I'm Hello again, friends, and welcome to another edition of the 605 Super Podcast.

This, a very special edition of the 605 Super Podcast, a tribute to Mean

Gene, Oakland, of course, the entire world has heard. Mean Gene, the legendary wrestling

announcer, passed away, and we are going to pay tribute to him here on this very special

episode with several guests talking about various points in Gene's career and what he meant

to everyone, and of course, what he meant to everyone and of course

what he meant to professional wrestling.

And as we kick off this episode, we're going to begin with Miriam Linna from Norton Records.

Of course, Norton Records, where the loud sound to bounds put out a record of some of Gene's

early rock and roll from when he was first starting out in South Dakota

and of course Minnesota.

So let's go to this right now, a look at Gene before he was mean, but when he was the leader

of Gene Carroll and the Shades.

I am very happy to welcome to the Super Podcast today, Miriam Linna, from Norton Records,

and we're going to discuss the music career of Gene O'Korland or a pre-Gene

Oakland music career, maybe I should say.

But Miriam, thanks for being here today.

Oh, I'm so thrilled to be here.

Thank you so much.

You know, I say Norton Records, and some of the listeners may say, what's Norton Records? And for those of you wondering, every time you've heard, Hello Lucille,

are you a lesbian, that's from Norton Records. Whenever you've heard us talk about Dr. Master

Wade Curtis, a wheelchair-bound manager that work for Nick Goulis, that's Norton Records. Norton Records

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