Monday, December 31, 2007

Tonight, on WBAI

This is where I'll be tonight.

(From the WBAI website)

Mon, Dec 31 11PM - Midnight Shortcut Through 2007



Note: This show will be rebroadcast January 1st from 6PM - 7PM

An hour-long retrospective of the year--an explosive, emotional mix of the sounds, music and events of the past twelve months, "A Shortcut Through 2007" opens with an introduction by the late sonic pioneer, Karlheinz Stockhausen and ends with a coda from Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto. Blending the concerns over our fragile social and ecological state -- the clash between celebrity and fame at any cost, the perilous drive to succeed in politics, business and sports by any means necessary, with answers to the question-"What will you remember about 2007"


Featuring commentary from Art Buchwald, Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut, Marcel Marceau, Jerry Falwell, Gerald Ford, Woody Allen, Ricky Gervais, Alec Baldwin, Don Imus, Oprah Winfrey, Rev. Al Sharpton, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt, Tony Soprano and family, George W. Bush, Michael C. Hall, Baraka Obama, Joe Torre, George Mitchell, Barry Bonds, Larry King, Roger Clemens, Anna Nicole Smith and many others.

Music from Amy Winehouse, Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Dre Dog, Bruce Springsteen, The Real Tuesday Weld, Peter Bjorn and John, Forro In The Dark (featuring David Byrne), Iron and Wine, The Sandpipers (with Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Henrich, Roy Campanella & Tommy Henrich), Boots Randolph, Boris "Bobby Pickett, Freddie Scott, Oscar Peterson, Ike & Tina Turner, Max Roach, Joe Zawinul(Mercy, Mercy, Mercy), Robert Goulet, Luther Ingram, Dakota Staton

Tributes to Luciano Pavarotti, Lady Bird Johnson, Porter Wagoner, Lee Hazelwood, Hilly
Kristal (CBGB), Evel Knievel, Grace Paley, Don Herbert (Mr. Wizard), Ingmar Bergman,
Michelangelo Antonioni, Merv Griffin, Tom Snyder, Joey Bishop, Tom Poston, Calvert
DeForest (Larry Bud), Charles Nelson Reily, Al Viola, Denny Doherty, Eric Von Schmidt,
Teresa Brewer and many more.

Produced by Peter Bochan

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