Darrell Brogdon
Program Director, Retro Cocktail Hour HostDarrell is a self-described "radio rat," having started on the air in high school and still hasn't hung up his microphone. His first job was DJ-ing at KERV-AM, the only radio station in his hometown of Kerrville, Texas. After getting his speech and drama degree at North Texas State University, Darrell kicked around the dial before landing at KANU in 1982. In addition to his role as Program Director, he has produced just about any kind of show imaginable at KANU/KPR - quiz shows, radio dramas, concert broadcasts, arts magazines, record shows. A fanatical record collector, the second floor of Darrell's house is threatening to become the first floor under the sheer weight of accumulated LPs. Darrell sums up his on-air time thusly: "Doing The Retro Cocktail Hour and Right Between the Ears is like having the world's biggest electric train set.
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Nearly every film composer has had a score rejected at some point in their career. Sometimes the unused music is recycled into another project, released years later, or in some cases left as a musical "what if?". This week on Film Music Friday it's heartbreak and disappointment again as we hear some rejected film scores, from movies like Frenzy, Gangs of New York, The Desperate Hours and Troy. -
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The annual Retro Cocktail Hour Christmas Show features songs for the season by Andy Williams, June Christy, the Three Suns, Jaymz Bee and the Royal Jelly Orchestra, Combustible Edison and many more. Hang the mistletoe and spike the egg nog!
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This week's Film Music Friday is about the "biopic", movies about real people. We'll hear music from A Beautiful Mind, The King's Speech, Erin Brockovich, October Sky, Catch Me If You Can and more.
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Along with Max Steiner and Dimitri Tiomkin, composer/conductor Alfred Newman is one of the fathers of modern film scoring. On this week's Film Music…
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Anthropologist John Hoopes has made it his personal and professional mission to ferret out pseudo-science in the field of archaeology. Specializing in the…
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This week on Film Music Friday we'll hear music from some of the biggest box office hits in history, including Black Panther, Skyfall, Harry Potter,…
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Morgan Freeman has given many powerful, memorable performances. His role as Mr. Clark, a New Jersey-based high school principal known for dispensing…
