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Newly posted Reelin' In The Years interview from 1990


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1 hour ago, MovieMusicMaestro said:

JW refers to a John / Jon at UCLA. I assume that the interviewer is Jon Burlingame.

 

I don't recall him referring to a "John/Jon at UCLA".  I think the only reference to UCLA was about him (Williams) being a piano student "out here at UCLA", implying that the interviewer was not in the LA area.  And some of his answers sound like they're aimed at a less-informed interviewer (and audience), not to someone who was inherently knowledgeable.  Granted, this could be an early (first?) interview by Burlingame so maybe the familiarity was not quite there yet.

I'm in the "not Burlingame" camp. ;)

UPDATE: I FB messaged Burlingame and he says it wasn't him. So the mystery remains...

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Hmmm...back to scratch, then. Not that it's important or anything, but one wonders. What's "Reelin' in the Years" to begin with? A TV programme on some channel? (and if any of you ask me to "google it!", I'll punch you in the face).

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12 minutes ago, Thor said:

Hmmm...back to scratch, then. Not that it's important or anything, but one wonders. What's "Reelin' in the Years" to begin with? A TV programme on some channel? (and if any of you ask me to "google it!", I'll punch you in the face).

 

"Reelin' in the Years" seems to be a repository for old video/film footage but not the source of the footage to begin with.  So they likely had nothing to do with the original interview.  However, it might be worth emailing them and asking for more information about the interview.

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On 24/10/2024 at 5:34 PM, Tom said:

He did some Entertainment Tonight interviews back in the day.  John Tesh?  

Very doubtful. Entertainment Tonight still hold the rights to all of their old interviews. They wouldn't sublicense them out like this. 

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12 hours ago, TownerFan said:

I may be wrong, but this was probably done as a TV interview with some local Boston station.

 

You're probably right, @TownerFan. I got the vibe that the interviewer was somewhere other than the LA area, based on some of the comments Williams made ("out here at UCLA", for example).

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