The Last Broadcast: Episode 13

"The Last Broadcast" with Red's special guests Pat O'Day and Bruce Allen, aired on CISL650/Vancouver on August 27, 2017. Here's another excerpt from Red Robinson: The Last Broadcast, out now at friesenpress.com, chaptersindigo.ca, amazon.com, amazon.ca, barnesandnoble.com, play.google.com and books.apple.com "Meanwhile, in the lounge, there is joking about the guest format of Robinson’s final broadcast. Someone says to program director Stu Ferguson, 'Whose broadcast is this, anyway?' Ferguson takes the comment in stride. 'Red’s in his element when he lets others with his experience do the talking.' Although the spotlight has shone on Robinson since his teenage years, he’s part of a tightly knit community of fellow travellers and loves when the attention directed at him is disseminated to include them. At this point in the broadcast, younger people at CISL may well have wondered why so much attention was being paid to singers who are merely recognizable names in the 21st century, nostalgia value notwithstanding. But in a sense, what Robinson, O’Day, and Allen are conducting is a history class. The subject may be pop culture, but as with any subject it’s impossible to fully appreciate today’s trends without understanding what led to them. In the case of Elvis Presley, he fused the country-western music of the South with the rhythm and blues of African Americans to form rockabilly, which became one of the key sounds in rock and roll. Without him, musical entertainment today would be entirely different." In this episode, Pat and Red share their memories of Paul Revere and The Raiders; Bruce tells the story behind Elvis' "If I Can Dream".