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RockRoll360 #085 - Goodbye to WBCN (Part. 23)

  
Charles Laquidara at the board at WBCN (circa 1978)

Continuing with The Goodbye to WBCN final 4 days of Broadcast.
Great show with interview of Charles Laquidara calling from Hawaii.

 Alas –> Poor Charles -They had to mess with him. 
I heard it was a set up anyway !
Also light up those smoking lamps -
Gem on the show is the long version of “Witchi Ti To ” by Jim Pepper.

Enjoy one of the great moments on radio.  

– Promo for WBCN Union 104.1 Card
– Bruce Springsteen interviewed by WBCN’s Maxanne Sartori -January 1973  — “Does this Bus Stop at 82nd Street”  by Bruce Springsteen  
– Hardy & Carter Allen
– Dwayne Ingalls Glasscock preps us for Charles Laquidara
– WBCN  I.D. - Don’t Touch That Dial
– Hardy, Chachi, Carter Allan & Charles Laquidara on the phone.
– “Witchi Ti To”  by Jim Pepper
– Hardy, Chachi, Carter Allen & Charles Laquidara on the phone.
– WBCN 104.1 Station I.D. 
– Bobcat Goldthwait promoting Charles on the Big Mattress.
– “All Things Must Pass”  by George Harrison
– WBCN I.D. - Bigger Than A Bread Box

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RockRoll360 #057 - Goodbye to WBCN (Part. 10)

 

Charles Laquidara and the founder of Rock WBCN Ray Riepen

Continuing with the one that explains the beginnings of progressive WBCN
radio and what Freeform BCN is today. This is my favorite segment
of the 4 day special because this is where we hear from Sam Kopper
1968–1973 Morning Air Talent, 1968–1970 First Program Director,
who hired JJ Jackson, Charles Laquidara, Norm Winer, Maxanne Sartori.
and the first voice of WBCN radio, Harold “Mississippi Fats” Wilson.

Don’t forget segments with this symbol  ( # ) was not on the original
broadcast.

 

 

– WBCN I.D. by Randy Kirshbomb                          #
– “Waiting On The T” by Marcia Masters  ( Rockwell Parody )                 #
– Sam Kopper, Mississippi Fats, Bradley J.
                                    Rocket Bob Slavin, Timothy Montgomery 
– WBCN I.D. - The Real WBCN
– FreeForm BCN Liner by Debbie Almond
– “Witchie Tai To” by Jim Pepper
– “Stick With Me”   by Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
– Sam Kopper, Mississippi Fats, Bradley J.
– Old Vintage WBCN Commercials
– “Sad Sad Song” by M Ward
– “Who Knows What Tomorrow Will Bring” by Traffic
– WBCN I.D. - Boston Swears By It

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ROCKOLLECTIONS: MY RETURN, AND BACK DOING IT AGAIN PT.2 END

We return for this 2nd half with more “return” songs, lol.
Including one from an ex-Beatle that for some reason was never released, but will blow your mind!
After that, I knew that in my self-exile I had missed an entire season, Spring, by just a couple of days.
For all the Hallmark card feelings about Spring, it is often forgotten there was a time that for the Native American Indians in many parts of the country, to have SURVIVED the Winter was a cause for celebration.
Just plain being glad you had made it to Spring and weren’t dead!
So a song about that, written by a Cree Indian jazz musician named Jim Pepper, but the version I’ll play was taken over and done much better by a folk-rock duo.
This song and I have been friends for a very long time- since the early 70’s- so I hope you like it!
And bear in mind when this was broadcast, June 23rd was just 3 days into Summer.
I’ll end by going out pretty much the way we came in.
You may have noticed that I am the lone holdout when it comes to printing playlists of these shows.
I don’t believe in them!
There are maybe half a dozen people in radio that I like to listen to- who of course share my “anything goes” attitude about what to play.
And I most certainly do NOT want to know IN ADVANCE what they are going to play.
The chance to bring back a forgotten song long dormant in your memory, or one you have never heard but catches your ear- these are the things that are the most delightful to me, and why I guard my free-form status so closely.
Why in the hell would I want to tell you what I am going to play before I do so- and why would you bother listening if I did?
The element of surprise or anticipation is key- this show is not background music while you do something else, and I am not wallpaper hanging there so long you don’t notice it anymore!
Let’s take another ride together.

Mike

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