Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Breaking In Again

After I made "A Trip to T.U.F.F." I found the words on the birds.  Popular birds.  Birds that happen to be not only popular, but angry.  This was Angry Birds.



It started in 2009 and got popular in 2010.  A there was merchandising, cartoons, a comic book and a movie was announced.  Not to mention spoofs.  So when I saw how popular Angry Birds was, I decided to make a break-in recording of it.  Instead of calling it "Hey Angry Birds!"  I came up with a better and sophisticated title, "Birds that are Beyond Upset."





This one, akin to "A Trip to T.U.F.F." got aired on Anthony Logatto's show, "A-log on the Airwaves."

I hope you enjoy it.

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Breaking In

The post you are about to see is about "Break-In Recordings."  What are they you may ask?  Well, they are recordings that are revolving around what is going on, in a style of a news report, but with samples of songs breaking in to represent what the interviewee is talking about or giving out a sample on what is happening after the reporter describes it.  Dickie Goodman (1934 - 1989) was known for doing it from 1957 to 1987.  Here is is first known work, "Flying Saucer" from 1957.



Eighteen years later, he made a break-in recording with "Mr. Jaws" in 1975, which won a Grammy Award for best Comedy Record. 





Later in the seventies, Dickie Goodman made more of those.  Rocky in "Mr. Rocky,"
 the 1976 remake of King Kong in "Kong," Charlie's Angels in "Charlie's Devils," the mini-series, Roots in "Deep Roots," Star Wars in "Star Warts" and "Star Warz,"  Superman: The Movie in "Hey Superman," The Energy Crisis in "Energy Crisis '74"  and "Energy Crisis '79".  The 1980 Election in "Election '80," "America '81" in 1981,  E.T. in "Hey E.T.",  The Z-100 Radio Station, in "Attack of the Z-Monster" (1985),  and Safe Sex with "Sex Safe Report" (1987), which was his last.
With MTV being popular and the rise of CD's, not to mention the fact that people found his work rather annoying, he committed suicide in 1987.  Was this the end of Break-In Recordings?  No it wasn't.  Whimsical Will of the Dr. Demento show continued this tradition from 1986 to 2010.  But it didn't end there.  According to the podcast, "A-Log on the Airwaves,"  Chris Wolvie and I continued the torch.  He made "Hey Green Lantern," based on the film, "The Green Lantern."  I for one,  made "A Trip to T.U.F.F." which was based on the Nickelodeon cartoon "T.U.F.F. Puppy", which was created by Butch Hartman of "Fairly OddParents" fame.



Keep in mind, I ran into Break-In Recordings in 2009,  I was wishing to make a project like that.  However, in 2010, I heard about this course called "Introduction to Sound".  It was going to be a spring course.  I contacted a friend of mine about it and he said that for the first part,  you need to record sounds and the final assignment, make anything you want.  I talked to him about Break-In Recordings and he said "Go for it!" So I did, but what am I going to make?  I heard of this cartoon called "T.U.F.F. Puppy" and I thought to myself, "Why not use that as your subject."  I wrote the script and collected the songs in 2010.  All is left is to wait for the time to come.  When I took that course and I was given the final, I pitched it and my professor said yes!  The result was as Duddley Puppy would say, "Aaawwwesssooooooommee!"  Everybody loved it and it was like a bright light at the end of the tunnel.  Because the work from everyone else was boring and abstract snooze-fests.
So from 2011, here is "A Trip to T.U.F.F."


The result was a success and got aired on Anthony Logatto's "A-Log on the Airwaves" in the Fall of 2011.  This wasn't the only one aired on the web, another one was made after the success of it.  Only this time, it is not a cartoon, it was a game.  It was called "Angry Birds."  This was "Birds who are Beyond Upset."