That's Curious George
Delilah who was born Delilah Luke said that her parents named her older brother Matthew Mark Luke as a bit of a joke. They went on to name her after the notorious woman in the Bible who sheared Sampson’s locks, as a cheeky exclamation mark.
When I moved to Indiana from Canada, I knew about Hockey not Basketball. It wasn’t long until I learned I was in the hot bed of basketball and that the two topics talked about most were the Indy 500 and IU Basketball. If you didn’t talk those two subjects there wasn’t a lot of conversation.
IU was led by Bobby Knight who seemed to be winning national championships or being on the verge of winning them most of the time.
When I moved to California, I later learned that the school had tired of his antics and dumped him. Hmmmmmmm I wonder how their recruitment program is going these days.
A few years ago I had lunch with Trace Adkins who told me he was afraid to go back to his home town because he already had three #1′s under his belt but unfortunately no money.
He was sure his hometown could hardly wait for him to show up because they probably expected him to build a new wing on the hospital. The only thing Trace had received so far for his efforts was a pick up truck for doing a TV spot, which he gave to his Daddy.
When he called his friend Tim McGraw and asked him when he thought some f***ing money would show up. Tim thought he was still about 3 hits away.
Who was it and when was it decided that all lands, businesses and holdings should go back to the original owners of the losing nation after a war. Was that shortly after the Indian Wars and who forgot to tell Castro.
We are all equal as long as we continue to fight our natural instincts.
I wonder what Peyton Manning really thinks of the two most recent big decisions made by his rookie coach. The first being not to go for the perfect season and the next, playing the Superbowl not to lose. ( prevent defense).
The way I see it that’s two! I don’t think even Peyton will have to worry about it because I think the Indiana season ticket holders will decide how many more he has.
The way it works the best in show biz is, you mimic your idol and what you generally end up with is the next real you.
Don’t you think some entertainers are so drunk with applause that they didn’t even notice when they were over.
What I like most about Arbitron’s PPM is it takes most of the lies out of the results.
Maybe the perfect rating service would be the one that only measures people who buy things.
A few years ago I went to a seminar in DC that George Burns put on. At the start George said … I see we have the Godfather of A/C in the house, George Johns. I turned to my associate Jamie Gold and whispered, Godfather of A/C, I like that, and I think it sounds very neat. She whispered back … I believe he said Grandfather!
How come every time you see those men working signs you never see any men working.
Is there any doubt that LeBron James is New York bound, he just looks “New York”.
There are 3 coverage maps for each and every radio station. The Owner’s is the largest, the Sales Department’s is only slightly smaller and the Engineer’s is the smallest of all. The PD of course claims he cant hear the radio station anywhere.
Robin Marshall told me she wants to be the “Anti” Delilah. I can hardly wait to hear what that is. But what ever it is I’m sure Delilah has done it in real life.
Women forgive, but they never forget except of course for their own little indiscretions.
A lot of support people think that the place couldn’t run without them, little do they know that there is a meeting going on right now trying figure out how to do that very thing.
On air radio people are the only people in the whole show biz world who think they can conceptualize, write, produce, and perform a radio show all by themselves. I wonder if that’s why they are the least paid in all of the entertainment world even though they have the larger of all the audiences.
Lets review again the four topics men talk about when they are hangin’ out with each other. (1) Sex (2) Sports (3) Work (4) Sex
Canadians on a whole don’t think they are really as good as Americans. Australians on the other hand think they are a whole lot better than the Americans.
I don’t know where either of them got their thinking.
Leaders are very visionary and it’s the passion they use to attack their vision with, that causes people to follow them.
It continues to amaze me that air talent want to make a big deal about it being the end of their show each day. All the hit TV shows don’t end, they continue week after week after week, until everybody is rich. Then they end.
Dion told me at breakfast that he came home from school one day to find his kitchen filled with looked like the cast of Sopranos. One of them said to him, hey your father here has been bragging a lot about you in the bar down the street. He claims you and your buddies The Belmonts have a hit record. Well we know how to help you with that kind of stuff so we are here to listen to the record and see what we got.
Dion put the record on and after about 30 seconds the same guy say to Dion’s Father … Your son sounds like he’s singing through a dish rag, then they turned around and left. Dion said, it was the luckiest day of his life.
Many years ago when I left The Jury to get into radio, Randy Bachman tried to recruit me for The Guess Who. I told him I wasn’t good enough to play for them. Randy said he could teach me the music stuff, but it was all that other stuff I do that the Guess Who needed.
Carole King said most of the songs she wrote back in the late 50′s and early 60′s were about sex, and women’s fear of having it.
Contrary to public opinion I do think radio sales is a very worthy profession, hey everyone cant sing or dance somebody has to sell the tickets. I just wish they didn’t make such a big deal about it.
Don’t you just love it when the ticket sellers come out of their little booths up front and approach the stage to give us a little free advice on how they think we could and should fix the play.
Oh oh! I’m going to hear from Barry O’ Brien now because he especially loves it whenever I give out my little “sales hugs”
Because New Orleans won the Super Bowl I guess, Who Dat ? – The Jury has been posted on you tube http://.youtube.com/watch?v=XDmGSgLikvk
We released it in 1967 the same year as The New Orleans Saints and my daughter Candis were born.
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