My Favorite Oldies

Less than four months ago, Lee Douglas began to translate his love for the music of the 50’s and 60’s lovingly called Oldies, into a new medium, the podcast. Together with the folks at Talkshoe.com, he began his venture into the new medium.
His new show, which he called "Old Time Rock n Roll, would be different in the way it was presented. The usual playlists that are the hallmark of the Oldies AM radio stations were out the window. His own collection of 12,000 songs would be digitized onto his computer to lay the groundwork for the show. Instead of playing those songs which the oldies lovers had grown tired of, he opened his collection and played the songs that haven’t been heard for many years. Then he would have a spotlight for each show, Novelties on one, doo wops on another, rockabilly on yet another. Each one with a dose of rock history and reminiscing.
He researches each singer and each song to provide background for each show. So in November he went on the air on talkshoe.com. The first week he had 8 listeners. Obviously his friends had at least listened. By the third week he managed 80 listeners, still quite a jump. However, he was un prepared for the next week when out of nowhere 800 people listened in.
Since then with advertising on several classified sites, the show has continued to grow and grow, breaking all types of records on the Internet and the site itself.
Now just 4 months later, an impressive 25,000 listeners have logged in to his show, in one month. His gateway site http://www.wrestlingwrap.com, which used to serve as his flagship wrestling show site and portals to his own promotion, now is the host to Old Time Rock n Roll.
His Brooklyn bred voice can still be heard even though he has been a Floridian for many years. He actually still takes requests and dedications just like in the old days through his e mail address -Oldtimernr@hotmail.com- Where does he go from here? His plans are to as he puts it, "take it the next level." He says he would like to garner an even larger audience and eventually try his hand at bringing some live oldies and doo wop shows around the country. But that is a long way off. His focus is to make Old Time Rock n Roll even bigger and better with each passing week. With his success also means success to his pod casting network called Talkshoe.com. Douglas predicts that Talkshoe will be the biggest thing in podcasting in 2007 and beyond.

Talkshoe differs from other podcasting sites because they actually pay the podcasters instead of the other way around. For information on Old Time Rock n Roll log on to http://www.wrestlingwrap.com or oldtimernr@hotmail.com For information on Talkshoe.com http://www.talkshoe.com In Lee’s own words, "What a way to start out 2007 with the most popular new oldies program around." 25,000 listeners must agree. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Doug_Gair Author Doug Gair