V03-T16 Technical Difficulties

.....This last track for Volume 3 is an apt way to end this year:

Volume 3: A KINDER, GENTLER ZERO TOLERANCE, track 16

• 01:00 "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES" (no author listed)
• performed by Don Pardo
• original source: 2LP TELEVISION'S GREATEST HITS TVT 1100 (US) 1985
• and my source: the same

.....He's known today for the years he spent as an announcer on "Saturday Night Live" but Pardo was a seasoned veteran when he started on that show. He was only rarely used to his full potential, as when host/musical guest Frank Zappa arranged for him to duet on the song "I'M THE SLIME". Brief spots like this were used at the end of each side of the TVT double album. Actually, this particular one only went by the title "TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES" on the interior label. On the exterior jacket, it went by the title "PLEASE STAND BY". Either way it served as a method of mitigating the necessary pause to flip the cassette to side four.

.....Hopefully next year I won't have to deal with the problems I had last spring, especially as I hope to be busier. More tomorrow.