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    KCRW Selects: The Organist

    KCRW’s Bob Carlson and host Andrew Leland introduce the new season of The Organist.

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    Jul 13, 2018 • 28m Listen

    Bob and Andrew ring in the new season of The Organist with an excerpt from A 700-Foot Mountain of Whipped Cream. It’s a string of forgotten nuggets of radio history, delicately arranged into a glittering associative chain – a constellation of jingles and spots that somehow all add up to the life of one man: that of prolific and award-winning radio ad man Clive Desmond, as heard through the radio.

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