Need Ideas for New Radio Show

[Brian Sheridan]

I am planning to host a radio show for our local jazz station and I want the format to be an old-time "live" broadcast from a swanky nightclub. It would be a radio equivalent of what Maxwell DeMille does at Club Cicada.

Each week, I'd feature 2 or 3 artists or bands, not all strictly period but ones that evoke a certain amount of swank (even modern performers like Sophie Milman, Kurt Elling, and of course Mora's Modern...).

Anyone has suggestions on a club name?

I'm brainstorming names that would evoke the period of uptown sophistication.

The Onxy Club sounds too racial.
Club Swank is too on the nose and sounds too much like a porn site.

I love the names like The Mogambo Room or The Coconut Grove or the Madhatten Room.

Thought the Loungers might have some fun kicking ideas around.

Thank you!!!!!!!

 

[Feraud]

Club Live.
coming to you "live" from...
In between sets you talk over a background of club/audience chatter.

 

[Fletch]

Well there was Make Believe Ballroom - the first DJ program to really catch on, going back to the mid 30s.

I suppose Club Make Believe could work if it didn't sound like the sort of place Mr. Rogers' puppets go to get loaded and hit on Lady Aberlin and Henrietta Meow Meow Kitty. lol

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Well there was Make Believe Ballroom - the first DJ program to really catch on, going back to the mid 30s.

I suppose Club Make Believe could work if it didn't sound like the sort of place Mr. Rogers' puppets go to get loaded and hit on Lady Aberlin and Henrietta Meow Meow Kitty. lol

Hilarious! But that doesn't really evoke the sophisticated spirit....

 

[Fletch]

This might be a hard line to walk between "fuddyduddy" and "precious."

Could "Color/Animal" bring it off at all? The Black Cat, the Red Parrot, the Green Chicken?

How about a roadhouse feel? Seems like in many places the swank characters would repair out of town, where blue laws weren't in force and they could even do a little gambling.

 

["Skeet" McD]

I am planning to host a radio show for our local jazz station and I want the format to be an old-time "live" broadcast from a swanky nightclub...I'm brainstorming names that would evoke the period of uptown sophistication...Thought the Loungers might have some fun kicking ideas around.

I expect your best answers will come from our FL cognoscenti, like Fletch--already heard from--and Lizzie Maine. But, I'll play:

THE RADIO ROOM
THE MEMORY BALLROOM
(and now we bring you all the buzz from) THE JIVE HIVE
THE CLUB OF THE AIRWAVES

Seeing as you're from Erie PA (and depending on how local the show would be), how about:
(The most obvious, clearly): THE ERIE ROOM (or THE FLAGSHIP ROOM of the HOTEL PERRY)
Or....Flyin' high with those hepcats of the sky at THE ERIE AERIE

"Skeet"

 

[dhermann1]

Research Erie history. You might find an actual place that existed there in bygone days.

 

[Fletch]

How about the Rhythm Room? Simple, evocative, and not overused.

 

[Brian Sheridan]

The history aspect is a great idea! Erie has a swanky hotel called the Lawrence. I could hit the historical society to see if they had a showroom and what it was called.

Thanks for the help....keep 'em coming.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

What about "Chez Sheri"

 

[Shangas]

The Paradise?

The Crystaline Hotel?

The Green Lantern Nightclub?

 

[GallatinHatMan]

My two cents:

Club Royale
Pyramid Club
The Peacock Ballroom

After I posted I got curious about old club and ballroom names. This site might give you some ideas: http://www.streetswing.com/histclub.htm

 

[BinkieBaumont]

"Glamarama Bar"

 

[Mike in Seattle]

The Club Continental. Or the Borealis Ballroom at the Club Continental, atop the famed blah-blah-blah Building or Hotel (which doesn't exist or did but doesn't any longer).

Or "On the 32nd floor penhouse of the Blah Blah Blah Building" which does exist...but only had 15 floors.

 

[The Wolf]

The Cumberbun Club
The Piedmont Room


Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[Brian Sheridan]

Thanks for all of the great suggestions.

I went back a researched some of Erie's old hotels. The swankiest was the Hotel Lawrence, named after Commodore Perry's ship for the Battle of Lake Erie. Sen John Kennedy spoke at the hotel during the 1960 presidential campaign. Not sure what happened, but the city knocked it down mid-sixties. They did a lot of dumb things like that with old buildings. Here is a postcard of it in its prime.

The hotel had a room called the Commodore Perry Lounge. I think for our show I am going to call it the Commodore Room. Lounge has kind of cheesy connotations now. Here is its postcard:

Does that sound good to everyone?

Thanks again for your help. It gave me lot to consider.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Lounge has kind of cheesy connotations now.

lol


-Best- line ever.....

 

["Skeet" McD]

I went back a researched some of Erie's old hotels. The swankiest was the Hotel Lawrence, named after Commodore Perry's ship for the Battle of Lake Erie....The hotel had a room called the Commodore Perry Lounge. I think for our show I am going to call it the Commodore Room....Does that sound good to everyone?

It sounds fine: realistic; not twee; and rooted in fact. Good luck!

"Skeet"

 

[Brian Sheridan]

lol


-Best- line ever.....

OOOOPS! I mean in conjunction with music! As Ralph Kramden has said, "hamamamamamama..."

 

[BinkieBaumont]

The hotel had a room called the Commodore Perry Lounge. I think for our show I am going to call it the Commodore Room

Does that sound good to everyone?

.

Bit Boring, sounds like a room in a convention centre, you need something that "Sparkles" keep on asking for ideas till you get something really amazing and unique,