Christmas complaint
When you talk on the radio for a living, one thing to remember, is you must bond with an audience before you do anything outrageous. By that I mean, an audience will forgive you of most anything, if they know you and decidely like you. Case in point: exact same piece performed on air. Two different stations, two different times.
KLLS San Antonio. I wrote a parody song called "O Come all ye shoppers". I narrated the lyrics to the classic hymm. I had been on the air there a couple of years and people loved it. It was requested again and again, and was published in the Express News. Home run bit. Why not re-run it?
WNNS Springfield 20 years later. I’m on the air less that 90 days. I haven’t bonded with the audience yet. I performed the same bit. I did it live from memory. It goes like this:
OH COME ALL YE SHOPPERS
JOYFUL & TRIUMPHANT
OH COME YE, OH COME YE, TO SHOPPING MALLS
GO DO YOUR SPENDING
NO PAYMENT FOR 90 DAYS
AND COME LET US REJOICE HIM
HE WHO SAYS, "JUST CHARGE IT"
AND COME LET US REJOICE HIM
WILL YOU TAKE A CHECK
Hard to believe we got complaint calls over that one - but we did. "How dare you ridicule THE LORD that way?" It blew over, I went on to bond with the audience, like I have bonded with no other - and have since done this bit five times to not one call.
