Studio Walls--November 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.

November 17, 1964—Beatles release "I’m a Loser"

=Buckinghams guitarist Carl Giammerese talked to us about his band's hit-making cover of the Beatles classic.  

November 17, 1973—"Heartbeat is a Lovebeat" hits #1. 

=We interviewed the lead singer of the song, Tony Defranco 

November 18—Mickey Mouse Day. 

=In 2002, Johnny Kaempfer reviewed of Mickey’s Magical Christmas on the John Landecker show. 

November 18--Kevin Nealon birthday

=My brush with Kevin story is told in this episode. 

November 18, 1983—Christmas Story released. 

=We interviewed the kid who played Scut Farkus: Zach Ward. 

November 19, 1995—Toy Story released.

=Debbi Derryberry is the voice of the aliens. Cool story of how that came to be is told in this interview. 

November 19, 2021—Mick Rock passes away

=We interviewed the legendary rock photographer just a year or two before he passed. The link to that interview is below.

November 20, 2010—First class inducted in Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.

=CLHOF Founder Don Evans gave us minutia about some of the Hall of Famers 

November 20--Joe Walsh birthday

=My Joe Walsh story is told in this episode.  

November 20--Bo Derek birthday

=My Bo Derek story is told in this episode. 

November 21, 1985—Feud of Steve & Garry/Larry Lujack live on the air.

=Catherine Johns witnessed some of the mayhem and told us about it. 

November 21—Harold Ramis birthday

=He cut an audio ad for our AMISH Chicago Advertising firm.

November 21, 2021—Tribune profiles Ugly Buildings Tour with Mike.

=That article inspired us to interview him.  

November 21, 1931—Release date of “Frankenstein” 

=Boris Karloff's daughter Sara came on the show to tell us all about her father, the star of that film. This week also marks the birthday of both father & daughter (November 23)

November 21, 1874—Aston Villa founded 

November 21, 1885—Southampton founded

(Two more reasons to listen to this...)

November 22--Mick Rock birthday

=The late great rock photographer had some incredible stories. 

November 22--Howard Sudberry birthday

=We interviewed Howard in this episode. :

November 22—Rodney Dangerfield birthday. 

=Comedian Larry Reeb told us a memorable story about his comedy pal Rodney. 

Studio Walls--October 30, 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.

October 27, 1973

=The Who releases "Love Reign Oer Me".  Loren Gold plays the keyboards for that every night when the Who goes on tour. He told us about it.  

October 27, 2018

=Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting. Mark Cuban told us that he knew people in that congregation. 

 

October 28—International Animation Day 

=We have audio from the day that our voice genius, Vince, got to play on the air with legendary cartoon voice over artist June Foray.

October 28—Jami Gertz birthday

=My brush with Jami is discussed in this episode.  

October 28, 2021

=I appeared on an Australian soccer podcast

October 28—Adam Bitterman birthday

=We interviewed the Chicago actor in this episode.  

October 28, 2023

=Matthew Perry died. Alex Kapp told us about Perry and what it was like being an actor on Friends.  

 

October 29—Quiet Riot singer Kevin DuBrow’s birthday. 

=Loverboy’s Doug Johnson told us what it was like touring with Quiet Riot. 

October 29--Denny Laine birthday

=We talked to the late Wings guitarist when we filled in at WLS-AM. 

 

October 30--Myke Cole birthday

=We had the best selling author on the show not just once, but twice.  

October 31--Adam Schlesinger birthday

=My brush with the late Fountains of Wayne songwriter is discussed in this episode.

October 31—Halloween. 

=Boris Karloff's daughter, Sara Karloff was interviewed by us in this episode.  

 

November 1, 1884—Leicester City plays first game ever 

=That reminds me of this podcast...

 

November 2, 2001—Monsters Inc released 

=Johnny Kaempfer reviewed it when he was 3. We have the audio.

November 2, 2006—The Arab/Israeli Comedy Hour debuts 

=Aaron Freeman (the Israeli part of it) was on our show. 

November 2—Kurt Elling birthday

=The jazz genius was on this episode of the show. 

November 2, 1980—The Kings/"Beat Goes On-Switchin To Glide: released.

=We talked to Mr. Zero himself on this episode.

Minutia Men Celebrity Interview Classic--Sara Karloff

 

We have now done over 200 interviews on our various Minutia Men podcasts, and this year we're going to revisit some of the best. We interviewed Boris Karloff's daughter Sara last year. She had some incredible stories about her dad, including tales from Frankenstein and the Grinch, and also his early days as a union organizer in Hollywood.

You can listen to it here.