R.I.P. George Carlin, May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008 (Wikipedia | WFMU Blog). From 1972’s Class Clown, “Seven Dirty Words You Can Never Say on Television” (7:03):
The above aired on WBAI-NYC, resulting in the 1978 Supreme Court F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation ruling prohibiting broadcast of “indecent” material during hours “when children are undoubtedly in the audience.”
NPR has changed. As evidence I offer this early 80s promo produced by Jesse Boogs for NPR. This imagistic radio dramatic audio artistic style said NPR then. Now, not so much; “Morning Edition promo” (1:00 mp3):
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
006 Radio Dial— Signals from the Sky
Host— Barrett Golding of Hearing Voices
Airdates— 4/9-16/2008
Radio stories about radio, then stories about radio stories: Jake Warga paints sound-portraits of “Urbana FM” in Uruguay and “Radio Gondor” in Ethiopia. ShortWaveMusic blog records “Duelling Transmitters” (also check his CD 30: A Retrospective 1976-2006). “WWV- The Tick” comes from Douglas Grant (voiced by former WWV announcer John Doyle). We premiere Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love!. Larry Massett interviews the “Language Removal Services.” Recordist Steve McGreevey captures the solar sounds of space weather, the northern lights, and “Natural Radio.” The Android Sisters lament the loss of great “Ray-Dee-Ohh.” And Scott Carrier reports to work for “The Friendly Man.”
Shortwave/music mixes from Myke Weiskopf’s CD 30: A Retrospective 1976-2006.
Radio Dial (54:00 mp3):
Chesty has shoes, no anchovies; Cate Blanchett emotes; 20 times the President’s penis; and smart-ass Sanskrit, Episode Ten of Chesty Morgan’s Forbidden Love! (8:57 mp3):
The video for the song (in this week’s HV hour) with comedian Greg Giraldo and musicians Lazyboy, from their 2004 CD TV, “Underwear Goes Inside the Pants:”
On this afternoon’s NPR Day to Day another ZBS series, 2 Minute Noir, “Even Rattlesnakes Get the Blues” (2:13 mp3):
Hearing Voices from NPR®:
004 Comedy with a Beat— SUBTITLE
Host— David Ossman of Firesign Theatre. and Otherworld
Airdates— 2008.03.26-04-02
Master mixes of comedy bits with music beats, from Wally Cox yodeling to Peter Sellers singing while shaving, from Jack Kerouac crooning “Ain’t We Got Fun” to Charles Mingus jazzing up Jean Shepherd’s “The Clown” to comedian Greg Giraldo layered over Lazyboy. “Lenny Bruce Gets Busted” in Jonathan Mitchell’s documentary. And we hear rare and classic bits from host David Ossman’s Firesign Theatre.
Comedy with a Beat (54:00 mp3):
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