I think the show went well! There were a couple of moments of confusion but nothing that was apparent on air, I think. The Hanukkah celebration was really fun. We waited until about 4:45 so that the sun went down and Hanukkah officially began during that part of the show. That Music from the Yiddish Radio Project album is fantastic. I really want to learn more about the Barry Sisters. The Irving Fields album is great too, but it's all instrumentals so it wouldn't be as easy to work into my show.
We got lots of great requests (one of which stumped us! That doesn't happen often) and a call from the King of Jingaling! He had commented on my blog here, so I wrote to him this morning and told him about Divaville Lounge. I had assumed he'd be too busy to listen now & told him about the "Wayback Machine" show on the 28th. But he had time to tune in today! When he called, he said he was listening while he prepared some music files to upload this afternoon. Speaking of which, I need to check and see what was uploaded today.
Georg and I are both exhausted. Four hours is a long time to be on the air, and then the next dj didn't show up! The guys who were supposed to be on at 7 were listening at 6 and heard us say so, so they came over early, and we got to leave about 6:25. Thank you, Eric and Myles! The funny thing is, if the 6-7 show had been listed as open I probably would have signed up to do it. But it wasn't on the sub list so I assumed that whoever does it normally was going to be there. Then as 6 pm approached it was difficult to plan the show, since we had no idea whether we were going to be on for a few more minutes or another hour. I find there's a big difference between knowing you're going to be on the air for X amount of time, versus having to do it on a moment's notice when you had planned to be on for a shorter length of time.
I'm going to write to the programming director and try to find out whether anyone is going to show up next week. Next week's show will have a preplanned flowsheet so it really would be a problem to have to unexpectedly fill 20 minutes (or an hour) at the end. I could easily plan the show to be longer, but having it happen without warning would be a mess.
My friend Mike used to have some sort of ancillary printed matter of Mr. Peabody -- a children's book or a comic or something -- which spelled it WABAC machine. That made much more sense as a joke at the time, so I always use that version. Alas, Mike and I seem to be alone in this issue.
I can confirm the WABAC spelling from a number of sources, including the Rocky and Bullwinkle role-playing game. (No lie!)