As I head off to KRTH 101 to play the greatest music on earth from 7-midnight I thought I'd give you a behind-the-scenes look of what the control room looks like.
First, this is what a typical radio studio control board used to look like.
And this is the board I'll be working on at KRTH.
You can hear KRTH 101 here on the net. Hopefully I won't push the wrong button and blow the station up. What'll we do with all those unused JERSEY BOYS tickets?Thanks for listening... if you do.
I plan to...even if it means staying up until 3AM here on the Right Coast.
ReplyDelete(I also let Ricky and the folks at the Repository know)
Got my tickets for a July show but I'd love opening night tickets.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in high school I won the complete Four Seasons collection from KRTH.
I showed up to collect my records and much to my suprise they gave me three stinking records (records I already had).
They explained they actually meant the records that were currently in print.
Sometimes having a lawyer in the family is a good thing.
They gave me one week to find every record i could and they went out and bought them :)
Too bad you can't even hear the Seasons on KRTH anymore
elaine
What Ken should be offering is tickets to HAIRSPRAY...I just heard at another website that Beaver Cleaver the First, Jerry Mathers, will be taking over the role of Edna Turnblad in the Broadway production next month.
ReplyDeleteI listened to you on KRTH. You sounded great. It's been a long time. For some reason I had an uncontrollable urge to read some news.
ReplyDeleteRay
Cool. I just heard your voice and you said your name, so I know it's you. I'm listening through the website in SF.
ReplyDeleteI went to high school in LA and liked K-earth back then. Sounds the same... 20 years later.
Just tuned in after watching the Nats game (thanks to two rain delays, it ended later than the Coast games -- but Zimmerman hit a walk-off grand slam, so who's complaining?), and you sound great, as does the station. Just as WCBS-FM tried to evoke WABC in its oldies heyday, K-EARTH sounds like "son of KHJ."
ReplyDeleteReminds me of my first trip to L.A., in 1989. I get in my hotel room, flip my portable on to KLAC, then an oldies station, and it's playing Lesley Gore's last hit, the great "California Nights." You folks really buy into the myth out there...
Just heard your reference to K-EARTH's "Shotgun" Tom Kelly and the Reagan cabinet...is this the same Tom Kelly who worked on WBIG in Washington when it was oldies?
ReplyDeleteKen,
ReplyDeleteListening here in Seattle and you still crack me up. Your jokes have real wit and you sell them with conviction. Fun to hear how you sounded in your DJ days. Listening online, aftering giving up on the M's game after Miguel Batista gave up 7 runs to the Yankees. Still miss you on M's broadcasts.
Frank
hey, I didn't hear you play any Brian Wilson records! He's a Hometown Hero. But I didn't listen all night.
ReplyDeleteOK, you just redeemed yourself! Surfin' USA. Thanks, now it sounds like LA.
ReplyDeleteI caught your last hour and flashed back to my cruisin' days in my red '75 Monte Carlo with The Last Train to Clarksville cranking on my a.m. radio. Good times…
ReplyDelete…hey hey L.A. this is Ken Levine, the divine, spinnin' 'em while you're winnin' 'em… Be caller number five and you'll see the Monkees live… Oh, Davy Jones, Davy Jones, you do rattle dem bones…
Hey Ken,
ReplyDeleteListened to the whole show. Not quite the energy of 10-Q of KHTZ, but those days are gone from radio :( just one question, why no Beaver Cleaver? Is it because CBS owns Leave it to Beaver? Or are you just past that? Not being critical just wondering why.
Wayne
Thank you for a wonderful evening.
ReplyDeleteMy Saturday was 12 hours freezing my ass off in a Toronto hockey arena filming a documentary on figure skaters. I came home numb mentally as well as physically with every intention of going right to bed.
But you were coming on and I figured I'd give you ten minutes. Two hours later, I was still listening, revived by your style and great tunes I haven't even thought about in years.
But just as important warmed by memories of LA and K-Earth and cruisin' on Saturday nights.
Will nobody remake "Aloha Bobby and Rose"?
Thanks so much Ken, please tell me we'll get to do this more often.
Wayne...NBC Universal (nee MCA) owns the rights to the name "Beaver Cleaver". I would guess that since Ken appears on L.A. radio regularly under his own name, using the non de plume doesn't make sense anymore.
ReplyDeleteLike Frank, I tuned into your boradcast on the Web after bailing on the Mariners game. Couldn't help wishing that you were calling the game on Seattle radio instead of spinning the oldies down in LA. Any chance you could be a fill-in play-by-play guy for the M's when Dave Niehaus takes his annual vacation around the All-Star Break?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, greetings from the greater Seattle area, where it's currently 47 degrees (and feels like 47 degrees).
Ken... what is it about radio that, no matter what else we do, we keep coming back?
ReplyDeleteLoved hearing you on the air last night, you sound great!
Still trying to get the microphone off my back
DR. Sharone Rosen
Chiropractor
Cantor
radio junkie
Had to go to a minor league game last night (Oakland's AA team rallied from seven runs down with two outs in the eight to win), but it sounds as if your 7-11 PDT block would make a nice transition from Mark Simone's 6-10 (3-7 PDT) block of classic music (and jingles) on WABC every Saturday night.
ReplyDeleteGreat show last night Ken! I was expecting to hear "Beaver Cleaver" and not Ken "Lavine"...I knew other "Levine's" that pronounced it "Laveen". Is this going to be a regular gig?
ReplyDeleteHey Ken -- Had the pleasure of listening to about an hour of the show last night. Hadn't listened to KRTH for any length of time in many years. Ahh, the thrill of being transported back in time to when I was still in my 40's (what in the world is "Smooth" by Santana doing on the KRTH playlist?).
ReplyDeleteStill, it sounded as if you were having fun and isn't that what it's all about??
Best,
Lane
Hey Beav -
ReplyDeleteYou're still sounding great!
KRTH 101 used to remind me of being a teenager in the 60's. But now, those same songs remind me of listening to KRTH 101 in the 80's!
Keep blogging that thiing you blog dahling. It's the funniest stuff I've read in years!
Beaver Cleaver!
ReplyDeleteHow DARE you be a 'GOD' in 3 careers, and now - starting all over! Good on Ya! Radio pics made me and family LOL - Just as you always do my friend!
Wishing you well, and want more on HuffPo!
Willie in Indy