Bob Hope passed away from complications of pneumonia on July 28, 2003. Two months after May 29th, 2003, when he celebrated his 100th birthday. CLICK HERE for Jerry's tribute to Bob.

Remember Jack Web in Dragnet? CLICK HERE for Jerry Pippin's DRAGNET ON-DEMAND page.

 

CLICK HERE for Jerry Pippin's DJ On Demand.

 

CLICK HERE for Jerry Pippin's JFK Remembered. Interviews with listeners and experts on the JFK assassination. Photos and audio clips in Memory of JFK and his presidency.

 

Jerry presents his favorite old time radio show, The Shadow. CLICK HERE to read and listen.

   

Jerry talks with Ken Geringer, author of Nobody Told Me. Jerry and Ken talk of the life and times of John Lennon. CLICK HERE to listen to part 1, CLICK HERE to listen to part 2, and CLICK HERE to listen to part 3. Finally, CLICK HERE to listen a return visit to Jerry's KBIX show by Ken. This was recorded off the air in October of 2000. Music: Beatles - Something (BMI - Apple Records )

Nobody Told Me: From Basement Band to Jack and the John Lennon Sessions by Ken Geringer and watch Dolly Parton sing John Lennon's Imagine - a rare and wonderful video. Remembering John Lennon 2005 - 25 years ago On December 8, 1980, John Lennon was shot dead outside his posh Manhattan Apartment. Jerry's good friend, David W. Torrence, who lives in Muskogee, Oklahoma as well, has done one of the better salutes to this music ICON. This mp3 half hour program is dedicated to the music of John Lennon. A special program for our IPOD and broadband listeners.   160kb Broadband Version Music Credits: (Just Like) Starting Over, Walking on Thin Ice, and Beautiful Boy - EMI Blackwood Music/Capitol Records (BMI)   John Lennon and Paul McCartney planning a Beatles group revival in 1981? David W. Torrence, a well known Beatles expert and radio disc jockey, talks with Jerry about some startling news released today, 25 years after the death of John Lennon. The possibility of a Beatles Reunion was in the works before the assassination of Lennon is revealed in this discussion between the two air personalities recorded late in the afternoon of December 8, 2005.

 

Jerry has a surprise for fans of the Andy Griffith Show. Interviews, photos, books you can order, and links. CLICK HERE for the ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW page.

 

Back in 1994, Jerry talked with Michael Flores in Chicago about B Movies. He is a man who knows almost everything anyone needs to know about B movies of the 50s and 60s. We are presenting this interview again simply because it is fun and entertaining. CLICK HERE to enjoy a trip down Memory Lane. Here are some links to some great B-Movie sites: http://www.badmovieplanet.com and http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/b/b.htm

 

In 1968, I (Jerry) was at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and wondering if I should leave radio and try stand up comedy full time. Later I did stand up for several years, but I stayed in radio in 1968 largely due to a conversation I had with Woody Allen. He was appearing at the hotel nightly and I walked up to him in the casino and ask him about stand up comedy as a career. He basically told me it was a tough business and since I was from Oklahoma and not New York and not Jewish that I probably wouldn't make it. I later found out that Woody hated stand up and Las Vegas even more. Woody did stand up very well however. CLICK HERE to listen to one of my favorite monologues from him done in 1965. The saga of the talking Elevator is a classic. Links of interest about Woody: www.media.uio.no/studentene/ragnhild.paalsrud/woody/Woody.HTML www.woodyallen.com   This one has Audio Samples: torp.priv.no/woody.

   

Flip Wilson used to sleep on the top of cars while breaking into comedy at Florida resorts, because he couldn't afford a room. Later he would be come a huge TV sensation. This memories segment was first broadcast on KVEG AM 840 in Las Vegas (now KXNT) in 1989. CLICK HERE to listen as Jerry plays a segment from the Flip Wilson TV show. The Flip Wilson Show was one of the Seventies' most popular and successful variety series, lasting a solid four years. It's almost as if the show slipped from our consciousness as soon as it left the airwaves, very little was written about the man or the series. Perhaps that's because the Flip Wilson led an intensely private life. CLICK HERE for more Flip info. To order Flip Wilson Videos from Amazon CLICK HERE

 

Madeline Kahn left us at an early age, she was only 57 when she gave into the BIG "C!" We will miss her! The CBS series, Cosby, was her last professional TV job. Her last original episode hit the  air on Dec. 22, 1999. Ben Phillips has put together a great collection of audio and video on Madeline Kahn, CLICK HERE to link up with this page!

 

to Memories from Across the Sea. Jerry plays Mitch Miller's 1957 hit "Theme from the Bridge Over The River Kwai." Then talks about an email he received from Tony Glynn, listening from Manchester, England. See message below. CLICK HERE for the movie review of Bridge Over the River Kwai. Bridge Over the River Kwai books,  available from Amazon.com, Bantam paperback only $4.50.   Then, Jerry plays, "I'm Going to Set Right Down and Write Myself A Letter,"  by Billy Williams. Billy passed away in Chicago in 1972. Comments from Tony Glynn on this segment: Liked your use of the theme from Lean's Bridge on the River Kwai, but do you know the significance of that tune? Perhaps many Americans do not. It is called Colonel Bogey, and it is a perfectly proper British military march. But - you know what army life is like - there is a set of soldiers' words to the tune which are decidedly indelicate. The British prisoners whistled it, with their minds on the indelicate version, as an insult to their Japanese captors. Ever since WW2, the British Far East Prisoner of War Association - now a dwindled band, of course - has whistled it on their annual march to the London Cenotaph to honor their comrades who did not return. Lean was a remarkable man, called "the directors' director" and famous for his painstaking approach but he got into pictures in defiance of his family who were Quakers and not at all in favor of theatres or movies. In his early days as an editor, he made such a hash of editing one movie, Those Charming People, that he was fired. It was based on a book by Michael Arlen who was, surprise, surprise, a Manchester man, a great best-seller in the 1920's but now totally forgotten. Within ten years, however, Lean was on the way to become one of the great British directors. The moral, I suppose, is when you've been slapped down get up and try again.

Muskogee Memories from 1951 and 1947. This program segment was first heard on KBIX Radio in Muskogee, Oklahoma in the summer of 2001. Jerry plays two tunes in this nostalgic look at the years 1951 and 1947. The London based Mantivani Orchestra does a salute to Charmaine from 1951, and then Dorothy Shay (not Doris Day, as noted by Rosie, a listener to our show) sings a hokey version of Feudin' and Fightin' which made the hit parade in 1947. The latter tune is a far cry from her first major hit, Sentimental Journey. In this segment, Jerry remembers 1947 baseball when it was indeed the national sport, and the first step it took to cross the color line. 1951 is perhaps best remembered for many great movies such as the Oscar winner, All About Eve. Comments on this segment provided by our listener in Manchester, England and past member of the Editorial Staff for the Sunday Mirror, Tony Glynn: "...don't like them ornery neighbors down by the creek; we'll be plumb out of neighbors next week" -Feudin' an' Fussin' Ooops, pardon me but, last night, I had a few nostalgic chuckles with the Jerry Pippin Show's revival of that classic from the days of my smooth-cheeked youth, Feudin' an' Fussin' and the well-remembered music of the great Mike Mahoney's Orchestra with all those strings. I must explain that, long ago when I first corresponded with the late science-fiction writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, she lived in a tiny Texas town called Rochester with her husband Robert and their small baby, David. Marion had married at 19 and she and Robert lived there because of Robert's job but, apparently, they were pretty well considered outsiders, Marion being from Albany, NY and Robert from Chicago. Years later, when I finally met her, Marion told me life in Rochester was downright dull and I suspect the Texans regarded them as "damn Yankees". They put out a good little amateur magazine devoted to science-fiction through which I got to know them. Both Marion and I wanted to write professionally but we both had yet to make a professional sale. Eventually, Marion became a leading author in the field and, after a sad history of poor health, her death occurred in '99, just after a TV movie was made of her blockbuster novel The Mists of Avelon. Well, away back then, Mantovani and his Orchestra played regularly on BBC radio. They were a radio fixture for years and very popular, selling many records. One day, I received a letter from Marion, a great music-lover, saying she had managed to hear an orchestra broadcasting from London whose performance she greatly enjoyed. She said she didn't properly hear the name of its leader, but was something like "Mike Mahoney." This puzzled me for a time, then it dawned on me that she was referring to Mantovani. If he ever had a first name, I never heard it, he was always just "Mantovani" but, thereafter, he was Mike Mahoney to me. The danger with putting a nostalgic segment on the web is that you're likely to get a sentimental goof like me good and hooked and cause me to bend your ear something chronic. Take the reference to All About Eve, for instance. That is one of my many favorites from the days when movies had some quality to them and were not yet swamped by violence and over-the-top special effects. All About Eve had a truly tremendous cast, including that Limey smoothie and sometime Manchester man George Sanders - he once lived right around the corner from my old home - the caustic-tongued but always lovable Thelma Ritter and a huge favorite of mine, the wonderful Celeste Holm. But did you know that, on their very first meeting before shooting, Bette Davis insulted Miss Holm so grievously that they never spoke afterward for the rest of Miss Davis's life. So, though they play best friends in the movie, off the set, there was nothing but frosty silence between them. A sad state of affairs between two talented women. Movies are a passion with me and, this week, I gave a talk to the cine and video society on some aspects of the work of the British director David Lean, showing excerpts from four of his movies but leaving the big productions of his later years such as Bridge on the River Kwai, Dr Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia for a later date. I stuck to earlier work done in the British Isles like Brief Encounter, Great Expectations , Hobson's Choice and Ryan's Daughter, set in Ireland, which came close to ruining Lean's career but is still a powerful picture. Anyway, what I'm trying to say before I run off at the mouth any further is that I like the Jerry Pippin Show so keep it coming. It's chock-full of good stuff - controversial, too. Its attitude to the Bush administration might not sit easily with those of a Republican complexion, but it makes for highly interesting reading over on this side of the water. If you're in the market for five cats (strictly on the quiet and without the sister's knowledge, of course) I'm your man. All the very best to you both - Tony. PS: With the cats, I'll throw in that eye patch for free.

 

CLICK HERE to hear Jerry Pippin talk with world famous rodeo announcer, Clem McSpadden, about Bodacious the Bull and other famous rodeo characters.

 

CLICK HERE for great links on Bugs and his looney friends. Includes video cartoons.