Voices of the West

15/06/2024

It's our usual bunch of cowboy humor and other authentic Wild West gibberish as we celebrate Fathers Day, grill Todd Roberts about his high school reunion, and talk about some up-coming movies you might to watch. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

08/06/2024

It's Bunker and Harry for today's show. Todd is at his high school renunion near Sedona. We've got a few things to talk about and mull about. We might even solve World Peace! Never know until you catch the live stream starting at 4pm at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

01/06/2024

It's a Nuggets Day on the show. BBQed, baked, fried, or, however you like them. Talkin' about this, that, and, perhaps the other thing. Live stream starts at 4pm at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live! Podcast version available soon after the live stream.

25/05/2024

It's Movie Saturday from the White Stallion Ranch. Topic is bad vs evil. Two of the most Bad and most Evil characters--Charlie King and Bruce Dern will be highlighted. There are many more in both categories to talk about, as well. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button to listen live!

18/05/2024

Our show for May 18 will feature author Kevin Warren. We'll talk about his book "Ride A Fast Horse." Kevin was born in Arizona and after college moved to Wyoming where he was a farrier, ranch hand, and outfitter. Kevin spent twenty-three seasons guiding dudes and hunters into remote areas of Wyoming’s backcountry. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

11/05/2024

Coming up on our next show, The "Professor" Mark Romano. He's a fi****ms expert, SASS instructor and champion shooter. Live stream at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net.

09/05/2024

Nola Carson

04/05/2024

We love trains! Coming up on the next program is Jim Clark. He's the guy Hollywood calls when they need a train for a production. He's a licensed engineer for steam and diesel locomotives. Jim's website is https://www.jamesclarkandcompany.com/Welcome.html. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button to listen live!

27/04/2024

It's Movie Saturday! Featured this time around - Old West train movies. Western Writers of America author and train guy Doug Hocking joins us at the White Stallion Ranch for our live stream. Program gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click on the "play" button to listen live!

06/04/2024

Another great program coming up! We'll talk with Craig Cameron. If you want to know anything about horses, Craig's your go-to guy. He's a Hall of Fame Cowboy and the host of "Ride Smart" on RFD-TV. At his ranch/clinic students learn all aspects of horsemanship. Here's his website: https://ridesmarthorsemanship.wordpress.com/
Voices of the West gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time. Live stream the show at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

30/03/2024

It's Movie Saturday on Voices of the West! We'll be talking about the western novels of Zane Grey that were turned into movies. Many of the top western stars got their start by being in Zane Grey westerns. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofhewest.net. Click the "play" button to listen live!

23/03/2024

Howdy! Trying to climb back in the saddle after some health shennanigans that still aren't wrangled. But, we have a good show for you--Nick C. Hall, the man who brought Hollywood to Tucson. Freelance journalist David Leighton and Hall's great niece, Leslie, join us to talk about Tucson's early film history. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time from the White Stallion Ranch. Listen live at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button to listen live.

09/03/2024

No Live Stream today. Producer is ill. Thanks.

02/03/2024

When Hoppy and Charlie King drop by, one best have some coffee or something stronger to offer up! Today's show is offering up a variety of goodies from the cowboy world. Live stream gets underway at 4pm from the White Stallion Ranch. Listen live at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

24/02/2024

It's Movie Saturday! We'll tackle some of many Westerns filmed in and near the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. It was a favorite film location for countless westerns and other movies. Some of our Friends of the Show will offer up their choices, too. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time from the White Stallion Ranch. Head over to voicesofthewest. net to listen live! Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live.

17/02/2024

On today's program, we'll talk about American artist William Herbert Dunton. He was one of the founders of the Taos Society of Artists. His work consisted of painting the American West and, in particular, New Mexico Below is his painting of Mexican vaqueros roping bears. Live stream of Voices of the West gets underway from the White Stallion Ranch at 4pm Mountain Standard Time. Click the "play" button on the radio player at voicesofthewest.net to listen live!

10/02/2024

Up next on our program for Feb. 10 is Banjo the Blacksmith. He pounds metal at Knotts Berry Farm and performs his craft with tools from the late 1800s. Some smithing history and history of where his forge is located coming up at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Live stream from the White Stallion Ranch. Just click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

03/02/2024

And, they're off!! On this edition of Voices of the West, we talk with Jaye Wells of the Rillito Park Foundation. The track was where Quarter Horse racing was born. This all happened on Rukin Jelks' stud farm. Jelks was one of the founders of Quarter Horse racing. Live stream gets underway from the White Stallion Ranch at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

29/01/2024

My Father (Bobby Roberts) was one of the Founders of Dunhill Records & Cass Elliott's Mgr.
Todd Roberts

This week in October of 1968, the debut solo album by Cass Elliot "Dream A Little Dream Of Me" was released on Dunhill Records, produced by John Simon.

She had agreed to a three-album deal as a solo artist with Dunhill Records less than a month after her split with the Mamas & the Papas. The album peaked at #87 on the Billboard 200.

It was recorded in no more than ten days at Wally Heider's studio in Los Angeles.

Track Listing:

Dream a Little Dream of Me" (Wilbur Schwandt, Fabian Andre, Gus Kahn) (US Pop #12/AC #2/UK #11) - 3:24
"California Earthquake" (John Hartford) (US #67) - 2:42
"The Room Nobody Lives In" (John Sebastian) - 2:38
"Talkin' to Your Toothbrush" (John Simon) - 2:19
"Blues for Breakfast" (Richard Manuel) - 2:56
"You Know Who I Am" (Leonard Cohen) - 3:57
"Rubber Band" (Cyrus Faryar) - 3:17
"Long Time Loving You" (Stuart Scharf) - 1:59
"Jane, The Insane Dog Lady" (John Simon) - 2:00
"What Was I Thinking Of" (Leah Cohen) - 3:50
"Burn Your Hatred" (Graham Nash) - 2:25
"Sweet Believer" (Cyrus Faryar) - 4:55

Personnel:

Cass Elliot - vocals
Stephen Stills - guitar, vocals
John Sebastian - guitar, harmonica
James Burton - guitar, dobro
Cyrus Faryar - guitar, ukulele
Harvey Brooks - bass guitar
Joe Osborn - bass guitar on "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
Paul Harris - organ, piano
John Simon - piano, arrangements
Larry Knechtel - keyboards on "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
Plas Johnson - saxophone
Jim Gordon - drums
Hal Blaine - drums on "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
Reinol "Dino" Andino - congas
Renais Faryar - vocals on "The Room Nobody Lives In" and "Rubber Band"
Brenda Holloway - backing vocals on "You Know Who I Am"
Philip Austin - voice
Denny Doherty, Jill Gibson, John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Scott McKenzie - backing vocals on "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
The Blossoms - backing vocals on "Blues for Breakfast" and "You Know Who I Am"

27/01/2024

It's Movie Saturday and our guest is best-selling author, screenwriter and mentor Skip Press. He has excelled as an editor, ghostwriter, instructor, playwright, publisher, screenwriter, and TV staff writer. He is as an author or editor of over 100 titls including several "Writer's Guide to Hollywood" books and four "Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting" books. He put together and edited "The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing & Design" and taught an online screenwriting course that was available in 1500 schools. His co-created “Ask A Screenwriter” space on Quora.com gained over 600,000 followers in a year. His latest project is an ongoing journal on Substack called “Chasing Mark Twain” about how he became a pro writer and found and married someone he’d known in another lifetime. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button to listen live!

20/01/2024

The 1967 release of The Dirty Dozen broke the rules along with box-office records. The making of the film is covered in "Killin' Generals: The Making of The Dirty Dozen," the Most Iconic WWII film All Time. The high-octane cast headed up by Lee Marvin redefined the genre of war films so it's not surprising the veterans cast of actors, the director and producer also made some of greatest westerns of all time. Hear all about it on on today's Voices of the West with author Dwyane Epstein. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Just click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

13/01/2024

Coming up on our next show, Kris Kristoffersen joins us. He's a photographer, noted for his landscapes of America. His website is https://kristoffersenphoto.com/. Show gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Just click on the "play" button on the radio player to listen!

06/01/2024

On today's show, some cowboy comedy with Bud Edgar. He's also a trick roper (hard to show on an audio podcast!) from Calgary, Alberta in western Canada. Calgary is home to the Calgary Stampede--one of the earliest rodeos established in North America. Live stream gets underway from the White Stallion Ranch at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Simply click on the "play" button of the radio player to listen live! Podcast available at all the usual places shortly after the live stream.

30/12/2023

Our final Movie Saturday program for 2023 will be about those great cavalry movies and some you may not have thought about. WWA author Michael F. Blake will join us. He's finishing up a book on the John Ford cavalry movies. The live stream from the White Stallion Ranch gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Simply click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live!

23/12/2023

It's our Cowboy Christmas program! We'll talk about the great cowboy movies of Christmas as well as how the holiday was celebrated on the range, and, some Christmas Cowboy Poetry. Live stream from the White Stallion Ranch gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Simply click on the "play" button of the radio player to listen live! Podcast available shortly after the live stream.

16/12/2023

Another good one for today! Robert Redfeather joins us. He's a martial arts expert and an expert knife fighter. He's trained U.S. military members in the art of knife fighting. He's also an actor and film producer. Live stream gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time from the White Stallion Ranch. Listen live at voicesofthewest.net. Click on the "play" button to listen live!

10/12/2023

Nola Carson

I’m always up for a photo of the Vine St Brown Derby in Hollywood—especially if it’s color. It went through various stages, but we can date this to around early 1950s because around then, two things happened. The restaurant was painted the brown color we can see here. (Later in the 1950s, it went back to being white again.) And also their Bamboo Room was renamed the Record Room and decorated with works by an artist named Nicholas Volpe. The Derby commissioned him to do around 200 portraits of recording artists (possibly because Capitol Records was just up the street? But that’s just a guess.)

09/12/2023

Our program for today features D.T. Christiansen, Editor of oldwest.org. It's a really cool website about--you guessed it--the Old West. We'll talk with D.T. and learn how the website came about and D.T.'s fascination with Old West history. Live stream from the White Stallion Ranch gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time. Listen live at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen live. Podcasts also available at your favorite podcast place!

02/12/2023

As the Christmas season is upon us, we talk with actor/writer/producer/director Peter Billingsley. You remember him from the movie "A Christmas Story" in which his one big Christmas present wish is a Red Ryder bb gun so he could head off the bad guys at the pass! Voices of the West gets underway at 4pm Mountain Standard Time at voicesofthewest.net. Click the "play" button on the radio player to listen!