Tomorrow is another big interview on Divaville Lounge: Rod Hungerford, who served in the US Navy during World War II, was kind enough to talk to me about his experiences. The interview was recorded in September and was intended for Veteran's Day. But life got in the way: I had to postpone it a week because of the election, and then another week because I was sick.
I hope everyone who's interested in WWII or wartime music will tune in! Tomorrow from 2-4 pm eastern time. 88.7 if you're local, or the webcast at wxdu.org.
So the show is tomorrow, and I've spent all day preparing the audio. Rod was great to interview, articulate with lots of vivid memories to share. I hope that comes across in the show. Georg has been wonderful, helping me with music selection while I've been working on the interview. We have to pick out songs to go in between the talksets, and also instrumentals to play underneath each interview segment. The songs have to relate to the interview content, and the instrumentals have to be the right length and also the right tone. For instance you wouldn't want a swingy upbeat number under the part where Rod talks about his brother being a prisoner of war in the Philippines for three years. And the entire program has to time out to exactly 2 hours. Well actually, I've noticed that most songs end a few seconds before the track ends. In other words there's about 5 seconds of dead air at the end of each track. On my flowsheet I like to pad these shows out to about 2:01, to make up for those few seconds I'm losing at the end of each track. Otherwise the actual show would run short. So there's more to the music selection than you might think. It can get complicated.
I just finished editing the last interview segment, and I'm tired. In the morning I'm going to put the music and the talksets together, make sure it all still times out, and burn it onto CD. And then I'll be ready to go! Because half the show is pre-recorded, I won't have to talk hardly at all. I'm glad because my voice is still bothering me.
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