Bottomless Pit #286-"Rich Conaty Tribute: All-Brit Edition" (Oct. 1, 2017)
One of the last Bottomless Pit shows. Once the show switched to Sunday nights, I was then occupying part of what had been, for 30+ years, Rich Conaty’s time slot. His show, “The Big Broadcast” was a NY radio institution; he was a fanatic for, and authority on, early Jazz, and the Popular Music of the 1920s and 30s. His show was amazing, and he was a great guy.
After he was gone, every three, four, or five weeks I would pay tribute to him, and to the era of music that he always explored so brilliantly. This show is an “all-Brit Edition”, featuring Ray Noble, George Formby, Vera Lynn, Ambrose and His Orchestra, et.al, plus we sneak back over to the US to hear The Mills Brothers, and The Boswell Sisters, Rich’s two favorite vocal groups, and two of mine.
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I did a one-hour radio show on New York’s WFUV from 2011-18, every Saturday night (until it got switched to Sunday nights during late 2017). But the show originally started on WKZE in the Hudson Valley during 2005-6; then I brought it back at the station’s request during 2010. (RIP, station owner Will Stanley.)
I always loved doing the show and was proud of it. It was “a weekly roundup of items from my personal record collection”- a large percentage of the records that got played over the years were things that I had some kind of longstanding emotional connection with, but I also played lots of things that I happened to be discovering during the moment at hand.
It’s nice to be able to say that nobody at either station ever said a negative word to me about what I was playing, or suggested what I should be playing, etc., so the show was pure self-expression for me.
I eventually had to pull the plug on the whole thing for various reasons at the end of 2017, but thanks to a suggestion from webmaster Franklin Odel, I’ll be posting reruns of the show here on YouTube! Watch this space!..
MC
