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Nothing much to say, really--this page is here mainly to trap those folks who see the dickbaker.org domain name on my email address and decide to investigate. I maintain three web sites for special interests of mine, the Goon Show, Dick Two Ton Baker, and Stomp Off Records: The U.S. Archives of the Goon Show Preservation Society is for enthusiasts of the classic BBC radio comedy show of the 1950s. The Dick Two Ton Baker home page pays tribute to the music and career of Two Ton Baker (no relation), entertainer supreme in Chicago throughout the 1940s and '50s. The Stomp Off Records Project is a listing of the 4,000 classic jazz and ragtime tunes that appeared on Stomp Off, with research notes on titles and composers. Tailgate Ramblings 1971-1981 contains copies of the first 11 years of the newsletter of the Potomac River Jazz Club of Washington, D.C. (three years of which I edited). These scans will ultimately appear on the Club's website, but for now I've put them online for anyone who's interested.
The longest part of my 33-year career in the U.S. Government was at America Illustrated magazine, a monthly publication in the Russian language that we sent to the Soviet Union as part of a 38-year-long cultural exchange program (they sent their Soviet Life magazine here in exchange). In 2022, eight years after that exchange ended, Politico (then a print publication, now online only) published an in-depth history of the magazine and its place in the Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union. Read it--I think you'll agree that your tax dollars were spent wisely on the effort. I spent a month touring Australia and New Zealand a while back and have put up a short, egotistical video about a couple of the adventures I had there. Feel free to give it a look. Dick Baker |