1240 WHVN is back!!!

[tablin]

think K T Oslin did a version of "Come On-a My House"

 

[vchimpanzee]

I forgot one more. Johnny Mathis, but it wasn't one of his familiar hits.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Still going. I guess the sale will take a while to actually happen.

Here once again are the songs I could identify by name and artist, in order by artist:

Baja Marimba Band "Comin' in the Back Door"
Les Baxter "Because of You"
Brasil 66 "Fool on the Hill" and "Night and Day"
Jim Croce "Time in a Bottle"
Bobby Darin "Beyond the Sea"
Doris Day "Secret Love"
Brenda Lee "I'm Sorry"
Dean Martin "That's Amore"
Al Martino "Mary in the Morning"
Johnny Mathis "Misty"
Platters "The Great Pretender"
Dionne Warwick "Promises Promises"

I also heard a song I believe was by Steve Tyrell because he had that distinctive voice but I can't remember what it was now.

I also heard these songs but don't know who did them.

"Goin' Out of My Head" by a group of women
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" by a woman
"If" by a man who was not Bread
"On the Street Where You Live"
"'S Wonderful" with wordless vocals

Also, there was a song sung by a man with the lyrics "toy on a string", one by a man who says he was doing it dirty before he sang whatever the song was (and those weren't lyrics but a description, and I think he was white and might have been Michael Buble), one I never heard by a doo-wop group with a very low bass, one by a woman whose daddy buys her lots of stuff, and Manhattan is mentioned, and one before I was able to hear any lyrics that sort of sounded like "Makin' Whoopee" but I don't think that was it.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I always forget at least one. "It's a Blue World" by The Four Freshmen.

 

[lvaircks]

Still going. I guess the sale will take a while to actually happen.

Here once again are the songs I could identify by name and artist, in order by artist:

Baja Marimba Band "Comin' in the Back Door"
Les Baxter "Because of You"
Brasil 66 "Fool on the Hill" and "Night and Day"
Jim Croce "Time in a Bottle"
Bobby Darin "Beyond the Sea"
Doris Day "Secret Love"
Brenda Lee "I'm Sorry"
Dean Martin "That's Amore"
Al Martino "Mary in the Morning"
Johnny Mathis "Misty"
Platters "The Great Pretender"
Dionne Warwick "Promises Promises"

I also heard a song I believe was by Steve Tyrell because he had that distinctive voice but I can't remember what it was now.

I also heard these songs but don't know who did them.

"Goin' Out of My Head" by a group of women
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" by a woman
"If" by a man who was not Bread
"On the Street Where You Live"
"'S Wonderful" with wordless vocals

Also, there was a song sung by a man with the lyrics "toy on a string", one by a man who says he was doing it dirty before he sang whatever the song was (and those weren't lyrics but a description, and I think he was white and might have been Michael Buble), one I never heard by a doo-wop group with a very low bass, one by a woman whose daddy buys her lots of stuff, and Manhattan is mentioned, and one before I was able to hear any lyrics that sort of sounded like "Makin' Whoopee" but I don't think that was it.

'S Wonderful was recorded by Ray Conniff & Singers 'bout 1957 or so. Many "pop" stations where using portions of it as "stingers." Such was the case with "New WAYS, 610 AM in CLT" at Radio Center on South Blvd. Visited often. I still remember those vertical racks of reel-to-reel decks loaded w/three-inch reels for cmmls.....each loaded/cued by hand. Old age & memories...priceless!

 

[vchimpanzee]

Here are more, as the music is still playing. In order by artist if I can identify the artist or think I can.

Tony Bennett? "When Joanna Loved Me"
Perry Como "Papa Loves Mambo"
Bobby Darin "Mack the Knife"
Ferrante & Teicher "Exodus"
Roberta Flack "Feel Like Making Love"
Four Aces "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"
Crystal Gayle "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
Jay and the Americans "This Magic Moment"
Peggy Lee "Fever"
Patti Page "Cape Cod"
Elvis Presley "Crying in the Chapel"
Frank Sinatra "Nice and Easy Does It"
Art and Dotty Todd "Chansons d'Amour"
Bobby Vinton "There! I Said It Again"

I know it was a white man singing "This Magic Moment". I listed The Drifters above, but I saw there were other popular versions and I believe it was not The Drifters in this case.

There was a song performed by someone who sounded like Rod Stewart. Looking through the titles on his albums, I'm thinking it's "Taking a Chance on Love". I just remembered it started with a T but it wasn't a song I knew. I'm also not absolutely sure about Tony Bennett but when I looked up the lyrics he was one of the artists who did it and it sounded a lot like him.

A woman sang "'S Wonderful" and a woman sang another song I know but can't remember now. A man sang "I Gotta Be Me" and it wasn't Sammy Davis Jr. There was also a Dean Martin song I didn't know, but I'm almost certain it was Dean.

And there were several great big band songs which were instrumentals which I didn't know.

I left out a couple of songs last time and Art and Dotty Todd did one of them.

 

[vchimpanzee]

"Delicado" by Percy Faith and "And the Angels Sing" by a woman were among the ones I left out the last time.

And here are the songs where I can identify song and artist, or believe I can, from today, in alphabetical order by artist.

Sam Cooke "Another Saturday Night"
Vic Damone "An Affair to Remember"
Don Ho "Tiny Bubbles"
Bert Kaempfert "Three O'Clock in the Morning"
Peggy Lee "I'm a Woman"
Melissa Manchester "Through the Eyes of Love"
Barry Manilow "Copacabana"
Dean Martin "Memories Are Made of This", "Who Was That Lady?", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You"
Peter and Gordon "A World without Love"
Carly Simon "That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be"
Frank Sinatra "Theme from 'New York, New York'"
Hugo Winterhalter "Canadian Sunset"

Also:

"You Belong to Me" by a woman who was not Jo Stafford

There were two more songs by a woman that I didn't know and one by a group of men I would have known but never heard by a group. Now I can't remember what that song was.

And a big band number I'm sure I would remember.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I left out a song I believe was by Connie Francis. I couldn't hear lyrics other than "broken heart" toward the end because where I was at the time interference was really bad. In fact, I think interference was worse everywhere. I had air conditioning on in my car but in the winter maybe heat didn't cause that much interference or it wasn't needed that much.

One of those songs by a woman was "Almost Like Being in Love".

A man sang about being hopeless. I think. Hard to hear some lyrics with that much interference.

And I left out "Mona Lisa" by Nat King Cole, "Patricia" by Perez Prado and what appears to be "Good Morning, Heartache" by Tony Bennett and Sheryl Crow.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Still going, like the Energizer Bunny. Either the new owner isn't changing anything (unlikely) or the sale is taking a really long time to complete.

Once again, in alphabetical order by artist, here's what I believe I heard:

Brook Benton "Rainy Night in Georgia"
Brook Benton and Dinah Washington "You've Got What It Takes"
Ray Charles "Take These Chains from My Heart"
Dave Clark Five "Give Me Love"
Doris Day "Everybody Loves a Lover"
Connie Francis "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own"
Gogi Grant "The Wayward Wind"
Engelbert Humperdinck "Release Me"
Brenda Lee "All Alone Am I"
Dean Martin "Don't Fence Me In"
Jim Reeves "I Love You Because"
Sandpipers "Come Saturday Morning"
Frank Sinatra "All the Way"
Roger Whittaker "The Last Farewell"

And there were several songs by women, one I believe to have been Ella Fitzgerald. "The Gypsy in My Soul" and "I'm Beginning to See the Light" were two of the others.

There were also two instrumentals by big bands that weren't familiar and something by an all male group.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I always leave out at least one. I was researching one yesterday and couldn't find it but I asked about it on a web site where I thought I could get answers. "The Disadvantages of You" by The Brass Ring. I knew this from a Benson & Hedges commercial. Where I searched for it was Virginia Slims.

Also, someone on that site said WHVN has not been sold.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Left out another one. "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" by The Four Aces.

 

[tablin]

noticed on All Access that GHB Radio has closed on the sale of WHVN to Truth Broadcasting for $55,000.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I would assume, then, that when I listened this morning it was the last time. I wont be in range for another month and surely by that time it'll be gone. In fact, I thought it already was because it took me much longer to hear anything. Even a new format, though, wouldn't have meant not hearing anything. I just had more interference than usual.

Brook Benton "Fools Rush In"
Carpenters "Hurting Each Other"
Perry Como "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"
Four Lads "Standing on the Corner"
Dean Martin "I'm the One Who Loves You"
Johnny Mathis "The Twelfth of Never"
Elvis Presley "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

Those are the songs whose artists I was sure of. I don't know who did these others.

"Hooray for Hollywood" a woman
"I Get so Lonely" a group of men
"Life Is a Cabaret" a woman
"Poinciana" a man
"Someone to Watch Over Me" a woman
"Stranger in Paradise" a man who might have been Tony Bennett
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" a man who might have been Tony Bennett

 

[Steve.Gates]

I would assume, then, that when I listened this morning it was the last time. I wont be in range for another month and surely by that time it'll be gone. In fact, I thought it already was because it took me much longer to hear anything. Even a new format, though, wouldn't have meant not hearing anything. I just had more interference than usual.

Brook Benton "Fools Rush In"
Carpenters "Hurting Each Other"
Perry Como "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes"
Four Lads "Standing on the Corner"
Dean Martin "I'm the One Who Loves You"
Johnny Mathis "The Twelfth of Never"
Elvis Presley "Are You Lonesome Tonight?"

Those are the songs whose artists I was sure of. I don't know who did these others.

"Hooray for Hollywood" a woman
"I Get so Lonely" a group of men
"Life Is a Cabaret" a woman
"Poinciana" a man
"Someone to Watch Over Me" a woman
"Stranger in Paradise" a man who might have been Tony Bennett
"They Can't Take That Away from Me" a man who might have been Tony Bennett

 

[Steve.Gates]

I have enjoyed listening to WHVN 1240 AM with all this "Timeless Music". However I must confess I do not know why you did not actually use Shazam to go on and Identify all of the Oldies that were being played. This worked pretty well for me --- Shazam knows pretty much everything about all forms of Music, except for Beach Music (the kind typically heard on WRBK 90.3). At any rate.... 1240 sounded AWESOME in Wide-Band AM even if it wasn't available in AM-Stereo. Surely going to miss it as well over this way.... Steve.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I have enjoyed listening to WHVN 1240 AM with all this "Timeless Music". However I must confess I do not know why you did not actually use Shazam to go on and Identify all of the Oldies that were being played. This worked pretty well for me --- Shazam knows pretty much everything about all forms of Music, except for Beach Music (the kind typically heard on WRBK 90.3). At any rate.... 1240 sounded AWESOME in Wide-Band AM even if it wasn't available in AM-Stereo. Surely going to miss it as well over this way.... Steve.

If you would explain how to use Shazam, perhaps I could.

But while I am in the car, I have no way to access the Internet.

 

[Steve.Gates]

If you would explain how to use Shazam, perhaps I could.

But while I am in the car, I have no way to access the Internet.

You don't need the Internet while you are driving. You purchase a cheap "Dash Cam" and mount it in your Car. They are about $ 50 or so. You get one that Records both the Video and Audio. The GiiNii GD-250 is perfect for this as it records the Audio @ 512k Mono (you will also need a 32 GB SD-Card as well for your "one-time-purchases"). Once you get home, you can then safely remove the Dash Cam from the Vehicle, carry it in, and download the Days' "Video Clips" to your PC. Then, you take your SmartPhone with the Shazam App on it, put it close to the Loudspeaker, use your Music Playback Software-of-Choice (mine is "VLC") and the Magic Begins! Shazam... will tell you quickly who sang this Song, and Shazam even does it for Free!. It's Magic!!! - Steve.

 

[vchimpanzee]

You don't need the Internet while you are driving. You purchase a cheap "Dash Cam" and mount it in your Car. They are about $ 50 or so. You get one that Records both the Video and Audio. The GiiNii GD-250 is perfect for this as it records the Audio @ 512k Mono (you will also need a 32 GB SD-Card as well for your "one-time-purchases"). Once you get home, you can then safely remove the Dash Cam from the Vehicle, carry it in, and download the Days' "Video Clips" to your PC. Then, you take your SmartPhone with the Shazam App on it, put it close to the Loudspeaker, use your Music Playback Software-of-Choice (mine is "VLC") and the Magic Begins! Shazam... will tell you quickly who sang this Song, and Shazam even does it for Free!. It's Magic!!! - Steve.

Well, this would have been nice to know about when there was something to record, but there won't be a WHVN (not the one we've had since November, anyway) soon.

"your SmartPhone with the Shazam App on it?"

There's another obstacle right there. Those things are too expensive and too complicated to use. I have a flip phone for emergencies.

 

[SomeRadioGuy]

Well, this would have been nice to know about when there was something to record, but there won't be a WHVN (not the one we've had since November, anyway) soon.

"your SmartPhone with the Shazam App on it?"

There's another obstacle right there. Those things are too expensive and too complicated to use. I have a flip phone for emergencies.

Expensive? Maybe.. you can find odler iphones cheap. Complicated? no.

 

[Steve.Gates]

Well, this would have been nice to know about when there was something to record, but there won't be a WHVN (not the one we've had since November, anyway) soon.

"your SmartPhone with the Shazam App on it?"

There's another obstacle right there. Those things are too expensive and too complicated to use. I have a flip phone for emergencies.

Well considering I did not buy the GiiNii GD-250 for the purpose of officially recording Audio Music Favorites, it is just a coincidence. I bought this Device because of what happened after an Automobile Accident at the End of 2017. I later learned of its High-Quality Audio Input later on. Which I immediately put to use once someone brought WHVN 1240 to my attention. It captures the Audio @ 512 kb/s (one Chanel; Mono). Which most Modern-Day Software Utilities do not recognize; they simply "reduce it" (the sample rate) to their standards (usually Dual Channel 320 kb/s or 256 kb/s (2-Channel)) if you attempt to process it. However, Shazam Loves the sample rate REGARDLESS of the sample rate !!! That is just one of those things in life where it works out in the long run. Cheers to all, While You Are Tagging... Steve.