Have You Heard About the Big One That Got Away?
{ Editor’s note 12-7-2022: With word this week of the passing of my longtime radio cohort Wakeman “Gator” Linscomb, I’m re-posting this one about our Bosto…
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Airlift Mike And My Time With “The Saints”
While I daily walk with ‘the saints’ – ya know, guys like Paul/Saul of Tarsus, Francis (of Assisi), Sister Thecla, et al – this post is all about my years…
WIFI-92, The City of Brotherly Love & John St. John: The Rear View Mirror
In 1982, Philadelphia moved to a different beat in a different world. And I was fortunate and blessed to make radio magic there, shoulder-to-shoulder, with…
Confucius + John Saint John = Airlift Productions
It was the ancient Chinese sage Confucius who once said, “Choose work that you love… and you will never have to work a day in your life”. Joseph Campbell a…
Mike McCann/John Saint John… Goes Country?
With Ken Burns’ epic PBS mini-series documentary on Country Music now being splashed across flat screens all across America, someone cue the “flash-back” h…
Mike Pintek, Airlift Mike, WKBO, KDKA & The Keystone State
I first met Mike Pintek in 1975 at a quaint 1,000 watt radio station in a far off land known as Pennsylvania. It was WKBO radio in Harrisburg, PA and, as…
Airlift Mike Mixes It Up With Todd Rundgren
Alrighty then, avid blog readers, let’s lace-up the Nikes for yet another jog down memory lane … now forty-three years in the rear view mirror, the year is…
McCann, Walton & Johnson On-Air At Q93-WQUE, 1984
The world sure was a different place in 1984. Ronald Reagan sat in the White House, America was watching ‘Cosby’ & ‘Family Ties’ on cathode ray tubes, Wend…
Airlift Productions Goes LIVE ON-AIR In San Francisco?
The email from KALW Radio & Stanford University came to my attention in mid-April. The producer – Devon Strolovitch – was looking for a New Orleans-based r…
One Angel Down … Airlift Productions Still Blue
It’s all over the news this April 2017 week in New Orleans. The Navy’s Blue Angels return, after a six year hiatus, to Belle Chasse for another air show. A…
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