a literary confidence
Listen here on the Mischief Time Blog to a playback of last night's Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, during which host Wayne Cresser spun lots of jazz and featured the crooning of Bing Crosby and the wizardry of Van Dyke Parks. Please join him on Sunday, August 23, at 6 PM on WRIU, 90.3 FM (also streaming at wriu.org.), when he shines a spotlight on the songwriting of Jimmy Van Heusen and Frank Loesser.
To cities, towns, rivers and islands, real and imagined, host Wayne Cresser of Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, followed the music to far flung destinations, and you can hear it all by clicking on the link that says Listen Here:--Join him this coming Sunday at WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org, as he spins the movie songs of Bing Crosby, Van Dyke Parks, and Manfred Mann, among others.
Picture This 137: Movie Scores-A Face In the Crowd and Sounder aired on WRIU, Kingston, 90.3 FM (also streaming at wriu.org), on Sunday, July 26, from 6-8 PM, but you can listen to it right here. Join host, Wayne Cresser this Sunday, 8/2. from 6 to 8 PM when Picture This follows film and TV music to far flung cities, countries, and states of mind. As the real estate people like to say, "It's about Location! Location! Location!"
Listen here-sometimes people just want to sing about the movies and movie stars and glamour and all that. Anyhow, that's how it went down Sunday 7/19 at 6 PM on Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, as always, broadcasting on WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM and streaming at wriu.org. Tune in 7/26 when host Wayne Cresser explores two very different scores, Budd Schulberg's music for A Face in the Crowd and Taj Mahal's music for Sounder.
If you missed last night's show, you can Listen to Picture This 135: Anything Goes II, by going to wriu.org. and clicking on Playlists. Please tune into the next one, Songs about Film and Film Stars II, this coming Sunday on Picture This: Film Music on the Radio, with host Wayne Cresser, broadcasting at WRIU Kingston, 90.3 FM and steaming at wriu.org.
Had the pleasure to guest on the podcast called Catunquit Chronicles, for its 75th episode, Host James Allen and I swapped stories and poems for well over an hour, and you listen to it all right here on the Mischief Time Blog.
Listen here to my second guest spot the Catunquit Chronicles Podcast with hosts James Allen and Ashland Comorack. Had a great time and had a chance to read a couple of my short stories, also to hear one of Mr. Allen's.
"In the frothy days of hit parades and top forty stations that could in the space of thirty minutes serve up pop songs from Eydie Gorme’ to Frank Sinatra, jazz from Cannonball Adderley to Ramsey Lewis, garage rock from ? Mark and the Mysterians to the Standells, soul from Aretha Franklin to Otis Redding, psychedelic rock, blues rock, folk rock and novelty hits from alpha to omega, the occasional tribute song offered a wonderful little diversion." Read more of Wayne Cresser's Meta-hits of 1967: Spotlight on the Year Pop Music Celebrated Itself in Song, here on the Mischief Time Blog ...
Listen here to Gallant Gulls, Episode 55 of Catunquit Chronicles, for which your intrepid scribe was invited by hosts James Allan and Ashland Comorack to drop by for a chat and to read some of my short stories for their podcast. I am very thankful for the chance since it was a joy to talk about writing with people who appreciate it and do a fair amount of it themselves.
Happy to let all readers of the Mischief Time Blog know about the activities of Jamestown literary group, The Rhodeo Poets, whose active citizens have pulled together a monthly open mic at the popular Narragansett Cafe. If you're around. you don't want to miss it. And if you've got the work, they would love to hear it.
Just Between You and Me 