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CAROL MILLER'S GET THE LED OUT TO FEATURE CLASSIC INTERVIEW WITH JIMMY PAGE & LONG JOHN BALDRY |
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New York, NY – JUNE 14, 2010 – Denny Somach Productions (DSP) today announced that it will feature a classic interview with Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin conducted by legendary British bandleader Long John Baldry. The interview was conducted by Baldry in the late seventies at the peak of Zeppelin’s popularity. This intimate and revealing interview will be featured on Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out radio show the week of June 14, 2010 on the United Station’s distributed weekly Led Zeppelin Show.
Producer Denny Somach commented, “we are very excited to present this classic interview between two British rock legends. Long John Baldry (January 12, 1941 – July 21, 2005) was an English blues singer who sang with many British musicians, including Rod Stewart, Elton John, Mick Jagger, Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts and many others.
In 1963, Baldry joined the Cyril Davis’ R&B All Stars with Jimmy Page on guitar. In 1964 he took over after the death of Cyril Davies and renamed the group Long John Baldry and his Hoochie Coochie Men featuring Rod Stewart on vocals. In 1966, Baldry formed Bluesology featuring Reg Dwight on keyboards and alto sax man, Elton Dean. Dwight adopted the name Elton John, his first name from Dean and his surname from Baldry.
In the interview, Page discusses his early days playing with Cyril Davis, the formation of Led Zeppelin, his first tour as the New Yardbirds and many other stories.
Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out, is a programming package of long and short-form features hosted by New York Radio legend, Carol Miller. Affiliates are provided with a 1-hour weekly program and 5 weekly short features which can double as podcasts, all of which examine the career of the band that is generally acknowledged as the greatest hard rock band of all time, Led Zeppelin. The program recently celebrated its first anniversary and airs on over 75 radio stations including WAXQ in New York.
Carol Miller is one of the longest-running New York radio personalities, from years at WPLJ and WNEW and currently Clear Channel’s WAXQ-FM. She began her career as a rock jock at WMMR, Philadelphia. She has hosted numerous nationally and internationally distributed radio specials and TV like Entertainment Tonight, VH-1 and is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Carol has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (her reason for landing in Philly) and a Juris Doctorate from the Hofstra University School of Law. She is an acknowledged expert on Led Zeppelin, and has interviewed the surviving members numerous times over the years.
The program is distributed by United Stations Radio Network (USRN). It is produced by Denny Somach Productions and Andy Denemark serves as executive producer for USRN.
Denny Somach Productions maintains one of the largest archives of classic rock content and has a long history of creating some of the most memorable programs in rock radio. DSP produced feature programming for NBC’s The Source, NBC Radio Entertainment, ABC Radio, CBS, MTV and the highly acclaimed award winning Beatles program, Ticket to Ride. Most recently DSP produced the official radio show for Eric Clapton’s Autobiography and Bill Clinton’s Giving Radio Show.
United Stations Radio Networks, Inc., is the nation’s leading independently owned and operated radio network. The company currently distributes and produces dozens of format specific programs and services to nearly 5000 rated radio stations across the country including Adult Contemporary, Album Rock, County, Contemporary Hit, Oldies, Country, Smooth Jazz, Urban and Talk. Carol Miller’s Get the Led Out joins USRN’s other rock programming which includes Nights with Alice Cooper, The House of Hair with Dee Snider, Racing Rocks with Riki Rachtman among others. The New York-based company was founded in 1994 by radio pioneers Dick Clark and Nick Verbitsky.
Contact:
| Denny Somach Productions 610.446.7100 denny@dennysomach.com |