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1240 WHVN is back!!!

In no particular order, here are the songs I heard today that I can identify:

Ames Brothers "You, You, You"
Tony Bennett "I Wanna Be Around"
Brasil 66 "Fool on the Hill"
Captain and Tennille "Love Will Keep Us Together"
Patsy Cline "Crazy"
Nat King Cole "Avalon", "Mona Lisa"
Al DeLory "Suicide Is Painless"
John Denver "Sunshine on My Shoulder"
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"
Al Hirt "Cotton Candy"
Don Ho "Tiny Bubbles"
Brenda Lee "I'm Sorry"
Dean Martin "You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You"
Maureen McGovern "The Morning After"
Patti Page "Tennessee Waltz"
Frank Sinatra "Nice and Easy" and one other song I can't remember but it's one of his big hits
Dionne Warwick "I'll Never Fall in Love Again"

There was also a song I believe was by Michael Buble but I don't remember what it was.

And these songs I recognized, but don't know the artist for:
"Fools Rush In" female vocalist
"Tenderly" female vocalist
"Old Devil Moon" female vocalist
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" wordless vocals

I had to look up these lyrics:
"Laura" big band and male vocalist

There was a man who sang a song with the word "kiss" repeated several times and a woman's name that wasn't familiar.

Also a big band with a trumpet solo after everyone said "Aha!"
 
Forgot another one. And I only know this because it was the last song I ever asked WAVO about. I had to ask because there were no lyrics, and this one man who worked there was willing to tell me the names of songs several times.

"Wave" by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
 
Once again, a list of songs I heard which I was able to identify. I said "in no particular order" above but I needed some kind of order so I listed the ones where I could identify the artist in alphabetical order by artist.

Ed Ames "My Cup Runneth Over"
Paul Anka "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald "Tenderly"
Carpenters "Hurting Each Other"
Roy Clark "Yesterday When I Was Young"
Nat and Natalie Cole "Walkin' My Baby Back Home"
Perry Como "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"
Tommy Dorsey "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"
Drifters "Up on the Roof"
Duprees "You Belong to Me"
Judy Garland "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
Dean Martin "Remember Me" and another one I don't remember
Hugh Masekela "Grazing in the Grass"
Elvis Presley "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"
Ray Price "For the Good Times"
Marty Robbins "A White Sport Coat"
Barbra Streisand "The Way We Were"
Art and Dotty Todd "Chansons d'Amour"
Steve Tyrell "I've Got a Crush on You"
Dinah Washington ""What a Diff'rence a Day Makes"
Dionne Warwick "I Say a Little Prayer"

Andy Williams was obviously the vocalist for one song but I had never heard it before and don't remember any words now.

"Blue Velvet" by a male vocalist who is not Bobby Vinton
"Cabaret" by a female vocalist
"It's De-lovely" by a female vocalist
"Someone to Watch Over Me" by a female vocalist who is not Linda Ronstadt

A few years ago my America's Best Music station affiliate played a song with strings and a sax which sort of sounded like Guy Lombardo, but not exactly. I called the station since it was on the local morning show and the man didn't know what it was, and when I asked if he had to keep a list of every song to pay royalties, he said they did that once a month.

There was also a big band instrumental with an organ that sound real cool, man, like way cool, Daddy-O. Not square like so much of this music.
 
In alphabetical order by artist are those songs I could identify and the artists I believe did them:

Association "Along Comes Mary"
Count Basie "April in Paris"
Acker Bilk "Stranger on the Shore"
Nat King Cole "Mona Lisa"
Perry Como "Wanted"
Tommy Dorsey "Tea for Two"
Drifters "This Magic Moment"
Ella Fitzgerald (?) "Don't Be That Way"
Stan Getz "Desafinado"
Lulu "To Sir with Love"
Henry Mancini "Pink Panther Theme"
Neil Sedaka "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" (soft)
Frank Sinatra "Luck Be a Lady" and "Strangers in the Night"
Roger Whittaker "New World in the Morning"

There was a song that was definitely performed by Ray Charles but I don't remember what it was because it wasn't one of his better known songs. Not one I had ever heard him perform. Also a song by Dean Martin with lyrics that were something like "it's not the kind of love I want but it'll do until we get it."

Other songs I heard but don't know the artist for:

"I Remember You" (might have been a woman)
"Laura" (a man)
"Mack the Knife" (a woman)
"Moonlight Serenade" (a man)
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (also a woman)
"Volare" (a man with an opera style)

There was another song by a woman and I KNOW this song but can't find it using the lyrics. It's something like "what did I have I don't have love". It wasn't Barbra Streisand and it wasn't the song that came up that was by her.

There was one song I couldn't identify which had a style suggesting it might be the theme song from a Western movie or TV series.

One or two other songs didn't sound familiar and I couldn't even hear lyrics because the signal was so bad before I got close enough to Charlotte. The same thing happened on the way home.

Another song was big band but all I could identify was "Pop Goes the Weasel" and another song which had a military style, both only a line or two each.
 
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Mike Sheridan said:
1240 WHVN is back under a special STA from the FCC using a long wire at 600 watts from the studio site and I must say the signal at my house is great! Hats off to the engineer whoever it is. They are airing the standards format that was on WAVO. This was started I'm told on November 2nd yet no word of it here.....
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Well thanks! WHVN is operating under a STA using a folded unipole antenna at the studio site (stl tower for WCGC and WOLS). That is likely why it has more signal than one would expect with 600 watts and no ground radials. Night signal is poor as all of the old class 4 stations suffer from horrible interference, and 1240 gets it from 1230 also.
Station ownership was transferred from WHVN, Inc to GHB Radio, Inc, both companies owned by the George H Buck Family trust. The land where the former tower site was is now a parking deck off Randolph rd. Property was worth a pile of cash. DTP
 
Once again, I listened and heard these songs, in alphabetical order by the artists I believe I heard.

"It Must Be Him" Vikki Carr
"Unforgettable" Nat and Natalie Cole
"Secret Love" Doris Day
"My Kind of Girl" Matt Monro
"Just in Time" Dean Martin
"Travelin' Man" Ricky Nelson
"Patricia" Perez Prado
"I Get a Kick Out of You" Frank Sinatra
"Jambalaya" Jo Stafford
"The Way We Were" Barbra Streisand
"Roses Are Red" Bobby Vinton

I also heard an big band style instrumental version of "Charade".

There were also two songs with a female vocalist I didn't recognize but if I had to guess the artist in both cases I think it would be Ella Fitzgerald. And I recall one song with a male vocalist I didn't recognize.
 
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I knew I'd forget some. Here are the others I knew.

"Venus" Frankie Avalon
"Linus and Lucy" Vince Guaraldi
"Maria Elena" Los Indios Trabajaros
 
Goodbye music, hello religious preaching, teaching and talk. From AllAccess.com today:

GHB RADIO, INC. is selling Adult Standards WHVN-A/CHARLOTTE to TRUTH BROADCASTING CORP. for $55,000. GHB acquired the station, then silent, last year from WHVN INC. for $20,000.

SRG's note: Truth Broadcasting owns WTRU 830, et all
 
I changed stations so I would be ready for tomorrow. Despite the power lines, I was hearing music. Away from the power lines, I could identify "Love Will Keep Us Together" by the Captain & Tennille and "You're Nobody Until Somebody Loves You" by Dean Martin.
 
I hope this wasn't the last day of hearing the music I like on this station.

In order by artist where I believe I knew the song and the artist:

"Zorba the Greek" Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
"You Don't Know Me" Ray Charles
"Unforgettable" Nat and Natalie Cole
"Dream Lover" Bobby Darin
"Everybody Loves a Lover" Doris Day
"Let's Dance" Benny Goodman
"All Alone Am I" Brenda Lee
"For the Good Times" Ray Price
"And That Reminds Me" Della Reese
"Come Saturday Morning" Sandpipers
"The Tender Trap" Frank Sinatra

"An Affair to Remember" by a man
"The Best Is Yet to Come" by a woman
"Gypsy in My Soul" by a woman
"It Might As Well Be Spring" by a woman

There were two songs by big bands, one I definitely could not identify. The first one started out like "Am I Blue" but that's not what it was. The other I know from somewhere but can't figure it out. It has a muted trombone.

Another song could have been "One Less Bell to Answer" by The Fifth Dimension but the signal was so bad at that point I couldn't really tell.

There were three other songs performed by women that I can't think of now.
 
Still going. In order by artist, here's who I think I can positively identify.

"Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree" Andrews Sisters
"Rainy Night in Georgia" Brook Benton
"Take Five" Dave Brubeck
"Georgia on My Mind" Ray Charles
"Too Young" Nat King Cole
"Suicide Is Painless" Al DeLory
"My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" Connie Francis
"Portrait of My Love" Steve Lawrence
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" Dean Martin
"Band of Gold" Freda Payne
"Surrender" Elvis Presley
"You've Lost That Loving Feeling" Righteous Brothers
"I've Got You Under My Skin" and "My Way" Frank Sinatra

There were several songs by women that I had never heard these versions of. "Come On-a My House" was performed by someone trying to sound sexy, and the quality was too good for it to have been an old recording. There were two other songs by women that also sounded new. "Moonlight Serenade" sounded old and was also by a woman.

There was a recording of "Blue Moon" that I know I've heard, but it doesn't match anything I was able to find on YouTube. It was most definitely not The Marcels.

And there was one instrumental big band song I know that I've heard and all I know is it had these notes: DADEFEFDG.
 
I always forget several songs.

"Help Me Make It Through the Night" by Sammi Smith, and "You Belong to Me" was another of the songs performed by a woman that sounded like a newer recording.

There was also "I'm Beginning to See the Light". Based on one list of versions of the song, I think it was Harry James with Kitty Kallen singing later.
 
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