Comments on: Weird things I have heard on the radio: Vol. 1

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 01:02:46 +0000

Big green nos and little rubber feet was the reason you should buy that brand of calculator. Early 70′s. Maybe 72 or 73. All calculators were basically the same size, big, and only would perform four functions. + – / and x

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:19:45 +0000

Back in 92 or so – my 1st yr in STL, there was someone in the studio with the DJ, who played “She’s a girl and I’m a man” from Lloyd Cole’s “Don’t get weird on me” album. The banter afterward was about how the DJ couldn’t get the infamous Spinal Tap exchange out of his mind. Its the scene at the album launch party when the female publicist is telling the band that their first (scrapped) album cover for “Smell the Glove” was sexist. Nigel Tufnell then responds: “What’s wrong with being sexy?”. And who else in STL plays Lloyd Cole?

By: Jody Zscheck

Jody Zscheck — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:40:52 +0000

As to the jingle “They’ve got big green numbers…and little rubber feet!” cited in Weird things I have heard on the radio: Vol. 1, that would be the jingle for Rockwell calculators. It was an ad to challenge the calculator industry giant, Texas Instruments, whose calculators had very small red numbers at the time. Not sure of the year, but I had a Rockwell, which were also much cheaper than TI.

By: bob reuter

bob reuter — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:03:59 +0000

that first comment, the one about george harrison when he was still alive – i think that was me – really? you think that’s weird huh? – your easy.

By: Darren Snow

Darren Snow — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:43:00 +0000

That reminds me of a fairly surreal hour of commercial radio, when “looping”–that is, the announcer pre-recording his or her parts in advance and letting a computer drop them into the broadcast later–was still a very new process. The announcer somehow got one set ahead of the music, saying “That was so-and-so, along with such-and such, and before that, blah blah blah,” when the artists named were actually coming up after the next commercial break.

By: Marjie Kennedy

Marjie Kennedy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:30:59 +0000

The weirdest thing I ever heard on the radio was years ago when KWMU used to have a jazz show all night long. Evidently the regular host was not there and a sub was supposed to play music interspersed with some recorded commentary, back announcing, etc., by the regular host so that it would sound like the usual host was there in the studio. Instead, the person played all the commentary with no music at all. So you’d hear the announcer’s voice saying what he was going to play, and then immediately following, he would back announce that track and say what the next track would be, all with none of the music ever being played. This went on for several minutes that I know of. I finally had to just turn it off. I don’t know what happened when the sub ran out of commentary to play, I fell asleep, but did check later and there was still talking and no music.

By: Joshua Weinstein

Joshua Weinstein — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:47:39 +0000

A few years ago Gabriel was talking about an Aretha special he had seen on tv. He thought it was well done EXCEPT for the sound quality. He went on and on about how you could hardly hear anything. Tha the sound guy must be hard-of-hearing and should have been fired. He made a big deal out of it.

When he was finished ranting he said, “give me a call if you know the name of the next PERFORMER. Now, I don’t want the name of the song but who is singing the song.” Then the music comes on and it is on an old, warbly tape that is going sharp and flat almost with the beat of the song.

Charming.

By: John Wendland

John Wendland — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 06:23:19 +0000

Weird Thing I Have Heard On KDHX:

Host: And that was a song recorded by George Harrison when he was still alive.