Studio Walls--March 20, 2024

 

A weekly update/preview of my latest podcasts, and a look back at some of my previous audio work from this week in history over the past 40+ years.

Here are a few from the archives...

March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day)--Timothy O’Shea (Irish musician) appeared on the show and performed for us.  

March 17—Catholic Confession Hotline. We've called it before. Will we call it again?

March 18—Rich King birthday. The former sportscaster/author appeared on the show several times, including this one.

March 18—Adam Levine birthday. The lead singer of Maroon 5 was discovered by one our guests, famed songwriter/record producer John Denicola. He told us that story.  

March 19—Frank Jasper birthday. The Oscar gate crasher told us all about his famous stunts.  

March 19—Dave T. Koenig birthday. The Mrs. Maisel star chatted with us a few years ago. 

March 19--Bruce Willis birthday. I told the story of my mid-90s brush with Bruce on this episode of Minutia Men.

March 19, 1953—First TV broadcast of the Oscars. Our go-to Oscar expert is Eric Litt.

March 20—Carl Reiner birthday. Carl is my writing hero, and I told the story of what is was like meeting him, on this episode of Minutia Men.  

March 20, 1966—The Rascals appear on the Ed Sullivan show. Felix Cavaliere was on the show and told us the story of that day. 

March 20--Mitch Michaels birthday. Our interview with Mitch is here. 

March 21—Eddie Money birthday. Kurt Elling came on the show and told us the greatest Eddie Money story ever.  

March 22--Werner Klemperer birthday. Dave had a brush with Werner and told us that story in this episode.

March 22—William Shatner birthday. One of the strangest interviews we ever did was with a street band (one guy) from Seattle who goes by William Shatner's Hairpiece.

March 22—Andrew Lloyd Webber birthday. One of his main lyrical collaborators (Glen Slater) told us what Sir Andrew is really like.  

March 23, 2003—The documentary Scrabylon released. We talked to the director, Scott Petersen. 

March 23, 2023—Marquee announces “When it was a game” Cubs special (that I participated in). It was eventually called "Cubs Flicks". You can see part of it here.  

March 23—Mark Buehrle birthday—Spike Manton is a friend of the White Sox great and told us a funny story about him. 

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 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?

*July 31 is Mark Cuban's birthday. He appeared on our show a few years ago and we had a fun discussion about embarrassing our kids. (Full interview here)

*July 31, 2017, Anthony Scaramucci was fired by the Trump White House after only 11 days on the job. We talked to him about that situation on the show. (Full interview here)

*August 2, 1929, the first suburb (Levittown, NY) was founded. We did an audio bit on the John Landecker show (written by me) that was called Suburban Man (AUDIO)

*August 2 is Broadway composer Glenn Slater's birthday. We had him on the show to talk about a few of his huge hits (with Alan Mencken and Andrew Lloyd Webber). (Full interview here)

*August 3, 1969. The Cubs release a record to thank their fans (AUDIO)

*August 3, 2020, Rick and Dave appear on the Reconsile the Aisle podcast. (Full interview here)

*August 3 is Martha Stewart's birthday. Rick and John Landecker wrote a song about her, and suprised her live on the air (on television) to serenade her with it. (AUDIO)

*August 3 is Maria Breese's birthday. The Hollywood star/producer appeared on our show during the pandemic. (Full interview is here)

*August 4 is Barack Obama's birthday. We had jazz vocalist Kurt Elling on the show, and he told his very own personal Obama story. (Full interview is here)

*August 5, 1921, the very first broadcast of a baseball game (in Pittsburgh). We have audio of the very early Cubs announcers, who began broadcasting in Chicago in 1924 (AUDIO)

*August 5, 1983, the film Risky Business debuts. Harry Teinowitz was in that movie and we talked to him about it. (Full interview here)

*August 5, 1994, Harry Caray appears on the Landecker show and refuses to tell the story of the day he met Elvis (AUDIO)

*August 5, 1996, Harry Caray and Jack Brickhouse sing Take Me Out to the Ballgame together for the first and only time (AUDIO)

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       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?

*July 17 is Fast Times at Ridgemont High star Robert Romanus' birthday. He appeared on our show a few years ago to talk about the film. (Listen to entire interview here)

*July 18, 1910 is the anniversary of the classic poem about the Cubs, Baseball's Sad Lexicon. We have the audio of a famous actor reading that poem. (AUDIO)

*July 19 is Wayne Messmer's birthday. We have audio of Wayne singing a song written by Rick when he was the producer of John Landecker's show. (AUDIO)

*July 20, 2002 is the debut of the cartoon Jimmy Neutron. We interviewed the voice of Jimmy, Debbie Derryberry, a few years ago. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*July 21 is playwright/author/broadcaster/comedian Spike Manton's birthday. Spike was nice enough to join us as a guest on the program a few years ago. (Listen to the entire interview here)

*July 22 is composer Alan Mencken's birthday. We interviewed his songwriting collaborator Glen Slater a few years ago, and Glen told us all about the genius of Alan. (Full interview here)

*July 23, 1965, the Moody Blues released their debut album. We had Moody Blues member Alan Hewitt on the show last year. (Listen to the interview here)