Arnie Winrob helped us out with that. He ran a car rental place (he used to walk around saying "Hi! This is Ken Chan for Big O Tires!") and had been involved in the Luxe Radio Plays, usually as a musician. Arnie showed up one day with an unclaimed collection of The Columbia School of Broadcasting records that had been left in the trunk of a rented car. FRANK: Say Bob. Why is your voice so low and mellow, and why are you able to talk for so long without breathing. BOB: That's because of rubber band breathing, Frank. FRANK: Gee Bob, I've never heard of rubber band breathing. What is it? That's what the records were like. We played them on the air sometimes as a means of using radio to poke fun at itself and gradually, unconsciously, whether we liked it or not, our radio voices changed because of this exposure. After a few weeks the station changed our time slot to Saturday evenings and the length of the show went from a half hour to an hour and a half. In fact, because it was the last show in the evening it was open ended and bands would come in, poets, or visiting artists and we'd open the phone lines. |