Professor Mikey’s OLD SCHOOL

By: Professor Mikey
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  • The past is a blast on Old School, the educational underground pirate radio podcast. DJ Professor Mikey curates vintage vinyl, recalls dope details and fills the air with audio archives from a half-century plus treasure pleasure of singles, albums, reel to reels, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs, and audio memorabilia.

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  • OS#75 A Graveyard Smash

    OS#75 A Graveyard Smash
    Oct 25 2024

    #75 A Graveyard Smash…the Party Tape

    Professor Mikey here with a haunted hour that is specific to Halloween. It’s the time of year when you need some innocent but creepy tunes to liven up a part, or to bluetooth the bushes outside your door for the trick or treaters.

    People are on the move, trying to see through the eye holes in their mask. Most will never get through listening to an entire song.

    It’s pretty safe stuff too as if anything is going to frighten the Old School #75. A Graveyard Smash, The Party Tape!

    HALLOWEEN WELCOME Zacharly

    PET SEMATARY The Ramones

    JACK THE RIPPER Screaming Lord Sutch

    ROCKIN’ ZOMBIE The Crewnecks

    HAUNTED CASTLE The Kingsmen

    HALLOWEEN The Misfits

    MIDNIGHT MONSTER’S HOP Jack and Jill

    MY SON THE VAMPIRE Alan Sherman

    CLAP TRAP The Vampires

    SWAMP GAL Tommy Bell

    BO MEETS THE MONSTER Bo Diddley

    PSYCHO The Sonics

    HALLOWEEN SPOOKS Lambert Hendricks and Ross

    CREATURE FROM OUTER SPACE Sonny Day & The Tony Ray Combo

    ROBOT The Tornados

    I WAS A TEENAGE CREATURE Lord Luther with The King’s Men

    I WAS A TEENAGE MONSTER The Keytones

    THE WEREWOLF Carl Bonafede and the Gem-Tones

    NIGHTMARE Abstracts

    GO GO GORILLA The Shandells

    THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN Roky Erickson and The Aliens

    THE CREATURE STOLE MY SURFBOARD Dead Elvi

    PSYCHIC VOODOO DOLL Deadbolt

    SPOOKS NIGHT OUT Legendary Invisible Men

    The past is a blast…

    Happy Halloween! Vote!



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  • OS#74 Totally Ghosted

    OS#74 Totally Ghosted
    Oct 6 2024

    Professor Mikey here, with a wild suspicion that the Old School is possibly haunted. Or the students are just ignoring their lessons until they disappear completely.

    Have you ever been ghosted? Has there been someone in your life, on your phone, in your texts, authors of mountains of email, even in your bed or at your breakfast table, who disappeared completely? The texts stopped completely. The emails bounce back like a daemon. All contact is dropped and the person we are talking about has disappeared from the face of everything electronic or otherwise?

    It’s a little jolting. Especially if they owe you money. And their Venmo account has been deleted

    As we roam the grooveyard grave yard, we find quite a few seasoned tracks that dealt with ghosts. Their haunts were of the more traditional variety, but if you listen closely you will hear more than just the occasional bump in the night.

    These tunes could have been written about being ghosted in modern times, where there is no nostalgia for anything.

    Tune in with me now as we travel in the mist through the ghost world of distilled spirits. It’s a bit scary, but so is this time of year. And so are the people who all cozy then disappear from Snapchat and Wickr me, Snapseed, Cluster, and Boo I’m a Ghost gram.

    This is Professor Mikey’s Old School Number 74. Totally Ghosted. Give a listen before it disappears forever…

    The unexpected death of Elvis Presley in 1977 sparked countless ghost stories, but one of the most persistent is about his spirit lingering not at CBS in New York where he did the Ed Sullivan Show, not in Viva Las Vegas but at his home in Memphis Tennessee. You know, Graceland, purchased by the King when he was just 22 years old for a price of $102,500 in 1957. Now one oh two five may sound like a lot of money, but keep in mind it came with 13 and a half acres of prime Tennessee countryside around it.

    Catching a glimpse of Elvis reflecting in the windows and mirrors, even in the Jungle room, has become a favorite activity for both staff and visitors over the years. Graceland is a pilgrimage site for fans, and many claim to feel an overwhelming presence of Elvis, especially around the anniversary of his death.

    👻Ghost of a Playlist

    Spirits in the Material World THE POLICE 1981

    The Ghost FLEETWOOD MAC 1972

    Ghost Train VIRGIL HOLMES 1961

    Ghost Train MARC COHN 1991

    Big Joe and the Phantom 309 TOM WAITS 1975

    Ghost Town THE SPECIALS 1981

    Ghost of a Texas Ladies Man CONCRETE BLONDE 1992

    Mr Ghost Goes to Town THE 5 JONES BOYS 1937

    Are You Lonesome Tonight? ELVIS PRESLEY 1960

    Midnight Stroll THE REVELS 1959

    Paris 1919 JOHN CALE 1973

    Dead Man’s Party OINGO BOINGO 1985

    Rock ‘N’ Roll Ghost THE REPLACEMENTS 1989

    The Ghost in You PSYCHEDELIC FURS 1984

    Some Eighties ghostings from Oingo Boingo, The Replacement, and coming up, the Psychedelic Furs. Professor Mikey here, about to disappear, only to show up again when we have another session of Old School session. All music you just heard resides in the public domain, was provided by the podcast originator, or resides within protections known as fair use, provided for in Section 107 of the copyright act of 1976.

    This has been episode 74, Totally Ghosted, an homage to disappearing in the right now, as well as the afterlife. Special thanks for commentary from Russell Brand, Don Knotts, Bob Hope, and the ghost of Graceland Elvis Presley. The talk show snip came from Virgin Radio in Montreal and just an FYI, everything got figured out. Shortly after the initial hookups, the guys beloved dog died, he went into grieving at the Pet Cemetary, and lost his new friend’s phone number. At least we got that cleared up.

    Ghosting is not new, people have been disappearing on people for years. What is new is the technology that makes hiding and identity shifting much easier. Be kind, rewind, and respect your fellow travelers. And while you are at it, remember to hit a like on Youtube, Spotify, Apple or wherever your podcasts appear! The newsletter is free, you can always get the latest podcast in your email. It comes with a player, you can skip podcasting software completely. Check it out at professormikey.substack.com. We return you now to your regularly scheduled random access surfing. Join us next time in the Old School, where the past is always a blast!

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  • OS#72 Side Trips

    OS#72 Side Trips
    Sep 17 2024
    Professor Mikey here. Thanks for marking the attendance sheet today on Old School. 🏫 Something you notice when you transcend from being a young punk disc jockey into being an old professorial spinner of the tunes, part gasbag, part profound, is …well…how you pick your music. Don’t get me wrong. There are lots of good golden oldie shows out there. And most of them are based on the number of listens that get piled up over 40 to 60 years. It’s like they are working for out of focus groups. If they say Eagles, the machine says Hotel California. If they say Fleetwood Mac the machine goes for Rhiannon. In the process, a lot of great tunes get forgotten or never heard by the new cool kids on the block.That’s were the vintage wine of the ones and twos kick in. Old DJs remember every song they ever played, as well as the people who dug the sounds that were going down.Human programmers can do something that never occurred to Algo and the Rhythms. They can take sidetrips that lead to who knows where. The destinations appear to them in visions about halfway through the current song thats being heard.Funny, that’s the theme of this edition of Old School. These are all destination songs, but not exactly road trip songs. These are all great places to go, but they might give Waze and Google Maps an error code, even if the kickoff tune started in New York City.Stay with me on this. The longer you listen the longer the tracking machines like it. There is one podcast for every three people on the planet now, so Old School needs all the help it can get. Hit subscribe and I’ll take you there.We have much ground to cover, so let’s get started. With the hard rock Beatle, John Lennon no less. And our first song is not Imagine. Or Strawberry Fields.Thanks for listening. This is Old School number 72. Buckle you seat belts. The destinations are all Side Trips! NEW YORK CITY John Lennon & Yoko Ono 197250,000 MILES BENEATH MY BRAIN Ten Years After 1970JOURNEY TO TYME Kenny and the Casuals 1965PRIMROSE HILL John and Beverly Martin 1970ONE WAY STREET Nine Below Zero 1971 SHAMBALA B. W. Stevenson 1973HITCHHIKE Marvin Gaye 1962STRANGER IN TOWN Del Shannon 1965CHELSEA Elvis Costello 1978BERLIN Lou Reed 1973SECRET LIFE OF ARABIA David Bowie 1977OKLAHOMA USA The Kinks 1971BILOXI Jessi Winchester 1970DEBRIS Faces 1971THE GIRL FROM MILL VALLEY Jeff Beck Group feat. Nicky Hopkins 1969PROMISED LAND Chuck Berry 1964A side trip is a wonderful thing in music when you are a disc jockey, free as a bird, without a corporate playlist or strict directions delivered by someone who doesn’t like music. Traditionally it means you are in the midst of a trip when you realize you wouldn’t have to go far out of your way to experience a completely different destination. You are at Disneyland, and find out Knott’s Berry Farm is just 7 miles away.In free form radio it means you have 3 or 4 minutes to find another record that will sound good after the one you are playing.For this episode #72 we chose from a number of possible musical destinations that were generated by musicians who may have been planning to do something else. You never know with these guys and girls.Twice we have pondered rock and roll destinations on Old School. I’ll put the links at the bottom of the newsletter page, which you can get to for free at professormikey.substack.com. They will get you to Episode 25, Omaha Shout, a theme show about place names that may or may not have come from Peyton Manning while trying to throw the defense into confusion. It featured powerful yet easy to understand directions from Moby Grape, Nina Simone, and the Dead Kennedys. Great city songs from Episode 21, “Location Location Location” worked a real estate vibe with classic recordings from The Runaways, The Jam, Porter Wagoner, and T Rex.As always Professor Mikey hopes Old School is becoming your jam. If you hear this on Spotify, just a comment or any kind of signal that the the Spotify empire in Stockholm might see or hear. Old School is produced for educational purposes, with whole songs coming from the public domain, with encouragement from labels from years gone by, or are used within the guidelines of fair use stipulated in Section 107 of the copyright act of 1967. It was a very good year.Thanks again for listening, avoid dead air, and I’ll be back very soon with another edition of Old School. The past is a blast!Links to similar side trips This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit professormikey.substack.com/subscribe
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