Some Program Updates & A Few Random Thoughts

As to program updates I have to tell you that we are getting kind of overwhelmed with features and hope that I can still squeeze them all in along with the "well deserved to be listened to" new material.  You know we have the "Story Songs", "The Thrills of The Hills, The Best in The West, and The Tops in Pops", and now some requests have come in to do a "Comedy Corner" in the same style that is done on SUNDAY SIMCHA; albeit with a different focus----and, as the biblical saying goes---yea and verily and other such commentaries from the sages and Midrash---It Shall Be Done.    Thanks to the likes of people like Roy Zimmerman (video will be seen below), Modern Man, David Buskin, John Forster and many more they will join the pantheon of wit for TRADITIONS.

To remind you of October 17 ---and wit and talent---Rob Carlson will be joining me in the studio for a live bit of his wit and wisdom and, of course, his music.

To remind you of October 10---FYVUSH FINKEL joins me on Sunday Simcha as he shows me why he is a star and I am not---his wit and timing prove it as you will hear that day---a delightful man who will be appearing at age 88 in a new production (Revue) with his sons at the Baruch PAC in NYC.  An honor and a delight to have him join us.

To remind you of October--any day----brush your teeth and call your mother. She misses you.  Your father---Ver Vaist (Who Knows).

A few random thoughts now---

     1) Can you think of any radio station besides WFDU that has an eclectic mix and allows the hosts to present whatever they will---AND--are knowledgeable in their formats?
     2) How many roads must a man walk down before he realizes that Phil Ochs was every bit the talent and writer that Dylan is?
    3)  Why do so many great talents leave us so early---Kate Wolf, Eva Cassidy, Nancy Lamott (not folk), Fred Neil, and many more?   Is it a re affirmation of--The good die young---fill in the rest.
   4)  Terrible tragedy of those nincompoop firemen in Tennessee allowing a house to burn down for lack of a $75 fee (which was offered--times much more).  First off---I hope the family had their insurance paid up because the insurance company will surely &*&&^ them if not./  Secondly---what were the firemen thinking---they are late to go and try to marry some cousin?   The word Yahoo comes to mind---or one that starts with A and ends with E----this should be a question on Jeopordy.

Now the wit and wisdom you will soon find on TRADITIONS: