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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is Beatle
Brunch?
How did Beatle Brunch start, and when?
What is the purpose of The Beatle Brunch web site?
How can I participate in the Mind Games Contest?
How can I get Beatle Brunch to play on a radio station
where I live?
Can I hear Beatle Brunch in streaming audio on the web?
I overslept last Sunday and I missed the show. Is there
anything I can do?
Can I buy previous episodes of Beatle Brunch?
Can I make a request on the Beatle Brunch radio show?
How do I get brunchradio.com to list my book
in its "books" section?
Why
is the website no longer called Beatle Brunch dot com?
How can I place a banner ad on brunchradio.com?
How can I send an email to the host, Joe Johnson?
How can I get a website like this cool Beatle Brunch
site?
What can you tell me about host Joe Johnson?
What if I have Beatles memorabilia I’d like to
sell?
Does Joe ever listen to anything besides Beatles music?
Am I done reading frequently asked questions?
What is Beatle Brunch?
Joe Johnson's Beatle Brunch is a weekly, one hour radio show on the greatest
group in rock history, The Beatles. Beatle Brunch is like a trip back
in time, without leaving today. Each week, Beatle fans are treated to
the stories and interviews from the Fab Four, wrapped around their greatest
songs, studio cuts, live tracks and rare versions. Host Joe Johnson has
rounded up some of the hard-to-find interviews from the days of Beatlemania,
together with the latest Beatles news and current interviews, and brings
them to Beatle fans for one Fab Fun hour each week. It's a lot of work.
Please don't try it yourself.
How did Beatle Brunch start, and when?
Actually, to be philosophical, Beatle Brunch began the day John met Paul.
But the radio show was first broadcast on May 31st, 1992 on 5 radio stations
in the U.S. Host and creator, Joe Johnson, started the show after to listening
to Beatles CDs in his car one day. The word started to spread, the calls
started coming in, and before he knew it, it was on 6 stations. By 1999,
Beatle Brunch was being broadcast on 37 radio stations. Westwood One,
the largest radio syndication company in the universe, picked it up, and
now distributes Beatle Brunch to smiling faces all over the country. Click
on our "stations" button to find out where you can hear Beatle
Brunch and if it doesn’t play in your market, you might be able to
listen on line to one of the stations that streams their audio.
What is the purpose of The Beatle Brunch web site?
The Beatle Brunch website bring a third dimension to the show and gives
our great listeners (that’s you!) an opportunity to get involved
in the show, to post your opinions in our Buzz section, to play the Mind
Games contest for real Beatles prizes, and to read the latest Beatles
news. Plus you can link to some of the best Beatle For Sale stuff: Books,
CDs, mouse pads, key chains, mugs, and more!
How can I participate in the Mind Games Contest?
In order to make an educated guess in the Mind Games section of the site,
you must listen to the radio show. Each week, just before the close of
the show, Joe Johnson asks a question about something heard on that week's
program, then posts 4 possible answers in the Mind Games link. Choose
the one correct answer, submit it, and your email could be chosen at random
from all the correct answers. If so, you will be notified that you have
won a prize. You’ll reply with a mailing address, and before long,
a government employee will come to your house to deliver something cool.
There are only three rules: You have to listen to the show to hear the
question, You have to register as a Beatle Brunch member to play, and
you can only submit an answer one time per week, otherwise, there might
be a very angry government employee at your house. And whatever you do,
don’t get a mailman mad at you! By the way, the questions are easy,
because we want lots of winners. If the questions were hard, only Tom
Frangione would win each week.
How can I get Beatle Brunch to play on a radio station
where I live?
Beatle Brunch is offered free of charge to commercial radio stations in
the continental U.S., Canada and the Virgin Islands. Beatle Brunch typically
plays on Oldies stations, you know, the station in your city that also
plays The Beach Boys, Motown, and the music of the 60's and 70's, however,
Beatle Brunch does sound great on Classic Rock stations some even some
talk stations. All you have to do is call the Program Director of the
radio station where you live, and ask him or her to call the Westwood
One Radio Network at (212) 641-2042 and ask them to add Beatle Brunch
to their weekend lineup. As long as it's not already playing in your market,
the show is available free of charge. So start calling the stations! Call
them often and use your speed dialing. They love to hear from listeners
who make programming requests.
Can I hear Beatle Brunch in streaming audio on the web?
Many of the stations that air Beatle Brunch now play their regular format
in streaming audio too, so that means when they are scheduled to air Beatle
Brunch, let’s say Sunday morning at 10, you can listen to them on
the web and you’ll hear the show over your tiny little computer speakers.
We wish that we could offer the show as a Pod Cast, but there are licensing
issues that we’re investigating. You don’t want us to get arrested,
do you? Please check our "stations" section to find out which
stations stream their audio.
I overslept last Sunday and I missed the show. Is there
anything I can do?
Yes. Try to get to bed earlier and perhaps you should purchase an alarm
clock. There are some cool Beatle ones for sale at The Fest For Beatles
Fans! Oh, maybe cut out the alcohol after 9 pm.
Can I buy previous episodes of Beatle Brunch?
Ah! If I had a nickel for every time I was asked that! Sorry, we don't
own the music that's played inside the show, just the script and copyright
of the show and interviews, so we cannot sell previous shows no matter
how many dead presidents you wave in our greedy faces! That much? Really?
Sorry. You'll just have to get out your old tape deck and do your best
on Sunday morning to record the show for your own personal use, of course,
providing you don't oversleep.
Can I make a request on the Beatle Brunch radio show?
What do I look like, a jukebox? Sure, go ahead. That doesn't mean we'll
play it. No, just kidding. We love suggestions for not only individual
songs, but for weekly themes, too. Either post them in the "Buzz"
section or tell your friends to call me on my cell phone! If you get my
voicemail, I’m probably on the other line with Paul asking him about
Pod Casting. The best way, really, to get a request is to catch up with
Joe Johnson at one of the many fests that happen throughout the years,
tackle him and write the song on his forehead with a china marker.
How do I get brunchradio.com to list my book in its "books"
section?
Just pony up the dough. No, really, email Donnie G. with a request about
your Beatles-related book and we'll consider reading it, your email that
is. Actually, we often feature Fab books on the website and radio show,
post banner ads for them, interview the authors on the program and give
away their books. The heavy ones we use for doorstops. We have a lot of
doors and locks in the Beatle Brunch studio, mainly to keep annoying authors
out.
Why is the website no longer called Beatle Brunch dot
com?
We cant’ tell you or we’d have to kill you.
How can I place a banner ad on brunchradio.com?
Wow! We love banner advertisers on our site, because those advertisers
know that they will reach more than a million unique viewers each month.
Our advertisers like Mark Lapidos of The Fest for Beatles Fans, who has
been with us since we started back in 1922, know that Beatle Brunch, and
this website, really work wonders. We’d love to help your business,
too. Just email our marketing weasel, I mean, Don E. Gee, and he'll cut
you a deal that Tony Soprano will love to honor.
How can I send an email to the host, Joe Johnson?
Sorry, Joe stopped getting emails after he bought his 200th cable box,
had his mortgage refinanced 367 times, met some “hot babes for fun”
and sent all of his life savings to a nice fellow in Nigeria who has promised
to make Joe very rich. He’s still waiting. Actually, if you post
a question to Joe in the “chat with other Beatle Fans” section,
he’ll answer it. He’d love to answer them all personally, but
he hasn’t got enough pens.
How can I get a website like this cool Beatle Brunch
site?
Well, you can build it yourself, or contact Rob and Deb, our graphics
designers who live near the beach in Ft. Lauderdale, and ask them to design
and host your site. If you pay them enough, they can get a nicer house
closer to the beach and you’ll get a great website that your friends
will love. You can contact them at rob@zrob.com
or visit their site, www.artandsoulgraphics.com.
What can you tell me about host, Joe Johnson?
Joe is about this tall and loves The Beatles. Actually, Joe has two older
sisters who helped stir the mania in the Johnson household in the 60's.
When Joe was four, his family moved to Miami from New York. It took him
a month, but he finally found them. Later, while his dad was screaming,
"turn that crap down!", Joe was secretly making radio tapes
in the garage. Today, Joe has his own garage, a 2-car one, lives in Ft.
Lauderdale, FL with his wife, Mariah the gorgeous actress and voice-over
artist (she got at my keyboard again!) and daughter, Brittany who is away
at school! Joe loves running on the treadmill, listening to movies in
Surround Sound, driving around in his convertible and eating chocolate
cake in a bag.
What if I have Beatles memorabilia I’d like to
sell?
Here’s a better idea: just donate it to Beatle Brunch! Joe collects
all kinds of stuff like this, and if it’s junk, he’ll sell it
on ebay. Actually, you can contact our pal Tom Fontaine through his section
on this site, and he’ll help you make a good decision on what to
do with the memorabilia you no longer want or have room for. Tom has a
2 car garage too and no cars.
Does Joe ever listen to anything besides Beatles music?
Yes, he loves John Lennon's "Imagine" album, Paul's "Chaos
and Creation in the Backyard" CD, George's "Bangladesh CD and
DVD" and Ringo's nose. Actually, Joe also loves the music of Tom
Petty, Donald Fagen, The Beach Boys, Elvis, The Moody Blues and an occasional
Partridge Family B-side. Please, no Starland Vocal Band!
Am I done reading frequently asked questions?
Yes, you're done. Now you can go back to what you were doing before. We
hope it was at least this important.
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