TIM: Regarding your most recent post in your journal, "Unwilling To Shut Up & Sing: A comprehensive interview with CCM pioneer Pam Mark Hall; opens up about her career and the making of her last major label release, 1986's 'Keeper'", I have to say, of ALL your writings, posting, written interviews, perspectives & video chats, this chapter with Pam Mark Hall, is by far, BY FAR, the most fully opened, detailed, thorough and all across the board, most embracing interview yet! (...and believe me, since my introduction into working in the world of CCM Radio since about 1979, I've heard them ALL, from the most "way-out-there" to the very most "homogenized, pasteurized & saccharine-filled" discussions & interviews, I've laid ears upon!)
From my years at KWVE, when we featured "OUR GOD REIGNS" from the "SUPPLY AND DEMAND" project, to my KYMS days where we featured "UNEXPECTED PLACES" from the "KEEPER" project and finally to my KKLA days where I premiered to Los Angeles radio "LOVE'S POSSIBILITY" from the "PALER SHADE" project, Pam Mark Hall's lyrics, music & song, has been to my collection of great gems & audio jewels as no doubt, your treasure chest contains very much the same.
I believe I must have read through your introduction & viewed the dual-screen video at least THREE TIMES...as to not miss a single fact, observation or detail...before joining in here, on the discussion board.
Just for the "technical" detail, I have "SUPPLY AND DEMAND" on vinyl album, but BOTH "KEEPER" & "PALER SHADE" on compact disc. I do not believe many prints were made of "KEEPER" in the digital platter form, but I was one of the "fortunate" ones, to obtain and STILL HAVE my copy. I am both blessed & humbled by that. Well, being in music & operation direction at many broadcast facilities throughout the beginning of time...when the earth's soil & radio waves were still cooling...the "picking" of recorded music, through early promotion, comes fast & leaves early!
While I was hosting the "S.N.P." program on KKLA, Los Angeles from 1994 to 1996, almost weekly, I would air something from "PALER SHADE". Later, music that emulated Hall's 'seeking possibility', I would host on my "THE MOODS OF SUNDAY NIGHT" program on S.R.N. from 2007 to 2014.
Well enough of my boisterous 'historical doings'; you're ability to 'bring-up-to-date' the precious life & times of Pam Mark Hall (Video LIVE, from her DOUBLE-WIDE!) was more than just a placement in the annals of your great & introspect interviews, but the one that ever most clearly, "hits-it-right-out-of-the-ball-park"! Your concern, kindness, love, countenance & compassion you have for your guests, goes way farther than the most experienced, average radio network interviewer. (yup...and I've been around some of those "extra sanctified" ones as well, unfortunately...)
I remember my days...years & even decades ago...when I sat with my two table top microphones with Margaret Becker in the green room of The Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA...with Twila Paris a couple years after and finally with extraordinary worship leader to women, Rita Springer, with The Vineyard International...some of the key elements I tried to bring into focus, were some of those same very points of dialogue & life's experiences, that you so successfully were able to, layout on the table for us to learn from, with ease.
I can only hope that many of those in "today's world" of CCM, that is so incredibly 'radically different' from the days that gentlemen kin to us, explored in eras past & times long gone, can gleam some sort of semblance & direction from...by following the popcorn trail, left behind, by interviewers that put forth the very uncommon level of respect, empathy, "homework-doing" and simple "LISTENING" to your guest, that today's world, seems so empty & void of; a vacuum, just dreaming to once again...be filled.
Thank you Tim, my great brother, for sharing your God-given skills of concern, compassion, love & care during your times of round table & talk. Our world today, needs such.
TIM: Regarding your most recent post in your journal, "Unwilling To Shut Up & Sing: A comprehensive interview with CCM pioneer Pam Mark Hall; opens up about her career and the making of her last major label release, 1986's 'Keeper'", I have to say, of ALL your writings, posting, written interviews, perspectives & video chats, this chapter with Pam Mark Hall, is by far, BY FAR, the most fully opened, detailed, thorough and all across the board, most embracing interview yet! (...and believe me, since my introduction into working in the world of CCM Radio since about 1979, I've heard them ALL, from the most "way-out-there" to the very most "homogenized, pasteurized & saccharine-filled" discussions & interviews, I've laid ears upon!)
From my years at KWVE, when we featured "OUR GOD REIGNS" from the "SUPPLY AND DEMAND" project, to my KYMS days where we featured "UNEXPECTED PLACES" from the "KEEPER" project and finally to my KKLA days where I premiered to Los Angeles radio "LOVE'S POSSIBILITY" from the "PALER SHADE" project, Pam Mark Hall's lyrics, music & song, has been to my collection of great gems & audio jewels as no doubt, your treasure chest contains very much the same.
I believe I must have read through your introduction & viewed the dual-screen video at least THREE TIMES...as to not miss a single fact, observation or detail...before joining in here, on the discussion board.
Just for the "technical" detail, I have "SUPPLY AND DEMAND" on vinyl album, but BOTH "KEEPER" & "PALER SHADE" on compact disc. I do not believe many prints were made of "KEEPER" in the digital platter form, but I was one of the "fortunate" ones, to obtain and STILL HAVE my copy. I am both blessed & humbled by that. Well, being in music & operation direction at many broadcast facilities throughout the beginning of time...when the earth's soil & radio waves were still cooling...the "picking" of recorded music, through early promotion, comes fast & leaves early!
While I was hosting the "S.N.P." program on KKLA, Los Angeles from 1994 to 1996, almost weekly, I would air something from "PALER SHADE". Later, music that emulated Hall's 'seeking possibility', I would host on my "THE MOODS OF SUNDAY NIGHT" program on S.R.N. from 2007 to 2014.
Well enough of my boisterous 'historical doings'; you're ability to 'bring-up-to-date' the precious life & times of Pam Mark Hall (Video LIVE, from her DOUBLE-WIDE!) was more than just a placement in the annals of your great & introspect interviews, but the one that ever most clearly, "hits-it-right-out-of-the-ball-park"! Your concern, kindness, love, countenance & compassion you have for your guests, goes way farther than the most experienced, average radio network interviewer. (yup...and I've been around some of those "extra sanctified" ones as well, unfortunately...)
I remember my days...years & even decades ago...when I sat with my two table top microphones with Margaret Becker in the green room of The Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA...with Twila Paris a couple years after and finally with extraordinary worship leader to women, Rita Springer, with The Vineyard International...some of the key elements I tried to bring into focus, were some of those same very points of dialogue & life's experiences, that you so successfully were able to, layout on the table for us to learn from, with ease.
I can only hope that many of those in "today's world" of CCM, that is so incredibly 'radically different' from the days that gentlemen kin to us, explored in eras past & times long gone, can gleam some sort of semblance & direction from...by following the popcorn trail, left behind, by interviewers that put forth the very uncommon level of respect, empathy, "homework-doing" and simple "LISTENING" to your guest, that today's world, seems so empty & void of; a vacuum, just dreaming to once again...be filled.
Thank you Tim, my great brother, for sharing your God-given skills of concern, compassion, love & care during your times of round table & talk. Our world today, needs such.
Anthony Ochoa
CCM Radio Broadcaster
Los Angeles, CA
(retired)
So good to hear you and Pam Mark Hall in conversation. Kudos to you both--and gratitude.