BEACH BOYS - BARBARA MANDRELL What's It All About Radio Interview 7" 45 Single

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BARBARA MANDRELL

What’s It All About? RADIO INTERVIEW

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What’s It All About? was a five minute public service radio interview show that was shipped to around 200 stations all over the world on a 45 rpm record.  It aired from the late 60’s to the late 80’s.  Each side of each 45 record usually contained one complete show featuring a different musical artist.  Occasionally, both sides would feature the same artist but still would contain one complete show.

The producer and host of the show was Bill Huie.  Bill was the director of TV, Radio and Audio-Visuals (TRAV) at the southern branch of the Presbyterian Church based out of Atlanta, GA.  Each week, the show would feature an artist with several excerpts of their music along with interview segments that Bill either did himself or gathered from other sources.  The show almost always opened with something like, “Here’s (name of artist)” and then music and a short interview tease.  Bill’s voice would come in again over the music saying, “I’m Bill Huie. We’ll talk more with (name of artist) on What’s It All About?” After about a minute’s worth of the artist’s song, Bill would give some biographical information about them and then alternate brief interview segments with more excerpts of the artist’s music.  Towards the end of the show, Bill would tie things together with some theological lesson or scripture passage and then announce, “And that’s what it’s all about.”

If the interviews were taped especially for Bill’s show, the artist(s) might share something of their personal faith or lack of it. But often the interviews were more generic and Bill would have to springboard from some general comment the artist had made or maybe from a particular song in order to reach a conclusion about what it was all about that week.

The artists featured over the years ranged from lesser known musicians like Rupert Holmes to rock legends like The Beatles. The interviews were sometimes taped telephone conversations, others were recorded backstage at concerts and occasionally it would be a true, in studio interview.  This show was very unique at the time.  Bill Huie was able to find something good, something helpful in every interview and, from his show, listeners always learned something about what it was that holds life together and holds people together - grace, faith, harmony, love and music. For Bill, that was what it was all about.