Word: jive-talking
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...experimental psychdelic sounds. You can listen regularly for months and only hear a half-dozen songs you don't like. (Compare this to WBZ, where you must suffer through three dogs, five commercials and two contests to savor one good tune.) The music is supplemented by T's rambling jive-talk, interviews with underground figures (from George Reed, who is running for Caesar on the Christmas Party to Frank Zappa, leader of the Psyche-rock Mothers of Invention), and experiments with collages and montages of sound...
...that the bop campaign was the most, to say the least. In their first five days on the air, the canned commercials had rounded up 70 cats in the recruiting offices, all of them babbling bop and eager to slide into those cool blue threads. (Average turnout before the jive-talk campaign: four recruits a week.) In Manhattan. Jazzbo Collins was pleased but unsurprised. "Recruiting spots would lend themselves. 'The Army needs YOU!' just wouldn't go. Whereas if you said, 'Man, dig that crazy uniform. It's a gasser.' Well...
...your vocabulary is strictly stock, and the teen-agers tell you it's off the cob, you may as well stop bumping your gums. But you, too, can get on the grooby side. A jive-talk glossary that is strictly Dracula has been put out by Parents' Institute, publishers of Calling All Girls (and Parents' Magazine). Some excerpts...
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