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Here's a keen little seven inch 78, which I'm guessing, based on the musical styles, is from the mid to late 1950's. It came to use from "Adverising Division, Inc.", in Chicago, and is the third in a series.
As the salesman says in opening this little two minute wonder, "You can't sell 'em, until you tell 'em!", and what he wants to help you sell is your savings and loan operation.
There follow two examples from a total of nine available commercials in the package. It's not clear to me how buying these ads would make them "yours exclusively" - what if two savings and loans bought the package in the same market?
Regardless of all that, the ads are two wonderful examples of the bouncy, peppy and positive-sounding ads of the day, and the second one also has the benefit of all that great reverb which was such a hallmark of the era. As I always seem to say when I share commercials from that era, I wish radio still sounded like this.
The concentrated joy of this set by Future Death Toll is its own reward. Fresh off of tour, the band sounded a-frickin'-mazing, and I was immediately confronted with a familiar feeling, of "O, Lucky Man!" ...I dig deep into the underground, bobbing for those most-artistic of apples, and this time came up with the outstanding sounds of FUTURE DEATH TOLL. Indeed, I am fortunate, to have this incredible outlet wherein I can extend invitations to artists such as these, and they just show up and play! ...Sit in that Studio B chair sometime, and you'll begin to understand how good the years of MCoQ weekly broadcasts have been to me, and in general to my colleagues at the station, and to WFMU's devoted listeners of course. The kiss of WFMU is golden, and I need to remember to utilize this opportunity at every possible turn, in order to bestow upon all who care the rareified talents of artists of similarly high caliber.
Based on a barely labeled cassette tape I had received a long time ago, different from this set (more "home studio," obviously), I knew Future Death Toll would make good use of the opportunity for a live radio set, and I was not disappointed. Though the tape is generally "lighter," as might be expected, as well as more song-oriented, F-DT do a lot of different things, and as with Slasher Risk before them (see this set from 2010), the variety of their capabilities just meant that playing live on the radio revealed another layer. They were noisy, dense and intense, but not entirely free-form, with themes that arose, dominated and then dissipated, as you will hear.
So sit back, listen and enjoy. Massive props to engineer Juan Aboites for applying his considerable and diverse talents to making Future Death Toll radio-ready; whatever I throw at him, he makes the very best of it, rising to every challenge. Thanks also to Tracy Widdess for again making excellent, memorable photo art from my on-the-quick iPhone band captures.
After a stand-up appearance at Vanderbilt University in 1973, Steve Martin appeared on campus radio at 1:00 a.m. taking random phone calls. At the end of his stand-up gig that night, Martin lead the audience to a fast food restaurant across the street and ordered three hundred hamburgers - charging it to the Dean.
I've had a few requests for more tapes from the Army Doctor in Korea, a set of recordings from 1954 from which I've previously shared, in random order, two reels in a post from 2011, and two more in another post, about a year ago. At the moment, I can only put my hands on one more of these tapes, although I know there are several more in my catacombs, somewhere, and I will continue to share these if the interest continues.
This tape was made two days after one of the tapes shared a year ago, and the doctor's big news is his upcoming move to a new location within Korea, which doesn't appear to have been by his choice, and which he sounds decidedly unhappy about. Also of note is the story related at the start of side two of the tape, recounting why someone he knew sent him an actual U.S. dollar bill, and why such an item was not supposed to be among his possessions, a story which also touches on the religious practices of the locals in that time.
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