Instrumental Invasion, 10/5/22: My 21st Radio Anniversary October 6, 2022

The October 5 Instrumental Invasion on WCWP aired on the 21st anniversary of my radio debut with The Mike Chimeri Show. (Click here for scoped airchecks of some shows from the second week and beyond.) This anniversary show was recorded one hour per day on August 11 and 12 with a pickup on the 15th.

The playlist was created on August 1, along with last week’s show, and was annotated on the 3rd. The combination of those annotations and misguided one-arm shoulder presses wrecked my right wrist. I couldn’t lift weights for over a week, nor could I write for too long. First draft: Thus, this was the last show with handwritten annotations, which means no more printouts, scans or retouching. Starting next week, playlists are made in Microsoft Word, saved as PDFs, and annotated in Adobe Photoshop. Annotations will include when a segment is recorded and whether a segment’s duration is over, under, or exactly 18 minutes. Second draft: No, it’s too cumbersome. Handwritten annotations are the only way to go, especially if I never attempt one-arm shoulder presses again, which I haven’t. Third draft: There will be a new way, after all, starting on October 26. Annotations will be made in a separate Word document and archived as a separate PDF. The main playlist will still be printed, recording dates acknowledged, segment elements checked or crossed off (number of seconds over or under), and scanned afterward.

Here is a scan of my first show’s playlist 21 years ago. It proves what I said this week: that I played multiple songs by certain artists due to my limited collection. Nine songs I played from that first show were played previously on Instrumental Invasion. In order of appearance:

• “Mountain Dance” by Dave Grusin: December 2, 2020
• “Phase Dance” by Pat Metheny Group: April 1, 2020 (first Wednesday night show)
• “Rise” by Herb Alpert: July 29, 2020
• “Linus and Lucy” (1989) by David Benoit: November 25, 2020
• “Promenade” by Peter White: August 5, 2020 – This time, I pronounced it properly and shared Peter’s backstory from this year’s Smooth Jazz for Scholars
• “Deeper Than You Think” by George Benson: June 30, 2021
• “Better Days Ahead” by Norman Brown: November 17, 2021
• “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” by David Benoit: March 10, 2021
• “Tourist in Paradise” by The Rippingtons: October 20, 2021

The fifth segment (second of hour 2) was the first to run exactly 18 minutes since the first segment of the August 31 show, the last one recorded for that show. Along those lines, only this week’s second and third segments were recorded out of sequence. I anticipated the third would run short and the second would run long. While the third was 39 seconds short, the second only went over two seconds. And my last talk break was much shorter than anticipated, which meant (like last week) padding out the segment and elongating an earlier segment. That earlier segment was the fourth (first of hour 2), going from 10 seconds under to 26 over.

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