XMTR Radio Hour #43 The Power of Radio with Tom Roe
This XMTR Radio Hour is a radio journey through 20th Century American Radio with radio pirate and sound art enthusiast Tom Roe. He co-founded 87X and free103point9 and the home for sound and radio art in Hudson Valley, New York State - Wave Farm. Tom is a radio artist, DJ and writer. He produces the weekly Donald Drumpf Theatre show and a regular all things radio and sound-art newsletter ’Turn on The News’. This is a personal history tour through the power of airwaves from comedy sketches to phone ins and everything in between.
Tracklist:
Tracklist:
- Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "The Sound Effects Man"
- Orson Welles being interviewed the morning after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast in another great acting role.
- Bill Cosby, "Chicken Heart" excerpt.
- WFBR baseball radio call Bill O'Donnell, June 22, 1979.
- WPLP excerpt of talk radio host Bob Lassiter.
- Excerpt of interview by Tom Roe did with pirate radio operator Loni Kobres in 1997 shortly after the Federal Communications Commission came with a SWAT team and helicopters and a battering ram to shut down his radio station in Tampa, Florida.
- The Donner Party, "Sickness." sung by Tom Roe
- Scanner, "Turning the Dial" from "Warhol's Diary."