For a lot of folks, the annual TV presentation of the Yule Log is part of the holiday tradition. If you’re not familiar, the Yule Log is a film loop of logs burning in a fireplace with a soundtrack of fire crackle and classic Christmas music. Yesterday, Within Earshot caught up with Ken Van Sickle,…
Category: old podcasts
Howard Cosell’s Little Drummer Boy
[audio:http://earshotpresents.com/sounds/within-earshot/little-drummer-boy.mp3|titles=Howard Cosell’s Little Drummer Boy] Howard Cosell’s Little Drummer Boy
Bottle Do Your Thing
David Rogers had 37 hits on the country charts, and two that made the top ten. Was “Bottle Do Your Thing” one of them? Not sure, but it’s a damn good country song. This digital recording was made from a 45rpm found among the mountain of bullshit at The Thing in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
The End of the Line
Transcription of George Harrison, from opening of “The True Story of the Traveling Wilburys“: “The thing happened just by magic. Just by circumstances. Maybe there was a fun moon that night or something like that. It was quite a magical little thing, really. I had dinner with Roy Orbison and Jeff (ed. Jeff Lynne). And…
Sh-Boom (Life Could Be a Dream)
They don’t make ’em like they used to. Why hasn’t there been a gang of hipsters from Williamsburg to throw us back to a sound like this? Or maybe the better question is why haven’t we heard about it? Sh-Boom’s a classic. Here is the Crew Cuts version: sh-boom1.mp3 …which is a more polished version…