Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #7


Album: Joe Jackson Band - Beat Crazy (A&M, 1980)
Episode:  Season 3, Episode 9, "The Painting"
Original air date: Saturday, January 10, 1981


Blog post #300

2 comments :

  1. What album is that in Johnny Fever's hand?

    Is that the Charlie Daniels Band over the gray file cabinet?

    And what poster is behind the orange file cabinet?

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    1. I pulled out the episode and spent about fifteen minutes pausing, rewinding and watching sceens in slow motion. Here are my findings:

      The poster above the orange file cabinet is for Eric Clapton's Just One Night and is plainly visible in later scenes. I still cannot identfy the red and yellow poster peeking out from behind the orange file cabinet.

      That is indeed a giant cardboard cowboy hat with the Charlie Daniels Band logo on it.

      And that album in Fever's hand is Bloodbrothers by The Dictators. (1978)

      Also in your screen grab, appearing behind Andy Travis but actually over near the window is a 12x12 flat for Supertramp's Paris album.

      Completely out of sight in your pic but most evident in other shots is a lovely poster of Pat Benatar on a bulletin board behind Travis. This is most evident when Venus rips another unidentified poster or flat down in order to hang the titular painting up on top of the Benatar poster.

      Other out of frame posters from that scene: Zenyatta Mondatta by The Police, Steve Hackett's The Defector and Ultravox.

      Oh yeah, the music heard in the background of the pictured scene, supposedly airing live on the station at the time, was "Breezin' " by George Benson.

      There are actually quite a few other musical posters on display through out the episode including another, bigger poster for Paris, a couple of posters and flats for The Clash (including a repoduction of a Rolling Stone cover), The Cretones(!), a hard to miss Journey poster, another big Beat Crazy promo piece, ELO, Blondie, Aerosmith and at least three others I have yet to identify.

      What a fun game!

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