Here’s another idea for a Theme Series that I have had for a long time that would bump into the annual Tribute/Memorials.
The Cycle Of Life!
And I would always be reminded by those people passing away, thereby completing the Cycle.
Well, no more excuses.
It’s a new decade, and after about 10 years of doing them, I am putting those Tributes to rest, at least for a while.
As you will hear me say, it is coincidental that this comes during my birth month, March. Thinking more about it, maybe…maybe not.
At any rate, in this first chapter I will be taking a musical look at just some of what the singers and the songwriters think Life is- including our major opening question.
But to give you a better understanding of our real beginning and how this journey is going to go, in the next chapter Rockollections Will Give Birth!
Yes, Life will begin and I will take it from there.
At this point I have no idea how long this Theme Series will take.
It’s free-form radio, and I’ll know when I get to the end.
But this is how it begins…

Mike

 

Various Artists - Golden Age of Underground Radio (1989 Dcc Compact Classics ) (CD)   (Part 1 )

“This is Tom Donahue and I’m here to play phonograph records.”
With that sign-on, Tom Donahue defined “underground” FM radio in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This disc takes the listener back to that time period, with samples of Donahue’s news spots, commercials, and between-song chat taken from airchecks while he worked as the “Big Daddy” of Bay Area broadcasting at KSAN-FM in San Francisco. The music here is a compendium of popular album cuts from that 1968-1972 era. Listening to this album is like spending 70 minutes in a time warp, when flowers, beads and long hair were de rigueur, head shops and independent record shops flourished, musicians were free to take risks with their recordings, and FM radio still allowed its announcers to choose their own music. Peace, love and hope are once again in the air and on the airwaves. It’s a trip worth taking.

Close your eyes and picture yourself with your Grateful Dead tee shirt on along
with your sandals. Your long hair brushes against your shoulders and your
driving down Ashbury in “The Haight” in San Francisco in your VW bus with your friends. The sweet aroma of God’s gift to you fills the bus.  Then you turn on your FM / 8-Track car stereo and tune into 94.9.  You see that bright red stereo light letting you know you are receiving the signal loud and clear. Now you are there, in the years of 1968 through 1972 - Have a nice trip won’t you with the Legendary Tom Donohue KSAN Radio Stereo 94.9 in San Fran.

Not from original Compilation Cd , with this symbol .   #  

Nobody Knows - Faces     #
Tom’s Donahue’s Sign-on
Fresh Garbage - Spirit
Tom Donahue
Time Has Come Today  - The Chamber Brothers ( Edited Short from RockRoll360)
So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star - The Byrds
Family Dog Commercial
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Tom Donahue
Shoot Out On The Plantation - Leon Russell
Delta Lady - Joe Cocker
Leopold Records Commerical
Atlantis - Donovan

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

Don’t forget segments with this symbol  ( # ) are bonus
additions from my collection of BCN broadcast
and is not from the original 4 day broadcast.

– Dwayne Ingalls Glasscock             #
– “Physco Chicken”   by   The Fools             #
– “Evil Woman”    by The Electric Light Orchestra     #
– Dwayne Ingalls Glasscock with girl on phone      #
– “Kiss You All Over”    by    Exile                  #
– Hardy, Chachi, Carter Allen & Charles Laquidara on the phone.
– WBCN I.D. - If Your listening to another radio station - You’re Stupid !
– “Such A Night ” ( Live )   by Dr. John  ( From The Last Waltz )         #
– Hardy, Chachi, Carter Allen & Charles Laquidara on the phone.
– “The Last DJ.” by Tom Petty
– Y-Tell Records - Popeye meets the Beach Boys
– WBCN I.D. - Rose Kennedy A Reason To Live 

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 The Weekend commences here on this Friday  with all Indie music from Ariel Publicity and the PMN - PLUS music from the ♥ in -unc’s email and snail mail which is always appreciated. Now, go on, listen and pass it on!
-unc.

Today’s Featured Artists-
Jim OKeeffe - Dog Days of Summer
Nick Daugherty - Out of My League
World Tree - We Moved Through the Fayre
Edgar Gabriel’s StringFusion - Would You Be My Valentine
Venice is Sinking - Ryan’s Song
Three Years Hollow - Suffer
Soundjoint - Naked
Black Top - In Front of the Judge
David Berkeley - Chicago
Mike Whitney - Papa
Doc Roberts - All Tied Up
Taylor Hicks - I Live On A Battlefield
Stephen Cochran - Everything We Knew
Children’s Bible Songs - He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

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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

Well we may have some snow flurries in the next few days.
OK with me, lol!
I will open this episode up with the sounds of Winter, those cold winds blowing.
By the way, all of the unbelievable weather information I got and passed along is from the National Weather Service- so they ought to know a thing or two.
Wait till you hear about the Winter of 1779-80!
I played my favorite Winter song already, so I will share my 2nd favorite with you, plus two songs that have always seemed to me to go together perfectly.
Then the fascinating Winter of 1888!
We will close out with my sermonizing on the treatment of the Acadian people after the French & Indian War- a subject that is recorded so brilliantly in the Band’s Acadian Driftwood.
I can’t stop now.
And I will continue to shovel Winter songs at you, as this is beginning to snowball!
One more chapter to go.

Mike

 

RockRoll360 continues with this brand new
compilation I compiled this month of February.
Here is Part 2 of Needles & Pins.
Enjoy the gems by  The Electric Flag, Cypress Hill and a Good Morning
montage from WBCN Radio.

DROP DOWN MAMA - TOM RUSH
GROOVIN’ IS EASY - THE ELECTRIC FLAG
RED, WHITE AND PINK SLIP BLUES- HANK WILLIAMS JR.
I’LL NEVER SMOKE WEED WITH WILLIE AGAIN - TOBY KEITH
HITS FROM A BONG ( WBCN  Intro ) - CYPRESS HILL
SON OF A PREACHER MAN - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
FOREVER - PAPA ROACH
ONE DAY - MATISYAHU   feats:  AKON
BACK IN THE USSR - THE BEATLES
AMERICAN SATURDAY NIGHT - BRAD PAISLEY

Sound bites include :::

WBCN - It’s # 1 Your # 1 R & R Connection - Radio I.D.
Fresbie Day in San Diego - KTYD Radio Promo
KYNO Fresno - Radio Jingle I.D.
WBCN    ( Good Morning Montage ) - WBCN montage from The Big Mattress
KKOL ( Seattle’s Weekend ) - Radio Jingle I.D.
End credits theme song - Sound Bite from “Rocky & Bullwinkle“

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RockRoll360 continues with this brand new
compilation I compiled this month of February.
Enjoy the gems by  Jerry Jeff Walker, Mink Deville and Marium Makeba

Enjoy by either playing straight from the site or downloading into your I-Pods. You can also burn each of this shows on to a disc. With each show averaging about 30 to 50 minutes you can fit about 8 to 10 shows on one disc in the MP3 format.

So enjoy and please share with your fellow E-mailers or FB friends.
Show me the numbers   !!!!       

Music includes :::

FEED THE TREE - BELLY
SANGRIA WINE - JERRY JEFF WALKER
KNOCKED UP - KINGS OF LEON
I’M ALIVE - KENNY CHESNEY feats. Dave Matthews
PINS AND NEEDLES - PROJECT JENNY, PROJECT JAN
SPANISH STROLL - MINK DEVILLE
PATA PATA - MARIUM MAKEBA
HEART OF MINE - NORAH JONES
FAKE PLASTIC TREES - RADIOHEAD
AT THE BEACH - THE AVETT BROTHERS 

Sound bites include :::

Well let’s start the insanity - Sound Bite from T.V.s -  Seinfeld 
Record scratch intro - Sound effect
Bring us some fresh wine - no more old stuff - Sound Bite from the movie - The Jerk 
What responsibility - I’m pregnant - Sound Bite from the movie - Fatal Attraction
I’m gonna be the mother of your child - Sound Bite from the movie - Fatal Attraction
KTYD - In Santa Barbara - Malcolm - Radio I.D.
Time now for a lost 45 - Computer Generated Sound Bite

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I have done it!!!
As I look out my window on this Winter’s night, it has been snowing all day- and it is supposed to snow all day tomorrow into tomorrow night.
Here’s one internet report, we have us a blizzard:

A blizzard — perhaps one destined to be talked about for generations — began raking the Northeast and northern Mid-Atlantic region today, affecting millions of residents with a dangerous combination of snow and wind.
Snowfall will end up being measured by the foot, and residents are bracing for airports and road closings, and power outages.

I never knew I had such power, lol!
Looks like no school or work tomorrow…YAY!!!
Gotta hurry up with this and get out there- throw snowballs and walk in the deep snow where no one has walked yet…that’s my thing!
And generally just look at the beautiful white coating that covers everything!
Honestly, I could NEVER live in a place where it doesn’t snow.
I will open this episode with  song about February from a 60’s group called the Rose Garden- where everything is sunny and groovy, lol!
Then the best song EVER about Winter, it is non-negotiable- written by Joni Mitchell but taken to even greater heights by the interpretation of Tom Rush. And from the old vinyl LP.
After that, I will head in a different direction with songs about the Snowman, including one by the mad Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.
Got a Winter one from the group Renaissance with Annie Haslam.
Finally, a set I played for my own enjoyment. Just for personal giggles.
See if you can figure out where I am going with it.
Why would I play a short reading by a famous poet, a song about poets and an instrumental?
What does that have to do with our Theme?
The answer is out there!
Oh man, you are going to hate me, lol!
We have reached the halfway point of the Winter Carnival Of Song, much more to come.

Mike

Just a few days of February left and the climate kooks on all sides will be glad that Spring is just around the corner and a warming spell is a’coming! Tip your hat to Ol’ Sol and the Good Man upstairs! Kudos to the artist in today’s feature. If you are reading this (THANKS!) be sure to click the links below and leave the artists a comment. Good or indifferent, they want to connect with you! Enjoy the tunage and as always, please, pass it on!
-unc.

Today’s Featured Artists-
Beautifully Mad - When We’re Old
Taylor Hicks - In Your Time
Minister Hill - Everything
Jennings - Doorway
The Salesmen - (We Don’t Have to) Live for the Weekend
Corey Smith - Arc of a Rainbow
Mark Wayne Glasmire - Zihuatanejo
Woodfish - In My Eyes
Jillian Goldin - Shadows
Ben Senterfit - Dollar Bill
CLEEMAN - Emphatic
Jack Jezzro - Brazilian Nights
Kinderjazz - The Conga Man
Duane Andrews - The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff
Adrienne Pierce -  Reaching For Me

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For years now, I have wanted to do at least a couple of shows on my favorite season, Winter.
But things always intrude.
You have the Christmas and New Year Holidays, and after I recover from them I am usually onto the Tribute/Memorials to all those who passed away the preceding year and have some link to Rock & Roll or our culture.
Well, I cannot wait any longer.
So get your gloves, boots and scarves out, because I will attempt to prove that, although there are far less of them, Winter songs are as literate, poetic, touching and good as Summer songs.
Please join me for this, the first of 4 parts, of our Winter Carnival Of Music!

Mike

 

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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1 John 11-24
Love One Another

11. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
13. Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16. Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17. But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
20. For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.21. Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.
22. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
23. And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
24. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Today’s Featured Artists-
Caroline Keller - If I Saw Him Today
Tina Osborn - There Is No Other Name
Marty and Bob Abegg - We Bless You Lord
The Gaithers - Medley of Favorite Hymns
Karmyn Tyler - Great is Thy Faithfulness
Kingsgate - Give Thanks With A Grateful Heart
Sam Cooke & The Soul Stirrers - Peace in the Valley

It’s a new Weekend Power Hour and the tunage is outstanding. Enjoy the music, have a great weekend, and pass it on!
-unc.

Today’s Featured Artists-
Batdorf & McLean - It’s Not Heavy
Charlie A’Court - Bring On The Storm
SwampdaWamp - Double Or Nuthin’
Downtown Money Wasters - Slow By The Riverside
Heather Edwards - Once Upon a Time
Jennings - Surrender
Minster Hill - If I Fall
Sarah Beth Keeley - How Much
Gary Myrick - Hometown Waltz
Sean Patrick McGraw - Louisiana
Taylor Hicks - Hell of a Day
Josh Woodward - Saturday
Lisa Coppola - The Night
Brian Setzer Orchestra - One More Night With You
Tony Deziel - Shades of Blue

I knew going into this that I would regretfully disappoint people by not playing their own particular favorite Duo- there are too many of them to please everybody.
But I will open this ending episide with a couple of biggies, ones that I knew I HAD to play.
Even as the show was progressing though, I was thinking of other Duos that I should play but wouldn’t have time for.
But that is what sequels are for- we’ll do it again some time.
I talked about what I thought was the difference betweet a Duo and a Duet.
No dictionary definitions here- just my feeling as to the difference.
And the heydays for Duos were probably the 50’s 60’s 70’s & 80’s.
Seems to me in recent years there have been more Duets than ever before.
However, things run in cycles, and Duos will inevitably return.
Curiosly, there have been many so-called one-hit wonders that have been Duos.
I’ll explore some of those, all from the 60’s.
After that, staying in the 60’s, a trip across the Atlantic for some British Invasion Duos.
To close out, I had one final order of business.
2/22 or February 22nd, besides all twos, is George Washington’s Birthday.
A day that used to be a Holiday here until it was merged into this week’s Presidents Day.
Anybody remember Dean Friedman?
He’s a New Jersey guy who had a hit with Ariel.
A few years back he did a song called George Washington Slept Here.
It is an amazingly good, rollicking and accurate accounting of both Washington and the Revolutionary War- better than you get in school, lol!
George could have been King here if he had wanted to, but he didn’t believe in monarchies.
He reluctantly became the first President, could have had THAT job for life, but went back to his farm after two terms.
A good honorable man, a Founding Father and one of my heroes.
All in all, there is simply some great music in this edition.
Hope you agree.
Oh…Happy Birthday George!

Mike

 

Hello Folks !  - Been out for while with a little bit of a hospital stay,  but now
I’m back bringing you a collection that melts together the different families of
Rock & Roll into one program. Of course I’m talking about the RockRoll360
program, in which you know is the place that you’ll never going know where we end
up in music.  Also it’s a little bit of a time machine also.  I’m here to entertain and share
my compilation mixes with you. So let’s go and check out Part 2 of Going The Distance.
This compilation was originally put together back in 2007.
Gems on this recording are by Ray Davies, Patti Smith  & Modest Mouse.

Music includes :::

TOMMY’S HOLIDAY CAMP - THE WHO
JENNY TAKE A RIDE - MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS
THE METRO - BERLIN
JACKIE BLUE - OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS
IT’S NOT OVER - CHRIS DAUGHTRY
TELL ME BABY - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
OVER MY HEAD - RAY DAVIES
SOUL KITCHEN - PATTI SMITH
THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL - MOTT THE HOOPLE
FIRE IT UP - MODEST MOUSE
YOU KNOW I’M NO GOOD - AMY WHITEHOUSE
THE HOOK - THE BLUES TRAVELERS

Sound bites include :::

XERB Radio 1090 Wolfman Jack Show Intro - Radio I.D. with The Wolfman
Fool me once, it fooled me but - Sound Bite from Pres. George Bush
You talking to me - Sound Bite from the movie Taxi Driver
KSAN San Fran ( Underground Montage ) - Radio I.D.
Heavy Metal ( Radio- you shouldn’t have to pay for it ) - Sound Bite from the NAB
How much do we have left Cartman - Sound Bite from South Park
The number 911 has been change to - unknown

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Looking at the calendar, I noticed that this coming Monday was Feb. 22nd, or 2/22.
So all those 2’s were enough of a reason for me to play some of the great Duos in Rock.
And that is exactly what I will do.
The Indigo Girls have the perfect song for The Power Of Two- plus they are a Duo.
I’ll have a couple of songs regarding the necessary requirements for a Duo.
Wait’ll you hear those, lol!
Plus one of the more influential Duos from the early days of Rock & Roll, and a later 60’s Duo whom they clearly influenced.
To end this opening chapter, with my new-found engineering skills, I will attempt to combine those last two Duos into one song!
Here is my promise- this and the next chapter will simply be a lot of fun to listen to.
That’s all, sometimes you just like the way things turn out- this is one of them.
Or should I say TWO or DUO (Latin for Two!) of them, lol? Mike

Got 15 minutes?  Enjoy the tunage and your day.
-unc.

Today’s Featured Artists-
Dana Wells - Evergreen
Kortney Jean - Feel Like Cinderella
Doug Geeting - The Alaska Mile
Carbon Leaf - Life Less Ordinary

 

Tank & Charles Laquidara -

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.

Also a look back on a very young and just starting out - 
Bruce Springsteen rare first performance on radio from January 1973.

– Looking back at 41 Years - Matt Siegel
– “Mean Mistreater”    by Grank Funk Railroad        #
– Looking Back at 41 Years - Charles Laquidara speaking to Al Pacino 
– “Wake Up”   by    Mad Season 
– Adam 12    with    Cali
– Adam 12 with Paul “Tank” Sferruzza 1981–1996 Sports Director
                        (Part of Charles Laquidara’s “Big Mattress” morning show)
 – WBCN I.D. - Don’t Touch That Dial
– Intro for on Air for Hardy
– Bruce Springsteen interviewed by WBCN’s Maxanne Sartori -January 1973
– On the air with Bruce Springsteen
           performing “Satin Doll”  -  “Bishop Dance” & “Circus Song”
– WBCN I.D. - WBCN H.D. 1

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Psalm 91 (King James Version)

1. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
4. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
5. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
6. Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
7. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
8. Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
9. Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
10. There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
11. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
12. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
13.Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
14. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
15. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
16. With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Today’s Featured Artists-
Charlotte Ritchie - My Fathers Angels
Gordon Mote - When I Lift Up My Head
Lulu Roman - Seven Times
Testament Trio - When God Dips His Love In My Heart
The Greenes - When God Has Another Plan
Tracy Lawrence - Every Prayer
Daniel O’Donnell - How Great Thou Art
Anthony Burger - Softly and Tenderly

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