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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by wishfish »

b112 wrote: post #64
wishfish wrote: post #32

Radio Retrofit took all the station breaks and song announcements from the show, combined them with the full length songs to create around 6 hours of WKRP radio. 3 hours of Johnny Fever and 3 hours of Venus Flytrap. MP3 downloads available. Really a brilliant idea. Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp Venus: https://www.awphooey.com/venus

Huh. I heard that they didn't license the original music for DVD, etc when the show ran, only for reruns, so that the DVDs and so on only have snippets of replacement music. I wonder, is this replacement music, or the original tracks?

This isn't replacement music. What this project does is take parts of the show where Johnny or Venus announces the song they're about to play and then mixes in the full length song. Project mixes in other things like the DJ patter. Station breaks. Weather reports. Les reading the news. All mixed together so it sounds like six hours someone recorded off a real radio station in the late 70s / early 80s.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

wishfish wrote: post #32

Radio Retrofit took all the station breaks and song announcements from the show, combined them with the full length songs to create around 6 hours of WKRP radio. 3 hours of Johnny Fever and 3 hours of Venus Flytrap. MP3 downloads available. Really a brilliant idea. Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp Venus: https://www.awphooey.com/venus

(Wow, was not expecting "Gardening at Night".)

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Post by dreamcompiler »

QuesnayJr wrote: post #70
dreamcompiler wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Post by canucker2016 »

PyWoody wrote: post #13
mauvehaus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the si…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg

Clearer, upscaled version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr1cJdH6ffg

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Post by canucker2016 »

noefingway wrote: post #19

Will Les Nessman be in his "office"?

from https://www.cincinnati.com/story/tvandmediablog/2014/06/06/w...

  [Hugh] Wilson recalled that Dr. Johnny Fever "would always say, 'More music and less Nessman.' And he (Les) never got it."

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Post by Rediscover »

WKRP's handling of the Who concert at Riverfront Coliseum (Cincinnati, 1979) really sticks out in my memory.

The radio station was portrayed as promoting a big concert through most of that episode, barely mentioning The Who by name that I recall, and it seemed like a "normal" installment for the first part of the television programme. The latter minutes somberly dealt with the tragedy and tried to bring attention to problems with "festival" (general admission) seating for such venues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who_concert_disaster

A search says WKRP "In Concert" episode is viewable at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qSeWECDb3YM

Edit: s/never/barely/;s/20 minutes or so/part/

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Post by wishfish »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #72
wishfish wrote: post #32

Radio Retrofit took all the station breaks and song announcements from the show, combined them with the full length songs to create around 6 hours of WKRP radio. 3 hours of Johnny Fever and 3 hours of Venus Flytrap. MP3 downloads available. Really a brilliant idea. Johnny: https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp Venus: https://www.awphooey.com/venus

(Wow, was not expecting "Gardening at Night".)

For me, it was Captain Beefheart as the big surprise. But this was a very eclectic mix. Not at all what you'd expect from those two characters. Would think Johnny would be 100% traditional rock and Venus would be soul, funk, and maybe a tiny bit of yacht rock to keep things smooth.

Glad the show didn't do this. The writers let these two DJs be the typical 70's DJs who made their own playlists and to hell with the record companies.

Would be interesting to know how much thought the show's writers put into music selection since every song on the playlist was a song noted on the show. It's a nice cross section of American music from mid 60s to early 80s.

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Post by freedomben »

gosub100 wrote: post #42
pwg wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.

I did this for Married With Children.

Same for super natural season 1. The original music was badass, the replacement really changed the show

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Post by LocalH »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #17

That's funny, especially since the callsign was part of the humor of the show.

The best thing I remember reading related to WKRP in terms of actual radio is when a station in Salt Lake City changed their call to KRPN and used creative wording to attach themselves to WKRP. From Wikipedia:

> Other stations have adopted similar branding in reference to the series. In 1986, a Salt Lake City FM station (now KUMT) changed its calls letters to KRPN, and branded itself as WKRP, using the similarity of the spoken letter "N" to the word "in" for a sound-alike station identification: "W KRPN Salt Lake City".

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