Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Dayton Allen Show (1960)
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