Podcasts about Music television

Would you ever launch a campaign celebrating your brand as second best? That's exactly what Sandy Rubinstein did at Nick at Nite.I sat down with Sandy Rubinstein, CEO, DX [https://dxagency.com/], to discuss that story, and many more lesson-filled stories, in this episode of How I Made It In Marketing.DX is a 20-year-old company with $20 million in revenue. Rubinstein manages a team of 70 across five cities in three countries.Stories (with lessons) about what she made in marketingSeek serendipityLose the brand ego and lean into humility Bet on yourself Seek out every voice in the roomBe the all-weather friendMentorship is not a one-way streetDiscussed in this episodeWant to boost your conversions and collaborate with customer-first marketers? Claim your free 3-month AI Guild scholarship [https://join.meclabsai.com/] (from MeclabsAI, MarketingSherpa's parent company). Innovative Marketing Leadership: It is okay to think outside the box but make sure you don't create surprises (podcast episode #82) [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/innovative]Marketing: It's not about you, and when you make it about you, you are never going to succeed (podcast episode #53) [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/marketing-not-about-you]Marketing Career: How to become an indispensable asset to your company (even in a bad economy) [https://marketingexperiments.com/value-proposition/marketing-career]Voice-Over Coaching: Tips for improving external webinars, internal trainings and other content [https://sherpablog.marketingsherpa.com/video-marketing-2/voice-over-coaching/]Creative Marketing and Advertising Campaigns: Hold the line & get a door kicker (podcast episode #84) [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/creative-marketing]Marketing Mentorship: Direct feedback is a gift (podcast episode #98) [https://marketingsherpa.com/article/interview/marketing-mentorship] Get more episodesSubscribe to the MarketingSherpa email newsletter [https://www.marketingsherpa.com/newsletters]to get more insights from your fellow marketers. Sign up for free if you'd like to get more episodes like this one.For more insights, check out...This podcast is not about marketing – it is about the marketer. It draws its inspiration from the Flint McGlaughlin quote, “The key to transformative marketing is a transformed marketer” from the Become a Marketer-Philosopher: Create and optimize high-converting webpages [https://meclabs.com/course/] free digital marketing course.Apply to be a guestIf you would like to apply to be a guest on How I Made It In Marketing, here is the podcast guest application – https://www.marketingsherpa.com/page/podcast-guest-application

Oulussa järjestetään maailman vanhinta musiikkivideofestivaalia, ja viikonloppuna siellä nähtiin, miltä musiikkivideon kuuluu näyttää juuri nyt. Kotimaisten videoiden parhaat palkittiin, mutta millaisia ne ovat, kenelle niitä tehdään, miksi ja millä rahoilla? Paljon on muuttunut niistä ajoista, kun Music Television loi populaaria yhtenäiskulttuuria jakelemalla musiikkivideoita kaikille. Somen lyhytvideot, musiikkiteollisuuden rahavirtojen muutokset ja halvan tuotantotekniikan yleistyminen haastavat perinteisen musiikkivideon, mutta tarjoavat mahdollisuuksia. Uusin tutkimus osoittaa, että yhä edelleen liikkuva kuva voi ladata musiikin täyteen merkitystä. Ja kenties entistä saavutettavampi tuotanto nostaa entistäkin paremmin esiin uusia tyylejä ja tekijöitä? Kulttuuriykkösen studioon saapuvat Eleonoora Riihinen, joka Pumpeligaalan tuomarina katsoi viikonloppuna liikaa musiikkivideoita, sekä Tommi E. Virtanen, joka on katsonut niitä monta vuotta jakaakseen niille tukea MESin AV-toimikunnassa. Tekijänäkökulmaa tarjoavat Pumpeligaalan menestyjät. Lähetyksen toimittaa Kare Eskola.

We'd love to hear from you! Click here to send us a text. Season 5, Episode 93Two review episodes in a row?  Shocking! We're going to start off the show with a review of The Alarm's latest, a covers album titled Music Television from 2024. After that, The Stranglers most recent work, released in 2021, was Dark Matters. It's been a while since we heard from them so we'll dive into that album. As for music news, we have new singles from David J (Bauhaus, Love And Rockets), Kate Pierson (B-52s) and Jesus Jones.  In addition, an upcoming Vapors album and sad news about Oingo Boingo Former Members. Finally, we are doing a contest for the new Alarm album.  There will be two winners.  Simply send us an email with the word MUSIC in the subject line, to newwavemusicpodcast@yahoo.com.  One entry per person. The contest ends August 15th at midnight, so get that entry in!Support the Show.

Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has solidified his place as a major force in the music industry and beyond. This Puerto Rican rapper and singer, renowned for his unique blend of reggaeton and Latin trap, has also made waves in other areas of entertainment, including television hosting and live performances.Recently, Bad Bunny took over the hosting duties on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL), showcasing not only his musical talents but also his versatility as an entertainer. His stint as an SNL host was widely praised, adding another feather in his multifaceted cap. Concurrently, his involvement with "The Last of Us" further increased his recognition. Bad Bunny's influence spans various media, from chart-topping music hits to memorable television appearances. As he continues to break barriers and set new standards, his impact on both Latin and global pop culture is undeniable.

In the 1980's two monumental forces in music were about to collide. They were Music Television or MTV and William Broad, also known as Billy Idol.Rebel Yell originally dropped in November of 1983. It has sold over 2 million copies and featured hit singles like “Eyes Without a Face,” “Flesh for Fantasy, “Rebel Yell,” and “Catch My Fall.” To celebrate the album's 40th anniversary, Billy & Ume are releasing “Rebel Yell” in a deluxe edition with a whole disc of previously unreleased songs and demos. You can get it as 2 albums, 2 CDs and via all digital formats.Today, you'll hear Billy & guitarist Steve Stevens take you back to the writing and recording of this landmark album as well as sharing some stories about their personal lives. We'll also find out what's next for this pair of musical buds. This show is being hosting by Dan Neer.

TakeawaysChildhood dreams can shape our aspirations and influence our paths in life.Pursuing a career in music, particularly as a rapper, requires a lot of hard work and dedication.Doing cover songs can be a way to gain exposure and connect with audiences.Live performances have a unique energy and can create memorable experiences for both artists and audiences.The decline of music television shows like Much Music has created a need for new platforms to showcase emerging artists.Overproduction can sometimes detract from the authenticity and impact of music shows. Exposure is crucial for artists to gain recognition and expand their fan base.Organizing large-scale music events can be challenging due to budget constraints and the difficulty of bringing together iconic bands.Having a strategic marketing plan and giving enough time for promotion is essential for filling up venues and attracting audiences.Living within one's means and focusing on developing one's craft are important for artists to succeed in the music industry.Believing in one's potential and making consistent efforts to improve are key to achieving success.00:00 Childhood Dreams and Hip Hop07:09 The Decline of Music Television and the Need for New Platforms12:29 Overproduction in Music Shows21:26 Marketing and Planning for Success26:36 The Journey of Self-Improvement30:40 Living Within Your Means and Making Positive Changes

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We didn't know that much about K-Pop going into this episode of Debut Buddies, but damn if we didn't luck out to have K-Pop lover and expert Julia Clausen on as our guest! Julia (Book Club with Julia and Victoria) gives us a temporal rundown of K-Pop's origins (Seo Taiji and Boys), it's political and social ramifications for South Korea's youth (and society as a whole), and a thoughtful survey of the generations of K-Pop that have emerged since 1992. This one's gonna leave you amped.Check out the videos we watched to prepare:First K-Pop (Seo Taiji and Boys): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWF5nDX22Q&ab_channel=DKDKTVK-Pop overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPS4tCHT6SAHave a comment? Maybe you want to be a guest on the show? Email us at debutbuddies@gmail.comListen to Kelly and Chelsea's awesome horror movie podcast, Never Show the Monster.Get some sci-fi from Spaceboy Books.Get down with Michael J. O'Connor's music!Next time: First Mamma Mia! (Here we go, for the FIRST TIME!?!?)

This week we go back to the 80s talk about the beginning of MTV. MTV, or Music Television, is a cable and satellite television channel that primarily focuses on broadcasting music videos, music-related programming, and other entertainment content. It was launched on August 1, 1981, and quickly became a cultural phenomenon, especially among young people. MTV played a pivotal role in shaping popular music, youth culture, and the entertainment industry. We talk about our favorite moments , bands, shows and laugh alot while doing this. You can watch us on Youtube and Facebook . Listen to our beautiful voices on all major platforms. https://www.facebook.com/onedrinkpodhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ytHeiGG6VND5GUmoWij-A

As my guest (Joe Greenetz of Sherwood) explains, for two glorious years in the mid-late 1990s, the Music Television channel put out compilation albums of new songs by breaking artists, most of them firmly in the rock/alternative realm. And, frankly, the people deserve to know definitively which of the two volumes is the superior collection. So we had no choice but to test out a new episode style/game, basically a soccer penalty kick-type "shootout," track competing against track. No one cares about these compilations anymore, but plenty of people still adore these songs, including tracks by Counting Crows, Cake, Stone Temple Pilots, Nada Surf, and more. Spotify playlist for today's episode: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5pB7ndl7dl8Tt249xYYWUS?si=004099359adf4780 Dan's music licensing library: https://dankoch.net/library Email Dan: prettygoodvibrationspodcast@gmail.com IG: www.instagram.com/prettygoodvibespod/ Artwork: https://www.nickryanluevano.com/

Most animal species go through a juvenile developmental stage where they play with each other. Think, puppies and kittens. Human beings are different. We don't grow out of playing. We come up with myriad ways for people of all ages to enjoy themselves. Here in New Orleans there's a whole industry devoted to creating fun things for adults to do. Sometimes it's in the guise of work as part of a convention, and other times it's simply, well, fun. The industry is called the Event Production business. Sometimes known as Party Planning. As you'll know from planning your own parties - from birthdays to Bacchus - organizing a successful fun gathering is a serious business. Like every type of business, it evolves. One of the newest local evolutions is a company called Raising Hell Events. Raising Hell started life in 2022 and is responsible for giving birth to events like Asking For A Friend – a series of networking get-togethers at various locations aimed at letting screen-centric young adults find friends in real life; Swiftie Fest – a massively popular Taylor Swift dance party; and the Y2K Sleepover Series at The Broad Theater – a nostalgic look back at films you might have watched if you were at a sleepover in the early 2000's. This is not your father's event production company. It's not even your big brother's. Raising Hell Productions is the creation of Founder and Creative Director Julia DeLois. When we humans are not playing, we watch other people play. We watch them play sports. And we watch them play musical instruments. We're so enthusiastic about watching people play music that when we can't get to see them play live, we watch them on a screen. When we first discovered this pastime could be a mass market business back in the 1980's, Music Television – or MTV as it called itself – became a massive worldwide sensation. Today it's all over for MTV, but memorializing music on film, and on places like YouTube and TikTok, is still a sizeable segment of the entertainment industry. Locally, a New Orleans-based content creation company called Lavoi Creative made a movie called Roots of Fire, about current Cajun music and musicians, that has won all kinds of awards. They also produce a wide range of other film and video content, including the TV show My Amazing Cheap Date: New Orleans. And they have a branch office in San Francisco where they make filmed content for Google, Pandora, Netflix, Bank of America, and many more companies with household names. The co-founder of Lavoi Creative, along with his wife Abby, is Jeremey Lavoi.  People often talk nostalgically about how things were better “back in the day.” But even a diehard curmudgeon would have to admit that life is twice as much fun today. That's because we now have two ways to entertain ourselves: the old-fashioned way – in real life - and the 21st Century way - on a screen. Whichever way you prefer, having fun and being entertained is a serious business. That's why we have a multi-billion-dollar industry, called, simply, “the entertainment industry.” Here in New Orleans, Julia DeLois is bringing us new and innovative ways to entertain ourselves in the real world, and Jeremey Lavoi is creating filmed entertainment that runs the gamut from intellectually informative to frivolous fun. Out to Lunch is recorded live over lunch at NOLA Pizza in the NOLA Brewing Taproom. You can find photos from this show by Jill Lafleur at itsneworleans.com. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to "MTV Through the Decades: Exploring the Evolution of Music Television!" Join us as we take a trip down memory lane, tracing the vibrant history of MTV and the iconic shows that have shaped the channel's cultural impact. From its inception in the 1980s to the present day, we dive into the revolutionary moments, groundbreaking music videos, and the rise of influential programming. Delve into the nostalgic realm of shows like "Total Request Live," "Beavis and Butt-Head," "The Real World," and many more, exploring their influence on music, fashion, and youth culture. Get ready for an immersive journey through the various eras of MTV, uncovering the stories behind the channel's rise to prominence and celebrating the unforgettable moments that have defined its legacy. So tune in, turn up the volume, and join us as we celebrate the rich tapestry of MTV's history and its lasting impact on the world of entertainment.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/random-rewind--5864735/support.

Beth Broday is an award-winning executive producer with over thirty-five years' experience in identifying, developing and selling content that results in millions of dollars in sales and revenue. Creative leadership and an innate ability to recognize advantageous opportunities ahead of the curve, Ms. Broday successfully married top entertainment brands and properties with digital media. Ms. Broday specializes in business development, production, original content development, executing brand strategy and spearheading long term, cross-platform initiatives. Ms. Broday is currently writing a memoir and continues as a career consultant to young women entering the entertainment business. Widely known as a pioneer of music television, Ms. Broday was the founder of two of the first, top tier international music video production companies providing a decade of content to MTV in its early years. Ms. Broday has produced and directed award-winning TV specials, and original web series for artists such as STING, Yanni, and Alanis Morissette. A-list client roster includes: Disney, CBS, FOX, IPG, Warner Horizon, PBS, MTV, FuseTV, A&E Networks, Televisa, Turner, Comcast, Nickelodeon, VH1, MSN, AOL, Maker Studios, Warner Records, and Interscope Records/Universal. Artist clients include (partial list) PRINCE, STING, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Cindy Lauper, Barry Gordy, Alanis Morissette, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jane Fonda. The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. Visit Grace at her website www.gracesammon.net. Contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at grace@gracesammon.net Follow Grace: On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GSammonWrites On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-sammon-84389153/ #TheStorytellers #Storyteller #Storytellers # Storytelling #AuhtorInterview #LetsTalkBooks #LeaveYourMark #AuthorLife #StorytellerLife #ArtofStory #AuthorTalkNetwork #BookishRoadTrip #AuthorTalkNetwork #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #memoir #MTV #pioneer #executiveproducer #awardwinning The Storytellers is a copyrighted work © of Grace Sammon and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network.

Beth Broday is an award-winning executive producer with over thirty-five years' experience in identifying, developing and selling content that results in millions of dollars in sales and revenue. Creative leadership and an innate ability to recognize advantageous opportunities ahead of the curve, Ms. Broday successfully married top entertainment brands and properties with digital media. Ms. Broday specializes in business development, production, original content development, executing brand strategy and spearheading long term, cross-platform initiatives. Ms. Broday is currently writing a memoir and continues as a career consultant to young women entering the entertainment business. Widely known as a pioneer of music television, Ms. Broday was the founder of two of the first, top tier international music video production companies providing a decade of content to MTV in its early years. Ms. Broday has produced and directed award-winning TV specials, and original web series for artists such as STING, Yanni, and Alanis Morissette. A-list client roster includes: Disney, CBS, FOX, IPG, Warner Horizon, PBS, MTV, FuseTV, A&E Networks, Televisa, Turner, Comcast, Nickelodeon, VH1, MSN, AOL, Maker Studios, Warner Records, and Interscope Records/Universal. Artist clients include (partial list) PRINCE, STING, Michael Jackson, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Cindy Lauper, Barry Gordy, Alanis Morissette, Ellen DeGeneres, and Jane Fonda. The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. Visit Grace at her website www.gracesammon.net. Contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at grace@gracesammon.net Follow Grace: On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/GraceSammonWrites/ On Twitter https://www.twitter.com/GSammonWrites On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-sammon-84389153/ #TheStorytellers #Storyteller #Storytellers # Storytelling #AuhtorInterview #LetsTalkBooks #LeaveYourMark #AuthorLife #StorytellerLife #ArtofStory #AuthorTalkNetwork #BookishRoadTrip #AuthorTalkNetwork #AuthorsOnTheAirGlobalRadioNetwork #memoir #MTV #pioneer #executiveproducer #awardwinning The Storytellers is a copyrighted work © of Grace Sammon and Authors on The Air Global Radio Network.

Journalist, author and critic Annie Zaleski is as enjoyable as they come when the topic is Squeeze. As a polymath in the music community, she demonstrates an affinity for our subject matter: MTV, Music Television. Hopscotching from lip-synced videos to full-on concerts, we recall with humor the fond memories those times represented and the moonshot culture that propels Squeeze (along with Duran Duran) to actively participate in crafting a new frontier in today's hard-to-categorize music community.anniezaleski.comUse my special link https://zen.ai/coolforcats and use coolforcats to save 30% off your first three months of Zencastr Professional. #madeonzencastr

Rae takes KP on a journey through 70's NY band Television's highly influential record Marquee Moon! Rae enlists Revolver Record Owner and Music Aficionado Elvis/Eric! We recorded the interview at Revolver Records inside Jitterbugs Coffee! Elvis loves this record and explains the effect it had on him.

Jen and Doug want their MTV! Original VJ Alan Hunter drops by to takes us back to the earliest days of Music Television and and it's meteoric rise as a music and pop culture juggernaut.

The year was 1995. Bill Clinton was still serving his first term as President, Microsoft released Windows 95 which would change the face of home computing forever, and music was alive and well! Tune in as we discuss the music of the year 1995! Patreon: patreon.com/thesidebarcantina Our Links: https://bio.link/thesidebarcantina Red 5 Network : https://bio.link/red5

“What do you wanna do with your life?” For everyone still trying to recover from “the prior episode” we understand you've endured a lot and assure you that it's about to get even more surreal. Think of THE CHRONICLES:  Part II as a 2-part episode embedded within the second half of The Chronicles, like appetizers before the main course or, using a more apropos food analogy, a “Turducken” of Metal if you will. For starters, it's back to 1983 for a tasting of early metal compiled by Brian Slagel and Metal Blade Records for METAL MASSACRE III including (and of utmost importance) Slayer, as well as a veritable plethora of other bands who gave us a glimpse of the future of 80's metal that was yet to be born. Then for the main course, we indulged in a generous cornucopia of 80's HAIR METAL music videos that we enjoyed as youngsters coming of age during the bygone days of yore when Music Television was still a new concept and five bucks in quarters bought an entire day of bliss at the video arcade. Prepare to embrace 80's metal Zen through enlightened states of twanglification, be sure to keep your “Fast Times” and “Karate Kid” cast members straight, and then “touch hands” and start “motoring” because it's time to get “sideways” and give thanks as you JOIN US for a heavy metal double header on this, the exciting conclusion of our trip through THE CHRONICLES.   Visit www.metalnerdery.com/podcast for more on this episode Leave us a Voicemail to be played on a future episode: 980-666-8182 Metal Nerdery Tees and Hoodies – metalnerdery.com/merch and kindly leave us a review and/or rating on the iTunes/Apple Podcasts - Spotify or your favorite Podcast app Listen on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean, Google Podcasts or wherever you get your Podcasts. Follow us on the Socials: Facebook - Instagram - Twitter Email: metalnerdery@gmail.com Can't be LOUD Enough Playlist on Spotify YouTube: Metal Nerdery Munchies @metalnerderypodcast   Show Notes: (00:01): “I felt a little weird earlier…” / Can you believe we actually made it through a #KISS episode on THIS show? / The word is #pica / “This is the next one…” / #thisepisodesclinkyoftheepisode #SinEater / ***WELCOME BACK TO THE METAL NERDERY PODCAST!!!*** WARNING #listenerdiscretionisadvised / Shroom Chronicles Part II:  The Peak / #Selfabuse from #theblackdog / Positivity at the Hetfield house #ReverendHetfield and #positiveaffirmations (and #ReverendBon) #imstillgonnasayit / “#Powerage is the perfect #inbetweenalbum / #slowadultDamone #arresteddevelopmentDamone and “knowing the difference” / “I think she gave #greathead in #TheKarateKid…” / “You can't even let people know you have those thoughts…” #ifeelworse / #shesstillhot / #bossbitch vs #bossasshole / #relaxerlatebloomerASMR #cricketsASMR #WelcomeToTheMattShow / #greasygrin aka #permagrin   (12:21): #thisepisodesbeeroftheepisode (and #RussellsReflectionsASMR) #elevenpercentalcoholABV #NewHollandBrewingCompany #DragonsMilk #youguysarefuckedASMR #brewerering #alottaauras #badprobrem / “C'mere, #Dragontits!” / “We can do a combo…” / The #predocket #Docket:  #MetalBladeRecords #MetalMassacre Metal Massacre III AND Various Hair Metal Selections #thepriorepisode #herestherules / “#Thegreatestfarts” and “a deck of cards” / ***CHECK US OUT ON THE SOCIALS, SEND US AN EMAIL AT METALNERDERY@GMAIL.COM AND IF YOU REALLY WANNA TELL US HOW YOU FEEL YOU CAN FEEL TOLL FREE TO LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** #yeahhhh   (18:58): “There's gonna be a LOT of reaching…” #markthetime / The Chronicles Part II /Side A: The Psilo:  Metal Massacre III / (Put on your #1983 hat for this…) / #Slayer #nottheReignInBloodVersion AGGRESSIVE PERFECTOR #killeropener / “What was the evillest thing you'd heard from '83?” / #BlackSabbath (From Born Again) STONEHENGE #creepyASMR  #OMGASMR #IDKItsASMR (This is NOT on #MetalMassacreThree) #PinkSabbath TRASHED (#DeepSabbath or #BlackPurple) and thoughts on “Pyromania” (the album) #FisherTexMexTrailMix #foodnoiseASMR / #Bitch (back to #MMIII) RIDING IN THUNDER #metalPatBenatar / #Tyrant ARMAGEDDON #KingDiamondish and/or #MercyfulFateish (Think Cronos meets King Diamond) / “It was shoved in there…” / #VenomMeetsKingDiamond / “The word is #genre” / #ComboMegaMixASMR (including a touch of DISTURBING THE PRIEST)   (37:30): #Medusa PIRANHAS (NOTE:  keep in mind that a lot of these were likely from #demotapes back in the day…young bands sending in their #shittah to try and get signed to the mighty #MetalBladeRecords) #earlymetal / #faceyourfears #piranhagloryhole and a #rimshot to boot / ***“Is #GunsNRoses considered #hairmetal?”*** / *Moments with #MrUnicorn* / More #RussellsReflections and the fall of hair metal / #GNR #LiveAtTheRitz/ #onmicburpASMR / “I guess we can all be #timelords now”/ #TestPattern BITE THE KNIFE / “#YngwieMalmsteen IS #DungeonHairMetal” / #BlackWidow BLITZKRIEG / “Dragons shouldn't be allowed to have tits…” / “How many riffs can YOU cram into a single song!?” / “Is it Poem or Pome?” #exhaustingoffputtingandirresponsibleASMR   (53:38): #Warlord MRS. VICTORIA (King Diamond meets Styx) / “Lets all go the way…” / #VirginSteele LET'S GO ALL THE WAY (“It's like a weird Foghat…”) / #Sexist FIRE AND WIND / “I'm makin' shit up…” / #GNRTangentionalASMR / “You have to mine for art…” / ***INTERMISSION*** / “It feels so good to empty your balls…” #itscalledscience / #theloudestfartintheworld / “I like that you used ‘thunderous'…” / #waitforit / Making up fancy, big words… #bifurcateASMR / #Znowhite HELL BENT (See also #CycloneTemple) / #Marauder THE KID #cowbellASMR / NOTE:  Mr. Unicorn is actually #theblackdog / #LaMort FIST AND CHAIN #killercloser #MotleyMetal / “We needed a palette cleanser in between #KISS and #HairMetal…”   (1:09:25): The Chronicles Part II / Side B: The Cybin:  80's HAIR METAL / ***“Where (and with whom) did hair metal begin?”*** / Early predecessors of hair metal / #thirdshowenergy / “Assless is the word you're looking for…” / #asslesschapsASMR / #Whitesnake SLOW AN' EASY (Fun Fact:  Whitesnake is directly tangentional to #DeepPurple) / “It's how female roast beef should be handled…”/ #musicvideoASMR (put your #1984 hat on) / “Growing like a soft boner…”/ #leatherballs #MCTentacleChoice #NightRanger SISTER CHRISTIAN (*technically, this is WAY worse than KISS*) / “We are way too wasted for this…” / #NOThairmetalASMR / #AldoNova FANTASY (Refer to #thepriorepisode) “All he's missing is the #glovesofshame” (Put on your 1981 hat for this one…) / #Autograph TURN UP THE RADIO (back to 1984…we're doing the #musicvideoversions of these songs). / #Ratt ROUND AND ROUND (more goodness from 1984) #guitarsoloASMR    (1:28:26): “When I was a kid, I loved this band…” / #Cinderella NOBODY'S FOOL (actually, not New York:  but Philadelphia) from 1986 / #Warrant UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (1990) and the justification for liking it / #StrongerThanBalls #FarBeyondBalls / The 2nd #SkidRow album in 1991 SLAVE TO THE GRIND (NOTE:  Skid Row and the mighty #Pantera actually toured together on this album)    (1:37:38): The true beginning of hairmetal:  #MotleyCrue LIVE WIRE (1981) #myhonk and the downfall of the mighty Motley / “So where is it, Jimmy?” / Ummm…what? / SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS ROOM (1985) ***LEAVE US A VOICEMAIL AT 980-666-8182!!!*** / “On some level, they ALL talk like that…” / From 1984… “What do you wanna do with your life!?” #TwistedSister I WANNA ROCK (definitely peep the video) #officialmusicvideo / #QuietRiot (1983) #killeropener METAL HEALTH (The Marshall full-stack of metal voices…)   (1:49:47): #Accept BALLS TO THE WALL (1983) #NotHairMetalASMR / The definition of hair metal vs glam metal vs just metal (there's a very specific look and sound to #hairmetal) #GreatWyattShue / “That was NOT soft!” #markthetime / #YngwieMalmsteen TRILOGY SUITE OP: 5 (1986:  Three headed dragons and the master of neoclassical #DungeonHairMetal) / The middle acoustic part of this song is insane! / “Here's where it gets better…” / #MCTentacleChoice #hairmetalclassic “That's their Load…” / #verticalnothorizontal / #DefLeppard #allbonedup (“You know how it is…when you get #songbone”) STAGEFRIGHT (1983) “I said welcome to my show!” / The Bob Rock of the 80's… / “Dude would you ever marinate somebody?” / ***What is the #greatesthairmetalsong ever!?*** / “Step inside, walk this way…” #thevideoversion POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME #jumptheshark / #Warrant CHERRY PIE #recordscratchASMR / #hairmetalmindrapeASMR #untilthenext / ***THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THIS, THE COMPELLING CONCLUSION TO THE CHRONICLES!!!*** / Go check out our vast selection of items at our #BunkerPoonGiftShoppe which can be found at metalnerdery.com/merch / #longoutroreel #chroniclesoutro #theend #fromthebeginning   

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinety Four! Its finally here! The day we've all been hotly anticipating, the Music of 1994! We talk all things music from this very unique year and end with our Top 5 Songs of 1994! Patreon: patreon.com/thesidebarcantina Our Links: https://bio.link/thesidebarcantina Red 5 Network : https://bio.link/red5

Come and join the conversation with the amazing Cat from @little folk nursery rhymes ! If there's one thing that's clear about this gorgeous lady, it's plain to see how much she absolutely adores her work! Coming from a background of working in Music Television, Cat tells me that she's always enjoyed music, been in bands and even ended up marrying a musician too! She opens up about the struggle of juggling her work in the music industry when her children came along, having seen fellow female colleagues facing issues when it came to retaining their place in the industry whilst trying to raise a family. Seeing the impact it had on others, Cat was met with a difficult decision and frankly tells me about the financial guilt that she felt when deciding to stay at home to raise her boys, then the all consuming guilt that we all know being a Mum that no matter what we choose we never feel like we can win! It was this difficult decision that actually set her on her path to doing what she does today! The first steps (although she had no idea at the time!) in her Little Folk Sing journey came about after seeking out musical groups to take her little ones to. It was one of these groups in particular that she found that was due to close as there was no one to take over the group. Cat was desperate not to let the legacy of the group dwindle and stepped up to take over it herself! As the years passed, she was encouraged by some lovely people in the local community that she should take the plunge and start it as her very own business! She slowly built it up and made such a positive impact on families along the way. Cat tells me how she was guided by the families and her customers, really listening to what they were looking for, and the amazing things that have come along the way such as her incredible YouTube channel @little folk nursery rhymes and products on her website! Cat has been recognised in national campaigns such as SmallBiz100 & f: entrepreneur, nominated for a Small Award & was voted No 1 Online Activity provider for Baby Toddler classes in The Independent! Although it hasn't always been plain sailing for her as we hear when she tells me about the impact that Covid had on her business. Bless her heart, Cat's first thought was of the families in her group that it would affect and the Mums not being able to interact with each other, potentially missing that connection that we so need when becoming parents. Not one to shy away from a challenge however, Cat soldiered on and carried on striving to provide families with joy through her work. Cat felt so lucky to be chosen by Happity, her bookings platform, to help trial online classes as soon as Lockdown hit. Although the first morning was full of nerves and tech stresses, the result was SO worth it!! But she need not have worried as all those smiling faces put her at ease and she experienced so many wonderful connections being made virtually. Cat is a huge advocate for small businesses and a huge cheerleader for female founders! We chat about the wonderful Instagram community that you can tap into, the friendships you can form and the real sense of surrounding yourself with people who just get you!(even in those 1am messages!) Cat has definitely found her calling in her business and you can just see from the passion and energy she has that she is EXACTLY where she is supposed to be! So many exciting things on the horizon for this gorgeous, talented lady and I cannot wait to see what the future holds for her! To find out more head over to her website or give her a follow! https://www.littlefolknurseryrhymes.com #littlefolksing #nurseryrhymes #talented #yesshecan #yesshecanproject #femalepodcast #yesshecanprojectpodcast #inspirationalstories

Is there a cultural touchstone that has been as wildly touched as MTV's "Making the Band?" Probably! But, to continue our season of ripping ideas straight from Music Television, we're pulling a Diddy and crafting the next musical supergroup. Plenty of characters have touched an instrument throughout the history of video games and that's the only requirement for them to be considered for our bands! So grab your headphones, crank your tunes, and jam out with us as we decide which video game characters should form a band! If Dream Theater and Tool are your speed, then Todd's band will be for you. Maybe you prefer the stomping and clapping of Florence + The Machine or Mumford & Sons. If that's your vibe, then you can get tickets to Kyle's band! And then there's Matt's band. Hope you like bits and Bluegrass...   The title of this weeks episode was selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community! Want to help us choose the next one, join our discord and/or get some bonus content? Come join #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast!   Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com   Coming to the ear holes attached to your face, this summer is a "Summer o' Pilots" on the DT! Patreon! We're putting our real-play TTRPG show on hiatus and producing a new show format each month of the summer. We're almost through the summer and our first three pilots are available to all patrons for as little as $5 a month! Give it a listen and catch up on our first premium show, The Office Drones, at patreon.com/debatethiscast!   Properties we talked about this week: PaRappa the Rapper, Um Jammer Lammy, Brutal Legend, Eternal Sonata, Portal 2, Witcher, Animal Crossing, Pokémon Sword and Shield, Majora's Mask, Donkey Kong, Banjo-Kazooie, Red Dead Redemption 2, Psychonauts 2   Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a Creative Commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

Join us on TechTime Radio with Nathan Mumm, the show that makes you go "Hummmm" Technology news of the week for July 31st – August 6th, 2022. Why is Tiffany & Co. selling custom CryptoPunk pendants for $50,000? What are water-born drones, and are they helping protect the United States? Did you know what the best-selling PC of all time is? TechTime Radio answers these questions and more on today's episode. Next, we have our "Back to School TechTime Technology Review." Then, we have a unique "LETTERS" segment with guest host Marc Grégoire. In addition, we have our standard features, including "Technology Fail of the Week" | "This Week in Technology" | "Nathan Nugget," and, of course, our "Pick of the Day" whiskey tasting. So, sit back, raise a glass, and welcome to TechTime with Nathan Mumm. Episode 112: Starts at 1:39--- [Now on Today's Show]: Starts at 3:20--- [Technology Fail of the Week]: Starts at 4:51Instagram U-turns on TikTok-style revamp as Instagram says it is pausing a rollout of new features on its app following a backlash online from users, influencers, and celebrities. --- [Top Stories in The First Five Minutes]: Starts at 11:48Twitter demands to know who Elon Musk has been talking to about spam bots - https://tinyurl.com/y5uvazn7 US Navy developing water-based drones to combat China 'pacing challenge' but wary of 'unproven technology' -https://tinyurl.com/mrx7k4jw Tiffany & Co. the Jeweler is selling custom CryptoPunk pendants for $50,000 - https://tinyurl.com/y2fyeab2 The Best-Selling PC of All Time: Commodore 64 Turns 40 - https://tinyurl.com/5758txa6 --- [Pick of the Day - Whiskey Tasting Review]: Starts at 25:48Stagg Jr. Batch #16 Bourbon | 130.9 proof | $299.99 --- [Technology Insider]: Starts at 29:08"Back to School TechTime Technology Review" --- [This Week in Technology]: Starts at 38:12August 1, 1981 - Video Killed the Radio Star; MTV Debuts “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll.” spoken by one of MTV's creators, John Lack was the first word spoken on this new media channel which initially was available only to households in parts of New Jersey. MTV, presumably standing for “Music Television”, launched on cable TV. --- [Marc's Mumbles Whiskey Details]: Starts at 43:34--- [Letters]: Starts at 46:25 Marc and Nathan share this week's informative emails received during the week. This includes scams, phishing emails, and all-out mistruths disguised as legitimate emails. --- [Nathan's Nugget brought to us by StoriCoffee®]: Starts at 51:55--- [Pick of the Day]: Starts at 52:48Stagg Jr. Batch #16 Bourbon | 130.9 proof | $299.99 Marc: Thumbs Up Nathan: Thumbs Up

Scoot talks to VJ Mark Goodman and B-52's founding member Cindy Wilson about the intention and impact of Music Television

Scoot talks to the first person whose face ever appeared on Music Television about the network's impact on both radio and TV

Back in the Day in 1958 Henry III was stabbed, Mike Tyson defeated Tony Tucker by unanimous decision, Music Television (MTV) debuted on cable television in the US, on 1988 Back To The Future was your number one movie, and Yazz - The Only Way Is Up was your number one song.

In 2010, a very successful Nashville, Tennessee music producer turned her car into her driveway, and pulled into her garage. After turning her car off, she was about to click her garage door remote again, to shut the garage door, when she turned and looked out her car's back window and she saw something very strange sitting there on her driveway. Seconds later, Veronica would be scrambling to get out of her car, and inside of her house, as fast as she possibly could... Initially, this story will seem fairly cookie cutter for a true crime story, however, it is not. There is a very unique plot twist at the end…so stick around to make sure you hear it.For 100s more stories like this one, check out my YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @MrBallenSPOILERS BELOW THIS POINT:....Main Sources:Court Documents:State versus Coy (Cory) Cothamhttps://casetext.com/case/state-v-cotham-2State versus Timothy Bozzahttps://casetext.com/case/state-v-bozzaCory Cotham appealhttps://law.justia.com/cases/tennessee/court-of-criminal-appeals/2019/m2017-02031-cca-r3-pc.htmlInmate Records:Coy Cotham:https://foil.app.tn.gov/foil/details.jspTim Bozzahttps://foil.app.tn.gov/foil/details.jspTV Documentaries:Investigation Discovery channel: Nightmare next door: Season 10, episode 4: Criss-Cross Killerhttps://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B091Y8D4K6/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s10Oxygen true crime: An unexpected KillerS2 - E1:Twisted Betrayal: Aired: 01/15/2021https://www.oxygen.com/an-unexpected-killer/season-2/episode-1/twisted-betrayalTom Bozza interrogation footage: Throw Momma from the Train Tim Bozzahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rwxKZ9kysgPolice alerts:About arrest of Cory Cothamhttps://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A1344318572566911%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F&refsrc=deprecated&_rdrSummary of convictions:https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2016/09/23/psycho-for-love-timothy-bozza-hired-cory-cotham-to-kill-his-wife-veronica-bozza-both-sentenced-to-life-in-prison/Summary of events:Fresh Edits https://freshedits.com/spotlight/how-two-men-planned-to-throw-veronica-bozza-from-the-train/ Hollywood Reporter: Throw Mama From the Train schemehttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/two-men-inspired-by-throw-768347/Summary of movie, "Throw Momma From the Train"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094142/plotsummaryPictures:Details and pictures of Veronica's house in Bridgewaterhttps://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5240-New-John-Hagar-Rd-Hermitage-TN-37076/81061709_zpid/Veronica Bozza bio:Veronica Chiaramontehttps://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LL73-WBD/veronica-chiaramonte-1971-2010Music producer: the jobhttps://www.recordingconnection.com/reference-library/recording-entrepreneurs/what-does-a-music-producer-do/CMT awards show producer 2009 (country Music Television channel/ Nashville TN)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMT_Music_AwardsVeronica's music production credit (IMDB)https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3029951/Historical weather for Nashville, TNhttps://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/tn/nashville/KBNA/date/2008-6-14See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Part 2 When Thriller was released in November 1982, it didn't seem to have a single direction. Instead, it arguably sounded like many singles. But it became apparent that this was precisely what Michael intended Thriller to be: a brilliant collection of songs meant as hits, each designed for a particular audience in mind. Michael put out "Billie Jean" for the dancers and "Beat It" for the rockers and then followed each jam with amazing videos to enhance his allure and his inaccessibility. These songs had a life of their own. Thriller was almost called “Star Light”. The lyric "thriller" in the track of the same name was originally "star light". The decision to change it was down to marketing appeal.    This wonderful article from Rolling Stone says: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" had the sense of a vitalizing nightmare in its best lines ("You're stuck in the middle/And the pain is thunder. … Still they hate you, you're a vegetable. … They eat off you, you're a vegetable"). "Billie Jean," in the meantime, exposed how the interaction between the artist's fame and the outside world might invoke soul-killing dishonor ("People always told me, be careful of what you do. … 'Cause the lie becomes the truth," Jackson sings, possibly thinking of a paternity charge from a while back). And "Beat It" was pure anger – a rousing depiction of violence as a male stance, a social inheritance that might be overcome. It also almost caught the studio on fire. When Eddie Van Halen recorded his solo, the sound of his guitar caused one of the studio speakers to catch fire. The video for “Beat It” was set in Los Angeles' Skid Row and featured up to 80 real-life gang members from the notorious street gangs the Crips and the Bloods. It cost $100,000 to make.   Thriller's parts added up to the most improbable kind of art – a work of personal revelation that was also a mass-market masterpiece. It's an achievement that will likely never be topped. It was the best-selling album worldwide in 1983 and became the best-selling album of all time in the U.S. and the best-selling album of all time worldwide, selling an estimated 70 million copies. It topped the Billboard 200 chart for 37 weeks and was in the top 10 of the 200 for 80 consecutive weeks. It was the first album to produce seven Billboard Hot 100 top-10 singles. Thriller is still the highest-selling album of all time. Want to know what the top 25 are? Subscribe to our Patreon for our video bonus on the top-selling albums ever! Billie Jean was the first video by an African-American artist to air on MTV. The video revealed Jackson's new look of a leather suit, pink shirt, red bow tie and his signature single white glove. It was a style copied by kids throughout the United States. It caused one school, New Jersey's Bound Brook High, to ban students from coming to class wearing white gloves.   Toto members Keyboardist Steve Porcaro co-wrote Human Nature, and Steve Lukather contributed rhythm guitar on Beat It.   On March 25, 1983, Jackson reunited with his brothers for Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, an NBC television special. The show aired on May 16 to an estimated audience of 47 million and featured the Jacksons and other Motown stars. Jackson had just performed a medley of greatest hits with his brothers. It was exciting stuff, but for Michael, it wasn't enough. As his brothers said their goodbyes and left the stage, Michael remained. He seemed shy for a moment, trying to find words to say. "Yeah," he almost whispered, "those were good old days. … I like those songs a lot. But especially—" and then he placed the microphone into the stand with a commanding look and said, "I like the new songs."  Then, wearing a white glove decorated with rhinestones, he swooped down, picked up a fedora, put it on his head with confidence, and vaulted into "Billie Jean." He also debuted his moonwalk dance (which became his signature dance). This was one of Michael's first public acts as a star outside and beyond the Jacksons, and it was startlingly clear that he was not only one of the most breathtaking live performers in pop music but that he could mesmerize the audience, something not seen since the likes of Elvis Presley. Michael had initially turned down the invitation to the show, believing he had been doing too much television. But at the request of Motown founder and Icon Berry Gordy, he performed in exchange for an opportunity to do a solo performance. And he killed it.    "Almost 50 million people saw that show," Michael wrote in his book Moonwalk. "After that, many things changed." At this time, Michael Jackson was obviously an immensely talented young man – he seemed shy but ambitious and undoubtedly enigmatic. Nobody knew much about his beliefs or sex life; he rarely gave interviews, but he also didn't land himself in scandals. He did, however, describe himself as a lonely person – especially around the time he made Off the Wall. Former Los Angeles Times music critic Robert Hilburn recently wrote of meeting Jackson in 1981, when the singer was 23, that Jackson struck him as "one of the most fragile and lonely people I've ever met … almost abandoned. When I asked why he didn't live on his own like his brothers, instead of remaining at his parents' house, he said, 'Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.'"   Jackson's social uneasiness was probably formed by the wounds in his history; the children were insulated from others their age, and Jackson's status as a lifelong star may have left him feeling not just cut off from most people but also alienated from them – as if his experience or his vocation made him extraordinary. "I hate to admit it," he once said, "but I feel strange around everyday people." Not exactly an unusual sentiment for some highly celebrated celebrities, especially former child stars. At the same time, it's a statement full of signals: Michael didn't enjoy the sort of company that might guide him in positive ways. He probably never did throughout his life. Maybe the most troubling passage in his autobiography Moonwalk is when he talks about children in the entertainment world who eventually fell prey to drugs: "I can understand … considering the enormous stresses put upon them at a young age. It's a difficult life."   Thriller placed seven singles in Billboard's Top 10 (presently around 50 million copies). At the 1984 Grammy Awards, Michael finally claimed his due, capturing eight awards, a record he holds with the band Santana, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Rock Vocal Performance for "Beat It," Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Vocal Performance for "Billie Jean," and he won an award for the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial storybook. In addition, the album won Producer of the year (Quincy Jones).    At the 11th Annual American Music Awards, Michael won another eight awards and became the youngest artist to win the Award of Merit. He also won Favorite Male Artist, Favorite Soul/R&B Artist, and Favorite Pop/Rock Artist. "Beat It" won Favorite Soul/R&B Video, Favorite Pop/Rock Video, and Favorite Pop/Rock Single. In addition, the album won Favorite Soul/R&B Album and Favorite Pop/Rock Album. Thriller's sales doubled after releasing an extended music video, Michael Jackson's Thriller, seeing Michael dancing with a group of incredibly designed zombies and was directed by John Landis.   Michael had the highest royalty rate in the music industry at that point, with about $2 for every album sold (equivalent to $5 in 2021). The same year, The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, a documentary about the music video, won a Grammy for Best Music Video (Longform). At this time, The New York Times wrote, "in the world of pop music, there is Michael Jackson, and there is everybody else."   Oddly enough, On May 14, 1984, then-President Ronald Reagan gave Michael an award recognizing his support of alcohol and drug abuse charities.   In November 1983, Michael and his brothers partnered with PepsiCo in a $5 million promotional deal that broke records for a celebrity endorsement (equivalent to $13,603,408 in 2021).  On January 27, 1984, Michael and other members of the Jacksons filmed a Pepsi commercial. Pyrotechnics accidentally set Jackson's hair on fire during a simulated concert before a whole house of fans, causing second-degree burns to his scalp. Michael underwent treatment to hide the scars and had his third rhinoplasty shortly after. Pepsi settled out of court, and Jackson donated the $1.5 million settlement to the Brotman Medical Center in Culver City, California; its now-closed Michael Jackson Burn Center was named in his honor. Michael signed a second agreement with Pepsi in the late 1980s for $10 million. The second campaign covered 20 countries and provided financial support for Jackson's Bad album and the 1987–88 world tour.  He was making SO much money and was the most significant music star globally.   Then, months later, it was announced that Michael would be setting out on a nationwide tour with the Jacksons. He didn't want to do it but felt obligated. Clearly, Michael was bigger, better, and "badder" than his family's limitations on him. He should have been taking the stage alone at this point in his career.   Jackson's aversion to the Victory Tour was apparent when he sat looking miserable at press conferences.   The Victory Tour of 1984 headlined the Jacksons and showcased Michael's new solo material to more than two million Americans. Following the controversy over the concert's ticket sales, Jackson donated his share of the proceeds, an estimated $3 to 5 million, to charity. What controversy, you ask?    Don King (yeah, boxing promoter Don King), Chuck Sullivan, and Papa Joe Jackson came up with a way to generate extra money from ticket sales. Those wanting to attend would have to send a postal money order for $120 ($310 in current dollars) along with a particular form to a lottery to buy blocks of four tickets at $30 apiece (US$78 in 2021 dollars), allegedly to stop scalpers. Upon receipt, the money was to be deposited into a standard money market account earning 7% annual interest; it would take six to eight weeks for the lottery to be held and money to be refunded to those that didn't win. Since only one in ten purchasers would win the lottery and receive tickets, there would be more money in the bank for that period than there were tickets to sell, and they expected to earn $10–12 million in interest. Obviously, the Jacksons were all for the idea, but Michael wasn't, and he warned them that it would be a public relations disaster. The $30 ticket price was already higher than most touring acts (like Prince and Bruce Springsteen) were charging at the time and was even worse by the requirement to buy four. This put tickets out of reach of many of Michael's African-American fans who were not financially secure. At this time, Michael was already being blasted about his physical look and music separating him from his race.  That community was joined by many commentators in the media in criticizing the Jackson's over the plan. Nevertheless, it worked, and people were lining up to get their newspapers to sign up for the lottery. On July 5, 1984, after receiving a letter from eleven-year-old fan Ladonna Jones, who accused the Jacksons and their promoters of being "selfish and just out for money," Michael held a press conference to announce changes in the tour's organization and also to announce that his share of the proceeds from the tour would be donated to charity. Jones later received VIP treatment at the Dallas concert. The following is Michael's speech at the press conference: "A lot of people are having trouble getting tickets. The other day I got a letter from a fan in Texas named Ladonna Jones. She'd been saving her money from odd jobs to buy a ticket, but with the turned tour system, she'd have to buy four tickets and she couldn't afford that. So, we asked our promoter to work out a new way of distributing tickets, a way that no longer requires a money order. There has also been a lot of talk about the promoter holding money for tickets that didn't sell. I've asked our promoter to end the mail order ticket system as soon as possible so that no one will pay money unless they get a ticket. Finally, and most importantly, there's something else I am going to announce today. I want you to know that I decided to donate all my money I make from our performance to charity. There will be further press statements released in the next two weeks."   Some procedures were modified; however, the ticket price remained unchanged, and at a press conference, Don King justified the $30 fee as appropriate and that he did not blame the promoters for charging that price, adding that "you must understand, you get what you pay for." During the last concert of the Victory Tour at the Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, Jackson announced his split from The Jacksons during "Shake Your Body".   His charitable work continued with the release of "We Are the World" (1985), co-written with future Icon Lionel Richie, which raised money for the poor in the U.S. and Africa. It earned $63 million (equivalent to $158,728,032 in 2021) and became one of the best-selling singles, with 20 million copies sold. It won four Grammy Awards in 1985, including Song of the Year for Michael and Lionel as its writers.    Michael collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney in the early 1980s and learned that Paul was making $40 million a year from owning the rights to other artists' songs. By 1983, Michael had begun buying publishing rights to others' songs, but he was careful with his purchases, only bidding on a few of the dozens offered to him. Michael's early buys included Sly and the Family Stone's "Everyday People" (1968), Len Barry's "1–2–3" (1965), Dion DiMucci's "The Wanderer" (1961), and "Runaround Sue" (1961).   In 1984, it was announced that the publishing rights to nearly 4000 songs from ATV Music, including most of the Beatles' material, were coming up for sale. In 1981, Paul McCartney was offered the catalog for £20 million ($40 million). Michael submitted a bid of $46 million on November 20, 1984. When Michael and Paul were unable to make a joint purchase, McCartney did not want to be the sole owner of the Beatles' songs, and did not pursue an offer on his own. At first, Michael's team couldn't figure it out and walked away, but then they heard someone else was looking to buy them. Michael's increased bid of $47.5 million (equivalent to $119,675,897 in 2021) was accepted because he could close the deal faster. His purchase of ATV Music was finalized on August 10, 1985.   So, at this time, why was Michael being questioned about his look and his music? As a child, Michael had a sweet, dark-skinned appearance; many early Jackson 5 fans regarded him as the cutest of the brothers. J. Randy Taraborrelli, author of Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness, has written, "[Michael] believed his skin… 'messed up my whole personality.' He no longer looked at people as he talked to them. His playful personality changed, and he became quieter and more serious. He thought he was ugly – his skin was too dark, he decided, and his nose too wide. It was no help that his insensitive father and brothers called him 'Big Nose.'" Also, as Jackson became an adolescent, he was horribly self-conscious about acne. Hilburn recalled going through a stack of photos with Jackson one night and coming across a picture of him as a teenager: "'Ohh, that's horrible,' [Jackson] said, recoiling from the picture."   The face Jackson displayed on the cover of Thriller had changed; the skin tone seemed lighter and his nose thinner and straighter. In his book, Moonwalk, Michael claimed that much of the physical overhaul was due to a change in his diet; he admitted to altering his nose and chin, but he denied he'd done anything to his skin. Still, the changes didn't end there. Over the years, Michael's skin grew lighter and lighter, his nose tapered more and more, and his cheekbones became more defined. This all became fair game for mockery to some; to others, it seemed like mutilation – not just because it might have been an act of conceit, aimed to keep him looking child-like, but worse because some believed Michael wanted to transform himself into a white person. Or an androgyne – somebody with both male and female traits.  Michael's art was still his best way of making a case for himself at that time. Then, in 1987, he released Bad, his highly-anticipated successor to Thriller. It may not have been as eventful and ingenious as Off the Wall and Thriller, but Bad was awesome.    It became the first album to produce five U.S. number-one singles: "I Just Can't Stop Loving You," "Bad," "The Way You Make Me Feel," "Man in the Mirror," and "Dirty Diana.", which you can hear our version at the end of this episode. Another song, "Smooth Criminal," peaked at number seven. Bad won the 1988 Grammy for Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical and the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form for "Leave Me Alone". Michael won an Award of Achievement at the American Music Awards in 1989 after Bad generated five number-one singles, became the first album to top the charts in 25 countries, and the best-selling album worldwide in 1987 and 1988. By 2012, it had sold between 30 and 45 million copies worldwide. Oh, and it was considered a "flop." Oh, and The title track for the Bad album was supposed to be a duet with Prince. But the latter walked away from it due to the opening line "Your butt is mine". "Now, who is going to sing that to whom? Cause [he] sure ain't singing that to me, and I sure ain't singing it to [him]," Prince said in a TV interview with American comedian Chris Rock.   Later that year, Michael staged his first solo tour, The Bad World Tour. It ran from September 12, 1987, to January 14, 1989. The tour had 14 sellouts in Japan and drew 570,000 people, nearly tripling the previous record for a single tour. In addition, the 504,000 people who attended seven sold-out shows at Wembley Stadium set a new Guinness World Record.   In 1988, Michael released the autobiography, as mentioned earlier, Moonwalk. It sold 200,000 copies and reached the top of the New York Times bestsellers list. In October, Michael released a film, Moonwalker, which featured live footage and short films starring himself and Goodfella star Joe Pesci. In the U.S., it was released direct-to-video and became the best-selling videocassette. The RIAA certified it as eight-time platinum. In March 1988, Jackson purchased 2,700 acres (11 km2) of land near Santa Ynez, California, to build a new home, Neverland Ranch, at $17 million (equivalent to $38,950,760 in 2021).   In 1991, Michael renewed his contract with Sony for $65 million (equivalent to $129,317,127 in 2021), a record-breaking deal. Also, in 1991, he released his eighth album, Dangerous, co-produced with Mr. Rumpshaker himself, Teddy Riley. It was certified eight times platinum in the U.S., and by 2018 had sold 32 million copies worldwide. In the U.S., the first single, "Black or White," was the album's highest-charting song; it was number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for seven weeks and achieved similar chart performances worldwide, and the video featured a very young Macauley Culkin.  The second single, "Remember the Time," peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, and that video featured Eddie Murphy. At the end of 1992, Dangerous was the best-selling album worldwide and "Black or White" the best-selling single of the year worldwide at the BillboardMusic Awards.   Obviously, Michael wanted to tour in promotion of his latest album, and The Dangerous World Tour ran between June 1992 and November 1993 and grossed $100 million (equivalent to $187,583,506 in 2021); Jackson performed for 3.5 million people in 70 concerts, all of which were outside the U.S. A part of the proceeds went to the Heal the World Foundation. In addition, Michael sold the broadcast rights of the tour to HBO for $20 million, a record-breaking deal that still hasn't been broken.   Also, in 1993, Michael performed at the Super Bowl 27 halftime show in Pasadena, California. The NFL wanted a prominent musical artist to keep ratings high during halftime. It was the first Super Bowl where the halftime performance drew higher audience figures than the game. Jackson played "Jam," "Billie Jean," "Black or White," and "Heal the World." Dangerous rose 90 places in the album chart after the performance   In January 1993, Michael won three American Music Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Album (Dangerous), Favorite Soul/R&B Single ("Remember the Time"), and he was the first to win the International Artist Award of Excellence. In addition, he won the "Living Legend Award" at the 35th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in February. He attended the award ceremony with Brooke Shields. In addition, "Dangerous" was nominated for Best Vocal Performance (for "Black or White"), Best R&B Vocal Performance for "Jam," and Best R&B Song for "Jam."   In June 1995, Michael released the double album HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I. The album debuted at number one on the charts and certified for eight million sold in the U.S. It is the best-selling multi-disc album of all time, with 20 million copies (40 million units) sold worldwide. In addition, HIStory received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year. The first single from HIStory was "Scream/Childhood." "Scream" was a duet with Michael's youngest sister Janet, or "Miss Jackson if you're nasty." The single reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and received a Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals." Also, at the time, in 1995, it was the most expensive music video ever produced. It had a budget of 7 million dollars. FOR ONE VIDEO!!  His second single, "You Are Not Alone," holds the Guinness world record for the first song to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. In addition, it received a Grammy nomination for "Best Pop Vocal Performance" in 1995.   In November of the same year, Michael merged his ATV Music catalog with Sony's music publishing division, creating Sony/ATV Music Publishing. He kept ownership of half the company, earning $95 million upfront (equivalent to $168,941,909 in 2021) and the rights to a ton more songs.   Michael promoted HIStory with the obviously named HIStory World Tour, from September 7, 1996, to October 15, 1997. He performed 82 concerts in five continents, 35 countries, and 58 cities to over 4.5 million fans, making it his most attended tour. It grossed $165 million, or $302,346,462 today.   In 1997, Michael released Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which contained remixes of singles from HIStory and five new songs. Worldwide sales stand at 6 million copies, making it the best-selling remix album ever. It reached number one in the U.K., as did the title track. In the U.S., the album reached number 24 and was certified platinum. Yeah, a remix album going platinum.   From October 1997 to September 2001, Michael worked on his tenth solo album, Invincible, which cost $30 million to record! Invincible was released on October 30, 2001. It was his first full-length album in six years and the last album of original material he would release in his lifetime. It debuted at number one in 13 countries, sold eight million copies worldwide, and went double platinum.   In September 2001, Michael performed in two "30th Anniversary concerts" with his brothers for the first time since 1984. The show also featured Mýa, Usher, Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, Monica, Liza Minnelli, and Slash.    On January 9, 2002, Michael won his 22nd American Music Award for Artist of the Century.   On November 18, 2003, Sony released Number Ones, a greatest hits compilation. It was certified five-times platinum by the RIAA, and nine times platinum in the UK, for shipments of at least 2.7 million units.   During this time, allegations of child sexual abuse, and the trials that followed, were all over the news. If you're unfamiliar, you can research it for yourself.  Unfortunately, Michael's finances were also coming undone; he had been spending ludicrous sums, and he'd mismanaged his money – which took some doing since he had made such a vast fortune. As a result, the biggest star in the world had fallen from the tallest height. He left the country and moved to Bahrain, where it was announced that Jackson had signed a contract with a Bahrain-based startup, Two Seas Records; nothing came of the deal, and Two Seas CEO Guy Holmes, later said it was never finalized. That October, Fox News reported that Michael had been recording at a studio in County Westmeath, Ireland. It was unknown what he was working on or who had paid for the sessions; his publicist stated that he had left Two Seas by then. After that, Michael was only occasionally seen or heard from. Nobody knew whether he could recover his name or preserve his undeniable music legacy until he announced an incredibly ambitious series of 50 concerts – which he described as the "final curtain call."    The "This Is It" shows were his first significant concerts since the HIStory World Tour in 1997. Michael suggested he would retire after the shows. The initial plan was for 10 concerts in London, followed by shows in Paris, New York City, and Mumbai. Randy Phillips, president, and chief executive of AEG Live, predicted the first 10 dates would earn Jackson £50 million, or close to 63 Million US dollars. After record-breaking ticket sales, the London shows were increased to 50 dates; over one million tickets were sold in less than two hours. The concerts were to run from July 13, 2009, to March 6, 2010. Michael moved back to Los Angeles, where he rehearsed in the weeks leading up to the tour under the direction of choreographer Kenny Ortega, whom he had worked with during his previous tours. Most rehearsals took place at the Staples Center, which was owned by AEG.   It's hard to believe that Jackson, who was so proud of his public performances and so peerless at delivering them, would have committed himself to a project he might fail so tremendously. At the same time, it is not inconceivable that Michael Jackson could have been a man half-hungry and broken in the past few years. All that is certain is that on June 25, in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson met the only sure redemption he might know in the most famous unexpected, and mysterious death in current history. That redemption didn't come because he died, but because his death forced us to reconsider what his life added up to. Less than three weeks before the first This Is It show was due to kick off in London, with all concerts sold out, I repeat; sold out, Michael Jackson died from cardiac arrest caused by a propofol and benzodiazepine overdose. Conrad Murray, his personal physician, had given Michael different medications to help him sleep at his rented mansion in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. Paramedics received a 911 call at 12:22 pm Pacific time and arrived three minutes later. He wasn't breathing, and the medics performed CPR. Resuscitation efforts continued en route to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and for more than an hour after Michael's arrival, but were unsuccessful, and Michael Jackson, the king of pop, was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm.   News of his death spread quickly online, causing websites to slow down, crash from user overload, and put unprecedented strain on services and websites, including Google, AOL Instant Messenger, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Overall, web traffic rose by between 11% and 20%. MTV and BET aired marathons of Michael's music videos, and specials aired on television stations worldwide. MTV briefly returned to its original music video format, which is messed up that it took an Icon to die for MTV to actually be MUSIC TELEVISION, and they aired hours of Michael's music videos, with live news specials featuring reactions and interviews from MTV personalities and other celebrities.   His memorial was held on July 7, 2009, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, preceded by a private family service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park's Hall of Liberty. Over 1.6 million fans applied for tickets to the memorial; the 8,750 recipients were drawn at random, and each received two tickets. The memorial service was one of the most-watched events in streaming history, with an estimated US audience of 31.1 million and an estimated 2.5 to 3 billion worldwide. Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Hudson, and others performed at the memorial, and Smokey Robinson and Queen Latifah gave eulogies. Reverend Al Sharpton received a standing ovation with cheers when he told Michael's children: "Wasn't nothing strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with. But he dealt with it anyway." Michael's 11-year-old daughter Paris Katherine, wept as she addressed the crowd. Michael's body was entombed on September 3, 2009, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.   Oh, but wait. There's more. But of course there is. It's Michael Jackson!   His doctor was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter and was found guilty. So he was sentenced to four years. Yep... four friggin years.    After his death, Michael was still winning awards. He won 4 awards at 2009's AMA's, bringing his total AMA wins to 26, something no one else has touched.    The documentary "Michael Jackson's This Is It" came out shortly after, and I have seen it and loved it, as sad as it was knowing that he'd never get to perform those concerts. Despite a limited two-week engagement, the film became the highest-grossing documentary or concert film ever, with more than $260 million worldwide earnings.

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast we are talking to actress Jessica Pinfield, daughter of VJ, DJ, personality & record executive Matt Pinfield. When we booked Jessica for this episode, we had lots of questions that may have seemed superfluous. What we got was anything but. Jessica was incredibly open and honest about her father, her mother and her family in ways we simply did not anticipate. What we thought might be an interview about what it was like hosting MTV's 120 Minutes or USA Network's Farmclub.com became a much deeper dive into addiction, parenting, therapy, Covid and even murder. Jessica spoke her truth about things we rarely talk about in person, let alone a podcast. Yes we talk about what it was like hanging out with dad when he was trading in records at the Princeton Record Exchange and answering phones at WHTG in New Jersey as well as hearing her story about growing up in a household not feeling love from either parent. Thankfully, a lot of growth has taken place over the years and dad and daughter are living together now, mending fences and connecting in ways it would be hard to imagine they could even a few short years ago. So if you think this episode is about the ‘wild and wacky days of MTV's golden years' this isn't the podcast for you. It's a brutally honest episode that frankly, we didn't see coming. It's next, on the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.    

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As Kris & Producer Char prepare for the next round of new TPR Tracks, they've decided to share some of their favorites that newer listeners might not had a chance to listen to yet... on this encore, they celebrate Mother's Day weekend revisiting thieir conversation with Virigina Grohl, Mom of Foo Fighter's frontman Dave. Liner Notes: Kris is honored to welcome her guest, RocknRoll Mama, Virginia Hanlon Grohl.  The Foo Fighter frontman's mother opens up about raising a rock star child, interviewing mothers of celebrities including Mike D, Dr. Dre, Amy Winehouse, Teddy Lee, Michael Stipe, Kelly Clarkson, and many more in this fascinating read: From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars (Hodder & Stoughton; Hatchet Audio).From Cradle to Stage is available in Audiobook, Kindle, Paperback and HardcoverVisit Virginia online or follow her socials: YouTube  & Twitter  @CradleToStage Facebook @fromcradletostage --We love to hear from you and yes, Text prose & RocknRoll takes requests! Please subscribe, rate, comment, then tell a friend! Special Thanks:  Laura Mazer, Eve Atterman and the team at WME.Dave Grohl appears courtesy of Hatchet. Original music by Mike Bowman and Pictures of a Floating World.  --About the Podcast: ‘TEXT PROSE AND ROCK N ROLL'- is the only podcast dedicated to the written account of musicians. From artist memoirs to band bios, and anything in between. You'll hear first accounts from those who lived the lifestyle; a Book Club that rocks - literally. It was Created, Hosted & Executive Produced by Kris Kosach. It was Produced & Edited by Charlene Goto of Go-To Productions. For more on the show, visit the website. Or follow us on Instagram  @TextproserocknrollFollow Kris on Social Media: @KrisKosachFollow Producer Char on Social Media: @ProducerChar

As Kris & Producer Char prepare for the next round of new TPR Tracks, they've decided to share some of their favorites that newer listeners might not had a chance to listen to yet... on this first encore, they look back to when they first piloted the podcast, just as the pandemic was about to begin. Liner Notes: Kris is honored to welcome her first guest, longtime friend and former co-worker, Matt Pinfield! If you watched MTV in the mid 90's you know Matt Pinfield as the host of the seminal alternative music series, 120 Minutes. Matt knew everything about music because to hear him tell it - he's a music fan first and foremost. That hasn't changed. Matt is as genuine today as he was when Kris met him 25 years ago. So when it came time to choose the first guest for this podcast, Matt was the obvious choice. The night this podcast was recorded, it had been a long time since Kris & Matt had seen each other. They had so much to cover and little time to do it... what became of the Track was an honest and frank conversation about Matt's life in music, which he recently chronicled in his book, All These Things That I've Done: My Insane, Improbable Rock Life. Check out Matt's book, now available on paperback! Follow Matt on Socials: Instagram@MatthewPinfield - Twitter@MattPinfield...if you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, comment, then tell a friend!Special Thanks to Glenn Pinfield, Austin Reading, Kristi Fuhrman, Jason Frankovitz, & Mike Bowman for contributing to this make this Track possible.--About the Podcast: ‘TEXT PROSE AND ROCK N ROLL'- is the only podcast dedicated to the written account of musicians. From artist memoirs to band bios, and anything in between. You'll hear first accounts from those who lived the lifestyle; a Book Club that rocks - literally. It was Created, Hosted & Executive Produced by Kris Kosach. It was Produced & Edited by Charlene Goto of Go-To Productions. For more on the show, visit the website. Follow Kris on Social Media: @KrisKosachFollow Producer Char on Social Media: @ProducerChar 

Define Irony...to remain relevant and financially viable, music television had to forego the music.  In this final episode of our MTV trilogy we explore the death of the music television that we once loved, the birth of reality television and how the Gen X classic Reality Bites predicted both.

The early 2000s were truly a wild a time and nothing personifies the hubris of the new millennium better than the primetime lineup of Music Television. You may know Music Television by its Christian name, MTV, but you definitely know it as the cable channel which loved to show us the glamorous life of celebrities. Well, this week the execs asked us to put together a show for DT!V. They asked us to revamp 2000s MTV staple "Cribs" and determine which superhero lair would fit perfectly into a 2022 episode. Every once in a while, one of the Debaters finds a comic character that they want to talk about, whether or not they answer the question. That was Andrew's game plan this week. Todd and Kyle both brought child soldiers to the party and that's all we'll say about that.   Recommended reading: Here's the referenced Cribs compilation. Redman's feature starts at 6:00: https://youtu.be/6ix3twBu17Y   The title of this weeks episode was selected by our Patrons in our Discord Community! Want to help us choose the next one? Come join #ButtThwompNation at patreon.com/debatethiscast!   Have you seen our Twitter? twitter.com/debatethiscast Have you seen our Instagram? instagram.com/debatethiscast Want to send us an email? debatethiscast@gmail.com   Do you like it when we talk about comics? Do you like it when we say comic words into your lil ears? Would you like more content that includes us saying comic words into your lil ears? If you begrudgingly answered yes to any of those questions, check out our sister show, Avenge This! (formally known as The Ploose is Loose) wherever you get your podcasts!   Properties we talked about this week: Squirrel Girl, The Great Lakes Avengers, The X-Men, Teen Titans, Star Trek NFTs and Bored Apes I guess?   Music for Debate This! is provided by composer Ozzed under a Creative Commons license. Check out more of their 8-bit bops at www.ozzed.net!

Come along this week with Jacob and Zak as they discuss the cultural degradation of music television and other unpredictable topics.  New episodes every Wednesday!  Find Jacob on Youtube and Twitter.Find Zak on Youtube, Twitter, and Twitch.For business inquiries, please contact hdwgh.cast@gmail.com.

Heather and Jameson explore the darker side of MTV, as the channel took a hard, sad turn into reality television in the early to mid 1990s with the debut of Real World and Road Rules. Building off the success of these two programs, MTV placed a greater emphasis on reality television and currently hosts seventeen separate reality shows.  Seventeen. That's a lot of non-music programs on Music Television (mind you, there are 117 former reality shows on MTV, let this sink in).Jameson unveils the sad, twisted nature of Queen for the Day with the important message: “ladies, buy all the stuff and let your men do all the working”. Heather and Jameson revisit Mary J's 1992 video for “Real Love” (all bow down to Queen Blige).  Also, Heather promises to watch Mamma Mia as decreed by Jameson. 

Voted on by our Patreon, we look at the what, how, and for-gods-sake-why of some of those most hated holiday songs! 02:40 Banned songs 08:09 Wonderful Christmastime 10:45 Chipmunks Song 16:36 Little Drummer Boy (Peace on Earth) Like what you hear?  Become a patron of the arts for as little as $2 a month!   Or buy the book or some merch.  Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram. Music: Kevin MacLeod, David Fesliyan.   Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Links to all the research resources are on the website. In the early 80's, drought caused a famine that crippled the nation of Ethiopia.  It was a bad scene.  Half of the mortality rate is said to be attributable to “human rights violations.”  People around the world were moved, like Irish singer-songwriter Bob Geldof, who along with Midge Ure, wrote a fundraiser song.  Who could they get to sing it?  How about “everybody”?  The likes of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Boy George, Bono, and Sting joined forces as Band Aid to record the fast-selling single in UK history, asking us the question “Do They Know It's Christmas?”  My name's… Some songs rub us the wrong way because they're sung by shrieking children on now-oudated equipment was was not kind to female and higher-pitched voices, songs like I'm Getting Nuthin for Christmas and All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth, standards which I think think would have died away if we weren't all made to sing them in elementary school.  Some are painfully goofy, like Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, but you almost have to give them a pass since it seems they accomplished what they set out to do.  Some songs make us their enemy by borrowing into our brains and setting up shop for hours or days on end, the dreaded holiday earworm, like Jingle Bell Rock and Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.  The mere mention of the title is enough to activate them like a sleeper cell of obnoxious holiday cheer.   Banned You might be able to forbid people in your own home from playing songs that irritate you –and I stress “might”-- but if you can find yourself with a bit of authority and a big enough humbug up your butt, you can try to make it so nobody has to hear the song either.  For instance, the 1952 classic “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,” sung by 13-year-old Jimmy Boyd from Mississippi.  Did you realize the song was about the little boy not realizing that his Dad was dressed as Santa?  It had to be pointed out to me, and embarrassingly recently.  People were *scandalized by the musical marriage of sex and Christmas, with one churchgoer stating “mockery of decent family life as well as Christ's birthday.”  Many pearls were clutched.  They'd probably clutch them pearls twice as hard if I'd been there to tell them Jesus wasn't born on 12/25, but that's another show.  Boston's Catholic Archdiocese denounced it and the young Boyd had to meet with church leaders to explain that Mommy and Santa were properly, sanctily married.  A West Virginia broadcasting company prohibited its radio stations from playing this “insult to Santa Claus.”  The same thing happened to one of my husband's favorite songs, Lou Monte's “Dominick the Donkey,” but the people of WV went to bat for the little donkey who could take the Italian hills that were too much for the reindeer.  The public protested the ban so forcefully that it was repealed after less than two weeks; and this was in 1960, when 20% of homes in the US still didn't have a telephone.   For every time the hubs plays Dominick the Donkey, I play the Pogue's Fairytale of New York at least twice.  A lot of folks don't like, and I respect our difference of opinions, and think it's the farthest thing from a cheery Xmas song, and I agree with y'all there.  The 1987 duet with singer Kirsty MacColl, quickly became a UK holiday classic, famous then infamous in turn.  It tells the story of a toxic couple who seem to love each deep down, but should probably not be allowed within 200m of each other.  There's talk of drug use and insults, including a certain homophobic slur to rhyme with the word “maggot.”  In December 2019, BBC radio DJ Alex Dyke said he was cutting the song from his program.  The BBC had previously censored the song in 2007 with an unconvincing word-swap, but this brought more backlash than the original version had.  The BBC reversed course for a few years, then put the censored version back up.  What do you think?  soc med   Some songs we consider absolute standards, impeccable and indispensable, made people in their day as prickly as holl and less than jolly.  The BBC worried that “I'll Be Home for Christmas” could damage British morale during World War II, so no air-play for you!  In an amazingly blunt statement that would definitely trend on Twitter today:  “We have recently adopted a policy of excluding sickly sentimentality which, particularly when sung by certain vocalists, can become nauseating and not at all in keeping with what we feel to be the need of the public in this country.”   One of the most frequently cover and burlesqued-to songs, Santa Baby, wouldn't have become the classic it did if it had been sung by anyone other than the utterly incomparable Eartha Kitt.  Who doesn't love a Christmas song dripping in sexuality, sung by a loudly self-confident mixed race woman?  In 1953, a lot of people.   Radio stations refused to play it and political officials gnashed their teeth after Kitt performed Santa Baby at a dinner for the king and queen of Greece that November.  That was an unusual sentence and I'm stalling for time to let you process it.  However, Billboard magazine reported “Neither the King nor his Queen were one whit disturbed by the chantress's performance, nor by the song.”  Kitt was quoted as saying it was ‘inconceivable that anyone would question the ingenious poetry of the song.'”  I don't know about poetry, but I do know I don't want to hear any version other than hers.   Chipmunks My hatred for this next song cannot be overstated.  I almost hired an editor just for this section. It's shrill, it's pointless, and it's been playing for 63 freaking years.  It's the goddamn Chipmunks' song aka Christmas Don't Be Late.  I'm mad already.  Named after the president, chief engineer, and founder of Liberty Records, the furry little characters are the members of a “band”, called Alvin And The Chipmunks, while a “man” named David Seville functions as their human manager, catapulting them to super stardom.  The Chipmunks, three singing cartoon rodents in Victorian nightdresses apparently, or maybe ill-fitted sweater dresses, were the brainchild of a songwriter named Ross Bagdasarian, though he was better known by the pseudonym of David Seville, the name that would be immortalized as The Chipmunk's fictitious manager.  Bagdasarian was the son of Armenian immigrants to California, who served in the Army Air Force in WWII, which is how he came to find himself stationed in Seville, Spain.  He did a bit of acting, landing minor roles in Rear Window and Stalag 17.  Songwriting played out considerably better.  In 1951, he used the melody of an Armenian folk song to write Rosemary Clooney's hit, Come On-a My House. [sfx clip]    Bagdasarian-cum-Seville began toying around with voice distortion effects, speeding up and slowing down his voice to achieve the cute high pitched sound of the little animal's voices.  Consumer tape decks at the time had changeable speeds, but usually only in simple binary multiples, doubling or halving the speed, creating sounds an octave apart. Changing speeds of voices in these limited multiples creates extremely high or low pitches that sound too extreme for most purposes.  Disney used half-speed recording for his Chip ‘n Dale cartoon characters, making the extremely fast dialogue difficult to understand. As a result, dialog recorded at that speed had to consist of very short phrases.  Seville's chief innovation was to use tape machines that could vary speeds in between these extremes, creating more understandable and thus emotionally accessible voices that worked well for both singing and spoken dialogue.   The Chipmunk Song made its debut on Christmas 1958 and immediately became a smash hit, reaching No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop Singles chart.  It would be the “band's” first and only #1 song, as well as Seville's second and final, No. 1 single.  The first was the song Witch Doctor, wanna hear it here it goes [sfx clip]  I guess when you have a hammer…    A write-up in Life magazine in 1959, noted that Bagdasarian/Seville was the first case in the "annals of popular music that one man has served as writer, composer, publisher, conductor and multiple vocalist of a hit record, thereby directing all possible revenues from the song back into his pocket."  That'd be impressive enough even if you didn't know that Seville couldn't read or write music, nor play any instruments, but now you do know that, so you should be quite impressed.   The Chipmunk Song earned them three Grammy Awards at the very first Grammy's the following May.  I'm going to say that again, because I don't think you heard me.  The Chipmunks song won three Grammy's.  In fairness, one is for best children's song.  A few years later, The Chipmunks landed their own television show as cartoon characters, but it did not command the same success their music career.  After Bagdasarian passed away unexpectedly in 1972, his son and daughter-in-law took over the voices of The Chipmunks, but it would take nearly ten years for The Chipmunks made it back to TV, with their 1981 Christmas special, the ingeniously named “A Chipmunk Christmas.”     Like a holiday Jason Vorhees, "The Chipmunk Song" re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 2007 with the CGI Alvin and Chipmunks movie.  As of December 25, 2011, Nielsen SoundScan estimated total sales of the digital track at 867,000 downloads, making it third on the list of all-time best-selling Christmas/holiday digital singles.  #3 was Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 from Trans-Siberian Orchestra, who I've had the mixed blessing to see live – the performance was great but the stage light swept over the audience constantly; it was like having a camera flash go off in your face several times a minute.  #1 is, to the surprise of no one, Mariah Carey's 1994 "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and that's all the more attention she's getting from me.  If you ever want a real smdh moment, Google Mariah Carey's requirements to appear on camera for interviews.  The word “diva” doesn't begin to describe it.  Wonderful Now this one depends on the day.  Some days, it's so bad it's good and some days, and for some people all days, it's the regular kind of bad.  [sfx clip] Say what you will about it, you can't say Paul McCartney didn't put in the work.  Wonderful Christmastime features McCartney on guitar, bass, keyboards, drums and vocals, even the creepy-sounding ‘choir of children.'  Makes one wonder why he even kept a band around.  You see the other members of Wings in the video, but the song was all McCartney.   Like a number of holiday classics that you heard about in the episode #92, The Jews Who Wrote Christmas, Wonderful Christmastime was written on a ‘boiling hot day in July', and recorded during sessions for the McCartney II album.  It apparently took the former Beatle just ten minutes to pen the song which – some of us find that more readily-believable than others.  One of the most memorable elements of the song is the odd synthesiser sound that punctuates it throughout.  That is, if you care to know, a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which was also used on the hit songs Bette Davis Eyes and What a Fool Believes.  Though I suppose it's still a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 even if you don't care to know.   It peaked at number six on the UK Singles Chart and has since become of the most widely played Christmas songs on radio.   Bonus fact: The Beatles only really had one Christmas release – Christmas Time Is Here Again, which was distributed to their fan club in 1967.  I imagine that would fetch a pretty pence on the secondary market. [sfx typing] checking ebay…Oh, they're actually pretty cheap.     If you don't like the song, you're not alone.  McCartney himself isn't all that keen on it, but he has begun playing it on UK tours in recent years.  You gotta give the people what they want and clearly enough people want Wonderful Christmastime.  According to the Forbes website, McCartney earns over $400,000 royalties from the song every year, though other sources claim that figure is probably the cumulative total. Little Drummer Boy As time passes, tastes change, culture shifts, new things are created and old things fall away.  We rarely ride in one-horse open sleighs –I can't remember the last time I was even in a closed one-horse sleigh– and it seems really strange to us that people sat about telling ghost stories.  So maybe that's why I don't understand The Little Drummer Boy.  How is a drum solo an appropriate gift for a sleeping infant and the woman who just squoze him out in a cow-shed?  The ox and lamb kept time?  That's literally the drummer's only job.  Well, that and making the rest of the band's drinking problem look reasonable.  Hey, what's the difference between a drummer and a drum machine?  You only have to punch the info into the drum machine once.  [sfx rimshot] What do you call a drummer who broke up with his girlfriend?  Homeless.  [sfx rimshot]  Don't worry, drummers, this abuse isn't exclusive.  What do you call the pretty girl on a bassist's arm?  A tattoo.  That's my time, good night!   How old do you think this slow, plodding song is?  I couldn't have put a year to my guess, but for some reason it surprised me that it was written in 1941.  The composure was a teacher named Katherine Kennicott Davis.  Originally called "Carol of the Drum" –does what it says on the tin– was based on an unidentified Czech carol and intended for choirs.  One group of singers took a liking to it and propelled it to success in 1951 - The Trapp Family Singers.   As boring as it is, The Little Drummer Boy lets us draw a straight line between the Trapp Family and ‘the lad insane' David Bowie.  In 1977, Bowie was 'actively trying to normalize' his career.  Debilitating drug addiction and accusations of Nazi-sympathizing threatened to sink his earning potential, so it was a no-brainer for him to appear on Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas.  Crosby was a crooner and golden age Hollywood icon and seemed like a means to the end because, as Bowie said later, “my mom likes him.”  The promise by producers to promote the video for Bowie's single Heroes, fitting as poorly as it did in the middle of a holiday special, certainly didn't hurt either.  The special starred Crosby, his actual family, and stars of the day like the model Twiggy, who my mother has still not forgiven for coming along and making curvy, busty figures unpopular.     So Bing Crosby and David Bowie.  On paper, it made no sense.  But in reality…it made even less sense.  A negative amount of sense, if that's mathematically possible.  I mean, just look at this juxtaposition.  You can see the two together on the Vodacast app… Bowie arrived in a mink coat, an earring, and bright red lipstick….to appear alongside Bing Crosby.  Bowie agreed to producers' demands to tone his look down, but asked/begged the producers if there was anything else, anything at all, he could sing, letting them know in no uncertain terms that he hated the song.   "Ian Fraser, who co-wrote the 'Peace on Earth' portion, told The Washington Post in 2006. 'We didn't know quite what to do.' Instead of panicking, he and two other men working on the special — Buz Kohan and Larry Grossman — hunkered down at a piano in the studio basement and spent 75 minutes working up the tune.  Ever professionals, Bowie and Crosby perfected the new song in less than an hour."  It was that professionalism that actually brought the men together.  According to Crosby's daughter, Mary, who was 18 at the time and a big Bowie fan,  "Eventually, Dad realized David was this amazing musician, and David realized Dad was an amazing musician. You could see them both collectively relax and then magic was made."  Bonus fact: Mary went on to become an actress, starring in the hit TV show Dallas, but she isn't the only thespian the Crosby legacy produced.  Bing's granddaughter Denise will always have a place in my heart as Tasha Yar, first chief of security on the Enterprise D and if you don't know what I'm talking about, maybe *you're* not cool enough to sit with *us* at lunch.   The special was recorded in mid-September, but Crosby would not see it released.  He died of a massive heart attack after a day of golfing in mid-October, so the special was aired posthumously at the end of November in the U.S. and on Christmas Eve in England.  Bizarrely, The single proved to be one of Bowie's fastest-selling singles, selling over 250,000 copies within its first month and being certified silver by the British Phonographic Industry one month after its release.  And what does it say about me that I had to do a second take, beause I read it as British Pornographic Industry.  They certify very different records.  One thing that helped propel that success was the fledgeling Music Television network, which in its original primitive state actually played music videos.  When it launched in 1981, there weren't really enough videos to fill up an entire channel, so they played what they had, including the 'Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy' clip, a lot.  This prompted RCA to issue an official release in 1982 with the arbitrary single B-side of "Fantastic Voyage" from The Lodger album.  Bowie was annoyed with that move, contributing to his departure from the label soon after.  Still, it was a high-charting single for Bowie in the post-Scary Monsters era, at least until Let's Dance came out three months later.   And that's…So the question was “Do they know it's Christmas?”.  Since Ethiopia is ⅔ Christian, yes.  I'd go out on a limb and say even the ⅓ that's Muslim knows. But the important thing is that 100% of the royalties go to the cause, and that figure sits north of $250 million.  Among the luminary names involved was a pre-beard George Michaels.  This was in his Wham days when he also recorded the song you're hearing now.  Recognize it?  To anyone who just lost Whamageddon… [sfx laughter]  Worth it.  Just passing it on after Red from Overly Sarcastic took me out during a video last year.  For everyone else, as the nearest Gen-X'er.  Remember…Thanks..     And that's…So the question was “Do they know it's Christmas?”.  Since Ethiopia is ⅔ Christian, yes.  I'd go out on a limb and say even the ⅓ that's Muslim knows. But the important thing is that 100% of the royalties go to the cause, and that figure sits north of $250 million.  Among the luminary names involved was a pre-beard George Michaels.  This was in his Wham days when he also recorded the song you're hearing now.  Recognize it?  To anyone who just lost Whamageddon… [sfx laughter]  Worth it.  Just passing it on after Red from Overly Sarcastic took me out during a video last year.  For everyone else, as the nearest Gen-X'er.  Remember…Thanks..    Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/music/read/david-bowie-bing-crosby-and-the-story-of-the-strangest-christmas-duet-ever-1.5008343 https://theconversation.com/christmas-earworms-the-science-behind-our-love-hate-relationship-with-festive-songs-89268 https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/worst-christmas-songs-of-all-time/3/ https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/story-behind-the-christmas-song-paul-mccartneys-wonderful-christmastime/ https://www.songfacts.com/facts/paul-mccartney/wonderful-christmastime https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/637970/banned-christmas-songs-past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chipmunk_Song_(Christmas_Don%27t_Be_Late) http://www.christmassongs.net/chipmunks-christmas-song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Bagdasarian https://nowweknowem.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/david-sevilles-the-chipmunk-song-won-three-grammy-awards-today-in-1959-the-top-winner-at-the-inaugural-grammy-awards-now-we-know-em/ https://holidappy.com/holidays/History-of-Christmas-Carols-Little-Drummer-Boy https://www.newsweek.com/story-behind-bowie-bings-unlikely-holiday-duet-sends-welcome-message-divided-times-opinion-1478295

Back when YouTube wasn't around, we had to beg the rock and roll gods that our favorite band's video would play on a now defunct channel called MTV.  I know what you're thinking, "Rene, MTV isn't dead"...  Well, actually, MTV as most of us late 80s early 90s kids knew it, yes, it is dead.  There was a time when it was the best way to check out the latest videos of your favorite bands/singers.   Well just like every story, this one has a beginning.  I take you back to 8 months after John Lennon's death.  The year is 1981. Support the show

We've had a busy couple of weekends lately, with festivals, fairs, homecomings and work, work, work, but Ka-Pow the Pop Cultured Podcast couldn't let a Marvel blockbuster go by without sharing our review!  So after Cliff lets us know how he did in a bout of toy trivia against some podcasting pals and we cover a couple of recent documentaries, it's on to "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings." Length - 01:23:53 Language - PG-13.  (Contains mild adult language.) - 0:12:22 - MOVIE NEWS "Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed" explores the life of the beloved artist and the corporate maneuverings that stole his name, the earliest days of Music Television discussed in Biography's "I Want My MTV" and a biopic about a comic book creator's unconventional romance, "Professor Marston and the Wonder Women." - 0:41:43 - SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS Marvel Studios' 25th film had another record-breaking release and we share our SPOILER-filled opinions about the mashup of martial arts fantasy and superhero origin story.

BATANG 90s POP! Your weekly chat show about pop culture in the 90s every Saturday Hosted by Mr. George and Kryndall. Music Television (MTV) did not start in the 90's but this was the decade where its awareness greatly spread amongst the common tao in the Pinas. Why were music videos so appealing to us Batang 90's back in the day? Let's find out! Topics discussed are as follows: - Where can we watch music videos in the 90s? - What were the notable shows on MTV - Notable music videos and many more! Support MINT TV by liking our Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/minttvph) or subscribing to our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1jf6QA3wHHbpg32uigWxpg) for updates, past episodes, and upcoming livestreams. Join our facebook Group ttps://www.facebook.com/groups/batang90spop, and tumambay at maki-share ng inyong mga experiences back in the 90s. #Batang90sPop #MintTVPh #90sMTV #MTV #ChannelV #Studio23

Today, after a jam packed news update at the start of the show, we'll forego the politics and remember the cultural shift that occurred 40 years ago this Sunday. On Aug 1, 1981, MTV premiered. I remember it clearly. So does Mark Goodman. He was one of the original five VJs on the first ever Music Television channel. He joins me to talk about that iconic moment in pop history and how much has changed in the past four decades.

Happy Hour: What's in yo cup hoe?! (Court is on Bartender duties this week)   In the mix  Rumor alert: Slick Sonic & Beyoncé possible collaboration, Aaliyah's uncle has something to say about “wild Side” sample, New City Girl Album OTW. Is Kanye back (new album DONDA is MIA), shacarri beats by Dre Promo)  Possible mention Lil Nas X Industry Baby   Topic of the day: MTV Vs. BET   Did you ever wonder which television channel is better: MTV or BET?    MTV, short for Music Television, first hit the airwaves August 1, 1981, aiming for the 12-25 age group.   BET, which is short for Black Entertainment Television, was founded in January 1980, gearing towards the African American public   Lets discuss, programs, Music videos, and overall impact back in the day and present   The Soundtrack- is our segment where we share a song or two that is the vibe for the week new or old.  Rubi Rose - Poke  Tanerélle - Good Good  SiR - Can We Still    Follow Us, Rate and Review on Apple Podcast  All social Media Accounts for RCC linked below https://rccpod.onuniverse.com/ Email: Redcuppod@gmail.com 

Insider Insights with Music TV producer Malcolm Gerrie while Mark Radcliffe talk to Morrisey back in the early 80's

Welcome back! Man we've missed you! Things will be a bit different around these parts and we are starting it off strong with the rise of one of the biggest musical icons of the 20th Century... Music Television, better known as Mtv!   Make sure to follow The Mix Tape Podcat on Facebook and Twitter! Email us, let us know what you're up to. YourMixTapePodcast@gmail.com  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mixtapepod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixtapepod/support

This week's Moments That Rock features The Ramones and music television producer Malcolm Gerrie

JB and Whitney talk MTV, Jimmy Fallon, and share some local stories about Cedar Park residents! We also chat with ER Doctor, Dr. Angelique Campen, about safely celebrating Halloween and give you a song parody called Adlertown written by an anonymous creative talent! Listen in for some feel good moments!

Tonight we discuss the phenomenon of Pop Art Animation that was Liquid Television! Yes, I know, this was heading towards the end of what made MTV, well, Music Television, but it was also one of the few things they managed to get right. Insane segments, weird stories and awesome animation Liquid Television was living modern art by people who would go on to change the industry. Sit down and learn a little something! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mixtapepod/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mixtapepod/support

I WANT MY MTV!! Or at least I used to want it. Now....ehhhRemember when MTV, Music Television, actually played music and wasn't full of garbage reality shows? Well, we do. The things is, at one point and time, MTV was pretty awesome. In this episode, we'll be discussing how MTV got started (Ted Turner and marijuana were involved), it's fledgling beginnings, meteoric rise and eventual descent into the doodoo it is today. Ride along and enjoy!

SEASON FINALE! Gavin Alaoen is the Social Art Director at MTV. He also created the "McKayla is NOT IMPRESSED" meme, and was the last person to Boomerang Bobby Shmurda before he was incarcerated. He is also a fellow First Generation Filipino-American who grew up on the West Coast, only to find himself in the hallowed halls of Music Television. Gavin and Rich talk about the recent VMAs, Popeyes chicken sandwich, the DNA of a successful Meme, and how fatherhood has changed his perspective. Also, there's a cameo from Sandie Cheng from the Now In Color podcast. Check out FirstGenBurden.com for all the episodes. Follow us @firstgenburden and Rich Tu / @rich_tu Recorded at Listening Party (@listeningpartypresents and @canalstreetmarket) Thanks DesGin for their support. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/firstgenburden/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/firstgenburden/support