Good morning, I'm Adam. It's Friday. Amazingly enough. It is Friday.
And I'm here on the daily break-on Michael Croce, do you remember old television? I do. I kind of like some of it. Some of it was monumental.
There's a lot of old television that I remember other people don't, or they've just forgotten out. I guess I have a good memory about certain things, certain things I have the most incredible memory about that you can ever imagine. But I remember being a kid in the early 60s and seeing a British television show that would work its way to America, on the tube in America, and it was called, it was hosted by David Frost. Remember, does anyone remember David Frost?
I remember it. He's best known in the United States. I guess as a guy that paid a lot of money to interview Richard Nixon after Richard Nixon was no longer president. But he was around for other things.
And he was the presenter of this show. Now what this show was, was basically satire, done in a very high brow, funny way, and it had a very distinctive opening song, opening music. And the music was different every week, same song. But one of the female people that were on the show are different ones.
Sometimes, would sing the opening song. That was the week that was, it was always very goofy. And it was a 28 minute TV show that they did every week, when it was on a BBC, and I think the same night came to the United States. It wasn't a big hit here.
But later became of it, it was something called Lavyn. Lavyn was a Americanized version of that was the week that was. But that was the week that was, was funny. Most of the time, until John F.
Kennedy was assassinated. And the very next day of the BBC, they presented a tribute to JFK to start the show. They started the show with very slow version of their opening music that ended very quickly. And they went on for all the panelists and everybody that was not just remembering this from them.
I have not seen it. I have looked forward on YouTube. I can not find it. It's not just summer.
I would just love to see it again. If you find it, let me know. But there's something about that. It's stuck with me for years.
The show was fading out. They played that was the week that was the music with no singing, just the music. And it was very slow. And it was about 30 seconds as I recall of a music bed that wrapped up the show.
Now, I remember that time in November of 1963, I remember the trauma that we all had gone through. And listening to that closing music of their theme song just kind of ease us out, kind of make our brain crystallized what we have just taken in. I don't know. It just had an effect on me.
But I didn't realize that that would happen until years and years later when I was I many years later when I was watching another sitcom on television. And at the sitcom had very popular music. It was right, you know, yeah, it there was. And one time in one of the episodes Felix Unger had something tragic happened in his life.
I forget I even forget what it was. And I just remember at the end of the show they played the music again, but a much slower version of it. Once again, you were able to listen to that music as the show was ending. And I forget the episode.
I forget the episode. I just know something bad happened in the episode. It was a serious version of their show. I remember that music giving me just another way of bringing my mind together what that all was.
I was a fan of who forward many, many years sometime in the 1970s. I was a talk radio fanatic. I was a young man and a talk show host came into this market into the Tampa Bay market on WDA, DAE radio the oldest radio station in Florida, by the way. And it was his name of Sam majors.
It was a damn major show. And he for his time was a very controversial talk show. He would challenge people. He would get people that's off.
He would just boo, boo, boo, boo, boo. After his two hour show as he would grab a pichel every night, he had his music that it was a 60 second music that he played as he was ending his show. And it was very soothing, very calm orchestrated music. And I remember when he was asked about it when he said he picked it up.
and he met the person who made it and he gave it to him. And for years, he ended his show with his music. And no matter how mad he were at Stan, at the end of the show, when his music came out, you were calmed down and it just brought you into it. Years later, strangely as it may seem, I worked with Sam, he was at the summary of the network in the 90s.
He came to work and I listened to a show and at the end of the show he just wrapped up, so he's done. So the next day, I just happened to be there because I was only there on the weekends, but I was there doing some production during the week. And I walked down, I met him, he introduced myself to him, had a nice little chat, he wasn't friendly. I'll just say he wasn't friendly.
And I asked him about that music. And I said, how can you not use him? I said, no, no, I lost it, I don't even know where he was. I put it on a part of the radio station, I lost the radio station because I got fired and fired from a lot of radio stations.
That was that, I didn't use his sense. Never even thought about it. And I tried to tell him how important that music was to me and do a lot of listeners to listen to a show. And he looked at me and he just, and he was just, by the way, he fired on the summary of the network also.
He wasn't having a bug in fire, but I remembered that and it stuck with me. And I said, wow, and I said, I'm going to do that. And I don't know if you're doing a television show and you can take people out of the show with wonderful music. That's good.
If you're doing a radio show, you can do it. And a gentleman that I know in Nashville by the name of Mike Stewart wrote this music. And strangely enough, I end my podcast with it. I also used end my gardening show with it a lot.
Or when I did fill in work for other shows, I always ended with this music to kind of crystallize our thoughts, to kind of bring us back to where we were before we started. I don't know, I kind of like it. I'll see you next week.