Burke Allen's Big Time Talker Podcast — by SpeakerMatch

The Supremes set the standard for girl groups and Motown music history, and two of the Supremes hang out and talk about the tunes, the times and so much more on this Big Time Talkers episode, sponsored by Speakermatch.com.  Sherrie Payne and Susaye Greene helped carry the Supremes torch into the 1970's after Diana Ross departure from the group, and they've got an amazing story to tell.  We touch o...

Today's Big Time Talker guest Joe Blunt became a member of the legendary Drifters in 1975. During his years with TheDrifters, Blunt was privileged to perform alongside two inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and perhaps the most prolific lead singers in The Drifters’ storied past — the legendary Ben E. King and the late great Johnny Moore.  Blunt was also featured as lead singer on so...

On today's Big Time Talker Podcast sponsored by Speakermatch.com, we talk with Jodi and Melissa from the Applaud Our Kids Foundation,  which provides 100% funding for children ages 7-18 who meet the financial needs requirements to take ongoing lessons in vocal instruction, dance, acting, and instrumental music for the entire school year and for summer programs. The students take these ongoing less...

Our Big Time Talker Podcast guest Wanda Allen is an International Speaker, Coach, Corporate Trainer and she’s the author of "Follow Up Sales Strategies" and "Follow Up Savvy". Prior to founding her company, Wanda had a very successful 25-year corporate career. She started as a secretary when she was 19 and worked her way up the corporate ladder and was promoted to Senior Vice President at the age...

The Big Time Talker Podcast, powered by Speakermatch.com welcomes singer/songwriter and keyboard wiz Bob Malone to the show. Bob has toured the world as a solo artist for two decades and has played keyboards with rock legend John Fogerty since 2011. He is also a busy session player and arranger, and is featured on the latest Ringo Starr record, “Give More Love.” His recording of “You’re A Mean One...

Alain Nu mysteriously appears on this episode of the Big Time Talkers Podcast powered by Speakermatch.  Alain is an American mentalist, illusionist, television personality, author, and speaker. He is known for demonstrations of ESP, mind reading, telekinesis, metal bending, and illusions.  Nu's career as an entertainer has spanned more than three decades, with performances and appearances in many...

Our guest on the Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch.com is the author and researcher Michael Betrus. The COVID-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020, resulting in most governments locking down their countries in an effort to slow the spread, so hospitals didn't get overwhelmed at once. These lockdowns came at a huge cost to the citizens of the world.  In his new book COVID-19: Lockdowns...

On this episode of the Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch, Hall of Fame country music DJ Lew Dobbins shares stories of his many friendships and interviews with some of the biggest names in the business. George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Charlie Daniels, Faron Young, Conway Twitty and so many more have been Behind The Microphone with Lew Dobbins...which, not coincidentally is the name of hi...

More than fifty years ago, John Brown was drafted into the US Army and a few months later was provided an all-expense-paid tour of Southeast Asia. He served a year in Vietnam (1969-70) as an Army enlisted man in the Americal Division.  When John returned from Vietnam and was admitted to graduate school, he decided to write about his experiences in the war. He wrote a couple of chapters and sent th...

Felicia Searcy’s mastery is helping people create a life they love.  Her purpose is her passion: to empower you to discover and express your best self as you create the life that you love. She is an award-winning transformational coach, international speaker, author, and minister who has helped thousands create a path for living their dream life. We chat with her about overcoming the hand that's b...

Bruce Hendrix has spent the past two decades circling the globe as the keyboard and guitar tech for some of the music industry's biggest artists. Now, like thousands of other music industry pros, he is sidelined by COVID-19, and there is no word on when the music will play again. Get great behind the scenes stories from Bruce, plus find out how the music industry is coping with the collapse of the...

Pat DiCesare is a legendary concert promoter, whose career spanned the latter half of the 20th century, and his Pittsburgh-based DiCesare-Engler Productions was one of the top-grossing businesses amongst U.S. concert promoters In September 2014 his book, "Hard Days, Hard Nights" was released by Headline Books. The City of Pittsburgh and the State of Pennsylvania declared the week of September 14 "...

Diana Hart is well known to fans of pro wrestling. She comes from what is arguably the most famous wrestling family of all time, the Harts...and her romantic novel series take place in that rough-and-tumble world that she knows like few others. We talk with Diana about the famous and not-so-famous folks she grew up around, the amazing way she was raised in a family filled with pro wrestlers, her t...

"Waco" is one of Netflix's most-watched shows in the shelter-in-place days of spring and summer of 2020. The story of the FBI's standoff with the Branch Davidians is based in part on "Stalling For Time", the memoir of longtime FBI hostage negotiation head Gary Noesner. Gary's book served as part of the source material for the min-series, and he was on set during the filming (Gary was portrayed by...

You probably know Donny Most for his iconic role as Ralph Malph on the TV classic Happy Days, but in his long Hollywood career, he's done lots more cool stuff! From TV shows like Glee to roles in movies and theater, to a successful stint singing and swinging the standards from the Great Amerian Songbook, Donny is one of the good guys in Hollywood, and he's got some terrific stories to tell! Visit...

The Team Choices Summer Summit is happening every Thursday in August at 3pm ET on YouTube!  It's jam-packed with short bursts of master motivation...real talk for students and others who need the boost in this very challenging 2020! You can find out more about the event here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=-Icf8vjc_S8&feature=emb_logo  It's totally FREE, and you can regis...

Today's Big Time Talker podcast guest Jeff Weber has been a widely recognized music industry professional for forty years. He has produced over 200 albums with releases on just about every major label as well as a host of independent labels. Along the way, his projects have yielded two Grammys, seven Grammy nominations, at least seventeen top ten albums, two number one albums, and an assortment of...

The Big Time Talker Podcast powered by Speakermatch welcomes Mountain Stage host and artistic director Larry Groce to the show! Larry has been with Mountain Stage since its beginning in 1983. His taste and personality have helped set the tone of this long-running radio show. Larry was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1948 and attended Adamson High School in the Oak Cliff section of that city. It was appa...

Today's guest is Dave Damiani, a New Jersey-born singer, songwriter, and producer now based out of Los Angeles, CA. Having started as a bartender at the famed CHARLIE O'S JAZZ CLUB in Valley Village, CA, Dave Damiani had the opportunity to work, learn and become friends with some of the best musicians on the planet. Legends like Earl Palmer, Marty Harris, Ross Tompkins, Sam Most, Teddy Edwards, Jo...

Today's Big Time Talker podcast guest is Stacey O’Byrne, and she wears many hats-mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, proud US Army Veteran, Success Strategist, Change Maker, Game Changer, Transformational Specialist and a Success Creator.  Stacey is also the author of the book Secrets to Becoming a Master Networker. Stacey is also there co-author of Messages that Matter and Savvy Women – Revving Up Fo...

Mitch McCracken is the foremost Memphis musiciologist; from Elvis to Al Green, Sun to Stax, Mitch has the insider track to the biggest names in Memphic music.  He's an author,  broadcaster, podcaster and most of all, a fan of the music and musicians from Memphis that make up the soundtrack of our lives.  Visit him online at www.mitchmccracken.org.  The Big Time Talker podcast is available at iTune...

Today's podcast guest Clint James is an actor known for Mine 9, The Magnificent Seven, Chicago Med and Fear The Walking Dead. He's a United States Air Force veteran of 9 years who served in the U.S and Europe. In August of 2002 he left the military to pursue his acting career full time. Clint resides in Queens, New York. We talk about his time in the service, his daughter Jesse Ray James (named af...

There are special forces. There are U.S. Navy SEALs. There is the select and secretive group of highly trained operators known as SEAL Team Six or MOB VI as they like to call it...and then there is Justin Sheffield.  When it comes to talking about the most experienced, effective, and deadly warriors in the world, Sheffield is part of an exclusive group that can be counted on one hand. None have se...

There are numerous super-session musicians in Nashville, but very few with the longevity of West Virginia native Charlie McCoy. In addition to being a fixture in Nashville studios for over five decades, he has recorded almost 40 solo albums, and served as the music director for eighteen years for the syndicated television series, “Hee Haw”. Charlie became one of the in-demand session players in Na...

Jorma Kaukonen is our guest on today's Big Time Talker podcast powered by Speakermatch.com!   Jorma is an American music icon-a founding member of Jefferson Airplane who still tours with Airplane member Jack Casady in Hot Tuna, which started as a Jefferson Airplane side project 50 years ago. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Jorma was ranked by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 50 gre...