The Last Broadcast: Episode 12
b'"The Last Broadcast" with Red\'s special guests Pat O\'Day and Bruce Allen, aired on CISL650/Vancouver on August 27, 2017.\\n\\nO\\u2019Day, who is emerging as the trio\\u2019s prime storyteller and who shares Robinson\\u2019s knack for shifting gears, interrupts. \\u201cSpeaking of funny Hawaiian twists, Tom Rounds was the music director of KPOI in Honolulu,\\u201d he says in his melodious manner of speaking. \\u201cI\\u2019m over there on vacation, I think it\\u2019s \\u201964, and we were sitting in his office opening packages of new records, and we put on this thing from MGM and listened to it. I said, \'God, that is the strangest thing. I think it\\u2019s a hit.\\u2019 \\n\\n\\u201cTom Rounds says, \'I agree.\\u2019 So, I called the station in Seattle right away. I said, \'There\\u2019s a record on MGM, you got to get it out of the envelope, get it on the air right now. I am telling you it\\u2019s a hit.\\u2019\\u201d \\n\\nO\\u2019Day gets to the punch line: \\u201cIt was Sam The Sham, \'Wooly Bully\\u2019. Not one of the greatest artistic achievements of our time, but it went to number one.\\u201d Allen and Robinson laugh.\\n\\nAlso in this episode, Red and Bruce talk Neil Diamond; the guys remember an appearance by Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.\\n\\nRed Robinson: The Last Broadcast is out now at friesenpress.com, chaptersindigo.ca, amazon.com, amazon.ca, barnesandnoble.com, play.google.com and books.apple.com'