Sadly, one of my favorite artists Leon Russell (pictured) passed away recently. Leon if you don’t know played piano on almost every hit that came out of LA during the 60’s and 70’s. Some of the artists he recorded with included Jan & Dean, the Beach Boys, the Byrds, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Bob Dylan, Joe Cocker, Bobby Darin, and even Frank Sinatra. I would have given anything to have been there when he and the Chairman first met. (pictured above) He was a huge part of Phil Spector’s “wall of sound” and played on all the Ronettes, the Crystals, and Ike & Turner records. Cher who was just a kid singing backup on some Phil Spector sessions claims that Leon was very quiet and never said a word to anybody. Nobody really cared about his lack of communication because he was so good on the piano that they just wanted him to play on their sessions. The story goes however that he showed up for a session one day drunk and for the first time ever was just jibber jabbing to everyone. Phil Spector who was trying to cut a record finally shouted at him “Leon, do you have any idea what the word respect means” Leon stopped talking immediately and proceeded to climb up on the piano where he shouted back at him, “Phil do you know what the words fuck off mean.” His surprising outburst caused all the musicians to start howling with laughter so the rest of the session was up for grabs.
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I find that liberals are kinda easier to get all worked up than are conservatives.
Speaking of Liberals it is a well know fact that Conservatives and Liberals will listen and/ or watch right wing stuff but only Liberals will tolerate left wing banter. Are you listening Colbert or are you OK with being in last place?
Falling in love will be the best and worst thing that will ever happen to you.
Love doesn’t need to be perfect it just needs to be true love.
There’s an old adage that claims that if you treat a lady like a whore and a whore like a lady you’ll do well with women. Figuring out which is which may be the hardest part.
After visiting the DMV or the Post Office how would you vote on increasing their benefits?
What we know is true but don’t understand why becomes the most puzzling of all.
Have you ever noticed that people who have a financial interest in something are the last to realize that part of it is evil?
I truly believe that Trump ran for president just to see if he could and now is going … What the hell have I done?
My Father never told me what kind of a man he was, he showed me every day.
The reason there are so many malpractice suits is because most Doctors didn’t graduate anywhere near the top of their class.
You’re usually very good at doing things you love to do.
Geeks should resist new stuff until they have all our computers running as well as cars.
He who controls the language controls the budget. We don’t Bing or Yahoo things we Google them.
The radio stations that actually have people listening to them rather than just hearing them make all the money.
The weaker your signal the stronger your programming needs to be.
You can do it if you can dream it but dreaming it is the hard part.
Thomas Jefferson claimed that peace was only that glorious moment when people were reloading.
You start losing all your rights the moment you enter the building you work in.
You are measured by how much more you did after you did what you were expected to do.
There are two types of people in the world, those who make promises and those who keep them.
Buffalo’s Mark Levy claimed that the reason Hitler didn’t win the war was because he couldn’t win on the road.
What day is it that there is no mattress sale going on.
Yogi Berra claimed that he never said all the things that he said. I know the feeling Yogi.
When I first got into radio I disliked weekends because that’s when I got to do normal things. Why would I want to do that?
I understand that even the very liberal Hollywood types turn into fascists once their bottom line is threatened.
It should be as hard to get welfare as it is getting a paycheck.
When the pro athlete’s ladies switched to Range Rovers I figure that pretty well did the Escalades in.
I thought Matt Moore the back up QB for the Dolphins looked a little silly wearing black stuff under his eyes in the rain.
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I’ve seen stations pass over a great weekend talent and hire a new full time guy when they had an opening. Reason being, it was quite often harder to fill the spot of a good reliable part time position than the full time gig..
I too believe there are two types of people in the world, those who think there are two types and those who don’t.
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