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RockRoll360 #170 - When The Revolution Comes ( Part 2 )

 

The signs are put away and everybody
is going home. At least here at RR360.
People are heading back to normalcy.
The revolution is done on this show. Instead I
bring you the remnants of my compilation of
“When The Revolution Comes” (Part 2),
recorded brand new here in the month of October 2011.
 
One hour show today !  WOW !   15 songs
Tunes include new songs by Ryan Adams,
The Head & The Heart & The Los Lonely Boys.
Also classic cuts by Dave Mason, The Kinks,
& The Doors. Not to mention  great tuneage by
The Kings of Leon and Rocco DeLucca would be a sin.
I like to mention my first request on this site by RJ Hog.
The tune he wanted is by Sister Hazel.  RJ is the administrator of
Classic Rock Bottom.  You might want to his site out.

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Music includes :::

WISH I CAN FLY LIKE ) SUPERMAN     /     THE KINKS
A HEARTACHE, A SHADOW, A  LIFETIME     /     DAVE MASON
COLORFUL     /     ROCCO DeLUCCA AND THE BURDEN
FREEDOM TRAIN     /     LENNY KRAVITZ
GIVING IT UP FOR YOUR LOVE     /     DELBERT McCLINTON
CHAMPAGNE HIGH     /     SISTER HAZEL
96 TEARS     ( Turn It Up Ending )    
                   /     QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS
MOLLYS’ CHAMBERS     /     KINGS OF LEON
110 YARD DASH     /     RAPHAEL SAADIQ
LUCKY NOW     /     RYAN ADAMS
HORSE LATITUDES     /     THE DOORS
MOONLIGHT DRIVE    /     THE DOORS
LOST IN MY MIND     /     THE HEAD AND THE HEART
AMERICAN IDLE     /     LOS LONELY BOYS
EVERYDAY     /     BUDDY HOLLY

Sound bites include :::

RR360 Superman Intro - Short   /   RR360 Podcast intro
None stop music , music, music   /   Sound bite
KWFM In Tucson, AZ - I’m Mark Young   /   Progressive Radio I.D.
Sherman - Set the wayback machine to 1950’s   /   WBCN sound bite
Thank you    /    Sound Bite from  James Cagney

  

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RockRoll360 #168 - One Headlight (Part 2)

 

Holding on with abated breath aren’t ya, waiting
for Part 2, of “One Headlight”.
The newest tunes on the show is by 30 Seconds To Mars.
Rest of the show has classic, folk and oldie tracks featuring
a deep classic track by Pink Floyd.
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Songs include ::::

HANG ON TO YOUR EGO    /  BEACH BOYS
FREE FOUR    /   PINK FLOYD   
SUMMER SONG     /   JOE SANTRINI  
THIS IS WAR   /   30 SECONDS TO MARS
REASON TO BELIEVE      /    TIM HARDEN  
LOST PARAGUAYOS    /    ROD STEWART 
I THINK I SMELL A RAT    /   THE WHITE STRIPES 
CREEP    /    STONE TEMPLE PILOTS  
ONE HEADLIGHT    /   THE WALLFLOWERS  
LITTLE DARLIN’     /     THE DIAMONDS

Sound bites includes ::::

Race needle - end of record - Tip Toe Through The Tulips
           /  Tiny Tim-Stevens & Grdnic   and heavy record scratch
Music In A Minute   /   Classic WBOS bumper
Pontiac commercial   /    Classic Old time radio commercial   ( 40’s )
The once and future FreeForm WBCN   
                    /    WZLX HD 3 Radio I.D. ( Ken Shelton )
Uh huh ! You thought we were done – we got more
                                /    Sound bite from  the Zac Brown Band
Son of bi bi bi - Gun    /    Sound Bite from  Porky Pig 
Well I guess this is it Bullwinkle, The End
              /   Sound Bite from  Rocky & Bullwinkle
This is the end   /   Sound Bite from a “Doors Song”

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ROCKOLLECTIONS: WOR-FM, THE FIRST COMMERCIAL FM ROCK STATION PT.8 CONCLUSION

This is it, the final chapter.
I’ll finish with that First (and last!) Anniversary Concert at the Village Theater on June 11, 1967.
And that venue is interesting for two reasons- first of all, I lived in that neighborhood at that time, and the Village Theater was nowhere near Greenwich Village.
Greenwich Village was on the West Side of Manhattan, the theater was on 6th St. & 2nd Avenue, what was then called the Lower East Side.
Now known as the East Village, but not then!
Secondly, it was the building Bill Graham later bought and turned into the Fillmore East.
The acts perfectly reflected what WOR-FM was playing by that time, and the station was a huge success with over a million listeners- and the best part was these were primarily college students and young adults who didn’t listen to AM or FM…they didn’t listen to the RADIO!
WOR-FM had created a new audience! But the greedhead suits and consultants always want more.
Here’s what Alan Sniffen and I have to say:
WOR-FM became extremely popular on college campuses.  It began to carve out an audience that had not been served by radio up until then.  It was achieving decent ratings (for an FM station) without taking audience away from the AM stations by appealing to new listeners.  This was significant.  Even so, owner RKO wasn’t satisfied.  Bill Drake had been consulting RKO’s two West Coast stations; KHJ in Los Angeles and KFRC in San Francisco.

These were both extremely successful AM Top 40 stations built around the “Drake-Chenault” philosophy of playing just the hits while minimizing almost everything else.  In July of 1967 RKO hired Drake to consult its remaining radio properties which consisted of CKLW, Detroit; WRKO, Boston; WGMS, Washington DC; WHBQ, Memphis and, of course, WOR-FM.

The first sense of change came when memos appeared from management dictating to the air staff not to play certain cuts. Next the disc jockeys were removed from the new record listening sessions and not allowed to have input on the playlist. Next the playlist became all singles with only an occasional new record and it had to be from an established artist.

Murray the K had the highest rated FM show in New York.  He would have no part of these changes and his protests cost him his job.  He was fired by the station in September 1967.  His parting comment about the changes at WOR-FM was “Who can live with that?  Music has reached a maturity… people in radio are still treating it as if it is for teenie boppers.”

Murray had a point. WOR-FM was different from the other RKO properties in that it was FM stereo as opposed to AM.  It had built a solid audience by attracting a different group of people.  Giving up on it after only a year seemed premature. Record companies had found the station highly valuable at influencing sales of rock albums especially of new artists and groups like Cream, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.  The format was noted for playing new records first, often playing new artists that the local AM stations wouldn’t play.

But by October of 1967 WOR-FM was changing and targeting the more traditional Top 40 radio audience. The playlist was down to about 30 records.  Other WOR-FM disc jockeys resigned including Bill “Rosko” Mercer who actually quit on the air while commenting that his action had nothing to do with the old management but with the programming consultants who had taken over. He spoke of honoring the respect listeners had for the station and described the new programming consultants (i.e.. Bill Drake) saying “what they’re doing is dishonest to us and to you.” If there had been any way to continue, he said, “we would have. I did a lot of soul-searching. This has nothing to do with the old management we started out with. We presented a lot of beautiful new things. This has been curbed.” He said he couldn’t go on with the new policy because people would say: “Hey, Rosko, you’re not the same any more.”

What is interesting is that it’s clear RKO had no idea just what WOR-FM’s strengths were.  It would turn out that its progressive rock format was a huge hit to younger rock radio listeners.  On college campuses, it was the single most popular station and its ability to sell new recordings was unmatched.
It was, indeed, the first niched radio station.

As Metromedia’s WNEW-FM went on to prove in the years that followed, the concept of an FM rock station that plays music beyond the hit list could attract a loyal and significant audience.

Thank goodness WNEW-FM was listening!
They picked up the ball WOR-FM dropped and ran with it.
WNEW-FM became the best Rock & Roll station in the country, probably the world, with the kind of musical freedom I dreamed of.
You will hear Rosko quit on the air in this episode.
But the sad story of WOR-FM will have a happy ending for most who were involved!
And it only took a few weeks for me to get over my depression and be thrilled I had gotten that AM/FM clock radio again, lol!
Hope you enjoyed this journey, and I thank you for getting on the bus with me!

Mike

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RockRoll360 #151 - Smoke A Little Smoke (Part 1)

 

Happy Easter To All.
Hey I’m back ! It’s been 7 weeks since I narrated a show.
Because of the 4 POT series of ” A Child’s Garden Of Grass”
and two shows from the “Goodbye Series To WBCN”,
gave me some time off speaking to you.
Here’s the latest compilation I put together
here during the month of April of 2011.
This one features great deep tracks by
Keith Richards, The Doors, Alice In Chains,
and The Modern Lovers.
Also new tracks by Tom Petty, Clair MaGuire,
The Strokes, and another 4:20 tune I’m sure.
Progressive format at it’s best.

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Music includes :::

UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS   /     THE STROKES
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT 
                              / TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS
TEACHER   /   JETHRO TULL
COCAINE BLUES   /   KEITH RICHARDS
ROCK ME ( Live at The LA Forum 1970 )   /   THE DOORS
AIN’T NOBODY ( Live @ St. Lukes in London )   /   CLAIR MAGUIRE
ROADRUNNER   /   THE MODERN LOVERS
DANDELION   /   THE ROLLING STONES
SMOKE A LITTLE SMOKE   /   ERIC CHURCH
SLUDGE FACTORY  ( Live )  /   ALICE IN CHAINS

Sound bites include :::

RR360 I.D.   /   Your Hit parade ( 1955 )
                                          MusicMan sound bite …
KWFM   /   Lady Jane in the morning ( 1974 ) Radio Promo
BCN IS playing that song we use to drop acid too.  
                                                           /  WBCN Radio Promo

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RockRoll360 #143-Rolling In The Deep (Part 2)

 

Part 2 of the latest compilation I put together
here during the month of February of 2011.
This one features great deep tracks by
Blood Sweat & Tears, Lyn Collins, The Doors
Parliament, Taj Mahal. Also new tuneage from
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and
Neon Trees. You also have to love the Theme song from
TV’s FX program “Sons Of Anarchy” 

Music includes ::::::

ANIMALS / NEON TREES
OKIE FROM MUSKOGEE ( Live ) with Miller Commercial
  / MERLE HAGGAR / TEA GARDEN AND VAN WINKLE
WE WILL ROCK YOU-BEVERLY HILLS  —> Mashup
                    / Queen / Weezer / Joan Jett
SMILING PHASES / BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
RUNNIN’ BLUE / THE DOORS
HOME / EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS
(Just for fun ) Click here !!! “Home”
             /  by a Father & Daughter team.
THING ABOUT IT / LYN COLLINS
MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION ( STAR CHILD ) / PARLIAMENT
STATESBORO BLUES / TAJ MAHAL
JACKSONVILLE SKYLINE / WHISKEYTOWN
THIS LIFE ( Theme from Sons Of Anarchy )
                   / CURTIS STIGERS AND THE FOREST RANGERS

Sound bites include :::

1986 Chevy Sprint / Vintage Radio Commercial
The Door Test / Sound bite from the movie A Bronx Tale
KCSB FM SANTA BARBARA  with Malcolm / Progressive Radio I.D.
Laughter in song / unknown sound bite

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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

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RockRoll360 #082 - Going The Distance ( Part 1 )

 

Winter Sucks and I’m going nuts here in New England. As each year pass by I am having issues with this dam weather . Oh ! too be a kid again . I remember just not to long ago, I use to look forward to snowstorms heading this way . Now they can stay the hell away   !!!!
The good news is, one of the first signs of the year that summer is coming is the opening of the Nascar season. In fact down at Daytona in Florida this coming weekend is the start.
After that we can look forward to the pitchers and catchers report to spring camp Wednesday after Super Bowl Sunday ( Go New Orleans ! )

So Nascar Fan’s and everybody else who loves music …..
Enjoy ” Going The Distance “  In fact great comedy is peppered throughout with George Carlin and Jeff Foxworthy, among others. 

Click Play or download, place in I-Tunes or on compact disc …
and by all means please share with the music lovers in your life !

Music includes :::

LIVING IN THE USA - THE STEVE MILLER BAND
LIFE IN THE FAST LANE - THE EAGLES
GOING THE DISTANCE - CAKE
AND THE CROWD GOES WILD - MARK WILLS
BREAK ON THROUGH - THE DOORS
I’M IN LOVE WITH MY CAR - QUEEN
WHEELS - CAKE
WHEELS - THE FOO FIGHTERS 
ROUTE 66 - CHUCK BERRY

Sound bites include :::

You know Rock, you got some funny ideas - Sound Bite from Rocky & Bullwinkle
KBILLY Super Sounds Of 70’s       (Dialogue) - STEVEN WRIGHT
I Love Nascar    ( Edited Short ) - CLEDUS T.JUDD
Race car– F348-Blanchmont - Sound Effect
That’s why I watch auto racing - GEORGE CARLIN
WKLB   ( Boston Country Club  - Radio I.D.
Race car 1 - Sound Effect
Race car starting and going - Sound Effect
Word Nascar appears in your wedding vows - JEFF FOXWORTHY
Listening to the Nascar Interviews - JEFF FOXWORTHY
It still got that smell - Sound bite from the Movie Fargo

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RockRoll360 #074 - Goodbye to WBCN (Part. 18)

 

Jim Parry @ WBCN Studios

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.

One night in April of 1979,  Governor Edward King of Massachusetts launch the bill on raising the drinking age from 18 back up to 20. This  became a special night in Massachusetts and last call for thousands of  working youth & college students until they reach the age of 21 to drink again (Legally).  This is a segment of a broadcast from WBCN that night with Jim Parry at the mic, I had in my personal collection on cassette.  The music for the show which starts  at the 6:50 mark with the Kingston Trio through Queen is the music broadcast that night, but I re-recorded the tracks from my personal collection due to capturing a better sound from analog to digital sound quality. Also a special anouncement from Charlie Kendell at WBCN back in 1979.

Hope you enjoy this special edition of Goodbye To WBCN .

– Station I.D. by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
– “So Say To Say’   by     The Mighty Mighty BossTones       #
– WBCN I.D. The Rock Of Boston
– Station I.D. by Van Halen
– “Unchained”   by     Van Halen
– “Scotch and  Soda”  by     The Kingston Trio          #
– “Tequilla Sunrise”  by     The Eagles                    #
– “Wine, Wine, Wine”  by     The Electric Flag         #
– “Margaritaville”  ( The Lost Version Live )     by     Jimmy Buffett        #
– 12 Mins since Last Call - / Drinking Age Change - Jim Parry  WBCN - 1979    #
– “Alabama Song”   by     The Doors     #
– “Fun It”    by     Queen     #
– Duane Glasscock will be prosecuted -  Charlie Kendell and Oedipus  -                       Sound Bite with from Jim Parry  WBCN - 1979      #
– 41 years  - How do you say Goodbye to old friends    #
– “Short Skirt, Long Jacket”     by     Cake    
– Station I.D.  from  Cypress Hill                      #
–”Hits From A Bong”      by     Cypress Hill
– Station I.D.       by      Pearl Jam                   
–”Jeremy”      by    Pearl Jam                          #

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RockRoll360 #050 - Fresh Air - (Part 1)

 

Ok - Time for a little fun - another special program !

When progressive radio appeared on the airwaves from coast to coast around 1967 throught the early 70’s, it was like a breath of fresh air that filled our mind and spirit with comedy, music and even maintained a strong counterculture reputation. It was a great moment in radio history for the baby boomers.

Let’s make believe we have gone back in time and
we are on a progressive radio time warp. Enjoy the way radio was,
very laid back with great tunes. I have some great moments with some of other
radio stations beside WBCN - Enjoy great progressive radio DJ’s-Scott Muni,
Tom Donohue and Malcolm-Gault Williams.

Music Includes

STRANGE DAYS - THE DOORS
I’M GOING HOME  (LIVE) - TEN YEARS AFTER
MANNISH BOY - MUDDY WATERS
IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING - KING CRIMSON
FRESH AIR - QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE
EARLYBIRD - EAGLES
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN ( Long Version  ) - ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA
SOUTHBOUND TRAIN - DAVID CROSBY AND GRAHAM NASH
Sound bites include

-Nephew Scott Hervieux WLSO.FM RockRoll360 Intro from North Carolina
-WNEW FM - Scott Muni promotes Woodstock
-My father was a barber - Very Quick Sound Bite from Charles Laquidara
-KSAN- Radio Tom Donohue - A PSA From Tom Donohue OF KSAN
also
-Malcolm Gault Williams on KTYD backannounce and sabotage by Dave Heffner. Dave comes in while he’s on mic with an old KZFM T-shirt. he preceeded Dave at KZFM
broadcasting briefly in 1972. When he worked KZFM in 1974 they were a
mere shadow of the freeform station Jay Harrison has spearheaded in ‘72.
-Mel Brooks promo for Dwayne Glasscock on WBCN

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RockRoll360 #040 - Potholes ( Part. 1 )

This compilation made here in the month of March 2009.
The sad part, this is the month I lost my job of 31 years.
The good part — My music pulls me through.

This podcast starts off very scary, but don’t worry - I took care of the matter.
My gems here is a song by Randy Newman ( Randy is one artist I really enjoy )
and your either gonna love it or hate it and A mash up of Blondie & The Doors.
I always been a sucker for these.

Listen - Download - Share & Enjoy !!

Music includes:::::

2′OCLOCK IN THE AM - SWATI
MY LUCKY DAY - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
POTHOLES - RANDY NEWMAN
YOU ARE THE BEST THING - RAY LaMONTAGNE
IN THE EYE - SUSANNE VEGA
THE FRESHMAN  (Acoustic ) -  THE VERVE PIPE
ONE WAY OR ANOTHER - BLONDIE
RAPTURE RIDERS - BLONDIE Vs. THE DOORS
LOVE HER MADLY - THE DOORS
GHOST OF PERIDITION - PEPI GINSBERG

Sound bites include :::::::::

Mickey - Excerpt from the song by Toni Basil
Record scratch - Sound Effect
You wouldn’t say No to a lady
- Sound Bite from Lisette Veria & Groucho Marx
Boston Music Montage - WBCN Radio Sound Bite
WBCN - Bigger than a breadbox - Radio I.D. From 1970

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