New blog header May 29, 2021
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6/5 UPDATE: This pair was not comfortable on me, no matter what adjustments I had the eye doctors make. I feel much better wearing glasses with nose pads. So, I’ve gone back to my old pair while waiting for a new pair with nose pads. I also went back to the previous blog header.
Instrumental Invasion, 5/26/21 May 27, 2021
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The May 26 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was recorded over three days. The first hour was completed on April 20 with a pickup on the 21st, while the second hour and additional pickups were done on the 22nd.
The playlist was created on April 18 with annotations and the script draft on the 19th.
It was a Brown namesake extravaganza with songs by Norman (guitar/vocals), Alison (banjo), Paul (guitar/vocals), and Dean (guitar), plus songs by Lisa Addeo – making her Instrumental Invasion debut – and Julian Vaughn that featured Mel Brown on bass. I’d love to see the five of them perform together someday.
For the first time in six shows, I had to replace a song because time was running short in a segment; in this case, the first segment of hour 2. “Through the Years” by Brian Culbertson was replaced with “Northern Lights.”
As I type this sentence, I have not played any version of Space Harrier, but through watching videos on YouTube, I’ve developed an appreciation for it. Thus, “Get Ready” by Jazmin Ghent (making her debut on the show) makes me think of the opening line in the game: “Welcome to the fantasy zone. Get ready!”
This video dares to compare every version of Space Harrier:
I also made reference to The Golden Girls. “Picture it!,” I exclaimed as Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty) while acknowledging Nick Petrillo on keyboards.
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Instrumental Invasion, 5/19/21 May 20, 2021
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The May 19 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was recorded entirely on my laptop through an Apogee MiC 96k. The first hour was recorded on April 12, with the second hour recorded on the 13th (one segment) and 14th (two segments). I thought I’d be doing one hour each on the 12th and 14th, but symptoms from the second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine were low enough that I spread out the second hour’s recording.
The playlist was created and mostly annotated on April 10 with further annotations on the 11th and 12th once I acquired the albums three hour two songs appeared on. Expect to hear more from those albums, and two others that I purchased, in the coming weeks. The script was drafted on the 11th.
“Grey Area” by Cindy Bradley had been played before, but I didn’t acknowledge Mike Broening‘s piano solo. I made up for that this time. As you saw in the link, he goes by Michael professionally, and I will address him as such in the future. I’ve called him Mike because I once heard Cindy call him that in an interview.
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Instrumental Invasion, 5/12/21 May 13, 2021
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The May 12 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was recorded over four days. Two segments were recorded on April 6, one on the 7th, another two on the 8th, and the last one on the 9th. Pickups were recorded on the 8th and 9th.
The playlist was created on April 4 and annotated on the 5th, after which the script was drafted.
I made an effort to play songs that were on the Billboard smooth jazz charts at the time of recording. I had played three of the five songs in previous radio shows: “Feels Like Friday Night” by Kim Waters, “Hurry Up and Wait” by Oli Silk, and “Tokyo Groove” by Adam Hawley.
There wasn’t just an abundance of Steves, Chrises, and Pauls. There were also a few Davids, Erics, Jeffs, and Michaels. I chose not to redo talk breaks to acknowledge them; it would have been overkill.
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Instrumental Invasion, 5/5/21 May 6, 2021
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The May 5 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP was recorded two segments per day from March 31 to April 2.
The playlist was created on March 27 and annotated on the 28th. The script was drafted on the 29th.
I used the phrase “one compound word,” while back-selling “Magicsmiles” by Gregg Karukas, as an homage to a 2012 episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd (strong language):
The phrase was uttered by the Nerd (James Rolfe) toward the end of a monologue on football. The monologue starts at 1:27 with the phrase coming two minutes later.
And speaking of videos, here is the music video for “Motor City Sway” by Alexander Zonjic:
I didn’t have Cinco de Mayo in mind when I programmed “South of the Border” into the playlist, but I realized while drafting the script that the show would air that day.
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