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Professor Mikey's Old School

Professor Mikey's Old School

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 The educational underground pirate radio Old School podcast with Professor Mikey featuring rarities, stories, and surprises from the last half of the 20th century. A eclectic variety of discovery for newer music lovers, a reconnection for the rest of us, present in a theme format that thinks outside the album cover. Rock, country, blues, and anything else that might have captured the 20th century imagination, updated for a newer audience while remaining a comfort to older rockers. Professor Mikey spent over 50,000 hours in various broadcast booths in 60-some markets, taking to the air at 16 a couple of months before The Beatles released Revolver. He rocked, informed, and amused his listeners in six different decades. Old School is his attempt to put it all together in a great set. He is confirmed AM-FM Positive.

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  • OS #27a All American Red, White, and Blue Mixtape

    OS #27a All American Red, White, and Blue Mixtape
    Jul 1 2025

    Happy Fourth, happy birthday, sail away to a few American tunes! It’s a special Old School All American Red, White, and Blue Mixtape. The stories are all on the podcast, so push play. It’s a holiday.

    Recommended for: long waits at the airport, backyard barbecues, setting off fireworks, flag waving, Constitution reading, taking the Fifth, drinking a Fifth, wishing for the Fifth, steering clear of the tainted potato salad, playing volleyball in the park, testing your waterproof earbuds, slipping on the Slip and Slide, and trying not to harsh the mellow of your dear old Uncle Sam.

    These tunes for good times from all times. Audio fireworks!

    Happy 4th of July from Professor Mikey's OLD SCHOOL! Share this with someone with whom you once spent the holiday.

    The Beach Boys. "Spirit of America" Little Deuce Coupe. Capitol, 1963.

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    Chuck Berry. "Back in the USA" The Great 28. Chess, 1964.

    Johnny Cash. "Ragged Old Flag" The Essential Johnny Cash. Columbia, 1974.

    Roger McGuinn. "The Ballad of Easy Rider" Easy Rider. Hip-O Records, 1969.

    Blitzen Trapper. "American Goldwing" American Goldwing. SubPop, 2011.

    John Prine. "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore" John Prine. Atlantic, 1971.

    Alice Cooper. "I Love America" Dada. Warner Bros, 1983.

    Bill Parsons (Bobby Bare). “All American Boy” Single. Fraternity, 1959.

    Stan Freberg. "Declaration of Independence "A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days"" Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America. Rhino, 1961

    Steppenwolf. “Monster/Suicide/America” Monster. ABC Dunhill Records, 1969.

    David Bowie. “I’m Afraid of Americans” Earthling. Virgin, 1997.

    Cat Power. "American Flag" Moon Pix. Matador, 1998.

    Ry Cooder. "FDR in Trinidad" Into the Purple Valley. Reprise, 1971.

    Bob Dylan. "Dear Mrs Roosevelt" Tribute to Woody Guthrie. Warner Bros, 1968.

    Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. "American Dream" American Dream. Atlantic, 1988.

    Spinal Tap. "America" This Is Spinal Tap. Polydor, 1984.

    James Brown. "Hey America" The Singles Vol 7 (1970-1972). Hip-O Select, 2009.

    Prince. "America" Single. Warner Bros, 1990.

    Stan Freberg. “Finale: “America, America! (Reprise) Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Vol. 2. Rhino, 1996.



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  • OS#85 Scenes from the Life of Brian

    OS#85 Scenes from the Life of Brian
    Jun 20 2025

    You have probably heard snips of “Surfin’ Safari” more in the past couple of weeks than at any time since it was released in October of 1962. That song, along with “Good Vibrations” and “Surfer Girl” highlight the fleeting media tributes to Brian Douglas Wilson (June 20, 1942 - June 11, 2025) the driving force behind The Beach Boys.

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    Luckily, Professor Mikey’s Old School goes a little longer and digs a little deeper than the usual media minute mourn. Still there isn’t enough time in one show to access the loss of an American rock n roll legend, who ruled the charts, the waves, the shoreline, and the hot California sand. But the attempt here will be to catch a wave and sit on top of the world.

    Brian didn’t surf. He was a composer, a bandleader, a singer, a keyboard and bass player, a producer, and a mysterious and reclusive giant of the American music scene. He was also a son, a brother, a cousin, a father, a label founder, a confounding genius, and an introverted wizard.

    There are tons of Brian Wilson stories and hopefully you will have time to hear them all. The tales of the Beach Boys are not all about the waves of Waimea and Malibu, bikinis and 409s. hallucinogens and cheese burgers, hot rod boys and surfer girls .

    Rather than trying to reconstruct a bio, or review a musical output of six plus decades, or watch a video of someone professing to have never listened to a Beach Boys track until they hit it big on YouTube, I have sailed the Sloop John B in a different direction. Whats next is an unsolved puzzle pieced together like the band might have done with reel to reel 60s and 70s snippets in the Sunset Sound Recording Studios.

    All the Wilson brothers are gone now. Dennis drowned in 1983 at Marina Del Ray about three weeks after his 39th birthday. Carl contracted lung cancer that moved to his brain and claimed him at 51 in 1998. Brian was 82.

    Don’t Worry Baby, everything will turn out all right. And now let’s roll tape and do some beachcombing on Professor Mikey’s Old School # 85: “Scenes from The Life of Brian.”

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    Beach Boy fans! Enjoy the roaring shredding of underground surf tunes. Tune in to the MONSTERS!!🦖🦖🦖



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  • OS#84 No Hit Wonders

    OS#84 No Hit Wonders
    Jun 9 2025
    Everybody knows about one-hit wonders. They may have had long semi successful recording careers, but at only one time in their entire career did the sun truly shine on them. They had that one song that came along at the perfect time, grabbed the public’s attention, and bought them a house on the outskirts of Palm Springs.So I started digging a little deeper. Deep in the Audio Closet of No Return are many albums by people you never heard of singing songs that were not widely heard outside of their mother’s kitchen.i may have doomed this episode by getting cute and calling it No-Hit Wonders. “No hits” will never fly with Top 40 limitations or Android Smoke Signals or Twenty First Century F F F Focus Groups. The pop music world thrives on success and an artist’s ability to make money for someone in a suit he or she will never meet. It’s a business of hits, not misses.As I started pulling albums that might fit the description, I found that many of the choices I made came from the early 80s. There is no scientific explanation. I was working for a station where music reps brought me stacks of albums. But new decades are a time of promise and possibilities.MTV didn’t start until August of 1981, so what you are about to hear is a collection of people who didn’t get to be big names just before video killed the radio star. It doesn’t mean they didn’t try. And, as you are about to discover, it doesn’t mean they produced sub par rock and roll. I dropped the needle through all of these albums and found songs I think history might have sadly overlooked.So much for the “no hitter.” From the Oscar broadcast, Franke Previte of Frankie and the Knockouts accepts the honors for writing “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” for Dirty Dancing.“That was Sweetheart from Franke and the Knockouts. It came and went in 1981. But the lead singer, Franke Previte would be remember for a much, much bigger song. In 1987 he got a call from the head of Millennium Record, Jimmy Ienner, who asked him if he would be available to compose something for an upcoming movie. When he was told the title, he thought he was being asked to write for a porn flick, and he was sure his career was sinking. The movie however, was Dirty Dancing. He joined co writers John DeNicola and Don Markowitz and their song not only bumped a Lionel Ritchie song for the climactic dance by Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Gray, the trio won Oscars for the best composition of the year.”It’s easy to say these weren’t particularly successful entertainment sources in their time, which for most of them seem to be on the cusp of a new decade. Through with the 70s, the 80s on top of them. A new unscripted baby of an era fairly unsure of what is about to happen, it only knows it is going to require a lot of mousse to replicate the glitzy Fifties, and for music and movies, an acceleration of drug use, particularly cocaine, on the highway to getting things done. For this handful of musicians the possibility of failure and being forgotten in a distant future is not there, like the haunted girl lost by the heartbroken Zombies in their debut hit of the 60s.You be the judge. This show is 100% vinyl, and about the same percentage obscure. But it wasn’t for lack of trying. From England we start with The Sinceros and a prophetic song called “Disappearing.” Get ready for Professor Mikey’s Old School #84: “No Hit Wonders: The Early 80s!”But if you have listened to as many records as an ancient DJ you have either lost all your audio tastebuds, or you have figured out that the music that comes out of an artist has little or nothing to do with the size of their bank accounts. Poverty struck down and outhouse cowboys have produced tear jerkers that rolled into the driveway in the rain with beautiful songs of heartache and redemption.⚾️PLAY (BALL) LIST(Coaches note: Batting order changed at the last minute)I’m So Attractive The Photos * I Don’t Wanna Hear It The Shoes * All Messed Up and Ready to Go The Records * Fotogenic Ellen Shipley * Hey You’re On the Run New England * Sweetheart Frankie and the Knockouts * Give Me a Little Time R.A.F. * At the End of the Day Mike Rutherford * Real Life Fast Fontaine * No Turning Back Sherbs * Disappearing The Sinceros * Fade to Grey VisageVisage fading to grey means we are coming to the end of the No Hit Wonders Old School podcast, and still no hits. Hopefully you got the point. Even the biggest hit makers sometimes find themselves in creative jungles. Chopping and charting through swamps and skullduggery, sure that whatever it takes to become a success has eluded them completely. Many of these artists disappeared or went different directions. Others persevered, sometimes into miserable failure. But other times they won the rock and roll.We close with a little known thematic project called Smallcreep’s Day. The artist is Mike Rutherford. He stayed in the background for a lot of his career. He was no ...
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