Radio Portfolio: Recent Episodes
Tony Young
This is a portfolio of various clips from my nearly 10 years in radio, spanning from 2010 until today.
Another of my favorite shows to do, the Halloween show features some of my favorite music, including an extended version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, which I edited by splicing together the original song with some excerpts from recording sessions with Michael and Vincent Price.
One of my favorite shows to do is my annual Christmas show. Every year, I slowly build up to Christmas, starting the week after Thanksgiving, by playing a little bit more Christmas music each week, until the week of Christmas, where I play all Christmas music.
The other version of Compare/Contrast, in which I take two songs that I think are similar, or have a similar message, and mash them up, then discuss them. The two songs in this clip are "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams and "Jack & Diane" by John Cougar.
A clip from a Michael Jackson tribute episode I did. Here, I give the backstory to the first song which was released posthumously by Michael Jackson, "This Is It". The song was originally envisioned as a duet between himself and Paul Anka, and was to be titled "I Never Heard". Here, we get to hear the song as it was recorded by the two of them.
One of the public radio stations I was previously affiliated with did an annual fundraiser, which they dubbed the "radiothon", which featured approximately 72 hours of continuous live broadcasting. During these, hosts from various shows would team up to do crossovers. Myself and three other D.J.s took a four-hour slot during one of these Radiothons, and created the Super Friends Show. This clip contains the intro that I created for the crossover, as well as the first several minutes of all four of us D.J.s interacting.
One of my favorite shows to do was a show featured around the band Genesis, and I was joined by a fellow D.J., Carolyn, on that show. We played a request from a listener, and then went into a bit of background about the song which was requested.
There is a long-standing and widely believed rumor about the song "In the Air Tonight". In this clip, Carolyn and I discuss the truth about it, as I had heard from an (at the time recent) interview with Phil Collins that I saw on television.
An interview I conducted with Georgia Rae, leader of the Georgia Rae Family Band, a group from northern Illinois. This interview was conducted shortly before the release of her 2018 solo album, "Wingin' It"
A recurring segment on my show is Compare/Contrast, where I either take two songs that sound similar, mash them up, and compare them; or take a song with a popular cover, mash the original and the cover together, and compare them. In this case, it is the latter. The song "It's My Life" was originally done by British art rock band Talk Talk, but was later covered by American pop band No Doubt.
This clip featured on a show I did on parody songs. I played the original song and then a parody of said song back to back. In this case, the songs were "Brand New Key" by Melanie, and "Combine Harvester" by The Wurzels.