Studio Walls

 Every week I send my Minutia Men Co-Host Dave Stern a list from our audio archives for this week's Studio Walls feature. These are the possibilities for this week. Which one will he choose?

*April 12 is David Letterman's birthday. We had his good friend Tom Dreesen on the show and he talked about his relationship with Letterman. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 12, 1892, the Cubs and Cardinals played against each other for the first time. Pat Hughes and Ron Santo talked about a mixed Cubs-Cardinals marriage (We have the AUDIO)

*April 12 would have been David Cassidy's birthday. Fellow Partridge Family member Danny Bonaduce was on our show and discussed his "older brother" David. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*April 12 was also Tiny Tim's birthday. Leo Durocher and Lou Boudreau once discussed Tiny Tim in an expletive filled outtake from the Durocher in the Dugout pre-game show. (AUDIO)

*April 13, 2014, Dave appears on WGN-TV morning show to talk about The Pothole Store. The show did another visit with him in 2018 (Video here)

*April 13, 1990, the song "Rico Suave" peaks at #7 on the Billboard charts. We talked to the creator of that song, Gerardo. (Listen to the interview here)

*April 13 is actress/producer Summer Crockett Moore's birthday. We interviewed her for the show a few years ago. (Listen to the interview here)

*April 14 is stuntwoman Janene Carlton's birthday. We interview her as well (Listen to the entire inteview here)

*April 15, 2014, Dave's song "Pothole Song" debuts on YouTube. (Video is here)

*April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. Dave's 1974 poem correctly identifies Booth as 'Surely Not a Lincoln Fan' (AUDIO)

Studio Walls

   Every week I send my Minutia Men Co-Host Dave Stern a list from our audio archives for this week's Studio Walls feature. These are the possibilities for this week. Which one will he choose?

*February 7th is the birthday of Coleman Griffith. He was a trailblazer in baseball, one of the first sports psychologists. He was also roundly dismissed by baseball players of the day, and inspired the character in the movie The Natural (We have the audio of his famous scene)

*February 7, 1971, Earth Wind & Fire released their first album. We talked to Alan Hewitt who was one of the producers with the band, and who later joined the Moody Blues (Listen to the entire interview here)

*February 10, 1994, the Olympic Games were taking place in Lillehammer Norway. The big story about that Olympics was the drama between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding. John Landecker and I wrote two songs about that, including this one. 

*February 11, 2001, Disney released "The Tigger Movie". Little Tommy Kaempfer reviewed the film for the radio show. (We have the audio)

*February 12 is Abraham Lincoln's birthday. Dave's famous award winning poem about Lincoln has been committed to audio, and needs to be played at least once a year.