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WGN Radio
"lou mitchell" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Ray I'm Robert James that is Nick noble, Chicago's own indeed the tip of my fingers that and moonlight swim we're probably the Bible tells me so that was big on wing. And later, you might not remember him from 1955, but later he owned Lou Mitchell's in downtown Chicago, the restaurant. So there died, wow, about 13 years ago now, 85 years old. So it would have been march 24th, 2012 that he died, so yeah, I guess he'd be what, like 96 now. All right, so 8 8 8 7 6 5 5 9 three is 88, 88. Paul is an Iroquois county. What's going on, Paul? Hey, I have two questions for you. There are some popular songs that have used classical music in them. Yeah One is help us Presley tune that he did in GI blues called tonight is the right for love. And it used a tune from tales of Hoffman and also build the line by Eric Burdon and the animals from peer used peer gynt. Can you think of any other is that might have used classical music? There's a bunch of them. Of course, Bohemian Rhapsody queen comes to mind immediately. But Billy Joel, this night that was based on some Beethoven thing, Lady Gaga did something I think the intro of Alejandro is the same as some Monty thing. You know, Eric Carmen all by myself, oh God, horrible song. That's rockman and off. And piano concerto number two in C minor. You know, see, I know some of these because I'm almost guaranteed if they're based on classical I'm going to hate them. Maroon 5 memories that was classical based. Of course, clean bandit. You know it's a classical basis because the name of the song was art's house, what is here I had you thought I had you stumped. But Elvis Presley, you mentioned Ellis Presley and remember it's now or never was also a meal. So that's true. Also, yes. You're going to get that. White stripes did 7 nation army and there was a bruckner, not a fan of any of this, but there's a lot of it, take that, did never forget, even muse did a plugin baby, which was basically Bach. All right, this is arguable, but Barry Manilow could have been magic. What about that? Chopin, prelude, and C minor number 20. So you have to listen to that and you'll hear it. So yeah, there's a lot of them. I mean, even Robbie Williams party like a Russian. That stands for the night. And now how about how about John Denver? How about Annie's song? Is that tchaikovsky number 5? You know, and then of course when The Beatles did because, was that moonlight sonata, you know, now I never made the connection but Phil Collins version of a groovy kind of love was based on sonatina and G minor. So I don't know. You know, but you can go on and on and on. Something was based on fur Elise next I can. And that was kind of hip hop. And then fur Elise is Beethoven, obviously. So I hesitate to even admit I know that. So there's a bunch of them. But I'm sure that list is sure that list is not even close to everything. But I absolutely always think of Bohemian Rhapsody. Where can you go other than that? That's true. That's true. My second question is. There are people who send demo records to popular artists to consider for a song have any demo artists made it big. Well, yeah. Doris Troy just one look was a demo as far as echo. I mean, sometimes the demo is what gets released. So yeah, there's a lot of people. I mean, how many demos did Dion Warwick sing on for God's sakes? There's a ton of that. But it's interesting when they release the demo itself rather than getting someone else to do it. And how do demo artists make money if they strictly send demo songs to Argus? Well, no, demo artists are usually paid. And when you're talking about a demo, what that is, some songwriter is paying for that demo because what he's trying to do is not get it, not get a plate on radio stations. He's trying to get it placed with a big act. So, you know, you want Elvis Presley to record your song, you get, of course, that's a bad example because colonel Parker is going to stop that probably fairly quickly or get a big hand in it. But nonetheless, you go ahead and pay somebody to do a demo so you can send it to the artists that you want to record it. I think of all this Blackwell demo records too. Well, yeah, but see Otis Blackwell was in huge, huge writer. So he wasn't like a demo singer. He was Otis Blackwell, my God. You're talking about royalty now. I mean, you know, everything from fever, you know, a little bit of John to all the great balls of fire or don't be cruel or handyman. I mean, these are all Otis Blackwell. You know, he was, he was huge. The first thing he released actually was his own composition, daddy Rolling Stone, which I always, I was like that when it was recorded by Derek Martin, but it became a favorite in Jamaica long before Derek Martin found out about it. But in 56, of course, when he had fever, which became even bigger when Peggy Lee covered it, and then of course, arguably, when Elvis recorded, don't be cruel, that was that was the real money ding ding ding. But he never never had any of his own records really become big hits, but he didn't need to. And so, you know, that that was the deal. He might do a demo of a song. He's trying to get, say, Elvis to record it. That's his goal. He's not trying to get radio station to play it. I guess my last question is, you promote sea crane radios. Yeah. And but I grew up during the 50s when there was a lot of music on a.m. radio. And now it's all talk shows and political pundits and what is there that one would want to buy a name radio to well, it depends, for instance, my talk I've got an a.m. radio station that plays nothing but obscure R&B oldies. There's no talk on that. Other than me saying, you know, none of the hips all the time. So, you know, but of course, you've got to be near the signal, which not many people are. Some cattle. But there are still weird little pockets of a.m. that you'd want to listen to. So I mean, look at WGN. You're listening to a.m. right now. And that's a major radio station. John Williams occasionally has plays all songs. Well, even if radio, well, sure a Nashville, they're still covering the grand old opry as well they should. But I think there's a number of stations you might want to hear. There's also a Toronto station. All right, right. Yeah, that's a nice signal that you hear a lot of Canadian songs that we have an experience. Well, yeah, and you know why you hear them. Can con. They are forced by the CRTC to play a percentage of only can con. And what and can con is a loose definition. It doesn't have to be a Canadian artist. It doesn't have to be a Canadian writer. It can be either of those. It can be a song that's recorded in Canada, the label can be Canadian based. I mean, so it's not just real type, but right now what's going on in the CRTC I was talking about this on the air a week or so ago is the indigenous people, the first nation of Canada have petitioned the CRTC to have a mandated percentage of first nation artists on every Canada station. And I thought to myself, after Buffy saint Marie, where do you go from there? So, you know, I don't know what will happen there, but sure, you do hear a lot of canned arguably last song by Edward Baird would never have been nearly as big if CKO W didn't need a certain amount of can con. So yeah. Well, thank you very much, trolley. I'm glad you called. I hope you will again. I'm glad you talked about it. Okay, thanks, Paul. All right, so 8 8 8 8 7 6 5 5 9 three 8 8 8 8 on WGN radio
The Wise Fool
"lou mitchell" Discussed on The Wise Fool
"So having that time to reflect actually i find to be very beneficial because it makes it so the next time i do some conversations that i i have integrated that in the previous information better so that i can then say okay. I learned this thing. So now what's what. Can i learn on top of that thing absolutely but in terms of i can expect that next week there's gonna do to episodes therefore i'm gonna look and see what those episodes are and i think it's kind of the same thing with social media. Well no i got to step up. You don't have to think it's gonna kill ya not to do it and you've also got a wanna do it or have a good reason to alike. It's important. yeah. It's really interesting. Because i find that that there is zero correlation between my activity on social media and the amount of listeners. I get in any given day like there are days where i will. I will post two stories and a thing on instagram and thing on facebook. And i'll have no marketable difference in the amount of people listening and then one day i will like i and then i won't do anything on any social media for like three or four days and suddenly they'll be thousands of lizards like for no reason. So you had lou mitchell on your show recently and i follow him on social media so i saw that he was on the show. Did you happen to follow any of his posts and zanny correlations between the us and his posts. I'm just wondering from the perspective of having the guest. Yeah i i. I i every now and then i'll be like okay. You know what i need to do. I need to get somebody who has lots of followers on instagram. And then i can talk with them. And then when i posted an instagram than they. They'll reposted on there so they'll put it in their stories and that will then drop nope no marketable increase. It's really surprising. I just don't get it. I feel like i feel like like the early adopters the the system the algorithm. The whatever was really clear and obvious sort of how you could connect with people. And how could you use hashtags and how you can tag people in late and people really were sort of engaging in that way and i don't feel like it's as the maybe it's the algorithm. That's changing the algorithm stunned. But they're not as sort of like. Hey i like blue mitchell. And he's on this podcast. I probably would like this podcast. And so then they listened like i. It just doesn't come out that way. And i don't know why and it's it's kinda forever changing as as well. I mean you hear about on facebook. Maybe just for whatever algorithm reason they stopped showing me your poster or vice versa. So i'm i'm not an expert on the subject but i was looking to you as an expert. you're not going to say. Consistency and engagement is is where i found the most success fair enough all right so to wrap this up. I have two questions. One's a new one. So if you've listened. You haven't heard this before. I would like to know three artists that you admire and or believed as should should be getting more recognition and why so the first artist. I'm gonna mention is edward bateman and he somebody. We just started working with this year. And he's a professor in salt lake city
WGN Radio
"lou mitchell" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Given that it'll take at least a mile to stop that train. That's 18 football fields. It's no every day. People are injured or killed. Trying to beat a train at rail crossings. See tracks. Think train. This message brought to you by Operation Lifesaver. Interest in traveling sometimes soon or you're thinking about booking a trip a couple of interesting articles in the Wall Street Journal I saw over the weekend. One of them had a couple of Chicago mentions, which I thought was cool. They talk about road trips Road trip, take a road trip that might be one way to do it. Chicago to Los Angeles route. Any list of cross country trip should include route 66 countries. Mother Row between the Midwest in California before the Interstate state highway system course. It starts right over there by Lou Mitchell's So it's kind of cool. They pointed out that New York to Seattle this route includes urban layovers in Cleveland, the visit to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Chicago for its deep dish pizza. Locals like delivery from bloom on at ease and stopped by Lake Michigan. So cool to see they're recommending those. But here's the thing I want to guess. CBS travel editor CBS News Travel editor Peter Greenberg about where in the world can I travel Right now? The restrictions couldn't be more complicated. And it's like good stuff to know Even if you're planning a little ways out, So Peter's with us now, how you doing, Peter? I'm hanging in there. Well, I don't think I'm a thin slice Pizza guy. So sorry about the deep disguise. You're from New York. That right? So then you would be right. Am I am? Yeah. I think you just stand up status, but But the answer to your question is you're right. It is complicated. But not all that confusing there about 60, different locations around the around the world. And, of course, many within the United States. There are open to us now. They do have requirements and restrictions. The only thing I have to warn people about is in many cases, those restrictions changed by the day. It's a very fluid situation, as you know. We've just gone into one restriction that just went into effect last week requiring anybody returning to the United States from overseas they have to, you know, show a negative Tobin 19 tests. Within 72 hours of their departure time, But now there is some consideration of the Biden administration hasn't happened yet, but they're thinking about it doing that on airplane flights within the U. S. Starting in about three weeks now. It hasn't happened yet, but it's on the table. That's interesting. So within about three weeks, it's possible we would need a cove it negative test just to fly because that's not required right now. There's no test like that at all in for it, domestic not would not within the 48 cut known United States. Obviously it is required if you're going to Hawaii. Hey, Speaking of Hawaii, let's let's talk about that, because that's on the top list of the top 10 of where people want to travel that trip Advisor list came out. They look where people were searching for now travel for future travel. And that was like three out of four of the top 10 or where people in the United States are looking. And I saw here, Peter, maybe you could help us with this, that the Airbnb s and the short term the tension, vacation rentals. Have been there in short supply. And I just wondered about that. Is there an issue with booking a place to stay? When you go to Hawaii? Well, they are in short supply in certain destinations. But in particular Hawaii, it's always been on the top list. People always want to go to Hawaii. Now. They all want to go in the same time. And it's not just looking 330 days out there looking for President's Day weekend coming up and Easter break hotels have been operating in about 18% occupancy. Taking go a size 40 or 45. That's what they're hoping to do, and they should still practice great social distancing there. But keep in mind that as those occupancy levels go up, so do the rates. So be aware of the fact that what you know what may have been a bargain two weeks ago. Well may not be a bargain two months in that Yeah, that's that's true. You got to keep an eye on that, really, because people like and get very expensive. He's got to figure out the right time to travel there. And I guess now is no different, You know? Hey, there's there's also this thing that we were if people want to book a trip to London, far out or international travel far out. Are you able to get good deals right now? If you say Hey, I'm probably gonna comfortable by November or December. Traveling. Can you? Can you work it to get good deals? Well in any situation, and in any year if you book that far out the answer's no. Because the airline's computers aren't set up to actually project the man's in a in a reasonable way that they could not adjust prices. I'll give you the idea if you wanted to go right now to Istanbul. Your round trip fare. It's not that $500 this time Last year, the ranch of Paris 1400. So that's a huge savings. A metal probably stay through June, but anything after 2 to 3 months from now You should not be booking it unless you can actually find a great deal. I have not found many great deals beyond three months from now to the airlines are basically you know, keeping their powder dry and and waiting for to see if it's the demand, you know, start to surface. Yeah, It's so unpredictable, though, because I know I have a family in London. I have a friend who I grew up with in Chicago. She lives in Paris now and they both. Tell me of these lockdowns. They have 56 o'clock at night. You can't leave your house and that includes if you decide to go visit there. It's bye Bye. Good night. Um, you can't go out and I don't know when that will be lifted. I suppose it's hard to predict. Well, it will be lifted when the cases go down in the hospitalizations go down as in every other community in Turkey right now, and I'm planning to go there in about a week and a half to do one of my television shows. There's a curfew in place from 10 P.m. to 6 A.m. and on the weekends. It's all shut down. Unless you have a U. S fast for the reform passed work, but for the locals, they can't go anywhere and they can't do anything. So you need to put that into perspective. If you want to go somewhere now I'm going here for work. I'm not going there for vacation. Yeah. I just mean booking if you even want to go three months out, How do you know by then that it'll be lifted You really There's no way to know that, you know. Yeah, but here's the good news. Here's the good news if you're booking on a U. S carrier On. By the way, you might want to do that three months out, then you can roll the dice because they've gotten rid of those draconian ticket change fees so that if you have to change or cancel, you're not going to lose your money on the ticket change feet, but in many cases is more expensive than the ticket itself. So, yes, you can roll the dice right now where you could not have done that a year ago..