WKRP in Cin-ci-naaat-tiiiii....

70s were some dark shit

this is a very serious girl, in point of fact

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Every time I roll through or to Cincy going north on I-75 I hear the theme song come into my head. I actually stayed at the Radison right on the river in Covington last year when I went up for a Reds game and was probably a pretty new hotel when you see it on the opening credits for WKRP. It's a pretty swanky hotel, definitely a very 1970s building.

idgi is that nicklaus? i thought he was from columbus.

That's Dick Van Patten. He's from "Eight is Enough".

famed dog food vendor dick van patten

Oh wow, on the related videos list for that Smithers' dunk tank thing, there's one of those w/Robert Urich dunking Catherine "Cathy" Bach.

Van Patten OTM, if somewhat unsubtle about it.

http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/WKRP-Cincinnati-The-Complete-Series/19780

please, please, please, let me get what i want, with the original music cues.

http://www.avclub.com/article/10-episodes-screwball-hilarity-and-social-commenta-205282

Herb, seeing an opportunity to get the station’s counterculture element out of the way, makes a rousing, delusional speech to Les about “the dungarees versus the suits,” hoping that for once his fellow suits would end up on top.

I don't think I ever saw this one.

Amazing the turkey episode was seven episodes into the whole series.

That was the one where they had the $5000 contest to identify a sequence of drops from songs including "The Spar-Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key."

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/tvandmediablog/2014/06/06/wkrp-in-cincinnati-howard-hesseman-loni-anderson-tim-reid-shout-factory-vietnam-war/10019209/

^^ Great link, just for the 1978/2007 parallel video alone.

"In Concert" was a more accurate reporting of that tragedy, and what caused it, than most contemporary mainstream news stories.

^^ Great link, parallel video gave me an idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfSTF1Z9i7Y

Forget that last one, here's a final version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfQdvXkTZd8

Okay, looks like they've released info on what music made the cut and what didn't:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/wkrp-in-cincinnati-to-be-reissued-with-most-of-its-original-soundtrack/

Scroll down for the full list. Here's what didn't make it, sadly:

A notable absence is Pink Floyd’s “Dogs”, which was heavily featured in the show’s most popular episode “Turkeys Away”. Other choice songs missing include The Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA”, The Beatles’ “Come Together”, Devo’s “Whip It!”, The Kinks’ “You Really Got Me”, and U2’s “I Will Follow”.

But on the bright side Foreigner did make it, meaning we get the Les Nessman "Hot Blooded" moment.

Roger Waters, why you wanna break heart?

Related:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udDCBsutHzA

I wonder what they'll use in that scene instead.

Strange that AC/DC of all acts were all, sure go ahead, while something like "You Really Got Me" - a song that I could've sworn was played in the ad for Problem Child IV - is snipped.

I was wondering about the Kinks, too; I assume it has something to do with the parts of the Kinks catalog that are controlled by Allen Klein('s estate).

It's funny, I went on a quest last night to find any classic rock songs with dogs barking (that could replace FLOYD).

It was all Beach Boys and Beatles.

I was wondering about that too, and I'm hoping they went with this:
http://youtu.be/8U9uGSGUliM

"I hear them."

http://i.imgur.com/6e2bCDJ.jpg

I have been watching WKRP for the first time, thanks to Mr Veg being a longtime fan & I have to say I loved it from the first ep. I’m partway into S2 and we watch 2 episodes every night at dinner.

I love Les Nessman SO much, especially his SSSS SSSS SSS laugh. All the characters are great - it’s impressive how well-defined the characters were right from the pilot.And sometimes the episodes really get to me! I loved the episode with Venus’s backstory about being a Vietnam deserter - it was so heavy & it was handled well I thought. And shit, they can even get me misty-eyed over corny old Herb watching slideshows of his kids. Or Johnny Fever playing James Taylor for the teenage mom who abandoned her baby - that made me BAWL and I pretty much hate James Taylor lol

And Gordon Jump’s mannerisms, his physical comedy, everything about the way he plays Mr Carlson is just so damn great.

But: The invisible door to Les’s “office” is my favorite gag.

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Haven't watched it in a long time; I expect I'd still find it very funny. The one thing where I think the series would benefit if it had been done today would be a greater attention to music. Obviously, they could have done a lot with that, but shows just didn't do that sort of thing then, not even one set at a radio station. (I recall that they'd occasionally mix in a song, but I don't remember anything specific, and not anything particularly good.)

(And would still be madly in love with Jan Smithers.)

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1449/0596/products/Turkey_Drop.jpg?v=1518461572

idk, i think this bit from the turkey drop episode is pretty specific about a particular piece of music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYQ-g99V_cQ

Not a whole lot there, though. I was thinking of something more expressive...I don't remember the James Taylor scene VG describes, but that would be more what I had in mind. (That clip's funny, though.)

(And would still be madly in love with Jan Smithers.)

Same, same. I was given the box set for Christmas 2017 and the show has held up really well, I think, especially for something from that era.

they do some nice stuff here & there music-wise but always necessarily brief which is kind of a bummer

mr veg found a weird .xls someone on discogs made of all the songs in the original aired episodes. we joked that we should put them all in a playlist and cue them whenever the replacement “placeholder” music plays while muting the tv sound to recreate the scenes #nerds

i want to poll Herb’s suits

do the dvds or streaming versions have the same music as the original show? that's usually an issue (I know it was/is iwht northern exposure)

Shout Factory put out a dvd box with most of the music restored, I want to say 80-85% of it?

From upthread: https://consequenceofsound.net/2014/09/wkrp-in-cincinnati-to-be-reissued-with-most-of-its-original-soundtrack/

Erlewine's WKRPlaylist: https://open.spotify.com/user/sterlewine/playlist/33epN9A9NPYVE5RVVInrlL?si=StQOkdt4QeKwueABJ5yf8g

Just got the full series box as a closeout on eBay. Only intended to watch the full pilot tonight, but then blasted through the next two eps as well. Talk about hitting their stride early! The third ep (pilot was a two-parter) is "Les On The Ledge", the one where he attempts suicide after getting banned from a locker room due to a misunderstanding about his sexuality, and the fourth is the Scum ep! And of course in that one they managed to slide a quick shot of Les' head blocking out the "S" in the banner past the censors.

I am into S3... a lot more out of the station eps which feels like a bad idea.

and les in blackface ugh

I ended up going back and watching the next three eps last night, stopping with "Turkeys Away", and I feel I should mention what they did on the DVD box re:"Dogs"--It's been replaced with a soundalike recording, and they snipped out the exchange where Carlson asks "What orchestra is this?" and Johnny tells him "Pink Floyd". The rest of the dialogue remains (including the reference to "Pigs On The Wing") and it's still very clear that they are handling a vinyl copy of Animals.

People Who've Figured Out How To Live...

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<3

Still on my voyage of discovery through s3
Mr & Mrs Arthur Carlson are the loveliest couple, I love whenever she is in an episode (though kinda rare). Their wedding do-over ep was great.

and his Mom ie Carol Bruce is incredible
ugh i can’t get enough of her

the episode where it was the anniversary of her husband’s death & she got drunk with Jennifer & then sang Gershwin to the bullpen...my jaw was on the floor

What a dame

Cosign on the Carlson's: I just saw the one where they find out she's pregnant and it's striking just how nimble the writing/acting were on the show--You have the whole cuteness of the opening revelation and them looking back through his calendar to see about conception dates ("Oh no, Friday--after we saw Superman!") segueing into the meeting with Mother and her insisting they get an abortion and then the awkwardness of Carlson trying to get advice from Venus (who thinks he's looking for partners for swinging) and the dance at the end--all with the added bonus of everybody clowning Herb on his concept of marital sex.

Carol Bruce was so good as Mother Carlson, and she had to replace Sylvia Sidney who played her in the pilot.

And young Carol Bruce...

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