Untold Story - First Person, Using Phone Lines And The Public To: 'Podcast', Stream Music', Go 'Viral', 'Influence' etc.etc. -43 Years Ago!!

LOS ANGELES - April 12, 2022 - PRLog -- Jeff Cane, aka 'The Curlyman' started broadcasting ('Podcasting') down a phone line, by mistake! Creating UNIQUE 20 second outgoing messages for his answering machine in *1979 (11 years before the web). His idea went on to make him a UK 'subversive' phone broadcaster of MUCH fame and notoriety!! Radio, TV and press coverage resulted 6 years later in his raising of 750,000 pounds sterling (3.5 Million today) to form a fully licensed company to link with British Telecom and broadcast to the nation DOWN PHONELINES. With Marconi as the suppliers of tek to this new (telephone) world order, his blinkered belief, came wonderfully TRUE!! With Marconi, he had access to some of the brightest Tek brains in the country, who were only too thrilled to test their computing with his wild telephonic imagination.  Jeff Cane then became The World's FIRST 'Social Media. STAR!!

Some of that imagination resulted in being the first to EVER (1986) put a telephone music (Streaming) jukebox in a national newspaper, half page in The Sun. Amongst all his 'phony' proof is a 'Podcast' serial going down phone lines to the public featuring known British actors and the music score created by a very impressive composer - IN 1986!! He was the first person to ever give the public 30 second tasters of all singles released in a week (Music Week feature) AND creating the biggest phone prank THE WORLD has ever known. Let me not forget, the FIRST to ever have 'Followers' (around 1,000 a week in the early days).

In 1991 he emigrated to Los Angeles to pioneer all over again. As he puts it - "when one reaches the goal of the journey, it isn't long before one realizes it's the journey that counts..."

It's apparent, seeing that Social Media is a MAJOR part of our everyday life that HIS  AMAZING STORY (Margaret Thatcher is part of it as are several celebrities!) should be told - all the ingredients are there as you can see and this is THE TIP of the 'Iceberg' as regards the proof he is sitting on!

Whilst what he was doing did not carry the titles that we have today, they were exactly the same, with one exception - THEY ALL WENT UNDER THE HEADING of 'THE CURLYMAN PRESENTS and "Call The Curlyman" went viral!

Check for yourself  www.thecurlyman.org/history

TV BBC/ITV http://www.thecurlyman.org/video

* There were  'things'' to call in the US from the late 60's other than that which the phone company put out, including a plethora of 'Joke'(?) lines which started from the early 70's. One such 'provider, was none other than Steve Wozniak (yes he...) which ran for 3 years from 1973. Cane never 'Podcast' a 'Joke Line' nor anything close. He was referred in the press of the day as, "A cross between Benny Hill and Monty Python that you dialed up" Irony, Satire, Humor, Pranks, Music and a good deal of Irreverence. 'Podcast' from 3 minutes (in the beginning) to AN HOUR in it's heyday on 6 phone lines. Even with said lines it was impossible to get through and TO THIS VERY DAY British Telecom have withheld giving 736-6411 to ANY subscriber!!! Cane created an ASTONISHING 25 year legacy from a 20 second answering machine message...