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ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE SOUNDS OF PETS PT.2 END

Did I mention Paul McCartney has said the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds was the driving force for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, lol?
He also has said God Only Knows is the best song ever written.
We continue with the other side of the album.
And in the interest of aural purity, I want you to know that I played the vinyl mono version of Pet Sounds for these two parts- the way Brian Wilson intended it to be heard.
Enjoy!

Mike

Tags: Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, God Only Knows, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Vinyl Mono Album

RockRoll360 #079 - Apple Scruffs ( Part 1 )

 

Welcome to Apple Scruffs ! … Nothing special here, just a little Beatle thing
going on here … Play, Download, Share and Enjoy.

Music includes ::::::: 

GIRL - THE BEATLES
APPLE SCRUFFS - GEORGE HARRISON
PIGGY IN THE MIDDLE - THE RUTLES
IT’S JOHNNY BIRTHDAY - GEORGE HARRISON
ISOLATION  ( Outtake) - JOHN LENNON
ABOUT YOU - PAUL McCARTNEY
BACK OFF BOOGALOO - RINGO STARR
TWIST AND SHOUT - THE MAMAS AND PAPAS
HAVE A CIGAR - PRIMUS
NO ONE KNOWS - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

Sound Bites includes ::::::::

WABC  Beatles Bumper - Radio Jingle
Beach Boys asked The Beatles - Sound Clip
WPRO  ( The Station that Reaches The Beaches) - Radio Jingle
She’s Dead - Sound Clip From  The Sopranos

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RockRoll360 #076 - Goodbye to WBCN (Part. 19)

Mark Hamilton & Bill Abbate Of WBCN  

Continuing with The Goodbye to WBCN final 4 days of Broadcast.
Don’t forget segments with this symbol  ( # ) are bonus additions
and is not from the original 4 day broadcast.
 

– 1 0 4 1 WBCN Station I.D.
– “One Day”  by Matisyahu
– Station I.D. by Audioslave
– “Show Me How To Live”   By Audioslave
– On Air Mark Hamilton
–”Fox On The Run”   by Sweet
– WBCN I.D. Don’t Touch That Dial .
–”Thunder Island”     by   Jay Ferguson         #
– Looking Back with The Sex Pistols
– Adam-12 with Bill Abbate
– WBCN I.D. - Boston Swears By It
– New commercial for The Killers performing live         
–  WBCN I.D. - The Real WBCN
– “Good Girls Don’t”    by   The Knack
– Looking Back at 41 years  - Comedy- Y-Tell Popeye Meets The Beach Boys
– “Ca Plane Pour Moi” by Plastic Bertrand
– WBCN I.D. - If Your listening to another radio station - Your Stupid !
– Looking Back at 41 years  - David Bowie
– “Possum Kingdom”     by    The Toadies
– WBCN I.D. - Bigger Than A Bread Box
– “Struggle”      by       Keith Richards    1988
– Adam-12 with Bill Abbate speak about WBCN as Flagship Station for The Patriots
– “In My Life ” by Ben Lee

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ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2009 PT.3

Still doing it from home, I thought I would open up this Christmas episode with the voices of some sisters, a group I always call the female Beach Boys.
There is something about the harmonies of sisters and brothers that is special.
Well, guess what that made me think of to play next?
Beach Boys would be correct, and after doing the “The Beach Boys Christmas Album” in 1964, they did another Christmas LP in the 70’s that remained unreleased for decades.
Got a great track from that, a Phil Spectorish, crammed-with-instruments song, with the lead done by Dennis Wilson
After that, my trusty old calendar indicated that yesterday was the First Day Of Winter.
So, a couple of my very favorite and beautiful songs to commemorate that.
I’ll play my annual different version of Run Rudolph Run (should be Run Run Rudolph, lol!).
This year’s choice is a surprise, as he is better known for rollicking nautical, warm-weather music.
I have the FINAL Beatles Christmas Message to their Fan Club in 1969- something we started in 2003 with the 1963 Message, and for all 7 years have kept a close 40-year pace, lol!
It’s the first one I am playing without Engineer Ken.
It is plain to hear that they are NOT a group any longer, each member doing his bit seperately, not even in the same country let alone in the studio together like those early ones.
Coming up in the next and final chapter, our own peculiar musical look at the Holiday movie, The March Of The Wooden Soldiers.
Now who would want to miss that?
The big, happy, wonderful Christmas Day looms ever closer…

Mike

Tags: 1964, Beach Boys, Beatles Christmas Message 1969, Beatles Fan Club, Engineer Ken, First Day Of Winter, Phil Spector, Run Rudolph Run, Run Run Rudolph, The Beach Boys Christmas Album, The March Of The Wooden Soldiers

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE CSN DEBUT PT.2 END

 

Funny, this show was broadcast on a hot August day, and now today I have been battling a cold, flu or whatever the hell has gotten into me!
I feel like crap, but listening to this debut album by Crosby, Stills & Nash helped.
Side Two is all ready to go.
And I went off on why I like the song Helplessly Hoping so much.
Besides all the alliterations included in it, there is that chorus…oh that chorus!
Brilliant to me, and my breakdown of it just shows what a true romantic I am, lol!
Always loved the song, always will.
There is the rest of the side of course, plus I had time to throw in a bonus track.
So sit back, kick off your shoes and listen to some fabulous harmonies.
I rank them right up there with the Mamas & Papas, Beach Boys and anyone else I can think of.
It’s strange, I put so much work into the Theme shows and sometimes just simply playing an album is so satisfying.
Please do enjoy the sounds.
It’s a sick man’s request, lol!

Mike

Tags: Beach Boys, david crosby, Graham Nash, Helplessly Hoping, Mamas & Papas, stephen stills

RockRoll360 # 027 - Panic Switch - Pt. 1

 

Good Day Podsters, 
Here is a brand spanking new compilation for you.
Here on Parts 1 & 2 will reflect mostly a AAA Radio Format.
Which of course means Adult Album Alternative radio.

On this podcast I also go a little off kilter a little with a song by
The Black Eyed Peas. Yes, its another one of my guilty pleasures.

I’m pretty sure this will be the Top Pop song of 2009.

Music Includes :::

I’M NOT THE MAN I USE TO BE - THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
DO IT AGAIN - STEELY DAN
DO IT AGAIN - THE BEACH BOYS
BOOM BOOM POW - THE BLACK EYED PEAS
MY OWN PRISON ( Acoustic Version ) - CREED
THE LAST GOODBYE - BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
SIDE WITH SEEDS - WILCO
FUNNY THE WAY IT IS - THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND
SITTING, WAITING, WISHING - JACK JOHNSON
IN MY DREAMS - THE EeLS

Sound Bites Include :::

Where’s there life - There’s Budweiser
                     - Radio commercial by The Crewcuts
WCBS - Welcome Back CBS FM - Beach Boys - Radio I.D.
KHJ  93 - The Rhythm Of Los Angeles - Radio I.D.
Phyllis Diller - Stand Up Sound Bites
WMVY   92.7 - Cape Cod - Radio I.D.

Also during the time of the release of this show -
We just lost another celebrity and media icon whom I grew up with. 

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr.
R.I.P.   1916 - 2009 

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RockRoll360 #008 - Ring Of Fire - Pt. 2

  

Hello Everybody —Hope your Mother’s Day weekend was great !

Music on this Podcast contains great stuff.

Check out selections by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry
from a documentary called “Lightening In A Bottle”
released in 2004. Also check out Ted Leo & The Pharmacists,
Etta James, along with a song that the lyrics, I always
thought were beautifully written by Will T. Massey.
Can’t forget one of the newer groups of the last few years
with a tune in the Modern Tracks Charts today called 
“Be Somebody” by Kings Of Leon.

And Yeah ! —I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Theres something about
Karen-O, her voice and leather that just go’s together fine. 

So crank up the tunes and please don’t forget to pass on and
support this site to others.

Here is Part 2 of “Ring Of Fire”

MAPS  (Acoustic) - YEAH YEAH YEAHS
HERE TODAY - BEACH BOYS
USE SOMEBODY - KINGS OF LEON
I’M A KING BEE - STEVEN TYLER & JOE PERRY
COUNTING DOWN THE HOURS - TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS
LIFELINE - PAPA ROACH
I’D RATHER GO BLIND - ETTA JAMES
BLACK - PEARL JAM
A SUMMERTIME GRAVEYARD - WILL T. MASSEY

Sound Bites include…..

Where’s your I.D.s - What are you guys - Beach Boys radio spot
WBCN - More powerful than locomotive - Radio I.D.
WRNO 99.5 - The Rock Of New Orleans -Radio I.D.
Eyes only / Oh! My God my eyes - Various sound bites
Dead & Graveyard - Various sound bites
Laughter in song - unknown sound bite

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ROCKOLLECTIONS: TRUE OLDIES PT.2

Moving along with our True Oldies, I am gonna open up this chapter with another interpretation of that old chestnut, Summertime- this one from 1960, by the group that did the original Barbara Ann- long before the Beach Boys.
Then a not so well known Summer song by a cat named Elvis Presley.
I hear he did some things before 1964, although you’d never know it by today’s Oldies radio.
Got a song from Frankie Lymon’s brother that only serves to remind me…oh, never mind, lol!
Then a set of songs that were known as “grind” songs- very little movement of the feet, but the rest of the body was definitely in action.
We also called them “songs that kept the cleaners in business”, if you know what I mean!
All the groups’ names begin with a C oddly enough, and I threw in a rocker just for the hell of it.
These shows all prompted By Bruce Morrow taking my place on Sept.2 with our station’s Les Marshak.
Takes 2 guys to replace me- even just for a week!
I ended with a song I said needed no introduction, didn’t give it one, and never identified it or the next one.
For the interested or curious, they were the Del Vikings and the Edsels (bad name for a bad car!).
We will continue with more.

Mike

Tags: Barbara Ann, Beach Boys, Bruce Morrow, Del Vikings, Edsels, Elvis Presley, Frankie Lymon, Les Marshak, Summer, Summertime