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8 PM http://www.wincam.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 1, 2011 Jonathan Eller Biographer of Ray Bradbury  Jonathan R. Eller BECOMING RAY BRADBURY Thursday Sept. 1 8 PM on Visual Radio University of Illinois Press has released Becoming Ray Bradbury, a fascinating look deep inside the man behind Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine and more http://www.raybradbury.com/books/books.html
Bradbury on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Bradbury
The authoritative biography of Ray Bradbury's early years http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/76sxh7pr9780252036293.html Becoming Ray Bradbury chronicles the making of an iconic American writer by exploring Ray Bradbury's childhood and early years of his long life in fiction, film, television, radio, and theater. Jonathan R. Eller measures the impact of the authors, artists, illustrators, and filmmakers who stimulated Bradbury's imagination throughout his first three decades. Unprecedented access to Bradbury's personal papers and other private collections provides insight into his emerging talent through his unpublished correspondence, his rare but often insightful notes on writing, and his interactions with those who mentored him during those early years.
Beginning with his childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, and Los Angeles, this biography follows Bradbury's development from avid reader to maturing author, making a living writing for pulp magazines. Eller illuminates the sources of Bradbury's growing interest in the human mind, the human condition, and the ambiguities of life and death--themes that became increasingly apparent in his early fiction. Bradbury's correspondence documents his frustrating encounters with the major trade publishing houses and his earliest unpublished reflections on the nature of authorship. Eller traces the sources of Bradbury's very conscious decisions, following the sudden success of The Martian Chronicles andThe Illustrated Man, to voice controversial political statements in his fiction, and he highlights the private motivations behind the burst of creative energy that transformed his novella "The Fireman" into the classic novel Fahrenheit 451.
Becoming Ray Bradbury reveals Bradbury's emotional world as it matured through his explorations of cinema and art, his interactions with agents and editors, his reading discoveries, and the invaluable reading suggestions of older writers. These largely unexplored elements of his life pave the way to a deeper understanding of his more public achievements, providing a biography of the mind, the story of Bradbury's self-education and the emerging sense of authorship at the heart of his boundless creativity.
8:45 PM Frank Dello Stritto discusses the film FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE with Ron Howard and Johnny Cash Johnny Cash to be broadcast at 9 PM Friday night for FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES _________ Visual Radio Public Domain Films with critic Frank Dello Stritto These air on Friday nights at 9 PM REELING follows Visual Radio on Thursday nights The Wonderful Show at 7 PM Visual Radio Live at 8 PM Reeling at 9 PM _________ JERRY ROSS
September 8, 2011 8 pm
Visual Radio host Joe Viglione talks to producer Jerry Ross, the man who recorded Ashford & Simpson along with Melba Moore on Bobby Hebb's immortal "Sunny" as well as the entire "Sunny" album. 8 PM on WinCAM.org Channel 8 on Comcast, Channel 36 on Verizon.
Mr. Ross produced Spanky & Our Gang, Keith (98.6), Jay & The Techniques and so many more. He also co-wrote "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" with Kenny Gamble & Leon Huff (Gamble & Huff of Philly International) which hit for The Temptations & The Supremes, Dee Dee Warwick and Madeline Bell
Tonight Ross and Viglione will discuss the passing of the great Nicholas Ashford. Hit radio received a jolt, a shockwave,with the tragic passing of Nicholas Ashford on Monday, August 22. It is a significant loss of one of the creators of some of the finest pop records ever to grace an AM radio speaker. With his wife, Valerie Simpson, he crafted such memorable tunes as "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" for Diana Ross, "You're All I Need to Get By" from Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell, "Let's Go Get Stoned" - a huge hit for Ray Charles but a signature tune as well for Joe Cocker - who performed it at Woodstock, Ashford & Simpson's own big Top 12 hit (#1 R & B) "Solid" and so many others. Ashford & Simpson produced and wrote and sang backing vocals on "Remember Me", a superb Diana Ross hit that doesn't get nearly enough airplay as an oldie. Humble Pie took "I Don't Need No Doctor" from a Nick Ashford solo 45 PM on Verve Records and made it the centerpiece of their live lp HJMBLE PIE PERFORMANCE ROCKIN' THE FILLMORE in 1973 and was a huge FM smash. R.I.P. Nick Ashford 8/22/11 R.I.P. Bobby Hebb 8/3/10 Two of the great voices behind the hit "Sunny". We'll talk about it from the man who made that immortal recording with these giants, the fantastic Jerry Ross. 8 PM http://www.wincam.org
The show airs at 8 PM tomorrow night on http://www.wincam.org
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me co-written by Jerry Ross, Gamble & Huff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI844RAJo58
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Gonna_Make_You_Love_Me I Don't Need No Doctor by Nick Ashford
Joe Cocker Live at Woodstock LET'S GO GET STONED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ9EM4B9Wk8 From the NY Times "Mr. Ashford died of throat cancer on Monday at a hospital in New York at the age of 70, leaving behind his wife and writing partner and a catalog of hit songs that expressed the couple’s expansive and hopeful view of love, his biggest hits being “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing.” I Don't Need No Doctor __________________ SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
Ellen Fitzpatrick at 8 PM Rachel Kramer Bussel 8:30-8:45 Writer/Editor/Blogger Rachel Kramer Bussel Ellen Fitzpatrick LETTERS TO JACKIE! 
Writer/Editor/Blogger Rachel Kramer Bussel http://rachelkramerbussel.com http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/raquelita http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rachel-Kramer-Bussel/122880675514
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Nicholas Ashford Tribute on Visual Radio moved to September 8
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
JOHN TILL on VISUAL RADIO LIVE 8-18-11
Visual Radio is honored to be speaking with
JOHN TILL, founding member of
Janis Joplin's FULL TILT BOOGIE BAND
and a member of Joplin's KOZMIC BLUES BAND
that performed at Woodstock!
LIVE AND ON THE AIR AT WINCAM!
Aug. 17, 1969 | Woodstock Festival Ends
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/aug-15-1969-woodstock-festival-ends/
John Till and Janis Joplin performed at WOODSTOCK on August 17th.
We are celebrating the 42nd Anniversary the night after on Visual Radio!
Here's a rare Janis Joplin rendition of Me & Bobby McGee live at Threadgills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iX-EcRKXJw
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Visual Radio host Joe Viglione interviewed Mr. Till for a biography published on AllMusic.com / Rovi
The music was underrated at the time, but now provides a treasure chest of insight into how Joplin was perfecting her craft -- and how John Till was growing artistically as well. Full sets from Port Chester, NY, in early August, the first Woodstock fest in mid-August of 1969, and the Texas International Pop Festival from Labor Day weekend of the same year, along with material from the Boston Music Hall that December, exist and show the power of the band. When Joplin formed her Full Tilt Boogie Band it was the creation of a perfect unit with which she could express herself. The Pearl album and the tour that preceded it has the dependable John Till sound embellishing her music in a natural progression from the experimental sounds Sam Andrew provided. - Joe Viglione for AllMusic.com
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-till-p131906/biography
John generously allowed our audience to hear some history by allowing me to print info from this e mail:
Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:09 John Till wrote:
Joe
I've been to Boston a few times, and always had a
good time there.
The final live concert that Janis ever played was at Harvard Stadium, Aug.12/70.
Of course none of us in the band ever imagined that it would be the last time,
but we had a great time while we were there!
The Stadium was jammed packed and noisy that afternoon.
The band's dressing room was a small house trailer along one side of the of the field right by the seating area. So close we could shake hands with the people when we opened the trailer door. There were several cases of beer on ice in the trailer that we couldn't ever have
finished so we handed dozens of bottles out the door to the people.
There were a lot of thumbs up each time we did that.
It was a hot day.
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Thanks, John, for sharing the memories. John has a disc of 8 songs from the Harvard Square show where the band played Mercedez Benz behind Janis! Not something you hear as the hit version of the song was a capella
We may talk about Janis' press secretary, Myra Friedman, who passed away last October
John spoke with Myra on the phone constantly and saw her again in 2009 at her apartment on 14th Street.
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Some of the topics that might be discussed
---Sony re-release of Janis Joplin - The Woodstock Experience (This is the remix of the Woodstock tracks on the new edition. There are three different mixes out there...the soundboard on the bootleg, the mix for the WOODSTOCK BOXED SET and the new mix on the 2009 release.
---The recent passing of Jerry Ragovoy July 13
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Ragovoy
---the DVD Festival Express which features John Till
---What John Till is up to today
---where Full Tilt Boogie Band is today ...who are the surviving members
Brad Campbell
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/brad-campbell-p62018
Ken Pearson
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/ken-pearson-p113121
Clark Pierson
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/clark-pierson-p114481
The late Richard Bell
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/richard-bell-p55613
Full Tilt Boogie Band
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt_Boogie_Band
Joplin live at Woodstock August 19th 1969
http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-woodstock-august-19-1969-r414546/review
LIVE AND ON THE AIR AT WINCAM!
http://www.wincam.org 8 PM EDT
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Thursday August 11, 2011 Eric Casaccio
Eric Casaccio will appear on VISUAL RADIO LIVE
this Thursday night, August 11th.
Tune in to http://www.wincam.org
http://www.ericcasac
His filmography is here
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1028530/
9 PM Friday Night August 12, 2011
Bobby Whitlock from DEREK & THE DOMINOES
Eric Clapton producer ROB FRABONI
Anthony Gamaira to talk about Marvel Comics!
PREVIOUS SHOWS
August 4th (Our 2nd Thursday)
MASS ACCELERATION, 5 young ladies from Climate Summer Cambridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d88Ywun9XwU&feature=related
July 28, 2011
DONNA HALPER, author of BOSTON RADIO 1920-2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKLFMA2M0FY
JULY 22, 2011 Our last Friday evening show
Tom Cooper, author of Fast Media, Media Fast
Bruce Kulick of Grand Funk Railroad and Kiss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMC2N95z9H4
On July 15th the movie will be TOO LATE FOR TEARS
July 8
Joe LaRocca talks about True Grit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu6vIUBvj94&feature=channel_video_title
Talking about a great film with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. HORROR EXPRESS with Bela Lugosi biographer Frank Dello Stritto (pronounced Dello STREEETO) Joe Viglione host on Visual Radio Live.
July 1
Mitzi Szereto talks to Joe Viglione on Visual Radio Part 1 July 1, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSLbNf5fbfA&feature=channel_video_title
June 24, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnI8JO1zPrI&feature=channel_video_title
Ted Yates Oldies 1150 CKOC Toronto on Visual Radio with Joe Viglione pt 3
Bob Hyldburg Total Patriots on Visual Radio with Joe Viglione
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvQuMyIge7I
Frank Schaeffer on Visual Radio Live
6-10-11 Sex, God & Mom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcHP6gMcJL8