The site is for information and comments about the artists, authors, and persons of interest that I have had the honor and privilege of welcoming to the 3 radio programs I host or have hosted on WFDU--TRADITIONS, SUNDAY SIMCHA, TABLETALK.
There is commentary on a weekly or bi-weekly basis on other topics that are, hopefully, of interest.
In addition you will find playlists on a seperate page---link is just below. In additon I have hosted a guest version of TRADITIONs on XM Radio.
If you checked the playlist page you were re-directed to come here to see some of the premiums that will be offered for SUNDAY SIMCHA during our fund-raising time in February---the only time in the year we come to you to ask for much needed support for the station and also to support the programming you want on the airwaves.
While we will have premiums for both programs---SUNDAY SIMCHA & TRADITIONS this posting will list only the ones for SUNDAY SIMCHA along with the guidelines for them:
1) A pledge of $36.00 receives a CD. Each additional $18.00 receives another until a total of 5 CDs is reached.
2) Every pledger over $10.00 receives a station bumper sticker---you supply your own bumper
3) You can call me on Sundays in February between 10-11 AM (202 692-2012) or you may e mail me at any time at sundaysimcha@yahoo.com. and include your name, address (mailing) phone #(in case of a problem). Also, your choice of premium.
Be assured that no information will be kept once the premiums and pledges are fulfilled.
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The list of premiums for your information:
The quantities in all categories is limited but plentiful and at this time I want to thank the artists who have so generously supported the program with their gifts, their talent, and their hope that "Yiddishkeit" will be able to continue as it has for over30 years on WFDU---it really is part of making it the "Right Place On The Left Side Of The Dial" I realize that premiums/gifts are a nice thing but I am sure you realize the important thing is your support no matter what you feel you can afford----it is all appreciated and something that will be doing as "mitzvah" for us and also for yourself.
Let also urge you to click over to the playlists if you have not been there and see a wonderful clip of Bruce Adler and Mike Burstyn together in a few favorite numbers.
NOW---- TRADITIONS
I can only repeat what was said above about premiums/gifts and the pledging of what can be afforded and it is all appreciated. Sincerely. TRADITIONS, started by Ron Olesko some 30 years or so ago now and joined by yours truly some 16 years ago will also be hoping you find this kind of programming important in this world of homogenized programming up and down the dial except for that oasis on a Sunday afternoon where you can hear insightful commentary about meaningful music from meaningful musicians from two hosts ---one of which, apparently, likes alliteration.
Should you care to pledge via e mail you can e mail wfdutraditions@yahoo.com and now let me give you the premium schedule---a list will follow later--
$40 1 CD
80 3 CD
100 5 CD
All pledges over $10.00 will receive a bumper sticker (if you want it)---and as above---supply your own bumper and give me the car.
My thanks, again, to the artists that have supported us with their talent and generosity---too numerous to mention here but you will see it when the list is published----people we all know and love and are generously sharing their talent and support with you and us.
1)Count the times people on interview programs say “....at the end of the day”.Cliches abound---or as Shakespeare said ---“...signifying nothing”.
2)Many times I am asked about the radio programs and, frankly, At The End Of The Day I hope they were appreciated and if not---well---it is still the end of the day.
3)Whatever happened to the start of the day,or at high noon (when it was time for Kate Smith---and her mooning could have destroyed an entire mountain), or just plain old sunset?
4)A delight to find so many elders---they are now called senior citizens,--enjoying a trip back to an earlier time with my presentation at the JCC in Washington TownshipNJ
5)My feelings of sadness are mingled with my joy at having been able to experience The McGarrigles at some point in time---farewell Kate who has brought so much musical joy and feeling to myself and to so many others.
6)I like the quote of the day from an unknown source: “..kids spend over 53 hours a week on electronic media---and when they are finished they still say--"what now—I am bored”.
7)I had a epiphany the other day---Dave & Busters in various malls is a horror but, frankly, when I was a wee one Coney Island was probably the same horror that my parents thought it.Different generations/ different media/ same results.I worry about the adults without kids there.
8)Avatar is a film I have not seen nor intend to see.I still like character and story driven films as opposed to effects.That noted, perhaps Cameron does make parables and meaningful moments ala Shakespeare.Perhaps it is generational and I will stick with Will having been born in his time---I beat good old Abraham for age then.
9)Erich Segal, the author of Love Story died this week.I bet he never had to say he was sorry.
10)Google’s slogan---“Do No Evil” is a wonderful aim but you have to wonder how two “naive” tech nerds made billions---yes, billions (going higher) without a small bit of business acumen and pragmatism.So they say whilst cruising the corporate jet.Bill Gates is re-born and somewhere down the line---given the speed of innovation now; very soon---the next heir will be upon us.
11)But what is all the fuss about Golden Globes, Academy Awards, and such?They started out (well, Oscar did) as industry awards---hype will get you everywhere.
The sad news we heard today was of the death of the uniquely talented Kate McGarrigle. For many years I have admired her and her family and seen them those many moons ago at venues like "Speakeasy" in NYC, Carnegie Hall, and loved their recordings----with particular partiality to "The McGarrigle Hour" that is, many times on my record player (surely dates me---CD Player).
This Sunday on TRADITIONS I will commemorate---or, better, remember, that wonderful talent and now---for your own reminiscence of remembrance---or discovery---a video of the sisters courtesy of You Tube and the screen named kk9911--for want of a real name :
This Sunday we shall be, as said, having a remembrance of this amazing and unique talent that I, and I hope you, have appreciated lo these many years.
Along with that a profile of someone I consider an amazing talent that encompasses so many genres---Susan Werner. Honestly now; I have come to appreciate her great talent after many years of not realizing how great it is.
We shall also welcome a guest---Larry Seigal. Surprise await you there.
Do join me this Sunday on TRADITIONS --3 PM ET and on the web at www.wfdu.fm elsewhere in the wonderful world of sports---OOPS--that is ABC---skip sports and stick to this---and also---remember a wonderful talent who left us too soon.
1) How many roads must a man walk down before he realizes he is lost?
2) The Hudson River is beautiful when it’s frozen from side to side; and that seems to happen less every year---this year is an exception
3) It’s a good thing that New Jersey legalized Marijuana for medical use in the narrow way it did. Why should people suffer and the drug companies make fortunes when there is another solution?
4) Sarah Palin is now a commentator on Fox for many dollars which makes me realize I should resign my post as Pres. of the local library so I can be “rogue” and make money all the while saying it is for you that I am doing all this.
5) People are so hung up on terminology which is why I cannot understand the furor about Sen. Reid’s comments. The book Game Change did not have that as an important part and, if anything, it supported Pres. Obama.
6) Stephen Colbert had it right---“..Ne...Gro---all together now—Ne...Gro” . Like Lenny Bruce he showed how words influence us but are just plain ridiculous---generational divisions are caused by their use----and it is not a misuse.
7) With all the tragedy around the world should anyone really give a damn at what hour Jay Leno bores an audience or how unhappy Conan O’Brien is?
8) Some people get laid off and have no income. The NBC stars can just live off the residuals and investments---not to mention the lucrative contracts that have to be paid off. Just proves that vanity trumps cash
9) It is surely strange that in the garment industry ½ sizes are for heavy women. You would think that ½ of something is less and not more.
10) Bankers and brokers gambled so as to get higher returns and lost; taking the economy with them. It seems hard to comprehend that, thanks to gov’t bailout they now make huge profits and feel to keep their great talent enormous bonuses must be given these “great talents” that screwed everything up.
11) Does anyone own a house too large to lose? Seems there were banks too large to fail and I have not heard of a homeowner too big not to lose a home.
Sorry for the errors which are Google's doing on the Nobody Asked Me But.. column. I bet that Jimmy Cannon would have had issues with the GOOD NY Post he worked on those many moons ago had that occurred.
The TRADITIONS updates for the brave and few who view here (the others are missing some great self serving publishing---or is it another term)---this Sunday I will be hosting two guests on TRADITIONS that really should not be missed--for music, thoughts, and conversation----EMMA'S REVOLUTION. Pat Humphries and Sandy O. PLease do join me and them and hear much from two wonderful artists----and my favorite writer of anthems.
1) I wonder if a deceased person can die again by suicide since that is what Conan Doyle would surely do once he heard of the latest incarnation of his hated (by him) and much loved (by others) is amazing how much one can learn by observing service people working on your various electronic or other appliances. And then do it yourself next time. Is that like “live and learn”?
The 2) The stock market seems to know my future moves---Buy---it goes down. Sell---it goes up.
3) It is amazing how much one can learn by observing service people working on your various electronic or other appliances. And then do it yourself next time. Is that like “live and learn”?
4)The fascinating interview about Facebook on WNYC and the ramifications to your privacy and identity issues was truly informative and worrisome
5)If an admitted trained terrorist wants to blow up an airliner and fails why not treat him as an “enemy combatant” and try him militarily
6)It is about time we left security to the experts (with civilian oversight—ala the military) and not to ex-politicos. Ms. Napolitano is a disaster---“...the system did not fail”—it did and the paying public saved the passengers.
7)Sort of tacky for someone to blow his horn and bellow at a funeral because his car is blocked---which made my comment to him appropriate (I was the offender due to cir
cumstances beyond my control)----“...relax, dig a ditch and hop right in for eternity---you’ll like the neighborhood”.
8)Does anyone recall the lyrics to “If I knew You Were Coming I’d Have Baked A Cake”? Try it with the above lyrics.
9)Why are people so upset with Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, etc; All just “human rights” we are talking about?
10)Why are people so upset with the abortion issue?(which has been settled) Let’s take a positive spin here----Those folks are saving fortunes of money in expenses that never existed before in raising kids to carry on their poverty stricken names.
Emigrating from Austria in the late 1930s and arriving in the U S via U K (and Blitzkrieg) we settled in NY.
A lifelong love of "folk music" evolved after discovering The Weavers and later the politics, music, and thoughts of Phil Ochs.
Further bonding happened when the Sloop Singers appeared at one of my birthday fests. At this point I must make mention of my wife and her arranging that. Also changing my life and focus. After that I produced 5 yrs of benefit concerts featuring Tom Chapin.
A relationship with Ron Olesko ( of WFDU) came from that and years later I also came aboard the station and the program.
Some 20 yrs (at this writing) have elapsed and I now host 2 programs there--Sunday Simcha--Jewish Programming,and Traditions (with Ron Olesko).
So--we all come down in the place just right(as the Shaker Hymn tells us)--in this case WFDU-=-The right place on the left side of the dial.
Follow the links below by clicking on the name to listen to archived interviews from TABLETALK / TRADITIONS/ SUNDAY SIMCHA--New ones added from time to time:
HAVE A FEW MORE SHOTS--NOT ALCOHOLIC JUST PHOTOGENIC
Just go to www.flickr.com/photos/billhahnprogramnotes and see another bunch of the family pictures. Who knows you might be in them. Just scroll past the ones you have seen---as Jolie said---Ah Got A Milllion of 'Em
