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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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  • WORLD WAR II RADIO CHRISTMAS (Enhanced)

    WORLD WAR II RADIO CHRISTMAS (Enhanced)
    Dec 5 2025

    Hello and happy holidays from the war zone! This edition is mostly about the audio which you can click on above. Subscribers can download it as a podcast. This show was originally aired in 2023, but it is evergreen to go every December from here on out. If you are a member of the Greatest Generation, or have one as friend or family, you will get a kick out of V for Victory and X for Xmas. Compiled from archival sources, it rolls like a tank into Berlin, blaring radio broadcasts, big bands, commentators, celebrities, and many more memories that bring you home for Christmas.

    As we get further away in time from the second World War, we tend to lose track of what life felt like during wartime.

    America’s entry into World War Two began 17 days before Christmas on Dec 8, 1941. For the next five holiday seasons “peace on earth” went on hiatus.

    What you’ll hear is not a history of World War Two, or a sugar plum romp through precarious yuletides. Most of this originated at Christmas time and was constantly by interrupted by breaking bulletins. It is a sound montage that features the newscasters and entertainers of the time communicating with their vast unseen audiences.

    It is a dark time. For much of the world, 1941 marks the third year of a war that has seen the German occupation of many European countries. War does not take a holiday.

    On the radio, it’s bombs and jingle all the way, starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, the Andrews Sisters, Abbot and Costello, Fats Waller, Benny Goodman, Judy Garland, Francis Langford, Dinah Shore, Glenn Miller, and the men and women of the greatest generation.



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    59 minutos
  • OS88- Freedom of the Press (I Heard the News)

    OS88- Freedom of the Press (I Heard the News)
    Nov 18 2025
    Professor Mikey here in the Old School, with a podcast that celebrates Freedom of the Press, the true buzz you get when you are kept aware of the world going on around you by true professionals who have no fear about job security because they have been hired to tell the truth.You got it. A rock and roll Old School episode that shouts out the greatest of newspapers like the New York Times , Mother Jones, and Rolling Stone. The best news reporters, like Walter Cronkite, John Chancellor, Clark Kent, and Kaitlin Collins. The best journalists like Lester Bangs, Anderson Cooper, Lillian Hellman, and Hunter S. Thompson. The list goes on. But this is a cautionary tale because we really only think about Freedom of the Press when it is under attack.Before we rock, take note that in 2005 American newspapers reached 50 million readers. Today that number is down to below 20 million. Newspapers are shutting down at the rate of about ten a month. Over the last 20 years 2,866 newspapers have vanished.Being aware of the news was always on the minds of rock stars. Like Elvis said:“I heard the news, I heard the news, I heard the news. There’s good rocking tonight.) John and Paul read the news today, oh boy. Bob Dylan knew you didn’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.Any relationship between the news of the past and what’s happening today is strictly intentional. I’m just waiting for Rachel Maddow to quote Janis Joplin: “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”The number of newspapers are down, but great news coverage is available on your phone. If you ever hear anyone publicly bashing news and truth, justice and the American way be suspicious. Be very suspicious.Coming up we drop the needle on REM from their 1987 album Document. Joe McCarthy, the junior senator from Wisconsin made a lot of headlines in the early 50s as he carried out an honest to witch witch hunt across government and military lines in an attempt to out alleged communists. Finding Communists in the State Department was McCarthy’s generations weapons of mass destruction. What tripped him up was the Freedom of the Press, as championed by Edward R Murrow. Here’s the story behind the song Exhuming McCarthy from REM:The First Amendment is always #1 on the charts and it should be in our hearts and minds.Thanks for reading Professor Mikey's OLD SCHOOL! This post is public so feel free to share it.🇺🇸Freedom of the Playlist🏴‍☠️📻Extra Extra*Tommy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1975)/Sunday Papers*Joe Jackson (1979)/Yesterday’s Papers*The Rollling Stones (1967)/News of the World*The Cure (1978)/Newspaper Mama*Peter Combe (1988)/Get Your Paper*Eddie Fisher (1953)/You Haven’t Done Nothing*Stevie Wonder (1974)/Don’t Believe the Hype*Public Enemy (1988)/The Revolution Will Not Be Televised*Gil-Scott Heron (1971)/TV Weatherman*Lothar and the Hand People (1968)/Exhuming Joe McCarthy*REM (1987)/ Pledging My Love*Johnny Ace/The Late Great Johnny Ace*Paul Simon/A Day in the Life ()*The Beatles (1967)/7:00 News-Silent Night*Simon and Garfunkel (1966)Amendment 1️⃣Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.Most of what you have just heard was inspired by the news of the day, something that has been protected by our revolutionary forefathers since 1789 when it was ratified in the original Bill of Rights. Much of this has referred to the importance as well as the commonality of a free press. Our closing set however is a bit more personal. Songs about how we remember where we were or what we were doing when we heard disturbing news.It begins with Johnny Ace, a 25 year old singing star who accidentally took his own life backstage in Houston Texas on December 25, 1954.Early reports suggested a game of Russian Roulette. Later eyewitness reports said that Ace had been drinking, and was merely playing with his pistol. As for “Pledging My Love” it hit #1 on the R&B chart on February 12, 1955 and stayed there for 10 weeks. Sad but true Johnny Ace became the first act to reach the Billboard pop charts only after death.Nearly 30 years later, Paul Simon wrote about the event in the second song in the set.” In that one he mentions another artist, who sings in the following song about the demise of a 21 year old Irish socialite. Because this song is so famous, Old School decided to air a lesser known version of various outtakes recorded in January and February of 1967, about a month after the fatal car accident that inspired the work in the first place.As we near the 60th anniversary of the recording of the last song, Paul Simon returns with partner Art Garfunkel to perform a Christmas song that was first recorded in 1905. The duo recorded it over a series of 1966 headlines, ...
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    58 minutos
  • OS87: "6 7-Minute Songs" *Free Version*

    OS87: "6 7-Minute Songs" *Free Version*
    Oct 28 2025
    Apologies for your inbox getting this twice, but there was a bit of a glitch yesterday when I so carefully posted this episode a 6:07 am. I have a series of little boxes to check on this end, and missed the free/paid section kaboom. Paid subscribers were fine, those you who have received free subscriptions from me are the same as paid (I’m always happy to deal those out, just ask), but for many there was this insidious paywall. That in turn screwed up Spotify to whom I have made a solemn promise never to touch their money so they can play the artists we all love to hear and rake in the bank. Other podcast carriers who carry Old School kind of got broadsided also. SO! Here is the show, sent as free, that will fix all that chain of Old School distribution and get the show out there for all the people who have time to hear 6-7 minute songs, return to the glorious past of rock and roll and blunt the effects of the current future where we are caught like in the really cold part of Frozen. Enjoy, share and Cher alike. (Yes, Cher appears in this newsletter. See if you can find her. Answer to the mystery in the next episode with the working title “Freedom of the Press (I Heard the News)” come soon, free and in living color to a screen near you. Rock on.I knew nothing about the South Park/TikTok thing about 6 7 when I first saw that episode, but I thought hey, I feel a podcast coming on. Now the world has had about 40 crises since that was a thing for a day or two, but I think you will like the show that it inspire.,Put bluntly this is a simple show made up of six 7-minute songs. Back in the day of free form FM Underground the long song became a thing along with long sets with lots of segues and minimum chatter. Focus groups found out listeners tune in to music stations to hear music. Pay them and send they home.These six seven minute songs were fun to listen to for the most part, and if you were pulling a 6 or 7 hour shift, it meant you might get a little break. Hell Inna Gadda Da Vida was 17 minutes of Iron Butterfly flight, long enough for the DJ to go outside and have some fresh open air. Or it might make for a reasonable bio break, or a trip across the street to the convenience store to grab a 67 cent hot dog and a quarter soda, and be back just in time for the song to end.But I digress. Here we are in a worse future than anyone ever imagined. It’s like we are in the in between times that come after the good Old School days and the New Hope that starts off all the Star Wars Movies.Here is a quick unguided detour to 1971, ‘77, ‘71’ ‘85, ‘84’ and ‘85. It is a flow set and not a subject set, a lot of these were war horses on classic rock stations and now they have completely disappeared from the airwaves, just like all the good times. Can you dig it? I knew that you could. The newsletter has a coded playlist. But no spoilers means no front announces, no backsells, no rock critics, but maybe a few 18 year olds listening to these songs for the first time and putting their reactions up for 3 million viewers on YouTube. Hear are Six Seven Minute songs with no interruptions. Memories, discovery, and a rocking trip to anywhere you want to go. Old School # 87: “Six Seven Minute Songs.”Quick explanation courtesy of NBC’s “The Today Show”What Do Kids Mean When They Say 67?It doesn’t mean anything, which means that it can mean everything. Know what we mean?Oct. 21, 2025, 9:15 AM MDTRachel AskinasiIs your child walking around the house answering all questions with the words “six seven”? Are you deeply confused as to what it means? The TODAY.com team is here to help.You may be seeing it written out on social media as “67,” implying a pronunciation of “sixty-seven,” but it’s actually being said as “six seven” and often is accompanied by a double hand gesture you would use to tell someone that you’re weighing two options. The term flooded TikTok — the app currently shows 1.1 million related videos — and made its way into everyday text-speak and slang. Despite its prevalence, many people don’t actually know what it means. One TikTok user made an explainer video essentially saying that the phrase has so little meaning that it can be used in a wide variety of ways that, ultimately, do make sense to the user.Got it?Back announce:“Can’t You Hear Me Knocking” – The Rolling Stones → 1971 (from Sticky FingersWe started with the Rolling Stones and they’re 1971 album Sticky Fingers, the one with the zipper cover that caused so many problems when they tried to ship it in normal album boxes were ripping into the backside of the other albums. After the main part of the song, the band continued playing, thinking the tape had stopped. One of the more famous accidental jams of rock ‘n’ roll happened because they thought the tape and stopped, rolling the subterfuge was orchestrated by saxophone the sax Bobby Keys, Mick Taylor playing guitar on his first complete ...
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