Okay, watch this segment first. Then go here and maybe here. Crayzeeee.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Dayton Allen Show (1960)
This syndicated lecture short is from The Dayton Allen Show. The following interview excerpt came from here. I might try post his obscure comedy LP (naturally titled Why Not!) in a couple weeks.
DAYTON ALLEN: My book "Why Not!" did even better! I got an advance of $2500 and never saw another penny.
GEO: The book came out about the same time you created your own little syndicated TV program -- in 1960. It was a five-minute drop-in of you giving some sort of nonsensical lecture. How many of them did you make?
DAYTON ALLEN: 130. I had two partners: Stan Burns who was a writer on Steve Allen and another guy named Allen Sandler who had a film library. We'd lock ourselves in a hotel room and write a bunch of them and then go shoot them over at KCOP, the public broadcasting studio in Hollywood.
GEO: It seems odd that you were working so much in LA, but you continued to live in New York.
DAYTON ALLEN: Yeah it was something about my head, I couldn't do anything about it. It was just pure stupidity that just festered and grew until it became enlarged stupidness.
GEO: How many stations picked up the Dayton Allen Show?
DAYTON ALLEN: We were in 26 markets in the US and it was a big hit on the Armed Forces television.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
The Generation Exploitation Podcast #72
A podcast to celebrate the heat waves of summer. LISTEN HERE!
PLAYLIST:
Squad Car – PJ & Artie
Summertime – Billy Mitchell
Summertime, Summertime – The Jamies
Summertime USA – The Pixies Three
In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry
Hava Nagila – Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
Hot Fun in the Summertime – Sly Stone
Lost Summer Love – Lorraine Silver
Summertime – Klaus Wunderlich
Rumble – Link Wray
Bat Man – Surfaris Summer in the City – Mike Melvoin
Theme From A Summer Place – Santo & Johnny
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears – Elvis Presley
Adios – Billy Strange
Walk Don’t Run – The Ventures Summer in the City – Dan et Vanny
Summerwine – American Mom & Apple Pie Band
A Summer Song – Chad and Jeremy
Monster Surfer – Jack Marshall
Summer Wind – Frank Sinatra
Summertime – The Marcels
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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