Here's what Brett Pasternack posted to rec.music.beatles in April 1995:

Perfect timing...there's a big article on the radio show in the current Billboard (April 29 issue), which arrived at my house today.

"Paul Mccartney's Oobu Joobu" will premiere with a two-hour special on Memorial Day weekend, followed by one-hour shows for the following 11 weeks, and then a three-hour wrap-up Labor Day weekend.

The bad news is that this show may not be very easy to get. Unbelievably, Westwood One says in the article that they have not yet *STARTED* to sign up radio stations! Given how little time is left, that's going to be a problem. The article rather vaugely says that WW1 hopes to get "more than 20 stations in all radio formats"; does that mean 20 stations per format or 20 stations total? If the latter, most of us won't get to hear it. Furthermore, anyone outside the US is apparantly completely SOL, as there are no plans at all for overseas distribution.

If you're wondering, the name "Oobu Joobu" is a reference to a BBC production of Alfred Jarry's play "Ubu Cocu" which Paul heard on the radio 30 years ago. The executive producer for the show is one Eddy Pumer, a musician and record producer who McCartney hired for this project in--get this--1981!

Among the promised contents:

• Lots of home recordings from Paul's Rude Studios
• Outtakes from Paul's sessions with Stevie Wonder for "Ebony And Ivory"
• "I Wanna Be Your Man" from the Giants Stadium '93 soundcheck--Billboard includes this as an unreleased recording, but it's actually already available on "Paul Is Live"!
• Unreleased, unbooted songs titled "Atlantic Ocean" and "Love Mix"
• Unreleased recordings made by Paul with Billy Joel's band and producer Phil Ramone
• Linda's recordings of the McGuire Sisters' nugget "Sugartime" (reggae style) and her own unheard song "New Orleans"
• A long segment where Brian Wilson joins Macca to talk about songwriting; they even sing bits of each other's work.
• Guest appearances by Wonder, Elvis Costello, Little Richard, Chrissie Hynde, John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, and, of course, Kim Basinger and Mike Myers.
• A Paul/Carl Perkins duet on "Honey Don't".
• Paul's own humorous versions of "Yesterday" (in Bugs Bunny voice) and "Hey Jude" (with Paul singing "hey Jude, don't be a prat" in a cockney accent).
• Beatles soundchecks (Can anyone find proof that the Beatles ever *did* soundchecks, let alone recorded them? I doubt it, but that's what the article promises.)
• Items from Paul's record collection
• Linda's recipes

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