Andy's Treasure Trove – Details, episodes & analysis

Mentioned In This Episode: Rusty Frank Tom Lehrer Mary Holmes Charles Selberg Cindy Catlin Jon Zerby Katie Zerby Louis DaPron Miriam Nelson Gerald Nachman Shirley Temple Fayard Nicholas The Nicholas Brothers Leonard Reed Willie Bryant Frances Nealy Gene Nelson Toy and Wing Bill “Bojangles” Robinson DaCapo Press Peg Leg Bates Wayne Doba Rodney Price Six Feet – A Tap Trio Stepping Out The Lindy Hop Patti Meagher Walter Freeman Babes In Arms Dames At Sea 42nd Street

Come along with Andy and his friend Brooks Collins of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as they search the hills near San Francisco International Airport for the wreckage of Flying Tiger Airlines flight 282, which crashed there in 1964, right near the spot where Gaspar de Portola's 1769 expedition became the first Europeans to behold San Francisco Bay. Brooks is a great conversationalist and he’s knowledgeable in an astonishing number of topics, so our conversation ranges from air wreck adventuring and archeology to particle physics, mirages, Nike missile bases, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, tunnel boring, raptors, and many other topics. Andy, as usual, asks a lot of questions and makes quirky attempts to be amusing.

Check-six.com page for this crash: http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Flying_Tiger_282.htm

Lockheed Constellation:

Wreckage from flight 282:

Brooks Collins:

A salute to the pioneering comedy team of Bob & Ray, featuring a new interview with Bob Elliott, many excerpts from Bob & Ray recordings, and some recent appreciative comments by another comedy great Tom Lehrer. Host Andy Moore is “mighty grateful” to know Bob Elliott & Tom Lehrer, and wishes he had met Ray Goulding. All Bob & Ray recordings are available on Amazon.com

Keywords for Episode 17: Bob & Ray, Bob Elliott, Ray Goulding, Tom Lehrer, Wally Ballou, Boston, radio, WHDH, Fisherman’s News Service, Sunny Side Up, Robert Benchley, Kurt Vonnegut, Maine, Matinee with Bob & Ray, Jack Headstrong, Grit, Smurge, Whiff, Einbinder Flypaper, NBC, Aunt Penny’s Sunlit Kitchen, Hard Luck Stories, The Word Wizard, Garish Summit, One Fella’s Family, Just Fancy Dan, the Barber of Hartsdale, Just Plain Bill, Mr. Treat, Chaser of Lost Persons, man on the street, Tippy the Wonder Dog, Tom Cook, The Gathering Dusk, Mary Backstayge Cast Party, Grand National Spelling Bee, Steven Wright, Seinfeld, Charles the Poet, Slow Talkers of America, Mary McGoon’s Recipe for Frozen Ginger Ale Salad, Chris Elliott, Abby Elliott, Two Rode West, David Pollock, Bob and Ray—Keener Than Most Persons, Amazon.com

Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia, Stagestruck, and many others. Andy chats with Sarah about, among other things, her keen interest in Wilhelm Reich, her self-admitted graphomania, the film festival she co-directs every year in New York with Jim Hubbard, and the documentary that she and Jim made about the activist organization ACTUP called United in Anger, a History of Act Up. Appearing in some of Sarah’s anecdotes are Woody Allen, Richard Nixon, James Baldwin and Alexander Kerensky. Who was Alexander Kerensky? Listen and find out.

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Keywords and links:
Sarah Schulman, After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohemia, Stagestruck, Jim Hubbard, ACT-UP, United in Anger: A History of ACT-UP, Woody Allen, Richard Nixon, James Baldwin, Alexander Kerensky, Petit Versailles, Yaffa Cafe, Wilhelm Reich, Sexpol, sexual politics,The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Orgone, Wilhelm Reich Observatory, William Burroughs, Jeffrey Skoller, Orson Bean, Me And The Orgone, Esalen, To Tell the Truth, Fury On Earth: A Biography Of Wilhelm Reich, Loon Lodge, graphomania, The Child, Diamanda Galas, Nan Goldin, Martin Luther King, Letter from Birmingham Jail, ACT-UP Oral History Project, President Obama, Shopwell, Dark Shadows, Bob & Ray, Bob Elliot, Dr. Andrew Weil. Sarah’s Amazon page: http://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Schulman/e/B000AP923G Her facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/sarah.schulman.56

Episode 15 begins with a mammoth roll of thunder recorded here in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Then there’s a 2.5 min. interview with Becky Haycox (winner of the recent iPod contest) about the “science quilts” she is making in Ventura, California. After that we talk with Lorenzo Barrar, a 12-year-old jeweler and mycologist who has spent most of his life in a forest near Gualala, California. Lorenzo talks about his mushroom hunting and jewelry-making, and the rewards that close observation of nature provides (11 min.). Then the main event—my interview with singer/songwriter Candace Roberts, along with tuneful excerpts from her album Honeymoon for One (33 min.). The episode closes with some voicemail messages left by listeners on the Andy’s Treasure Trove Listener Call-in Line (415-508-4084). Please add your comments by calling that number and leaving a message for me or for the whole Treasure Trove audience. This is your opportunity for immortality! And please tell your friends about Andy’s Treasure Trove—a new contest is coming soon!

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Explore Candace Roberts and her album Honeymoon for One at www.candaceroberts.com

Keywords and links:
Thunder, San Francisco, Becky Haycox, science quilts, Ventura, Lorenzo Barrar, mycology, mushrooms, marasmius mushroom, chanterelle mushroom, black trumpet mushroom, death trumpet mushroom, hedgehog mushroom, jewelry-making, antique jewelry, Gualala, CA, Roots Originals, Point Arena, CA, Candace Roberts, Honeymoon for One, Kazakhstan, Walton-on-Thames, England, Sarah Schulman.

Episode 14 is a very short episode. We’re going to hear from Orson Welles as he struggles to record some TV commercials. But first I will announce the winner of the contest for the Apple iPod that was based on the name of Manny Roth’s home-made bread from Episode 12. Remember fartbread?

The Orson Welles recording was sent to me by a listener who got it from a friend. You may laugh, you may cry, but you’ll never forget Orson’s sonorous intonations about peas, beef and cod.

And now, imagine that you are a fly on the wall of a recording studio where filmmaking genius Orson Welles is recording narration for TV commercials, and not having a very easy time of it…

Singer Richard Conrad is interviewed, and he reflects back on a career that got a big boost early on from opera superstar Joan Sutherland and her husband Richard Bonynge when they asked him to record The Age of Bel Canto with them and Marilyn Horne in 1963. During our discussion he’ll talk about those days, and about Gilbert & Sullivan, Noel Coward and many other notables in the music world. Richard also tells us a joke he told to Noel Coward that made Coward fall down laughing, and he tells about a hilarious men’s room encounter with none other than…Adlai Stevenson! I ask you, where else can you get this kind of programming? At the close of the episode, Andy reminds listeners to enter the drawing for a free iPod by calling 415-508-4084 and saying the secret word (found at 18 min., 20 sec. into Episode 12). Happy listening!

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Keywords and links:
Richard Conrad, Home, Sweet Home, Sir Henry Bishop, William Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Marilyn Horne, The Age of Bel Canto, Hughes Cuenod, Angiol di Pace, Beatrice di Tenda, Daniel Pinkham, Noel Coward, Tom Lehrer, W.S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Gilbert and Sullivan, Eleanor Steber, Adlai Stevenson, Vencenzo Bellni, Angiol di Pace (from Beatrice di Tenda), The Major General’s Song, The Pirates of Penzance.

Selected Discography of Richard Conrad:
London Records: Baroque and Bel Canto Opera
Westminster-Music Guild: Baroque Sacred Cantatas
Composers Recordings: 20th-century vocal music
Telefunken: Handel Opera
Northeastern Records: 20th-century vocal music
MMO: Porgy and Bess, Can Can, Showboat
Pearl Records: Songs and Ballads by Arthur Sullivan
Newport Classic: Songs of Noel Coward
Naxos: Vanessa
Arsis: The Cask of Amontillado by Daniel Pinkham

Episode 12 starts with music from the new album Honeymoon for One by Candace Roberts. Then Andy interviews Manny Roth, who ran the famous Cafe Wha? in New York City, presenting up-and-coming entertainers like Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, Peter, Paul & Mary, Richard Pryor, Jimi Hendrix and many others. Manny tells us about his childhood in Indiana, his stint as a flyer and as a USO show coordinator in WWII, and then about his arrival in Greenwich Village and the start of his cafe and night club empire.

This episode has a contest/drawing, and the prize is a brand new Apple iPod Shuffle (I know I say “Nano” in the show but it’s only a Shuffle).

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Cafe Wha?
Photos by Michael Zucker
Keywords and Links:
Candace Roberts, Honeymoon for One, Manny Roth, Bob Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Jimi Hendrix, Kiev, Russia, Vilna, Poland, Newcastle, Indiana, Chrysler, Indiana University, University of Miami, Army Air Corps, World War Two, WWII, Snoopy, B-17 bomber, USO shows, Wiesbaden Opera House, Kate Smith, Muncie, John Wayne, army/navy goods, American Theater Wing, GI Bill, Lee Strasberg, Will Lee, Thelma Schnee, Bill Kirkland, Jason Robards, Marlon Brando, Greenwich Village, Bleecker Street, Tribeca, The Bowery, Vatican City Religious Bookshop, Cafe Theater Cock and Bull, Tom Zeigler, Le Figaro Cafe, Cafe Wha?, Macdougal Street, Lou Gossett, Godfrey Cambridge, hootenanny, Bobby Zimmerman, Woody Allen, Tiny Tim, Dino Valenti, The Quicksilver Messenger Service, Lenny Bruce, Maxwell Bodenheim, Shane O’Neill, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Valerie Solanas, Andy Warhol, Johnny Brent, Lou Reed, the Tonight Show, the Rudy Vallee Show, Johnny Carson, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Bill Hicks, David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Van Halen, Michael Zucker, Brandon Roth.

Episode 10 is dedicated to Andy's favorite film festival in San Francisco, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. You’ll hear his conversations with noted film critic and TV personality Leonard Maltin of Entertainment Tonight fame. There's a conversation with Suzanne Lloyd, the Granddaughter of cinematic genius Harold Lloyd. Andy chats and chews with Canadian director Guy Maddin, and talks to pipe organ wizards Edward Stout and Clark Wilson. You'll hear live performances of the musical scores from some of the films at the Festival, just as they were intended to be performed back in the late 1920’s when the silent film era was at its zenith. You'll also hear lots of laughter from the 2,000 people at the festival. Add in a couple of impromptu lobby discussions with other festival-goers, and you've got a great podcast episode! Enjoy!

Keywords and links for this episode:
San Francisco Silent Film Festival, Castro Theatre, silent films, live music, Wurlitzer theater pipe organs, Leonard Maltin, Suzanne Lloyd, Harold Lloyd, Guy Maddin, Todd Browning, "The Unknown" , Edward Stout, Clark Wilson, musical scores, "The Kid Brother" , the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, prosthetic hand, 3-D photography, camera movement, movies on television, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), David Packard, Counterculture Era, "Casablanca," , "The Unknown" , Lon Chaney Sr., Winnipeg, San Francisco NoirFest, melodrama, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney Jr. , "La Roue" , "The Last Laugh" , Abel Gance, "Days of Heaven", ice cream, "Two Timid Souls" , Odile Lavaux, The Baguette Quartette, Patrick Hoctel, Natalja Vekic, Cary Grant, Samuel Beckett, Vera Ellen, Edward Stout, Clark Wilson, "The Patsy" , George Wright, San Francisco Fox Theater, Oakland Paramount Theater, Golden Gate Theater, Grace Cathedral, Dick Taylor, Taylor Family, Mel Novikoff, Stanford Theater, California Theater, San Jose, Grand Lake Theater, cue sheet, lead lines, music cue, ranks of organ pipes, "The Man Who Laughs"