I heard all of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" on the radio before going straight out and buying the LP. I later bought the CD and I also have it on minidisc. It's my favourite album of all time.
The four 'middle years' albums are all what I call *perfect albums,* that is, every track is great and is where it belongs. Arguably the *Golden Years* of Pink Floyd, from: Echoes - DSOTM - WYWH - to Animals - All on one playlist. Perfect. But yes, *ExEssex* - WYWH remains the jewel in the crown for me too.
Even better, calling up the station, having the DJ actually answering the phone and playing requests… Thank You Richard Neer @WNEW-FM 102.7 in NYC…. the song? Joe Walsh, Welcome to the Club…became a big Joe Walsh fan from that “So What” album. Thank You for making me think about those great times…👍🏻❤️🍻😎
WXRT 93.1 Chicago used to be that way before being bought out. They still have the same radio hosts, but it's now programmed. No longer progressive. They used to feature new music before it became popular mainstream oh and yes, the DJs actually prepared their own playlists for their shifts.
I'm so glad someone got to relive that moment. Even with all its troubles, if someone offered me a 1-way trip back in time to the 70's, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I freaking love w e b n I was born in Covington spent all my Summers in Kentucky the country listening to webn remember tree frog beer lol silly me of course you do you worked there
I grew up in Fraklin in the 60s, just north of Cincinnati. WEBN was one of the 2 best radio stations ever. I move from the area in 84 so I don't remember you but I spent a lot of time listening to Robin Wood sponsored by Brute Force Cybernetics and Tree Frog Beer before they sold out to what eventually became iHeart Radio.
Remember back in the 1970’s when FM radio stations ACTUALLY DID play album cuts like this? And you knew 1,000 other people were simultaneously listening to it, too? So cool. So very cool. This is a great scene from a great TV show.
Yep; stations like Seattle's KZOK and KISW would play entire cuts, and occasionally whole sides of an album; often I would hear Pink Floys's "Dark Side of the Moon"!
WNEW-FM 102.7. Scott Muni, Allison Steele… can’t imagine a better radio station to grow up listening to. Even better, because it was NYC… getting to see so many of the legendary bands. Those were the days…👍🏻❤️🍻😎
WKRP was a brilliant show. I worked the late shift at a radio station located in a Hotel in my early twenties and the things that used to happen during live programs was unbelievable. When I first started we had these massive transcription turntables in one of the control rooms that had two foot by three foot metal doors under the turntables. I was told that that was where the tube electronics were and that it was best not to open the doors. For months I'd sit there and not open the doors as I cued the disks and loaded reel tapes for broadcast. One night after midnight I was a little bored so I decided to open the door ... inside I found a collection of glasses, liquor, and mixers. Under the other turntable was a collection of Cuban Cigars, various munchies, and alternate cigarettes (wink-wink). Soon after I was assigned to another studio and everywhere I looked there were little hidden compartments where management never looked but things that could ease your evenings were stored by the regular technicians that worked in the rooms. In one room someone had actually installed a mini-fridge at the base of the transmitter rack accessible only from the rear. The best thing about the station being in a Hotel was that I found you could order room service and have them deliver food directly to the control rooms since the kitchen was just down a long corridor. And since we technically worked in the Hotel we were given staff discounts. Once every few weeks I'd have a wonderful Steak Dinner delivered to where I was working in the studios and that was heaven. A few years later the studios were moved into a purpose built building and Hotel dinners ended. Late night studio shifts ended as well because all the programs were recorded during the daylight hours and playbacks were performed from a master control facility. The only secret stashes then were in producers offices and everyone used every studio depending on the show that was being recorded at what time. The shows that were recorded during the weekends could be interesting because that's when freelancers would come in to record their programs and some interesting things would be brought in for the shows. Music you otherwise wouldn't hear, food that you'd never heard of, and some very fine liquor that freelance announcers had access to depending on their nationality. And best of all ... no management in the building on the weekends. They were always 9-5 Monday to Friday. Automation and digital editing took a lot of teamwork and socialization out of radio. Now everyone that's hired is expected to do everything themselves. Even freelance announcers are expected to do their own technical operations via computers (no turntables, tapes, or CD players anymore). It's taken a lot of the joy and skill out of current radio production. I'm glad my career included the pre-transition days before the accountants and computer programmers took over. You worked hard but it was fun. R.I.P. Johnny Fever (Howard Hessman). When I grow up I want to be just like you (and I'm 67 now).
My favourite Les Nessman line was when he had the emergency plan for an attack by communists and instead they got hit by a tornado......"godless....tornadoes".
When I lived in Atlanta, GA back in 1996, the local classic rock radio station decided to have a weekend of prog rock music and they played everything from Pink Floyd's Echoes, to Genesis' TLLDOB, The Remembering by Yes, Tarkus by ELP, Tubular Bells, Camel's The Snow Goose, Klaatu, In the Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan, all of 2112 by Rush, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, etc. You name it, they played it from Friday morning until Sunday midnight. I was beside myself! It's a shame that you can't ever hear that kind of freedom on today's radio.
I remember when we had two stations in San Diego with DJ’s that were mostly silent and played full albums. I was working late one night and when the album ended all you could hear for about 20 minutes was silence and the DJ snoring.
AM rock jocks in 1976 were chatty with the mad talk... As Doctor Johnny Feeeeeeevaaa was emulating on the pilot. Early 70s FM were album players... Thus the niche for Progressive Rock groups 1967 to 1980. By 76 in many markets FM had become a jock talk, record spin situation. The FM night after 8pm was usually still reserved for whole albums to smoke pot by (or imagine you were).
Truly. The early 2020s have sucked especially considering almost every current TV show and half the new movies that release nowadays are nothing but woke propaganda
@@geetarman Back then each station had a program director who determined what could & could not be aired. It was pretty arbitrary all around. And cronyism came into play: e.g. friends of the PD got to play whatever they wanted, etc. Nowadays a lot of smaller stations have gone to subscribed programming & "on air personalities" via satellite. That eliminates the need for program directors and a whole lot of other personnel that made radio more human back in the day.
The same thing can be said of most bands of mid sixties to mid seventies. Album rock should have made singles and top 40 radio obsolete. Sadly, it didn't.
I never saw this episode (.....I was working nights back then...)....but was 22 at the time. STILL one of my favorite PF albums. I remember the first time I heard it. Sitting in the dark, with the headphones strapped on....& a big ol' bowl of weed.
Howard Hesseman was a one of a kind actor. That pink floyd episode is legendary. Dr. Johnny fever is telling the " big guy" Gordon jump in heaven to " don't touch that" R.I.P. Howard & Gordon. We will always have WKRP on DVD💿
WKRP is just so darn smart and funny. It is completely watchable today. It would be a brilliant move for Netflix to get the final music legal issues sorted out, remaster it and stream it. I think it would be fantastically popular.
When I phoned home in the 80s to say I’d gotten a job in FM radio, my 8-y-o sister squealed “Like Dr. Johnny Fever??” “Exactly, “ I said, “Down to the five-o-clock shadow.” So proud to have been one of the few, the proud, the forefront of women rock jocks.
Pink Floyd - Animals. Every time I heard a song off that album I went back to 1977 in my mind. Until May 2020. I had open heart surgery. I was waiting for my next shot of pain meds and hurting bad. I opened up youtube on Iphone and starting playing this album. Real low with headphones. It brought down my pain level till shot arrived. Now when I hear this album I go back to that hospital room. Not bad really as it is actually relaxing. At that point I didn't worry about bills, oil changes, driving in snowstorm. I just concentrated on music I loved.
Keep living and loving my friend! A good song is like a window in time! It can take you back and evoke a deep sense of love, loss, joy or sadness once you relax and give in to the music! G-D Bless, my friend.
@@J-Colt Hang on a sec. Rereading, I just realized they ripped yer chest open! Way worse than mine. Mine but "Tis but a flesh wound" in comparison! :) Good on you.
I fell off a ladder and broke both of my heels in August. Turned them into maracas and needed major surgery on both heels. I had my son grab my earbuds and my phone charger before the ambulance took me away. Spent the night in agony on an ER gurney while they tried to find a surgeon with the expertise to put my feet back together. This music was the only compensation I had on that painful, frightening, sleepless night. It also helped through months of disability, recovery, and rehab. God bless you guys.
RIP. A dependable, genuine, and steadfast actor, a likable "everyman" in every single thing he did, and you could tell he was even more likeable in real life.
When I was 8 years old, I actually had a WKRP record player. It came with a microphone so you could pretend you were a DJ. I did a radio show for three weeks before my mother told me that nobody can hear me and it was all make believe. I wish she would've told me that after the first week of my show. Because by then, I hated it. I had fun at first. But then it started to feel more like a job. I didn't want to just quit, but I was burnt out. It's not easy doing a five hour radio show every day when you only have 4 records, and one of them was the soundtrack to Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer.
They still play Pink Floyd. No they never played long long ones like this thing shows. PS if anyone can tell me what album they had those dogs on it please let me know. I thought I heard all of Pink Floyd's work from the seventies up and I've never heard any dogs in any of their tracks. So if someone could tell me which album has dogs on it please let me know.
This is how many of the old FM stations first began. Pink Floyd, deep cuts from Deep Purple, Harry Chapin songs/stories that lasted 25 minutes and so many others. I'd listen late at night and do bong hits with the DJs. Oh God it was such a glorious time!!
@@billp4 For Sure!!! Dr. Demento was what we listened to when we ate shrooms. The treasure of songs he found were priceless. I remember laughing so hard one show, he played a song that talked about having babies for money..LOL Thank You for bringing that back to the front of my brain Brother!!!
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I have to look that up, that sounds like the sort of comedy I really love. Me and my buddies were die hard Firesign Theater fanatics! I swear we knew every line from the "Further Adventures of Nick Danger"...Just killer funny stuff!!!
I got to see Roger Waters and his band perform "Dogs" live in 2017 in San Antonio, Texas and they totally rocked it!! The lasers and special effects were incredible!!!
@@azrael5310"Dogs". It's from the album "Animals". I also got to see Roger Waters perform this one live in San Antonio, Texas back in July of 2017. The laser show, lighting and special effects were incredible.
“You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their back on you, you’ll know get the chance to put the knife in!” Reflections on some people then and now.
@@maxpower92 ... The live version is fantastic... Roger Waters In The Flesh on TH-cam... I could listen to it over and over again and never get tired of it...so I do
The entire series had issues being re-released for that reason. Only much later did they release the series on DVD and songs like this one, Dogs, had to be dubbed over. It's a travesty if you ask me, but that is the music industry today. If you buy the series Parenthood on DVD, you will not hear the Bob Dylan Opening song, another one is used instead.
It's because of Disney fucking up our Copyright Laws just to not let Mickey Mouse go to Public Domain that we can't enjoy such shows as this today w/o getting sued broke. It's messed up.
@@kelle0285 When I listen to Pink Floyd while driving, it is actually an effort to remember to drive fast enough to not be a road hazard. If I listen to Iron Maiden, the problem is remembering not to go too fast.
Didn't check every comment, but Gordon Jump as station manager isn't getting any love. He played the befuddled buffoon so well on this show and elsewhere.
I met him many, many years ago when I worked at the Holiday Inn just outside of Decatur, IL. Really nice guy and he seemed surprised that I recognized him.
Gordon Jump was a worthy product of his time & can never be replaced😭. As Arthur Carson, he did what he could for WKRP despite the odds & the station was never better for it.
Back in 1978, Steely Dan produced a song called "FM" that totally captured the impact of the rise of FM radio over AM. "No static at all" was the hook, as it was with the technology. AM was subject to electrical disturbances like car engines and lightning, even if miles away. FM got rid of all that, and could deliver stereo as well. I suspect WKRP was supposed to an be an AM station, but it's spirit is pure FM: playing long album sides as in this episode) and focusing on album-oriented playlists (the AOL) format. When I was in college in the mid-to-late 1970s, it was common for FM stations late at night to play entire albums like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", the joke being that allowed the DJ to hit the restroom or go out for a smoke. Them wuz the days.
YUP! And FM isn't just a song by Steely Dan, it's the title track of the soundtrack for the movie FM, which I've often wondered is what inspired WKRP. Not a great movie but fun to watch if you're into this sort of thing, the soundtrack can be had on vinyl but the movie itself is hard to find but from time to time you can find a DVD on Amazon for sale at a painfully big price that I suspect is not legitimate but a well made and packaged bootleg. As some mentioned, I suspect it's not commonly available both because it just wasn't that popular but also featured a LOT of familiar songs including entire songs done live by Jimmy Buffet and Linda Ronstadt. Bit of trivia, this movie is the first one that used Queen's We Will Rock You. At least the movie trailer is here on youtube, and umm if you're of a certain age a lot of these actors will look familiar! th-cam.com/video/Acsa4s5n5Tg/w-d-xo.html Enjoy! :)
Oh, one other thing, I was just a teenager but I remember watching WKRP when this episode was first run and falling out of my chair laughing when Howard Hesseman said "I do"!
@@terrybeavan4264 The producers of the movie included a lice performance with Linda Ronstadt using the fictitious FM Station "QSKY" and on stage with her was one of the greatest session guitarists of our time Waddy Wachtel. They were fabulous!!! It was a simple but GREAT MOVIE!!!
... You oughta hear Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon, or Themes From Vapourspace! Both these album/CDs are just one long cut! Smoke 'em if you got 'em! 😉🤩🖖
Pigs (3 different ones) - absolute brilliance. The keyboard intro that rotates around inside your skull, followed by the guitar riffs, then joined by the bass - quintessential acid rock!
When I first got into Floyd, I liked Wish You Were Here. Now, Animals is by far one of my all-time favourite albums. Dogs (and Comfortably Numb) are two top rock songs by any artist
"Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?" And Johnny says "I do". I don't know why but that just cracks me up. Johnny's delivery, Voice, Mr Carlson? I don't know. But it makes me laugh every time.
Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap drinking to see the affects. Johnny couldn't hit the side of a barn straight and Venus hits the floor drunk. Loved watching this show when it was on. Guess I'm getting old
And Johnny got faster the more he drank while the 'state administrator' trying to prove why you shouldn't drink and drive just got madder and madder as Johnny got faster and faster the more drunk he was.
I definitely remember when radio stations played music like this and by choice. It was great. Back in the 70s and 80s, even the 90s. The time of real music that had meaning by people with talent. I'm not sure what went wrong with today's music or maybe I'm just getting old but... And this show is a classic. The characters were perfectly honed and played well. Again, we no longer see good TV like this either.
You have the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to thank for that. Previously, there were limits on how many radio stations a company could own, and not more than one in the same market. Clear Channel went from 40 stations to over 1,200 by 2002. Stations used to be locally owned, and have a pulse on the local music scene. They could experiment, and play what fans liked. Now there is one music director sitting in an office who decides what everybody listens to, and those decisions are made by whatever label pays the most for promotion.
WHAT WENT WRONG !!!!!? WALMART IS WHAT WENT WRONG !!!! Walmart ran a lot of small mom and pop places out of business. Well radio stations relied on local businesses for advertising. With out local advertising small radio stations got bought up by big media. Big media flooded the airwaves with syndicated radio shows. Now the radio stations don't even have DJs they're automated. Or they're broadcasting syndicated programs. WALMART IS THE F@#ING PROBLEM MAN !!!! and have you ever heard a radio spot for WALMART ???? NO !!!!!!
@@texaswunderkind Yup in Boston we had WAAF and WBCN and they would play tons of local bands on the radio and some of them got big. Now you just hear the same few songs over and over again, you never hear deep cuts anymore.
The best line ever was delivered on this show by Lonnie Anderson. Herb: 'grab a little gusto!' Lonnie: 'I don't grab little gustos, Herb...' Outstanding.
Yes: the last time this being the case was in the summer of 1979, when I was in 4th Grade. Called a pop station request line, which just got through playing Earth Wind and Fire, Molly Hatchet, Parliament, ELO, Ohio Players, Styx, Pink Floyd and Olivia-Newton John while I was on hold . When I finally broke through, in the enthusiasm of shock actually getting through, I had hyperventilated my request: "Killer Queen' by Queen...Twas the beautiful days before 'format radio'
@@Shorty_Lickens I think it just goes to show just how underfunded the Station was that they still had to use vinyl records to broadcast music. Remember, Les Nessman doesn’t have a door, or walls, for his office. So, it’s not that the show “got it wrong” but more “this is all the Station has to work with”.
@@peterkrochmalni673 if that were true they should have told the audience other stations were using tapes. As you just pointed out, they made a big deal about informing the audience of all the other failures at the station, didnt they?
@@Shorty_Lickens You are incorrect. Our local contemporary (nowadays "classic legends" type) country music station DJs spun records during that era. I was in the studio at least once and saw them. Plus they talked about doing it. And the needles would jump a groove or get stuck sometimes. And much more recently...perhaps ~8 years ago, I was driving through, I think, Knoxville, and there was a man and woman who were playing some old time music perhaps bluegrass or something along those lines, or southern gospel perhaps, and they were playing records. I remember that they started getting fascinated by, and talking absentmindedly to each other about a fly that was buzzing around the studio and landing on things, and then landed on the record they were spinning, and just started riding around in circles. And they started commenting, sort of low key, on its trip around the turntable, and speculating on whether it was enjoying its trip, or was going to get off at some point. It was charming and unintentionally humorous. I loved it. I could have listened to those two play that record, and narrate the passenger flys perambulations across the surface of the record and simultaneous its trip around in a pointless circle for the next 20 minutes without getting bored. Unfortunately, it was over in what seemed like a minute or two. I've traveled around a lot over the past ~30 years, and while I can't always tell, I have certainly heard quite a few DJs, particularly of lower power and rural stations spinning records.
Arlo Gutherie's Alice's Restaurant - 17 minutes, Iron Butterflie's In na gadda davida - 22 minutes or so, really long playing songs back then. Now you have Music Videos and no talent jumping up and down.
I loved that show, back then I had a friend who was a DJ and it was great doing the Midnight to Dawn slots with him. Pink FLoyd, Lead Zeppelin,Janice, …back when MUSIC was music ,there were lyrics, meaning, rhythm .
@@yoopernow My standard bit is to tell people to go look up the top 100 for this week but in {year they think music was "still good"}, and see how many songs they even recognize, much less consider good. (Consider: The song that knocked "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" out of #1 was "The Ballad of the Green Berets".)
You aren't listening to modern music. You're just repeating what your parents and grandparents said about yours after noticing a track or two that doesn't fit your limited definition of how music should sound. If you honestly listen to any three out of this list, you will realize how wrong you are: John Legend, Hozier, Ben Folds, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Alicia Keys, Lana del Ray, and Jane Siberry.
Sorry to hear of your passing, Howard. You and Gordon and the rest of the amazing cast gave the show heart as well as being incredibly funny. It's one of the great series that will never get old.
Thanks for bringing a smile to my face this morning. (The coffee hasn't kicked in yet, so that's quite an accomplishment.) "WKRP in Cincinnati" was one of the best sitcoms ever produced.
I just watched this WKRP in Cincinnati clip from 1970. I was 15 or 16. I'm totally flipping out of my freakin mind! I don't remember that song played on this show! I discovered Pink Floyd's - Animals on a you tube reaction channel in 2021. OM Freakin Goodness. The album is a masterpiece. ❤️❤️😎 R.I. P. actor Howard Hessman aka Dr. Johnny Fever.
@@asmith7876 You don’t have to pretend anymore. It’s 2021 and nobody will be put off by your sexuality. Hell it’s pride month. But if you are going to pretend to be straight the only answer is Loni.
Wasn't universally acclaimed when it came out. It took forever and barely charted. Dsotm was still in the charts. The division bell did even worse than Animals.
Sadly, WKRP reruns and compilations are held up by the relicensing rights to the exact music they played and promoted in the episodes. An absolute tragedy since it is one of the greatest shows of all time.
Yes. Unfortunately thanks in large part to the DMCA many shows like WKRP, if they're in syndication at all have the original hit songs replaced by generic copyright-free music. And to Howard Hesseman, thanks for the memories. We'll miss you.
Check out Shout Factory’s complete DVD set of WKRP. They were able to secure the rights to 80+% of the original music, which is better than anyone could hope for in today’s legal environment. Dogs isn’t one of them, unfortunately
Totally. I loved the scene where Les meets Jennifer's boyfriend "Steel". Steel introduces himself to Les, while mentioning that a man's name "Says something about him". Poor Les.
I lived in Ohio and my sister had moved to California. I called her every night at 11:30 and we would watch WKRP together. Until my mom got the phone bill. A month later my sister figured out that the laundry room in her apt complex had a phone then she called me at least once a week until they put a lock on that phone. lol
Some years more recently I was visiting my great grandparents and called home to check on things. Modern cell phone with an unlimited plan in North America. They were SO freaked out because I was calling LONG DISTANCE and I needed to keep it short because they thought it was going to cost a fortune. I think at the time I had a VoIP phone at home and the entire world was a local call for me.
I swear my phone is listening to me. Last night I had a conversation with my friends in person and we were talking about how great a show wkrp was. I've never looked anything up about it and this morning the algorithm just happens to have this at the top of my suggested list. Creepy.
After watching the movie "The Producers" a few years back, one of the staff where I worked asked me if Gene Wilder was still alive. I googled it. He was. The next morning, we heard that he had died. We felt guilty. 😊
My two dogs love the song......They always bark when they hear the dogs on the album, haha. The funny part is that they go to the window looking for said "intruders" to their territory.
This show was the best! I own the DVD box set. One of the cool things about WKRP was they used modern music as part of the show giving the station a real feel. The producers were clever to get a snip of classic music at cheap a price. The Pink Floyd album Jonny's playing is Animals. It is genus.
One of my favorites, Johnny is playing the Grateful Dead. The owner pops in and demands that he play something that people can dance to. That always cracked me up.
This show made me want to get into broadcasting... 4 years into College for Radio TV & Film made me realize I hated Radio & TV and just wanted to shoot documentaries. Ultimately I found just recording Live Music and Nature Videos was all that mattered to me and was way easier & more satisfying!
Anyone else so old they can remember when a radio station could choose what song to play?
I heard all of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" on the radio before going straight out and buying the LP. I later bought the CD and I also have it on minidisc. It's my favourite album of all time.
The four 'middle years' albums are all what I call *perfect albums,* that is, every track is great and is where it belongs. Arguably the *Golden Years* of Pink Floyd, from: Echoes - DSOTM - WYWH - to Animals - All on one playlist. Perfect.
But yes, *ExEssex* - WYWH remains the jewel in the crown for me too.
I recently bought my 5th copy of DSOTM on vinyl from walmart. It came with the posters and stickers...
Even better, calling up the station, having the DJ actually answering the phone and playing requests…
Thank You Richard Neer @WNEW-FM 102.7 in NYC…. the song?
Joe Walsh, Welcome to the Club…became a big Joe Walsh fan from that “So What” album.
Thank You for making me think about those great times…👍🏻❤️🍻😎
WXRT 93.1 Chicago used to be that way before being bought out. They still have the same radio hosts, but it's now programmed. No longer progressive. They used to feature new music before it became popular mainstream oh and yes, the DJs actually prepared their own playlists for their shifts.
When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up and be Dr. Johnny Fever.... I am 50 now, and I STILL want to grow up to be Dr. Johnny Fever! 🤘
Totally.
well move to a state where some of his daily products are now legal and you too can sit in a chair all day doing nothing
Why would you ever want to grow up?
@The Dogman
Same. I was like 10 thinking that was the best job ever.
I think I made it
Best Johnny Fever line: "In case you just joined us, the Pinedale shopping mall has just been bombed with live turkeys, film at 11" RIP Howard Hessman
I got into radio because of this show. I was on the air in Cincinnati. Cincinnati WEBN 102.7
I played Floyd.
I made this little fantasy come true.
I'm so glad someone got to relive that moment. Even with all its troubles, if someone offered me a 1-way trip back in time to the 70's, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I freaking love w e b n I was born in Covington spent all my Summers in Kentucky the country listening to webn remember tree frog beer lol silly me of course you do you worked there
I grew up in Fraklin in the 60s, just north of Cincinnati. WEBN was one of the 2 best radio stations ever. I move from the area in 84 so I don't remember you but I spent a lot of time listening to Robin Wood sponsored by Brute Force Cybernetics and Tree Frog Beer before they sold out to what eventually became iHeart Radio.
Nice gig!
Playing campus radio your pretty free. I played a lot of Zappa.
Remember back in the 1970’s when FM radio stations ACTUALLY DID play album cuts like this? And you knew 1,000 other people were simultaneously listening to it, too? So cool. So very cool. This is a great scene from a great TV show.
Songs like 'Ogre Battle' from Queen II got regular airplay.
Yep; stations like Seattle's KZOK and KISW would play entire cuts, and occasionally whole sides of an album; often I would hear Pink Floys's "Dark Side of the Moon"!
WNEW-FM 102.7. Scott Muni, Allison Steele…
can’t imagine a better radio station to grow up listening to.
Even better, because it was NYC…
getting to see so many of the legendary bands.
Those were the days…👍🏻❤️🍻😎
Some FM stations do things they call "Deep Cuts" where they play an album side, or some play albums from Midnight to 6 am on Saturday nights
WDVE Pittsburgh!
“As God is my witness; I thought turkeys could fly.” Still the greatest line in television history.
Agreed. "The horror, the horror...."
I still quote that one myself...
Ahem…The Pinedale shopping mall has just been bombed by live turkeys…Film at 11.
The classics never go out of style.
SO much more to this show than that one episode. I could tell you farming stories that would curl your hair!
Any TV show that includes "Dogs" playing on it is automatically one of the coolest TV shows ever.
This isn't up for debate.
WKRP was one of the coolest tv shows ever either way.
@@stickman1742 You are 100% correct.
Absof’inglutely!! Loved this entire album and the tv show too
Right on.
Absofuckinlutely !!!!! One of the best shows on TV - Woof!! The entire LP is brilliant!!! Thank you 1970s we had a blast!!!!
Johnny Fever looks comfortably numb.
Hahahaha. Yeah good one
Underrated comment
Ya nailed it fellow stoner.
"just a little pin-prick"
Listening to Dogs does that to me also. An underrated album. The middle instrumental part of Pigs is hypnotic to me.
WKRP was a brilliant show. I worked the late shift at a radio station located in a Hotel in my early twenties and the things that used to happen during live programs was unbelievable. When I first started we had these massive transcription turntables in one of the control rooms that had two foot by three foot metal doors under the turntables. I was told that that was where the tube electronics were and that it was best not to open the doors. For months I'd sit there and not open the doors as I cued the disks and loaded reel tapes for broadcast. One night after midnight I was a little bored so I decided to open the door ... inside I found a collection of glasses, liquor, and mixers. Under the other turntable was a collection of Cuban Cigars, various munchies, and alternate cigarettes (wink-wink). Soon after I was assigned to another studio and everywhere I looked there were little hidden compartments where management never looked but things that could ease your evenings were stored by the regular technicians that worked in the rooms. In one room someone had actually installed a mini-fridge at the base of the transmitter rack accessible only from the rear. The best thing about the station being in a Hotel was that I found you could order room service and have them deliver food directly to the control rooms since the kitchen was just down a long corridor. And since we technically worked in the Hotel we were given staff discounts. Once every few weeks I'd have a wonderful Steak Dinner delivered to where I was working in the studios and that was heaven. A few years later the studios were moved into a purpose built building and Hotel dinners ended. Late night studio shifts ended as well because all the programs were recorded during the daylight hours and playbacks were performed from a master control facility. The only secret stashes then were in producers offices and everyone used every studio depending on the show that was being recorded at what time. The shows that were recorded during the weekends could be interesting because that's when freelancers would come in to record their programs and some interesting things would be brought in for the shows. Music you otherwise wouldn't hear, food that you'd never heard of, and some very fine liquor that freelance announcers had access to depending on their nationality. And best of all ... no management in the building on the weekends. They were always 9-5 Monday to Friday. Automation and digital editing took a lot of teamwork and socialization out of radio. Now everyone that's hired is expected to do everything themselves. Even freelance announcers are expected to do their own technical operations via computers (no turntables, tapes, or CD players anymore). It's taken a lot of the joy and skill out of current radio production. I'm glad my career included the pre-transition days before the accountants and computer programmers took over. You worked hard but it was fun. R.I.P. Johnny Fever (Howard Hessman). When I grow up I want to be just like you (and I'm 67 now).
Good insight.Thanks.
Howard Hessman as Dr Johnny Fever was the best casting I’ve ever seen.
I saw somewhere that he was originally to play Herb Tarlek.
@@pipe2devnull OMG. That would have been a disaster.
He had some of the best lines: "Jennifer, I'm the chips!!"
Then he was in head of the class with kiddie diddler danny boy.
Just heard of Frank Bonner's death.He was a great Herb Tarlek.
Loved this show. When I was a kid I wrote to Howard Hessman and he sent me a autograph picture of him as Dr Johnny Fever. I still have it.😊
Frame it. Awesome!😎
Lucky!
SHANNON, YOU ROCK!
Awesome...got one myself when I met Howard at the Chiller TV/movie convention in 2014. May he RIP! 😔
@@ChuckD79 Yeah I was sad to hear about his passing yesterday. RIP😔
My favorite J.F. line of all time was when he said: "This is WKRP in Cincinnati where we have more music and Les Nesman."
My favourite Les Nessman line was when he had the emergency plan for an attack by communists and instead they got hit by a tornado......"godless....tornadoes".
@@mikearchibald744 "Tornados must really hate mobile homes, they become very......mobile" 😆
My favorite is when they changed formats to Rock n' Roll
My favourite Fever line was, "Don't you get it, it's the phone police!"
When a DJ was just that, a Disk Jockey. No continuous jabbering just great music.
When I lived in Atlanta, GA back in 1996, the local classic rock radio station decided to have a weekend of prog rock music and they played everything from Pink Floyd's Echoes, to Genesis' TLLDOB, The Remembering by Yes, Tarkus by ELP, Tubular Bells, Camel's The Snow Goose, Klaatu, In the Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan, all of 2112 by Rush, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Jon Anderson's Olias of Sunhillow, etc. You name it, they played it from Friday morning until Sunday midnight. I was beside myself! It's a shame that you can't ever hear that kind of freedom on today's radio.
@@johnnyquest6115 96 ROCK!!
T Brackett, sadly ‘96 was the beginning of the end.....I got married
I remember when we had two stations in San Diego with DJ’s that were mostly silent and played full albums. I was working late one night and when the album ended all you could hear for about 20 minutes was silence and the DJ snoring.
AM rock jocks in 1976 were chatty with the mad talk... As Doctor Johnny Feeeeeeevaaa was emulating on the pilot.
Early 70s FM were album players... Thus the niche for Progressive Rock groups 1967 to 1980. By 76 in many markets FM had become a jock talk, record spin situation.
The FM night after 8pm was usually still reserved for whole albums to smoke pot by (or imagine you were).
I remember when that album came out, and you could actually hear these full cuts on FM radio.
Seems like a lifetime ago
FM radio, or AM radio?
FM. KMET!
It was.
They won't do it nowadays for fear of missing out on all that ad revenue.
The DJ would put on something from Tales from Topographic Oceans and then go out to the parking lot and get high for the next 20 minutes.
70s and 80s, greatest time to be alive. It's like a dream now.
Truly. The early 2020s have sucked especially considering almost every current TV show and half the new movies that release nowadays are nothing but woke propaganda
It seems like a dream because today is turning into a nightmare.
It's called memory.
more like a nightmare now... :(
Floyd albums are meant to be listened to in their entirety
Floyd albums weren’t collections of songs, they were movies in audio form.
And lying on the floor, in the dark.
True! They were one of the true pioneers of "concept" albums in pop/rock music.
@@geetarman Back then each station had a program director who determined what could & could not be aired. It was pretty arbitrary all around. And cronyism came into play: e.g. friends of the PD got to play whatever they wanted, etc.
Nowadays a lot of smaller stations have gone to subscribed programming & "on air personalities" via satellite. That eliminates the need for program directors and a whole lot of other personnel that made radio more human back in the day.
The same thing can be said of most bands of mid sixties to mid seventies. Album rock should have made singles and top 40 radio obsolete. Sadly, it didn't.
"Do I hear dogs barking?" "I do."
You have to know Dr. Fever's checkered history to really get that one...
It almost gets lost in the rest of the great jokes but when Carlson says "good aren't they?" I die every time.
Must have been outside.
@@jilphones6662 🤣😅😂🤣😅😂🤣😂😅
There's a problem if you don't.
RIP Howard. He's spinning Floyd at the great gig in the sky.
Very fitting you say that. My words exactly.
This is exactly how a person is supposed to listen to Animals
yep Pink Floyd puts me to sleep too
Well, I like listening to to Animals on acid, but that’s me. 😳
I used to love listening that album floating down the lake in the middle of the night under a full moon
Amen.
I never saw this episode (.....I was working nights back then...)....but was 22 at the time. STILL one of my favorite PF albums. I remember the first time I heard it. Sitting in the dark, with the headphones strapped on....& a big ol' bowl of weed.
Howard Hesseman was a one of a kind actor. That pink floyd episode is legendary. Dr. Johnny fever is telling the " big guy" Gordon jump in heaven to " don't touch that" R.I.P. Howard & Gordon. We will always have WKRP on DVD💿
WKRP is just so darn smart and funny. It is completely watchable today. It would be a brilliant move for Netflix to get the final music legal issues sorted out, remaster it and stream it. I think it would be fantastically popular.
big guy used to be the maytag repair man
@@nuckygulliver9607 Yes, and before him (Gordon Jump), it was another fine character actor named Jesse White.
@@sedawk
I would buy the entire series...Operation Turkey Drop!!
Where do they have it on DVD? I always heard they couldn't get the music rights to do the DVD's.
When I phoned home in the 80s to say I’d gotten a job in FM radio, my 8-y-o sister squealed “Like Dr. Johnny Fever??” “Exactly, “ I said, “Down to the five-o-clock shadow.” So proud to have been one of the few, the proud, the forefront of women rock jocks.
❤️❤️❤️
Lucky you. I hope your life turned out fantastic.
@@mr.robinson1982 I hear Samantha has a full beard now... goes by "Sam."
@@fleatactical7390 LMFAO
how about a date, twin falls idaho
The scene started and I said to myself "don't touch that."
I couldn’t wait!!! I knew it was building to that line. Classic!
I was waiting for the shifting eyes.;;
Pink Floyd - Animals. Every time I heard a song off that album I went back to 1977 in my mind. Until May 2020. I had open heart surgery. I was waiting for my next shot of pain meds and hurting bad. I opened up youtube on Iphone and starting playing this album. Real low with headphones. It brought down my pain level till shot arrived. Now when I hear this album I go back to that hospital room. Not bad really as it is actually relaxing. At that point I didn't worry about bills, oil changes, driving in snowstorm. I just concentrated on music I loved.
Keep living and loving my friend! A good song is like a window in time! It can take you back and evoke a deep sense of love, loss, joy or sadness once you relax and give in to the music!
G-D Bless, my friend.
I had a similar experience listening to Dark Side of the moon in intensive care here in the Alps when I had Covid in December.
@@arcadia1081 Glad you're doing better Jeremy! I just had my 2 year check up and sonogram Friday and everything doing well.
@@J-Colt Hang on a sec. Rereading, I just realized they ripped yer chest open! Way worse than mine. Mine but "Tis but a flesh wound" in comparison! :) Good on you.
I fell off a ladder and broke both of my heels in August. Turned them into maracas and needed major surgery on both heels. I had my son grab my earbuds and my phone charger before the ambulance took me away. Spent the night in agony on an ER gurney while they tried to find a surgeon with the expertise to put my feet back together. This music was the only compensation I had on that painful, frightening, sleepless night. It also helped through months of disability, recovery, and rehab. God bless you guys.
RIP. A dependable, genuine, and steadfast actor, a likable "everyman" in every single thing he did, and you could tell he was even more likeable in real life.
I remember seeing him in "Billy Jack" too.
He was good in an episode of The Rockford Files too.
"Givin'it all I got." Perfect Punchline.
They had their characters NAILED! Howard Hesseman WAS Dr. Johnny Fever! The casting director picked all the right people!
And Dr Johnny fever Was Jim Ladd
Exactly right.
Yes, he was my favorite character. My husband loved Herb. We never missed an episode. 🤣🤣🤣
Ya Baby !
I heard he actually worked as a dj for a few months in order to prepare for the role. Makes sense why he played the part so well.
When I was 8 years old, I actually had a WKRP record player. It came with a microphone so you could pretend you were a DJ. I did a radio show for three weeks before my mother told me that nobody can hear me and it was all make believe. I wish she would've told me that after the first week of my show. Because by then, I hated it. I had fun at first. But then it started to feel more like a job. I didn't want to just quit, but I was burnt out. It's not easy doing a five hour radio show every day when you only have 4 records, and one of them was the soundtrack to Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer.
This is a lovely story, thank you very much . 😁
Awesome
Great story….guess you didn’t grow up to be a DJ…😎
You really did it for 5 hours a day?!!!
So funny...
So good. If radio stations we're actually allowed to play songs like that today, I'd actually listen to them 😉
Agreed! and if WKRP reruns were allowed to play the actual rock n' roll instead of generic overdubs, I'd rewatch it!
So very, very true. I'd tune in too.
They still play Pink Floyd. No they never played long long ones like this thing shows. PS if anyone can tell me what album they had those dogs on it please let me know. I thought I heard all of Pink Floyd's work from the seventies up and I've never heard any dogs in any of their tracks. So if someone could tell me which album has dogs on it please let me know.
@@BondFreek Album is “Animals”, song is “Dogs”. There’s also a song on the “Meddle” album - “Seamus” that has a dog howling in the background.
@@BadHammers1
Animals... Underrated album.
This is how many of the old FM stations first began. Pink Floyd, deep cuts from Deep Purple, Harry Chapin songs/stories that lasted 25 minutes and so many others. I'd listen late at night and do bong hits with the DJs. Oh God it was such a glorious time!!
Don't forget about Dr. Demento.
A great story was Danny Seraphine (from Chicago) "The hairpiece that saved me life."
One of the funniest things I've ever heard. It's up here.
@@billp4 For Sure!!! Dr. Demento was what we listened to when we ate shrooms. The treasure of songs he found were priceless. I remember laughing so hard one show, he played a song that talked about having babies for money..LOL Thank You for bringing that back to the front of my brain Brother!!!
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I have to look that up, that sounds like the sort of comedy I really love. Me and my buddies were die hard Firesign Theater fanatics! I swear we knew every line from the "Further Adventures of Nick Danger"...Just killer funny stuff!!!
Mitch Michaels...
One of the best songs ever written. Timeless masterpiece. Johnny and Venus were the coolest cats ever.
What’s the name of the song. Born 1976 but listened to different jams… gonna spin some Floyd.. 45 years later. #LiveOn🤘🏽
Always loved the moment they first met
Johnny: Venus Flytrap, eh? Been waiting to meet you for years, man! I’m Johnny… [blank stare]
I got to see Roger Waters and his band perform "Dogs" live in 2017 in San Antonio, Texas and they totally rocked it!! The lasers and special effects were incredible!!!
@@azrael5310"Dogs". It's from the album "Animals". I also got to see Roger Waters perform this one live in San Antonio, Texas back in July of 2017. The laser show, lighting and special effects were incredible.
" and when you lose control , you'll reap the harvest you have sown..." Dogs , one of my all-time favorites
“You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to, so that when they turn their back on you, you’ll know get the chance to put the knife in!”
Reflections on some people then and now.
@@ronsamborski6230 Yes. Dogs aren't as "civilized" as sneaky, deceitful humans.
Dragged down by the stone
@@maxpower92 ... The live version is fantastic... Roger Waters In The Flesh on TH-cam... I could listen to it over and over again and never get tired of it...so I do
@@ronsamborski6230 You sir, are a kindred spirit. That has to be my favorite line in the whole song.👏
"Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?" "I do." "Good, aren't they?" Almost as good as the turkey line!
That guitar solo that starts at the end of this clip is the greatest thing ever.
David at his best...
Gorgeous guitar tone.
Just heard Herb passed away. Miss the whole bunch
Herb! RIP you made me laugh.
To this day, I’m my family a loud sports jacket is a ‘Herb Tarlek’
@@axelknutt5065
If you were Canadian it would be a Don Cherry.
Now he can truly ask "What's up Big Guy?".
@@stephenolan5539 Hockey Night in Canada, Hell yeah!
If they tried to make this episode today, the song clip would probably cost them $18,000,000 in licensing fees.
The entire series had issues being re-released for that reason. Only much later did they release the series on DVD and songs like this one, Dogs, had to be dubbed over. It's a travesty if you ask me, but that is the music industry today. If you buy the series Parenthood on DVD, you will not hear the Bob Dylan Opening song, another one is used instead.
Seems like we all watch the same algorithm broadcasts
Waters would probably just say "Fuck you." Ask Zuckerberg.
It's a goddamn shame the lawyerbots have destroyed everything that was once cool.
It's because of Disney fucking up our Copyright Laws just to not let Mickey Mouse go to Public Domain that we can't enjoy such shows as this today w/o getting sued broke.
It's messed up.
One of the best shows ever to come over our TV screens period I love it still ❤😂😂😂😂😂😎👊🤘🤟🤘🤟✌️
That's me when ANY Pink Floyd tune comes on. Laid back lost in thought
I go into a coma
Try the Nile Song.
Hopefully you're not driving while listening to Pink Floyd.
Arnold Lane? Bike?
@@kelle0285 When I listen to Pink Floyd while driving, it is actually an effort to remember to drive fast enough to not be a road hazard.
If I listen to Iron Maiden, the problem is remembering not to go too fast.
Didn't check every comment, but Gordon Jump as station manager isn't getting any love. He played the befuddled buffoon so well on this show and elsewhere.
I thought he was great as well and despite everything he really did take care of his people
I met him many, many years ago when I worked at the Holiday Inn just outside of Decatur, IL. Really nice guy and he seemed surprised that I recognized him.
Gordon Jump was a worthy product of his time & can never be replaced😭.
As Arthur Carson, he did what he could for WKRP despite the odds & the station was never better for it.
Reminds me of one of the station managers I worked for and yes his mother did own the radio station
When I first saw the Farmers Insurance commercials, I thought that was Howard Hessman. They don't really look much alike, though.
No matter how many times I watch WKRP it never gets old.
Back in 1978, Steely Dan produced a song called "FM" that totally captured the impact of the rise of FM radio over AM. "No static at all" was the hook, as it was with the technology. AM was subject to electrical disturbances like car engines and lightning, even if miles away. FM got rid of all that, and could deliver stereo as well.
I suspect WKRP was supposed to an be an AM station, but it's spirit is pure FM: playing long album sides as in this episode) and focusing on album-oriented playlists (the AOL) format. When I was in college in the mid-to-late 1970s, it was common for FM stations late at night to play entire albums like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon", the joke being that allowed the DJ to hit the restroom or go out for a smoke.
Them wuz the days.
YUP! And FM isn't just a song by Steely Dan, it's the title track of the soundtrack for the movie FM, which I've often wondered is what inspired WKRP. Not a great movie but fun to watch if you're into this sort of thing, the soundtrack can be had on vinyl but the movie itself is hard to find but from time to time you can find a DVD on Amazon for sale at a painfully big price that I suspect is not legitimate but a well made and packaged bootleg. As some mentioned, I suspect it's not commonly available both because it just wasn't that popular but also featured a LOT of familiar songs including entire songs done live by Jimmy Buffet and Linda Ronstadt. Bit of trivia, this movie is the first one that used Queen's We Will Rock You. At least the movie trailer is here on youtube, and umm if you're of a certain age a lot of these actors will look familiar! th-cam.com/video/Acsa4s5n5Tg/w-d-xo.html Enjoy! :)
Oh, one other thing, I was just a teenager but I remember watching WKRP when this episode was first run and falling out of my chair laughing when Howard Hesseman said "I do"!
@@terrybeavan4264 good, aren't they?
*vocal silence*
@@terrybeavan4264 The producers of the movie included a lice performance with Linda Ronstadt using the fictitious FM Station "QSKY" and on stage with her was one of the greatest session guitarists of our time Waddy Wachtel. They were fabulous!!! It was a simple but GREAT MOVIE!!!
Or the Live Version of "Dazed and Confused" from TSRTS!
God Bless Gordon Jump, he was hysterical,....
" I thought turkeys could fly"
Help me Andy I’m hooked, I’ve got a monkey on my foot,....
@@randy.3771 That was screaming funny!
@@timhoovermusicman I loved him playing in his office like a big kid. That killed me every time.
For anyone wondering, the song is "Dogs" from the album Animals. The track is 17 minutes long! No wonder Johnny is in a trance.
I got to see Roger Waters and his band perform this masterpiece live in July 2017 in San Antonio, TX. It was fantastic!!!
@@jenniferfelan694
The US & THEM Tour 😎👍
Rock DJs would play that track and few others as long when they needed to get a nicotine hit, go to the toilet or perhaps “meet” a fan…
"American Pie" is one of those DJ break songs.
... You oughta hear Brian Eno, Thursday Afternoon, or Themes From Vapourspace! Both these album/CDs are just one long cut! Smoke 'em if you got 'em! 😉🤩🖖
"Animals" great album.
It is a shelter from pigs on the wing.
Dogs is their highest achievement imho
Pigs (3 different ones) - absolute brilliance. The keyboard intro that rotates around inside your skull, followed by the guitar riffs, then joined by the bass - quintessential acid rock!
@@toddg3268 Also Roger Waters screaming is perfection.
My favorite Floyd.
Dogs, all 17+ minutes of it. That was a perfect song for a DJ to play if they had to go to the bathroom or just wanted a quick nap 😂
Echoes is 22, I think.
From on air experience, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida and McArthur Park also were go to cuts when nature called before automation...
Pink Floyd - Animals - turned out as one of the best, if not the best, of their considerable works. It's a brilliant album.
When I first got into Floyd, I liked Wish You Were Here. Now, Animals is by far one of my all-time favourite albums. Dogs (and Comfortably Numb) are two top rock songs by any artist
"Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?" And Johnny says "I do". I don't know why but that just cracks me up. Johnny's delivery, Voice, Mr Carlson? I don't know. But it makes me laugh every time.
They're good
I know.
I don't know what is so funny BUT me too: I can't help to laugh and to repeat that scene over and over again
Ikr 😂
Johnny Fever and Venus Flytrap drinking to see the affects. Johnny couldn't hit the side of a barn straight and Venus hits the floor drunk. Loved watching this show when it was on. Guess I'm getting old
I just saw ... a giant ... PIG ... painting the lobby..
You and me both.
The chemistry between those two actors was great.You could tell they were having a blast in their scenes.
And Johnny got faster the more he drank while the 'state administrator' trying to prove why you shouldn't drink and drive just got madder and madder as Johnny got faster and faster the more drunk he was.
RIP Johnny Fever! What a comic talent Howard Hessman was. And of course the Floyd is legendary.
The man didn't play the playlist and didn't take requests. Legend. Rip Dr. Fever🙏🏽🥃🤝🏾
RIP Frank Bonner..AKA Herb Tarlek... You did a great job...Thanks.
Johnny Fever's eyes following Arthur is so priceless. I just love this clip so much.
Wanna feel old? Howard Hessman (the actor who played Johnny Fever) is 81 years old now :(
Bill Boehm Thanks a lot. And I'll bet he's had a lot more fun than either you or me.
He also showed up from time to time on The Bob Newhart Show. Okay, now I do feel old :(
Har...I am 81 and I feel old.......
@Andrew Lloyd Wubba They're gonna send the phone cops after you!
I don't need any help. But thanks!
One of the greatest scenes from a great show. R.I.P. Herb.
I definitely remember when radio stations played music like this and by choice. It was great. Back in the 70s and 80s, even the 90s. The time of real music that had meaning by people with talent. I'm not sure what went wrong with today's music or maybe I'm just getting old but... And this show is a classic. The characters were perfectly honed and played well. Again, we no longer see good TV like this either.
You have the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to thank for that. Previously, there were limits on how many radio stations a company could own, and not more than one in the same market. Clear Channel went from 40 stations to over 1,200 by 2002. Stations used to be locally owned, and have a pulse on the local music scene. They could experiment, and play what fans liked. Now there is one music director sitting in an office who decides what everybody listens to, and those decisions are made by whatever label pays the most for promotion.
WHAT WENT WRONG !!!!!?
WALMART IS WHAT WENT WRONG !!!! Walmart ran a lot of small mom and pop places out of business. Well radio stations relied on local businesses for advertising. With out local advertising small radio stations got bought up by big media. Big media flooded the airwaves with syndicated radio shows. Now the radio stations don't even have DJs they're automated. Or they're broadcasting syndicated programs. WALMART IS THE F@#ING PROBLEM MAN !!!! and have you ever heard a radio spot for WALMART ???? NO !!!!!!
@@introverdant wrote "Most of the pop music hits now are written by two people." That is completely false.
@@texaswunderkind Yup in Boston we had WAAF and WBCN and they would play tons of local bands on the radio and some of them got big. Now you just hear the same few songs over and over again, you never hear deep cuts anymore.
@@davelangeralso those stations are gone too.
We need a WKRP for today.
Nothing but rock.
All rock all day.
And deep cut rock, not Stairway to Heaven, Radar Love and Walk This Way over and over again.
The best line ever was delivered on this show by Lonnie Anderson.
Herb: 'grab a little gusto!'
Lonnie: 'I don't grab little gustos, Herb...'
Outstanding.
Yes, that was an outstanding put down. 😂
I prefer the line by a drunken Venus “ Howdy white folks!!!”
Yes: the last time this being the case was in the summer of 1979, when I was in 4th Grade. Called a pop station request line, which just got through playing Earth Wind and Fire, Molly Hatchet, Parliament, ELO, Ohio Players, Styx, Pink Floyd and Olivia-Newton John while I was on hold . When I finally broke through, in the enthusiasm of shock actually getting through, I had hyperventilated my request: "Killer Queen' by Queen...Twas the beautiful days before 'format radio'
This is when DJ's actually spun records instead of electronic playlists. I miss those days!
Yep, thank the Murdoch/Clear Channel/FCC types for destroying freedom of the airwaves.
Yeah, um, no, its not. This is not when DJ's spun records.
They were all using tapes by this time. The show got it wrong.
@@Shorty_Lickens I think it just goes to show just how underfunded the Station was that they still had to use vinyl records to broadcast music. Remember, Les Nessman doesn’t have a door, or walls, for his office. So, it’s not that the show “got it wrong” but more “this is all the Station has to work with”.
@@peterkrochmalni673 if that were true they should have told the audience other stations were using tapes. As you just pointed out, they made a big deal about informing the audience of all the other failures at the station, didnt they?
@@Shorty_Lickens You are incorrect. Our local contemporary (nowadays "classic legends" type) country music station DJs spun records during that era. I was in the studio at least once and saw them. Plus they talked about doing it. And the needles would jump a groove or get stuck sometimes.
And much more recently...perhaps ~8 years ago, I was driving through, I think, Knoxville, and there was a man and woman who were playing some old time music perhaps bluegrass or something along those lines, or southern gospel perhaps, and they were playing records.
I remember that they started getting fascinated by, and talking absentmindedly to each other about a fly that was buzzing around the studio and landing on things, and then landed on the record they were spinning, and just started riding around in circles. And they started commenting, sort of low key, on its trip around the turntable, and speculating on whether it was enjoying its trip, or was going to get off at some point. It was charming and unintentionally humorous. I loved it. I could have listened to those two play that record, and narrate the passenger flys perambulations across the surface of the record and simultaneous its trip around in a pointless circle for the next 20 minutes without getting bored. Unfortunately, it was over in what seemed like a minute or two.
I've traveled around a lot over the past ~30 years, and while I can't always tell, I have certainly heard quite a few DJs, particularly of lower power and rural stations spinning records.
Johnny's working so hard, he'll have to put on another song about 17 minutes after he started that one.
Oh but the music was good!
No worries there. Echoes has him covered.
Arlo Gutherie's Alice's Restaurant - 17 minutes, Iron Butterflie's In na gadda davida - 22 minutes or so, really long playing songs back then. Now you have Music Videos and no talent jumping up and down.
DJs would put these long songs on when they had to go to bathroom!!
He'll put on Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida and nap for another 20 minutes.
Great song, great show, great character. RIP Johnny fever.
Memories of moving my head around with the record trying to read the label. Forgot about that!
AC: Do I hear dogs barking on that thing ?
JF: I do.
Hilarious!
Lol ikr 🤣
Loved WKRP as a kid, even more now! R.I.P. The Big Guy, Johnny Fever, Herb, miss you guys!
I loved that show, back then I had a friend who was a DJ and it was great doing the Midnight to Dawn slots with him. Pink FLoyd, Lead Zeppelin,Janice, …back when MUSIC was music ,there were lyrics, meaning, rhythm .
Whenever I start feeling superior about how badly today's music sucks I think of "Louie Louie". It grounds me in reality...lol
@@yoopernow My standard bit is to tell people to go look up the top 100 for this week but in {year they think music was "still good"}, and see how many songs they even recognize, much less consider good.
(Consider: The song that knocked "These Boots are Made for Walkin'" out of #1 was "The Ballad of the Green Berets".)
@@chakatfirepaw "Fighting soldiers, from the sky", lol
Music is still music, but taste and style does change for sure... #AlwaysBeListening
You aren't listening to modern music. You're just repeating what your parents and grandparents said about yours after noticing a track or two that doesn't fit your limited definition of how music should sound. If you honestly listen to any three out of this list, you will realize how wrong you are: John Legend, Hozier, Ben Folds, Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Alicia Keys, Lana del Ray, and Jane Siberry.
Best holiday episode of any series was the WKRP Thanksgiving episode with the first ever Turkey Drop "Who knew turkeys couldn't fly?"
RIP Johnny Fever... loved you Howard ♥ 🙏
I wish they would play the re-runs of WKRP in Cincinnati again.
One of my favourite shows back in the day. LOL
Sorry to hear of your passing, Howard. You and Gordon and the rest of the amazing cast gave the show heart as well as being incredibly funny. It's one of the great series that will never get old.
Such a good show. Perfectly cast.
I loved watching this show on TV when I was a kid.
Thanks for bringing a smile to my face this morning. (The coffee hasn't kicked in yet, so that's quite an accomplishment.) "WKRP in Cincinnati" was one of the best sitcoms ever produced.
Hahahaha. Music to zone out on. Johnny was always right on the mark. Loved that show. Still listening to Pink Floyd today. 30+ yrs later.
I discovered this album because of this scene and it's still my favorite Floyd album.
My favorite Floyd. Gilmour's best guitar work......
I just watched this WKRP in Cincinnati clip from 1970. I was 15 or 16. I'm totally flipping out of my freakin mind! I don't remember that song played on this show! I discovered Pink Floyd's - Animals on
a you tube reaction channel in 2021. OM Freakin Goodness. The album is a masterpiece. ❤️❤️😎 R.I. P. actor Howard Hessman aka Dr. Johnny Fever.
Who remembers this debate: Jan Smithers as Bailey Quarters was way hotter than Loni Anderson as Jennifer Marlowe?
There was ever a debate? No brainer....Jan Smithers, goddess!
Bailey all daily!!!
Finally, the truth is told...
😉
(Same way with "Too Close for Comfort")
Yup Jan Smothers was/is way hotter than snooty Loni.
@@asmith7876 You don’t have to pretend anymore. It’s 2021 and nobody will be put off by your sexuality. Hell it’s pride month. But if you are going to pretend to be straight the only answer is Loni.
I don't care what anyone says, this was the best/funniest damn scene ever aired on network television. RIP Gordon Jump.
He was the coolest person on t.v. way back when
Still one of the coolest in TV history
@@xg6hpyk It was a tie between him & Venus Flytrap. I'm glad they got along.
@@celestepalm6949 Yeah, I was gonna say that Venus gave him some competition.
Nahhh the actual coolest was Balki Bartokomous
Don't forget Chris "In The Morning" Stevens on KBHR out of Cicely, AK...
One of the best Pink Floyd songs ever recorded.
Animals is that album to just sit back and veg to. Don't even need to be high.
True... but a blunt doesn't hurt...
Not necessary, however recommend and helpful...
Wasn't universally acclaimed when it came out. It took forever and barely charted. Dsotm was still in the charts. The division bell did even worse than Animals.
@@Ducati_Dude or purple microdot
But if you are, it sure doesn't hurt! :)
One of the best floyd tunes. Love it
I would live to have a boss like Mr. Carlson he would not even know what is going on that is a funny line Do I hear dogs barking? "I do".
It's April 2024 still funny
One of the best TV shows ever
Sadly, WKRP reruns and compilations are held up by the relicensing rights to the exact music they played and promoted in the episodes. An absolute tragedy since it is one of the greatest shows of all time.
You gotta admire how the CBS show worked in all of the Columbia product at the time including Pink Floyd's "Animals" as you heard here on this clip.
Apparently it’s the same issue with The Wonder Years, which also featured lots of great music.
Yes. Unfortunately thanks in large part to the DMCA many shows like WKRP, if they're in syndication at all have the original hit songs replaced by generic copyright-free music. And to Howard Hesseman, thanks for the memories. We'll miss you.
@@paulcalder2792 I think TWY got a pretty much full music release from Time Warner a few years ago. It might be worth looking up.
Check out Shout Factory’s complete DVD set of WKRP. They were able to secure the rights to 80+% of the original music, which is better than anyone could hope for in today’s legal environment. Dogs isn’t one of them, unfortunately
That show was hilarious!!!!
Totally. I loved the scene where Les meets Jennifer's boyfriend "Steel". Steel introduces himself to Les, while mentioning that a man's name "Says something about him". Poor Les.
Perfect Strangers is the most hilarious show ever
What a great show. I miss those days...I was a kid....now I think I'm as old as Mr Carlson. Comedy gold.
2 great actors on one of the best shows of all time.
"I don't play the hits - I make the hits!" - Johnny Fever
LOL Very profound!!! It is TRUE!!!!! :O
Quite possibly the coolest musical track to ever be played on television.
This scene is one of Dr Johnny Fever's most iconic. R. I. P. Doctor.
I lived in Ohio and my sister had moved to California. I called her every night at 11:30 and we would watch WKRP together. Until my mom got the phone bill. A month later my sister figured out that the laundry room in her apt complex had a phone then she called me at least once a week until they put a lock on that phone. lol
Some years more recently I was visiting my great grandparents and called home to check on things. Modern cell phone with an unlimited plan in North America. They were SO freaked out because I was calling LONG DISTANCE and I needed to keep it short because they thought it was going to cost a fortune. I think at the time I had a VoIP phone at home and the entire world was a local call for me.
Howard Hessman, RIP 1-29-22 Thanks for the laughs, Johnny.
I swear my phone is listening to me. Last night I had a conversation with my friends in person and we were talking about how great a show wkrp was. I've never looked anything up about it and this morning the algorithm just happens to have this at the top of my suggested list. Creepy.
After watching the movie "The Producers" a few years back, one of the staff where I worked asked me if Gene Wilder was still alive. I googled it. He was. The next morning, we heard that he had died. We felt guilty. 😊
This show rocked.
I'll never forget Les Nessman and Chi chi rodrigweez. Loved this show. 😂😂
I especially loved the news report he did on chihuahuas... pronounced: chee hoo-a hoo-as. Thanks to Les I learned how to spell it phonetically.
Animals. Dogs. My first drink of Pink. I know every note. Thank you Pink, from the bottom of my heart and soul!
My two dogs love the song......They always bark when they hear the dogs on the album, haha. The funny part is that they go to the window looking for said "intruders" to their territory.
Play Seamus for them from Meddle
I do this when I set up my PA system at a local dog beach just to observe.🐕
THAT'S fidelity!
This show was the best! I own the DVD box set. One of the cool things about WKRP was they used modern music as part of the show giving the station a real feel. The producers were clever to get a snip of classic music at cheap a price. The Pink Floyd album Jonny's playing is Animals. It is genus.
Things of quality have no fear of time.
I’ve never seen this before but I could not love it more.
Same here. HUGE Pink Floyd fan. It would cost thousands to use any of their music today.
One of my favorites, Johnny is playing the Grateful Dead. The owner pops in and demands that he play something that people can dance to.
That always cracked me up.
"Ooo ... is that Pink Floyd?" LOL! As if he had ever heard of them.
WKRP was a brilliant little show.
This show made me want to get into broadcasting...
4 years into College for Radio TV & Film made me realize I hated Radio & TV and just wanted to shoot documentaries. Ultimately I found just recording Live Music and Nature Videos was all that mattered to me and was way easier & more satisfying!