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ROCKOLLECTIONS: WOR-FM, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL FM ROCK STATION PT.6

Alright, with this chapter, Murray the K goes off, after playing a song you will know, that WOR-FM was the first in the country to play, and for a good while it was the only station to play it.
Rosko comes on, doing some scat singing to an instrumental I cannot identify, and he is doing his show live from a club called The Cheetah- I don’t know precisely how long that continued.
Now he was the one we didn’t know from other stations, and he was the biggest surprise,
His real name was William Mercer, often talked about how he had been a men’s room attendant in New Jersey, and went by the name Rosko on air.
He had a very interesting delivery, and did unusual things on his show, some of which I will get to.
For instance, that scat singing to open his very first show here in NYC, and then there was a Lee Michaels song he loved.
He frequently would sing along with it, sometimes in the background other times in the foreground.
I’ll play that song, and I expressed my regret that I didn’t have an actual tape of him singing with it.
So naturally today I found one…ah life, lol!
If you are interested, in this episode I will play THE song that changed my life!
It was Rosko who played it, and I was completely drawn into it.
I don’t know if that has ever happened to you, but it did to me in 1967- and it was when I still didn’t have an FM Radio, still listening to someone else’s, but now…now it was imperative that I get my own!
So after serious thought, I can confirm what I always suspected and play for you the song that changed everything for me.
And was responsible for my deep and abiding love for our Music that continues to this day.
I just hope YOU like it, lol!
It is almost as if I am trapped in this series, I keep getting new ideas and memories and finding more airchecks
I’d like to do just ONE more hour after this one, but to relate the history of the fascinating WOR-FM properly I may need two more.

Mike

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RockRoll360 #122 - Between The Lines (Part 2)

 

Welcome Fellow Podsters: Here is Part 2 of Between The Lines.
This one features great deep tracks by Yes and T Rex.
Also a great track by the actor/singer Jeff Bridges 

Please share, pass on, subscribe and or download.
 

Music includes :::

AND YOU AND I. CORD OF LIFE / YES
REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE / MARMALADE
BEG BORROW OR BORROW / RAY LAMONTAGNE AND THE PARIAH DOGS
THE RIGHT PLACE / MONSTERS OF FOLK
ANOTHER SATURDAY NIGHT / SAM COOKE
SHES A GENIUS / JET
BETWEEN THE LINES / STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
HOLD ON YOU / JEFF BRIDGES
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN / LEE MICHAELS
POLLY / NIRVANA
ROCK ON / T REX
I BET YOU DON’T PLAY THIS SONG ON THE RADIO / MONTY PYTHON

Sound bites include :::

Finding the Diamond - RR360  /  WLSO.FM - RockRoll360 I.D.
Time now for a lost 45  /  Computer Generated Sound Bite
Dominique ( Edit short with record scratch )
                        The Singing Nun with recorded scratch
Radio Free America  /  Sound bite from the movie “Red Dawn”
KNRK - Portland, Oregon Kick Ass Rock  /  Radio I.D.
That was wonderful / It was awful  /  Sound Bite from The Muppets

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RockRoll360 #090 - Golden Age of Underground Radio (Part 2 )

 
Tom Donahue  (May 21, 1928 – April 28, 1975),
was a pioneering rock and roll radio disc jockey.

We continue on with this musical ride with
The Golden Age of Underground Radio ( Part 2 )

Not from original Compilation Cd , with this symbol .   #  

Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
Tom Donahue
Darkness, Darkness - The Youngbloods
I Love To Change The World - Ten Years After
Tom Donahue
KSAN Newscaster From 1969
On The Road Again - Canned Heat
Leopold Records Commerical
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall  - Bob Dylan at The Concert for Bangladesh         #
What About Me - Quicksilver Messenger Service
Tom Donahue
Do You Know What I Mean - Lee Michaels
Tom’s Closing
Scottish Tea - Amboy Dukes

Hope to have for you by the summer of 2010,
The Golden Age Of Underground Radio ( Vol. 2 )
KMET In Los Angeles with B. Mitchel Reed  ( Alias BMR )

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RockRoll360 # 035 - When The Levee Breaks - Pt. 1

 

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break,
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break,
When The Levee Breaks I’ll have no place to stay.

When it came to hurricane provisions I was always one of those people
who chuckled at the sight of watching shoppers fill their carts with
water and canned goods.  It would never happen here right?

Those people were just paranoid, buying up all the water and making
the lines at the gas stations too long at every mention of a hurricane.

Then along comes Katrina.

Here is my tribute and remembrance of these terrible days in
New Orleans, La., in August & September of 2005.

Music include —->

LIKE A HURRICANE ( Unplugged )- NEIL YOUNG
STORMY MONDAY - LEE MICHAELS
WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS - LED ZEPPELIN
HERE COMES THE FLOOD - PETER GABRIEL
LOUISIANA 1927 - RANDY NEWMAN
WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS - GREEN DAY
SUICIDAL DREAM ( Acoustic ) - SILVERCHAIR
TROUBLE - RAY LAMONTAGNE
BAREFOOT CHILDREN - JIMMY BUFFET

Sound Bites include —->

In The News Week Of August 28th 2005 - Sound Bite -Computer
Hurricane Katrina To Hit Gulf States - Sound Bite from Eleanor Hall
Stormy Night - Song Sound Bite from Leroy Carr
Hurricane Katrina Hit The Gulf States - Sound Bite from Eleanor Hall
KKND (New Orleans-New Rock-The End)
- Radio I.D. ( Has Been Edited Short)

Correction on Podcast …I mention Hurricane Bob
                                       / The correct name is Hurricane Bill.

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