WKRP IN CINCINNATI 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

you [Music] it's one thing when Dick Clark breaks a band it's quite another when a scrapper said come like WKRP in Cincinnati suddenly becomes the pulse of culture but that's what happened when the Karaka serious first took often syndication to become a hit everyone who was watching was listening just as closely to the songs the show was spinning that's how WKRP in Cincinnati helped bands like blondie Devo and the chorus become as big as they are in pop history today there just is nothing else in TV history quite like WKRP in Cincinnati the show ran on hilarious personalities just like a radio show would it's also pooled in great sight-gags funny situations that drew laughs for every single scheme the show dreamed up it helped that the cost was tremendously talented often helping series creator he will s'en to expand his characters that's how the show went on to not just move beyond running gags to embrace more serious themes but to truly humanize it's 90 characters for which the series won a humanities award which is basically the Nobel Prize for TV writing the show hit notes that rang true and it touched a lot of horse and salt a heck of a lot of albums here's Annie how they changed episode and to catch you back up to speed we've dug into the show's history to see how much fascinating staff who could find turns out that looking back through WKRP in Cincinnati is just as rewarding as digging in a record crate and we emerged with some true gems below Andy Travis is based on real radio program director captain Mikey when Andi Travis arrives his first item of business is to change WKRP to rock and roll forward on the show and he knows his stuff and easily Sal's the big guy on his idea this aspect of the characters beast the real program director Michael Harrington considered an innovator in radio and awoke an almanac of rock and roll the characters of Arthur Carlson and dr. Johnny fever both also based on actual radio personalities with fevers traced back to Atlanta DJ skinny Bobby Harper who was famous for giving the morning moon cow rapport characters were based on series creator he will since family team series creator hey Wilson also patterned WKRP characters after his own family members Bailey quarters was actually based on Wilson's wife a woman who was shy and often spoke barely above a whisper but always knew how to speak out when it counted Wilson has also said that and his personality comes from one of his cousins David Cassidy was originally cast as dr. Johnny fever when WKRP in Cincinnati auditioned for its cast members the role of Johnny fever originally went to the patron families David Cassidy but the pop idol ended up turning the part down of course the RO ultimately went to Harvard hesselman but only after he was invited to read for herb tonics character and flatly refused to read anything but Johnny way to apply the heat fever less worse a bandage in every episode because of a real injury in the first episode while airing the two-part pilot the actor who plays last Nessman Richard Sanders legitimately cut his finger and wound up having to wear a bandage on ear he decided to make this an aspect of his character so every episode finds a reason to bandage her PLAs blondie donated a gold record to the show for helping heart of glass become a hit WKRP in Cincinnati became a legitimate vehicle for launching bands to pop success acts like you to total the now the cars and diva all count WKRP is pivotal in exploding their audiences but the biggest band the show helped hit was probably blondie whose album parallel lines went on to become a gold record of the show played heart of glass from it on air blondie was so grateful they donated a gold record to the show and you can sometimes see it hanging up in the background during scenes that take place in the bullpen from the second third and fourth season the busters and bad stuff you see in the walls were gifts from real DJ's when WKRP in Cincinnati debuted actual radio DJs were just because they loved that the show portrayed sides of the industry you never see they were such big fans that they would send in bumper stickers posters and other swag that was used to decorate the walls in the TV radio station studio herb actually did wear a suit made from fok's wagon seat covers there's a famous line from the show in the second season episode Futaba shut up where a Venus Fly Trap House herb taluk who dependably wears tag his suit after take his suit somewhere out there there is a folks wagon with no seats apparently herb really did wear a suit on the show that was made out of folks wagon seat covers guest Venus flytrap has spent his fair share of time in the backseat of a Volkswagen Venus flytrap was the inspiration for ladies man on SNL owned WKRP in Cincinnati Venus flytrap is smooth and if there is a party a concert to go to you can bet he's got a date this might sound a lot like Leon Phelps a certain ladies man that Tim Meadows created as a character on Saturday Night Live and eventually spun out into a feature film that's because meadow says Tim reads WKRP character inspired his the share was inspired by a Harry Chapin song bald I'm the morning DJ in world that's how Harry Chapin's Cara's on wood introduces the star of the Sun a radio DJ who was playing all the heads for you playing them night and day the bright good morning voice who's heard but never seen filling all of 45 going on 15 the Sun is about a DJ who has regrets but has chosen his lot in life spinning disks the story goes that Wilson heard this song and thought it would make great said compromise his WKRP proved the series creators ear was not wrong Hugh Wilson wrote the lyrics to the theme song the theme song for WKRP in Cincinnati is a spectacular ear worm that in many ways served as the show's hook Wilson himself banned the catchy lyrics which had us all turn him in to get the vic areas feeling of living on the year in cincinnati cincinnati WKRP the show also had a second theme that played at the very end this theme song had none of the intro themes poetry with lyrics that were pure gibberish and written on the fly intended to be replaced later instead Wilson thought it was a great joke in itself about how rock lyrics never make sense so they left the lyrics as is an extended version of the theme song became a hit in its own right in 1979 steve carlisle released a full-length version of the intro theme song expanding the lyrics to tell a longer story that many believe is about ND travis but could just as easily apply to venus flytrap or dr. Johnny fever in 1981 the Sun hit its highest height number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart almost everyone returned for at last a cameo in the ye WKRP in Cincinnati close to ten year after WKRP in Cincinnati had left the ear the new WKRP in Cincinnati premiered in 1991 rejoining the cast was Gordon jump Arthur Coulson Richard Sanders last Nessman howard hesseman dr. Johnny fever and Frank Warner herb taluk throughout the reboot run both team ride Venus flytrap and Lonnie Anderson Jennifer Marlowe made guest appearances but Gary sandy Andy Travis and John Smithers Bailey quarters did not Smithers had by the time retired but Andy Travis it seems just never wondered what ever became of his old co-workers after the show the show was recorded on tape to save money not in the way you would think either the show's producers found out that the rights to rock music were cheaper for shows recorded on tape than on film so they decided to do it given the significant amount of rock music featured in the show reel radio deejays sang the show promo material radio DJs from all over the US or a massive fans of the show and would stand in their own promotional material to be featured in the episodes almost all of the promo material you see throughout the show is real and that's all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with fans take care

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Length: 10min 39sec (639 seconds)

Published: Fri May 08 2020