when they started making Popeye cartoons for TV.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:51pm
Krys O.:

↳ MarkTime @8:48
Fox jumped out of a limo to escape the press and jumped into the tidal basin. Mills and Fox went out a lot.
Avatar 👻 8:52pm
MarkTime:

WMAQ, and their NBC O&O cousins KNBR and WNBC were never quite Top 40
  8:53pm
Androu B.:

Gotta cut out now (because it seems the stream just did so at my end).
Thanks, Krys O.!
Avatar 👻 8:53pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:51
Aha! THis baffled 12-year-old me, but for 63 year-old me it's just another day in politics
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Krys O.:

The New Seekers?
Avatar 8:54pm
laurapanic:

↳ Krys O. @8:48
the timezone/daylight savings flips + programming changes often mean I find new shows in my winter time. So here I am, with you!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Krys O.:

↳ Krys O. @8:54
Doing a Harry Chapin song.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Krys O. @8:54
Yes, performing another Melanie song I think
Avatar 👻 8:55pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:54
I think so
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Krys O. @8:55
oh it was a Harry Chapin song?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Krys O.:

↳ Kat in the chat @8:55
Had to look it up.
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laurapanic:

one hour shows always seem SO SHORT
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Krys O.:

Another great show! Thanks, MarkTime!
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Austin Rich:

↳ laurapanic @8:56
Yeah. I don't know how people limit themselves so.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:56pm
Kat in the chat:

↳ Krys O. @8:56
didn't seem world weary enough for him
Avatar 👻 8:57pm
MarkTime:

↳ Krys O. @8:56
And thank you, Krys!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Krys O.:

Always a pleasure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Kat in the chat:

Thank both of y'all for making this nerdery possible
Avatar 👻 Swag For Life Member 8:58pm
Austin Rich:

Another great Mark Time!

Thanks again, Krys and Mark! Until next time...
Avatar 👻 8:59pm
MarkTime:

↳ Austin Rich @8:58
You're welcome! Oh yeah, if I remember right, the outro cue will be Porky Pig "That's all Folks!"
  👻 Swag For Life Member 9:00pm
WR:

Thank you MarkTime! Krys!
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