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RockRoll360 #141 - Goodbye to WBCN (Part.40)

Amy Brooks & Hardy 

For you people that’s been looking for more sound clips
of WBCN besides the 4-Day Special.
Well I have to say you hit paydirt here,
and it’s a long one. ( 73 Minutes )
We are going to listen to 3 out of 4 phases of WBCN.

The first section is with Charles “Very Laidback” Laquidara
playing pretty things with great vintage BCN commercials,
from back in 1970. Songs have been re-recorded to
give you the best possible sound.

2nd section is from the 80’s in which Charles gives us
a Mattress Milestone. I happen to be in the studio that
day with Charles and requested that song by People
in 1983. We argue on who did that song originally.
He said The Zombies and I said People.
He was right. What I can’t believe is that I never heard it
by the Zombies until that year. In my defense the Zombies
did not chart with that single but People did.

Section with The Byrds is from 1986, during WBCN’s
28th Birthday Show.
And of course we move to 2009 during the 4-Day closing
celebration show with Hardy & guest. 

I also want to say Thanks for the compliments
I been getting from BCN fans and BCN’s Alumni’s 
for putting this all together and on the web. It’s
the least I can do for a station along with
WBRU in Providence, WNEW in New York and WMMR
in Philly that actually shape my life is some ways.

Enjoy and Rock On.

Don’t forget segments with this symbol  (*)
was not from the original 4 day broadcast.

(Below from 1970)

WBCN I.D. - What Radio Station Is This Dummy *
“Songs Of Yesterday” by Free   *
Laid back Charles Laquidara on the air  *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercial
                                 - for Discount Records  *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercial
                     - for Orsen Wells Theater   *
“The Tower Song ” by Townes Van Zandt  *
Ampex Tapes Radio Commercial 
                    by Charles Laquidara ( Circa Early 70’s )     *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercial
                            - on The Boston Phoenix   *
“Don Quixote”  by Gordon Lightfoot *
“Honky Tonk Downstairs” by  Poco  *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercial for
                         Peperell Sports Center *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercial for 
                            “One More Time” Movie  *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercial for
    “Suppose They Gave War And Nobody Came” Movie  *

(Below from the 80’s)

Classic Lunch Song - Feed Me with FM 104
                                    ( Parody of The Beatles )  *
Charles intro with Mattress Milestone for a song by People      *
WBCN Old Classic Radio Commercials for
                for Tweeter Etc. & The 1986 Chevy Sprint  *
“I Love You”  by People     *
Comedy from WBCN - Why are they like that   * 
“8 Miles High” by The Byrds    *

(Below from the Final 4 Days)

Hardy of WBCN signs on
“Snakebite” WBCN mash by Jerky Boys & The White Stripes
Hardy & Jaunita
WBCN I.D. - Faster Than The Speed Of Sound
                                            - The Real WBCN
“Death Or Glory” by Social Distortion
Rainman from Albuquerque, NM
“Do Ya ” - Matthew Sweet
Hardy & Mark Hamilton
Hardy,  Norm Winer (Ol’ Saxaphone Joe) & Sam Kopper

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ROCKOLLECTIONS: A CELEBRATION OF WINTER PT.4 CONCLUSION

My beloved Winter ain’t over yet.
I am going to open up this final chapter with a set of music about those freezing Cold Winds that are always able to slip in through the cracks, no matter what kind of house you live in.
We will hear from the Fairport Convention, the Doors and a great but grossly ignored group called Spirit.
I have some info on the famous 1816 Winter Without Summer- in which Connecticut had blizzards in JUNE & JULY!
Plus all the strange temps in other places that year.
We are all aware that it is always colder at night in the Winter, sometimes by as much as 15 to 20 degrees or more.
And never more so than when you are without your sweetheart, your main squeeze.
So some songs about that.
Including the beautiful “On A Winter’s Night” by Willie Nininger- with lyrics like these, “…just for now, we’ll stay by the radio, we’ll sing every song we know, turn off all the lights, wrap the blankets warmly, shut the windows tight, put your arms around me- for all we know, it may snow tonight”.
And an equally wonderful song from Gordon Lightfoot, one of the rare non-Christmas songs to have sleigh bells in it. Listen for them.
I have chosen an appropriate and meaningful to me song to end it all with.
This was great fun for me.
I hope I have made the case that Winter songs can be just as good as Summer ones.
And hey, remember it is STILL Winter- for all we know, it MAY snow tonight!

Mike

Tags: 1816 Winter Without Summer, Cold Winds, Connecticut, Fairport Convention, Gordon Lightfoot, On A Winter's Night, Spirit, Summer Songs, The Doors, Willie Nininger

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE FIRST ANNUAL SUMMER LOLLAPALOOZA PT.4 END

 

Before we begin, two things- first a sort of bonus track to open from Gordon Lightfoot, and here are a few signs it might be way too hot:

The pizza you ordered is actually the same temperature
that it came out of the oven when the delivery guy FINALLY
gets it to your door.
The water in your swimming pool can be used to cook
vegetables.
Cows give homogenized milk right there at the Dairy.
Chickens lay hard boiled eggs.
You can cook a full meal in your crock pot without ever
plugging it in.
The frozen pork loin you bought at the grocery on special
is fully cooked by the time you get home and you only live a
two minute drive from the store.
The squash in your garden are fully cooked when you pick
them.
“Ice Cube” forced to change his name to “Wet Spot.”
Too late, you realize that killing someone for a Slurpee
is probably a crime.
Al Gore takes credit for inventing air conditioning.
You shaved ten minutes off the morning commute by cooking
breakfast on your dashboard on the way in.
Your kids are toasting marshmallows — by sticking them
out the window.
Water comes out of the “cold” faucet at the same tempera-
ture as the “hot” faucet.

Wrapping things up all too quickly from that end of August 2006 Summer theme series, we had 17, yes SEVENTEEN, songs left over that went unplayed. Damn time constraints are killing me. I had planned a musical side trip to the water- the beach, etc.
Ah well, maybe next year!
We open with a very odd, unusual set that includes an old folkie doing a Stevie Wonder song, a doo-wop for the Oldies lovers, then something in a style even older than oldies, concluding with a track from a treasured, and very unique vinyl LP. This is the kind of thing I couldn’t get away with anywhere else, and I am eternally grateful to have the opportunity to be able to. It is in fact, the main thing that has kept me there for those near 10 years!
We move on to a universally loved summer song- I have never met anyone who didn’t like it.
Then a song about a summer very close to MY favorite.
We begin the end with an alternate version of a perennial end of summer song, although Engineer Ken couldn’t tell much of a difference.
I would have to play them back to back, but in the released version for instance, BOTH members of the duo sing the opening- here one does, joined by the other shortly after.
This is followed by another end of summer staple.
And we close it all out with a song that was as surprising to me as it may be to you.
This lifetime rocker could never have conceived of choosing this song years ago.
But we all mellow a little and get smarter, and realize that beauty sometimes will wait for us.
Happy Rest Of The Summer!

Mike

Tags: Doo Wop, Engineer Ken, Gordon Lightfoot, Oldies, Stevie Wonder, Summer Of 2006