11/13/2008 @ 11:45am PST Thursday, November 13th! A great video today to help you put your life in perspective, the moving moment from last night's CMA Awards, and an unforgettable veteran's picture!!! "BUZZ" Kenny Chesney is the king of Country, and the new First Family all over the mags! "PHOTO GALLERY" (1996) Roger and Me (Clinton, that is) at Universal Studios radio visit!
A GREAT VIDEO FOR YOU, TO PUT EVERYTHING INTO PERSPECTIVE!
THEY SAY A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORD'S! HERE'S ONE!
MOVING MOMENT ON THE CMA AWARDS LAST NIGHT WITH CARRIE UNDERWOOD!
AND ON "ELLEN" THIS WEEK, TAYLOR SWIFT HAD HER "BEST DAY EVER"!
EVEN JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE SURPRISED TAYLOR ON ELLEN'S SHOW!
IS THERE A BROTHER/SISTER DANCING TEAM THAN THE HOUGH'S? AND THE INCREDIBLE THING IS JULIANNE JUST GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL!
PAULA ABDUL'S FAN NOT A STALKER, FAMILY SAYS AFTER APPARENT SUICIDE!
The family of Paula Goodspeed is coming to her defense following her apparent suicide outside Paula Abdul's home earlier this week. "She was not a stalker," Charles McIntyre, Goodspeed's only brother, said Thursday.
McIntyre, who lives with his family in Oakland, Maine, said his sister moved to California five years ago with only one dream: to be a star. "She went down there to have a career, and when she went down in front of those American Idol judges, it was over," said McIntyre. "She was just like anyone else, trying to make it big as an actor or singer."
McIntyre said their mother and Goodspeed's boyfriend are in L.A. waiting for the body to be released from the coroner's on Saturday. The funeral will take place in Maine.
Sources say the 30-year-old Goodspeed had been obsessed with Abdul for the past 17 years. Her fixation led her to twice auditioning to appear on American Idol, including her now-infamous, Simon Cowell-maligned 2005 audition in Austin.
Goodspeed's death Tuesday night, which police suspect was a suicide, was not her first house call to Abdul's Sherman Oaks abode.
Sources reported that two or three months ago, Goodspeed tried to commit suicide by overdosing on pills outside the residence.
NBA SEASON UNDERWAY, KOBE AND THE LAKERS ARE LOOKING GREAT, BUT TAKE A LOOK AT THIS DUNK BY LEBRON JAMES FROM THE FREE THROW LINE!
11/12/2008 @ 8:30am PST Wednesday, November 12th! Today, a riddle for you to solve just by looking at a picture, and 2 more pictures from Chicago's National Radio Hall of Fame weekend, & a cute story! "BUZZ" Maurice Green eliminated on DWTS, & Senator John McCain talks with Jay Leno!
TWO MORE PICTURES FROM CHICAGO FROM THIS PAST WEEKEND!
AND THIS ONE BELOW CAN TRULY BE CAPTIONED "CALIFORNIA DREAMING"!
THE WIND CHILL WHEN THIS WAS TAKEN WAS BELOW FREEZING IN CHICAGO!
SENATOR JOHN McCAIN MAKES FIRST POST ELECTION APPEARANCE ON LENO!
PART 2 OF THE McCAIN INTERVIEW ON JAY LENO LAST NIGHT!
PART 3 OF SENATOR JOHN McCAIN'S APPEARANCE ON LENO'S "TONIGHT" SHOW!
MY LISTENERS AND WEBSITE FOLLOWERS ARE JUST AMAZING! MONDAY, I HAD POSTED THIS EMAIL IN THE "TALKBACK" LINK ON THIS WEBSITE!
Trivia Inquiry Received: 11/10/2008 @ 11:16am PST From: Joe Hobson
Hello Charlie Tuna.
I have a question that I have been attempting to get answered for a while. And, you, for someone that has been in the DJ business for so long would, hopefully, be able to answer.
There was a song back in the mid to late 60s that had these words: "oh yes its plastic, you know its plastic" and another section was "it was 36-24-36, but you know its plastic....".
I have been contacting others in attempt to get the name of this song and where I could possibly get a copy. So far, no one seems to remember this song.
Your help would be appreciated.
Keep the music turning.
Joe Hobson
(NOTE TO JOE: Sorry Joe, You got me stumped on this one too. The only song that would be even close that I remember is "Plastic Man" by the Kinks, but that's not it!)
TUESDAY, I GOT THIS FOLLOW-UP EMAIL FROM STEVE NIETO IN YORBA LINDA!
The Serendipity Singers had a song called “Plastic” with the lyrics close to what Joe stated. (The lyrics listed the measurements as 38-24-36.) The website http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/ has it and a 45 second cut from the song to listen to.
Steve Nieto Yorba Linda
SO IF YOU'RE EVER STUMPED ON A SONG, SEND ME A NOTE, AND IF I DON'T KNOW, I'M PRETTY SURE SOMEONE OUT THERE WILL!
THE AIRPLANE THAT LOST ITS' WING VIDEO EVERYONE'S BUZZING ABOUT!
ONE LAST FUNNY THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!
Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had been going at it for days, and frankly God was tired of hearing all the bickering.
Finally fed up, God said, 'THAT'S IT! I have had enough. I am going to set up a test that will run for two hours, and from those results, I will judge who does the better job.' So Satan and Jesus sat down at the keyboards and typed away.
They moused. They faxed. They e-mailed. They e-mailed with attachments. They downloaded. They did spreadsheets! They wrote reports. They created labels and cards. They created charts and graphs. They did some genealogy reports They did every job known to man.
Jesus worked with heavenly efficiency and Satan was faster than hell.
Then, ten minutes before their time was up, lightning suddenly flashed across the sky, thunder rolled, rain poured, and, of course, the power went off. Satan stared at his blank screen and screamed every curse word known in the underworld. Jesus just sighed.
Finally the electricity came back on, and each of them restarted their computers. Satan started searching frantically, screaming: 'It's gone! It's all GONE! 'I lost everything when the power went out!'
Meanwhile, Jesus quietly started printing out all of his files from the past two hours of work. Satan observed this and became irate. 'Wait!' he screamed. 'That's not fair! He cheated! How come he has all his work and I don't have any?'
God just shrugged and said, "JESUS SAVES"!
11/11/2008 @ 8:07am PST Tuesday, November 11th! More Chicago moments from this past weekend's National Radio Hall of Fame Induction ceremony! Plus some of Charlie's Windy City photo-ops! "BUZZ" Britney Spears takes son Jayden home from the hospital, & DWTS down to 5!
FIRST, A SALUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED ON THIS VETERAN'S DAY!
I had mentioned yesterday about how disappointing it was that when my friend Larry Lujack, a Radio Hall Of Famer himself, who flew in from his home in New Mexico, got all dressed up in a tuxedo (which he hates to do) as my official inductor, and then was limited to just 30 seconds to do a planned minute and a half speech he had prepared (he's seen crumpling it up in the above picture).
Now, in talking with Larry last night, there was a problem with the hotel billing for his stay, and someone forgot to tell the hotel that the National Radio Hall of Fame was picking up the tab, so Larry had to fight with them to get it straightened out when he was trying to check out Sunday and catch a plane. I promised Larry last night, if I ever receive any more radio honors, I will see to it that he's invited to share the stage with me and finally deliver his long awaited speech.
THERE WERE OTHER LOCAL RADIO PERSONALITIES ON HAND AT THE NRHOF!
Geoff Edwards (pictured above) was the presenter for L.A. morning legend, Dick Whittinghill, who helmed KMPC’s morning show for 29 years (1950 to 1979). Dick passed away in 2001, and his daughters, Willy and Nora Whittinghill (seen below), accepted the award on their father’s behalf.
Willy observed that “famed L.A. Times sports columnist Jim Murray once wrote a column about our father. He coined the phrase “radio personality” to describe him because Whit did more than just spin records. Well the name stuck, and now there are many people here tonight, and around the country who use that title radio personality, because of Dick Whittinghill.”
Art Bell (seen above), the first of the inductees Saturday night, was surprised by a 1 minute video message from his 96 year old mother, who told of her pride in Art, no matter what he may have turned out to be. “To me, being honored in the National Radio Hall of Fame as a pioneer, is as good as it gets” said Bell, who switched from politics to paranormal subjects which ignited his career, shortly after it began.
Here's just some of the crowd in the room of 420 guests who were on hand in Chicago!
And here I am walking the very cold streets of Chicago Sunday morning!
A view of the Chicago river, not far from my hotel where the ceremony was!
And the Chicago Marina Towers right across from the hotel in the Windy City!
Once again, here's the video link to the National Radio Hall of Fame ceremony!
