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Less than four months ago, 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 podcast. Together with the folks at Talkshoe.com, he began his venture into the new medium.
His new show, which he called “Old Time Rock, would be divergent in the way it has been presented.
The usual playlists that are the hall mark of the Oldies AM radio stations were out the window. His own collection of 12,000 songs would be digitized onto his PC 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 one with a dose of rock history and reminiscing.
He researches each singer and each song to provide background for each show. So in November he went on the air on talkshoe.com. The first week he had 8 audiences. Obviously his friends had at least listened. By the third week he managed 80 audiences, still quite a jump. Still, he has been un prepared for the next week when out of nowhere 800 people listened in.
Since then with advertising on a few classified web site s, the show has continued to grow and grow, breaking all types of records on the Internet and the web site itself.
Now just 4 months later, an impressive 25,000 audiences have logged in to his show, in one month.
His gateway web site http://www.wrestlingwrap.com, which used to serve as his flagship wrestling show web site and portals to his own promotion, now 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 many years. He actually still takes requests and dedications just prefer 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 demonstrates he would prefer to garner an even larger audiences and eventually try his hand at bringing some live oldies and doo wop shows around the country. But that’s 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 additionally means success to his pod casting network called Talkshoe.com. Douglas predicts that Talkshoe will be the biggest thing in podcasting in 2007 and beyond.