Power Salad's New CD (Jan 23, 2006)

Power Salad 3: Sweat Equity is on the way! 3 overdubs to go, then send off the stuff and play the waiting game! I hope to be sending CDs out by March 1st.

The album will include our current #1 Dr Demento hit "My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner", as well as Dr D picks "Little Hybrid" and "Cookies". Also for you sunshine pop fans, there's a remake of The Free Design's wonderful 1967 single "Kites Are Fun", on which my daughter Marissa sings. The Roquefort Horns are back on the Steely Dan-inspired "I Saw The Coelacanths", also with guest appearances by Cleveland guitarist Tom Ross and vocalist Kickie Johnson-Taylor. We will visit Sport Coat University and cheer on their football team in "Fight Song", cry in our beers on the country weepie "Cut Out", and hear a deranged Art Bell caller on "A Question and an Observation". Lots more in there as well, possibly our strongest album yet. Certainly our newest, if nothing else!

Head on over to http://www.powersalad.com or http://www.marianth.com/records and hit the links to pre-order the disc, to be shipped around 3/1/06. Talk it up if ya would, I think we're onto something with this cat/vacuum cleaner bizness!!!!!!!!!! Tune in next week to Dr Demento to see if we hold down the #1 spot on the Funny Five.

Also the song will be appearing on Dr Demento's Basement Tapes #14 available thorough the Demento Society at www.drdemento.com , as well as on the new Funny Musicians for a Serious Cause disc, for Katrina relief, available NOW at www.funnymusicians.com ! Lots of great stuff on it including Al and Barnes & Barnes!!! WooHoo!!! Good company...

Hope everyone is having a good year so far, busy here, but being #1 on the Funny Five and #14 on the Funny 25 after sending tapes and CDs in for 27 years, feels pretty darn good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks much and don't forget to order up Power Salad 3: Sweat Equity!

Cheers,

Chris/Power Salad

Letters: Dr. Demento Show Streaming Difficulties (Jan 23, 2006)

I agree with you that there are problems with listening to the Dr. Demento show stream on drdemento.com as I found out myself first hand.

I paid the drdemento.com website to listen to last week's interview with Allan Sherman's son Robert, and about 45 minutes into it, the stream shut down and I couldn't start it up again where it left off. I did not get to hear the whole show stream. I tried again to listen, but the site charged me twice for the same thing. Once you buy something, you should own it and not pay again for the same thing. It is silly to charge for funny music when you can stream other shows for free on other websites. Drdemento.com advertises that $2 for a two hour stream is about 1/4 of a movie ticket. But I get all day movie tickets that last 24 hours on pay per view for only six bucks. That would be like 12 Dr. Dementos for $24. I think it should be more like $12 for 12 shows or even buy one and get one for free. So I would like to listen to the Robert Sherman interview which I never got to hear because the stream shut off the second time before the interview begain. That is not what I paid for!

From Tom:

I give up on paying for Dr. Demento streams. I can't listen to the full show. I get about 30 minutes before the stream shuts off and I have to pay again to start over? This is a total ripoff. I should restart where I left off and listen without paying again.

From Ken:

I don't think that the artists are getting paid for the streaming of the Demento shows either. If that's true, then the RIAA should sue Dr. Demento for selling music streams without paying a royalty. It was bad enough that a website was streaming the music for free, but at least I got to hear the full shows after downloading them, but the way it is, I can't get to the second half of the shows without the streamings cutting off in the fourth segment. How can I listen to Dr. Demento for free without listening to the radio stations streams that sound like crap and paying for undependable streams that sound like crap?

Survey Sez... (Jan 23, 2006)

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Other talk show hosts should consider putting their recent shows on podcast or let us listen to them at home when we're not driving or working.

Needless to say, I was the only one who voted in the poll.

The Wires (Jan 21, 2006)

Sirius Wants Pirated Howard Stern Broadcasts Silenced...Sirius Satellite Radio and Howard Stern are going after pirated broadcasts of his satellite show.

From radioandrecords.com: Are the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim thisclose to acquiring Radiovisa's KMXE/Los Angeles of Anaheim? The Los Angeles Times says a deal is near, although the baseball team's contract with flagship KSPN/L.A. ends in two years.

New HD Radio Station That Matters (10am, Jan 20, 2006)

The main channel for 93.7 is known as WMKK - 93.7 "Mike FM."

Rhythmic CHR (Contemporary Hit Radio) Star 93.7 (WQSX) flipped formats to Variety Hits on April 14, 2005. The new name chosen by station owner Entercom was 93-7 Mike FM, using the slugline "We play everything."

That's not entirely true, but they do push the variety angle hard on the website. "Mike plays EVERYTHING... from Donna Summer to the Doobies, Abba to Aerosmith, Journey to Janet, Beatles to Bananarama." The Beatles tend to fall outside the time genre that most Variety Hits stations target, but then again The Beatles are a very special band that have an appeal that in unique from all other bands from the 1960s.

The station replaced its old call letters with WMKK (to closer fit its Mike FM identity) on April 21, 2005.

Station Website: 937mikefm.com