Senior gives up teaching for oldies microphone

commish writes " One year ago, 64 year old and 32 year Orlando resident 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 pod cast. Together with the folks at Talkshoe.com, he began his venture into the new medium. Just retired from teaching he decided to turn in his chalk for a microphone.

His new show, which he called "Old Time Rock n Roll, would be different in the way it was presented. The usual play lists that are the hallmark of the Oldies AM radio stations were out the window. His own collection of 20,000 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 show replete with a dose of rock history and reminiscences
He researches each singer and each song to provide background for each show. So in November 2006, 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 unprepared for the next week when out of nowhere 800 people listened in.
One month later the 800 listeners grew to 3,000 and by January 2007 he had garnered a listener ship of over 25,000.

His gateway site http://www.oldtimernr.com, 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 over 30 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 pod casting in 2007 and beyond.

Now Douglas has added two live shows to his repertoire. He has a weekly live commentary show where listeners can call in and add their comments called Only One Man’s Opinion. This show also can be accessed by a button on his Old Time Rock n Roll web site.

In Lee's own words, "What a way to end 2007 with the most popular new oldies program around." 25,000 listeners must agree.

Press Inquiries: 321-277-1053
http://www.oldtimernr.com
oldtimernr@hotmail.com"


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