Karen and Tony are joined again by their first guest-host, Matt Sloan and the three talk about rock musicals, theatre ettiquette and dog shows.
Show notes:
- Matt Sloan is the co-owner of Blame Society Productions, which produces short films including Chad Vader, Beer and Board Games and Welcome to the Basement. Matt has collaborated with Karen and Tony on many projects.
- Karen and Tony attended a touring production of Jersey Boys at the Overture Center, a Broadway musical about the careers of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
- There is a comedy group called The Jerky Boys. They like to call people and swear at them.
- The #1 oldies station in New York City is WCBS 101.1 FM. However, taking a look at their current playlist, they've obviously branched out to include rock oldies from all rock eras. According to the Original Oldies Years section of the WCBS FM Wikipedia page, the station started moving away from pre-1964 music just as Karen and Tony were moving away from New York.
- If you're yearning for true-blue doo-wop, you'll do no better than WMTR AM 1250 from Morristown, New Jersey. This current playlist is the way Tony remembers WCBS. A deep dive into what some critics call the worst music ever created.
- There's a lot out there about theatre ettiquette, but this one's the best. At number 8 we find "Don't Sing Along".
- Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio) is not related to megaphone singer, Rudy Vallée (born Hubert Prior Vallée). Searching around, we came across this version of Rudy singing Brother Can You Spare a Dime. It's worth a listen, if you can get through the fact that every Rudy Vallée number begins with a long, long musical introduction. The lyric, "Say don't you remember, they called me 'Al', it was 'Al' all the time" is heartbreaking in a way you don't expect from a 30's hit.
- The Kennel Club of Philadelphia does, indeed host the National Dog Show on NBC.
- Karen frequently astounds us with her vocabulary. This episode she trots out "conformation".
- The KCP divides all dog breeds into Seven Groups: terrier, toy, working, sporting, hound, non-sporting and herding.
- Mr. Peterman was played by actor John O'Hurley.
- The winner of Best in Show at the National Dog Show was a dog named "Sky" (born GCH AFTERALL PAINTING THE SKY), a wire fox terrier.
