John continues The Floaters theme with Paul.
From the Wednesday December 2, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
05/27/2010
Floating On
From the Wednesday December 2, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
05/26/2010
Goddard's Gold
Steve Goddard was a big mid-days name at KZZP, and was a member of The Leisure Suits. He also did an oldies-based syndicated radio show called "Goddard's Gold."
In this bit Brandmeier pokes fun at Steve's show.
From the Wednesday December 2, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
In this bit Brandmeier pokes fun at Steve's show.
From the Wednesday December 2, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
05/23/2010
The Gay Dating Game
The Dating Game takes a hilarious, gay turn. But Mr. Basketballs brought it on himself. Do guys like this really get laid?
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
05/22/2010
Is there snow in Payson?
John teases upcoming bits.
John tries to be a good helper Brandmeier and find out for a listener if there's snow in Payson.
John tries to be a good helper Brandmeier and find out for a listener if there's snow in Payson.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the
tape.
05/20/2010
A bit of a tribute to Dave
With Jonathon Brandmeier in the morning, and "Crazy" Dave Otto at night,
KZZP was the most entertaining radio station in Phoenix to listen to in the early
'80s.
Dave was amusing in a much different way than Brandmeier. John had one character, the rude and snotty kid Roger. Dave had a barrel of self-voiced characters. The Roger-opposite kid Little Tommy Snerdly, traffic copter pilot Buzz Corrigan, bonged-out counter culture reporter Luke Warm, short weatherman Huey Bopper (a character based on local weatherman Dewey Hopper,) distortion-inducing yelling police officer Loren Order, and a whole mess of characters I can't think of right now.
Brandmeier's band The Leisure suits parodied, and did original Rock/Pop songs. Otto did his own songs, too. "The Wake Up Song" was akin to a '20s kind of Dixieland/Ragtime jazz song heavy on tuba and banjo. He parodied Henry Mancini's "Moon River" as "Salt River." Most of his songs were based on popular Polkas under the name Wally Wingplucker and The Beermeister Band.
Otto did mornings at KZZP with Paul Talbot before Brandmeier. And when John bolted early to Chicago, Otto and Talbot returned to mornings.
I'm going through my Otto tapes, and will post the amusing stuff here, too.
Otto parodied local commercials. This one here from March 31, 1983, is based on local pizza chain Peter Piper Pizza. The original commercials featured portly, cheerful older Italian guy Tony talking about how his great pizza is not greatly expensive.
The Mesa Police Department didn't think it was so HI-larious, and fired the officer.
04/23/2010
Paying the bet
Sorry, got involved with Christmas, then school and forgot about this site. I'll post more often.
So, John made a bet with the morning DJ at Tucson radio station KRQQ over who would win the annual ASU/UofA Thanksgiving weekend football game. Tucson's U of A lost and in this clip John and Paul try to figure out what to do with the KRQQ DJ.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
So, John made a bet with the morning DJ at Tucson radio station KRQQ over who would win the annual ASU/UofA Thanksgiving weekend football game. Tucson's U of A lost and in this clip John and Paul try to figure out what to do with the KRQQ DJ.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
12/10/2009
KZZZZZZZZZZZZZZP
The weather forecast Paul Talbot had been reading half the morning said it was cloudy and rainy. Neither of which it was, so he changed the forecast.
And things must've been a bit lax at KZZP's promotional department over the Thanksgiving weekend. First John was playing a commercial at every break for Alpha Beta grocery stores that they'd be open on Thanksgiving (which was four days earlier,) and then this!
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
12/08/2009
Iron Cheeks ad
With the help of Iron Butterfly, John reads an ad for Cheeks male strippers.
I first heard this in 1999 and ever since something has bugged the bejeezus out of me. WHAT IS THAT SONG JOHN PLAYS AT THE END?!? I'm not talking about the Iron Butterfly song. I mean the one he plays after the bit, and fades out. It's been driving me nuts all this time. It's one of those songs I forgot all about, but used to know what it was. And now, for the life of me I CAN'T BRING IT BACK TO MY HEAD TO IDENTIFY IT!!!
I'll give a million dollars to anyone who can tell me the title and artist**
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
**Million dollars will be paid out as annual annuity at one penny a year beginning on January 1, 2748.
I first heard this in 1999 and ever since something has bugged the bejeezus out of me. WHAT IS THAT SONG JOHN PLAYS AT THE END?!? I'm not talking about the Iron Butterfly song. I mean the one he plays after the bit, and fades out. It's been driving me nuts all this time. It's one of those songs I forgot all about, but used to know what it was. And now, for the life of me I CAN'T BRING IT BACK TO MY HEAD TO IDENTIFY IT!!!
I'll give a million dollars to anyone who can tell me the title and artist**
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
**Million dollars will be paid out as annual annuity at one penny a year beginning on January 1, 2748.
12/03/2009
More Loons in San Diego
Another caller confirms that the Comedy Store in San Diego was filled with Loons.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
12/01/2009
Gassing the Bet
John made a bet with the morning guy at KZZP's Tucson sister station KRQQ, that Tempe's Arizona State University Sun Devils would beat Tucson's University of Arizona Wildcats in the annual Friday-after-Thanksgiving football game. Tucson lost, and one Loon makes a disturbing, and disgusting suggestion for how the KRQQ guy should make good on the bet.
Truck Robinson played for the Phoenix Suns at the time.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
Truck Robinson played for the Phoenix Suns at the time.
From the Monday November 30, 1981 show. Thanks to Dave LeBlanc for the tape.
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