“O hai. I’z in ur radio crackin’ mahself ups.”
- Wow, recording a full story for radio is really hard work! You have to slow way down, waaaaaay down, when you read, and then, sometimes, you have to say stuff over and over and over again. “Okay, now try it this way…” and then, sometimes, if you’re me (which I am), you lose your place because you’re a little bit nervous even though there is no reason for you to be except for the sheer nerdtastic excitement of the fact that you’re in your local NPR studio and all the way across the country is Tony Kahn in his NPR studio and there he is, also, in your headphones!
Here’s a little video in which I do not entirely mangle this delightful 1936 tune. This is the fourth take. I’m posting it with mistakes, crazy bed head hair, and the dropped last couple of seconds because who do I think I am, Madonna? I have no stylist, video production crew, sound engineer, or, oh, yeah, shame. It’s a .wmv file, you’ll need Windows Media Player to watch it.
Sometime back I learned to play this song for a workshop on alternate chord use and playing by ear.… continued…
Production notes: The ocean sound is from the indispensable Freesound. The music is from Blue Hawaii, nothing says cartoon beach cliche like Elvis. I produced this podcast using MixMeister Propaganda. The full text is below the jump.… continued…
I got some nice mail about this bit, so I’ve recorded it. The music is Nanci Griffith, Morning Song for Sally, off Other Voices, Other Rooms. The birdsong is from a cool site called Freesound where there’s loads of stuff for aspiring podcasters and audio nerds to use in their work.
It’s been a while since I’ve made one of these, I forgot, it’s fun.
[tags]podcast, Husum, audio postcard[/tags]… continued…
