Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
So sorry for the technical glitch! It is now fixed, and the entire episode is ready for listening. Thanks for your patience… I worked in radio for 26 years. The most rewarding part of the job was feeling like I was doing something when disaster struck. I was on the air in Los Angeles immediately…
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Thanks for bearing with me for the Jerry Garcia detour… the 10th anniversary of his passing deserved to be dealt with. Very strange for me to go back 10 years and listen to a small bit of what was the best (career-wise) time of my life. Unfortunately, that morning was not my strongest. I think…
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On August 9, 1995 I hosted mornings at Los Angeles’ KSCA fm 101.9 along with newsman Chuck Moshontz. It was just like any other morning, until about 8:30… when we got the news that Jerry Garcia had died. As I did most mornings, I had an aircheck tape running. Today is the 10th anniversary of…
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In February of 2000, Steely Dan released their first studio album in 20 years, “Two Against Nature”. Nicole Sandler had the honor of hosting an extensive interview with Donald Fagen & Walter Becker for the World Premiere Radio Broadcast debuting the album. This episode of Radio or Not contains the entire interview… in its unedited,…
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My first interview with Ray Davies went so well that I was contacted by a company I often worked for to do another interview with him for use in a nationally syndicated radio show. Ray had a busy week in Los Angeles, so the interview was to take place at the airport, just before he…
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Episode 3 of Radio or Not features an interview and performance with Patti Rothberg fron June 4, 1996. She had just released her debut album, “Between the 1 and the 9” on EMI records, and made her LA radio debut in the KSCA Music Hall on her first trip to Southern California
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One of my all-time favorite interviews, with the one and only Ray Davies of The Kinks, recorded live on the air at KSCA on May 15, 1996.
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