... which we listened to yesterday and more about that below. But
first, the tune. "Proud Mary" is normally one of those tunes that I
never want to hear again, if one only considers the original by CCR. Is
that version overplayed? Oh, hell yes. But I can listen to Ike and
Tina cook on their version over and over and over and NEVER tire of it.
I heard this yesterday while listening to Ann Delisi's show on WDET out of Dee-troit. We've gone on about 'DET and Ms. Delisi before here at EIP, like this:
I heard this yesterday while listening to Ann Delisi's show on WDET out of Dee-troit. We've gone on about 'DET and Ms. Delisi before here at EIP, like this:
I think I discovered Roy by listening to WDET in Dee-troit. I'd bet money on it, actually. Speakin' of WDET...We were quite pleased to find DET is on iTunes Radio; this means we can listen to the lovely Ann on the weekends now. Ann had a daily show back in the day and we'd speak on the phone sometimes during the course of her show. I also had occasion to meet and speak with her in person, albeit briefly, during a couple of the annual cocktail parties DET threw for donors who contributed at a certain level. We had a nice e-mail exchange after her show yesterday afternoon... which I'd publish if Blogger wasn't such a pain the ass about formatting cut 'n' pasted e-mails. I can't get the formatting to work to save my ass, so you'll just have to take my word for it. It's always sumthin'.
We're down to our emergency tee shirt supply, given the state of our laundry bag and available clean clothes. This example happens to be well over 20 years old, what with me having acquired it back around 1987 or so. I wear it rarely these days as it is thin beyond belief. It's also something of a personal treasure as well, being a memento from Former Happy Days. This tee was part of the swag one gets for supporting public radio, and I was a BIG supporter back in the day. Read as: when public radio was worth supporting. I was saddened to find DET has sunk in the metro Dee-troit radio ratings, but not all that surprised. DET was a powerhouse back in the '80s and a veritable fount of new music... and Ann Delisi (a deejay and then programs director) was to die for. But that's another story altogether.
Ah yes... CCR... The only station up that way I ever listened to was WLS, cause we got GOOD skip at night...LOL
ReplyDeleteWe're all in favor of good Skip
Delete@ Jim: I've listened to WLS while driving across Texas back in the '60s.
Delete@ Skip: Heh.
I cannot ever remember any of them and yet I had good memories of listening in exotic places all over the world, including while working at the Selfridge ANGB Marina one summer. All of that that I recall is Kim Carnes.
ReplyDeleteI was in the UK when Kim Carnes hit it big. "Bette Davis Eyes" was one helluva tune and was in constant rotation at my place during the summer of '81.
DeleteFunny story, in an interview Bette Davis was asked what she thought of the song, and she only said "I'm just glad she sang about my eyes". In her autobiography she said one of her problems in Hollywood early on, is she couldn't even fill a training bra...
DeleteGreat story, Okie!
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