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when starz 93.7 turned into mike fm
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webcastboy
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Sorry about the profanity, I was just blown away that nobody had mentioned that before me. ;D
Lucy - I insisted on having a radio tuned to 850AM in the background while my fiance, to-be best man, and his wife, were watching the game on TV. Nearly missed Joe's call since we were all jumping up and down and screaming, but technically I heard it. ;D I do remember being impressed by how calm Joe sounded until Foulke & Doug actually made the final out...and then, of course, Joe...like everyone else...just lost it (in a good way).
Lucy - I insisted on having a radio tuned to 850AM in the background while my fiance, to-be best man, and his wife, were watching the game on TV. Nearly missed Joe's call since we were all jumping up and down and screaming, but technically I heard it. ;D I do remember being impressed by how calm Joe sounded until Foulke & Doug actually made the final out...and then, of course, Joe...like everyone else...just lost it (in a good way).
Steve N. said:I'll agree on when Gary LaPierre interviewed David Brudnoy for WBZ on his death bed as one of my three greatest moments in Boston radio history. My others (both from Kiss 108 at the beginning of its top 40 history in 1981 - albeit with a heavy R&B/disco prescence):
Uncle Dale on Kiss 108's Top 300 Memorial Weekend Countdown of all time, loudly proclaiming "Great disco song!" at the end of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven." (It was in the mid-30s, while "Wishing On A Star," predictibly enough, was #1.)
Another one from Uncle Dale: he had gotten through playing the Stones' now-classic "Start Me Up" when he fired it up again, and was interrupted by the now late Sunny Joe White, who "suspended" Dale on the air, and apologized to the listeners who listened to the "argument." Dale hung out the next day at the Castle Island area in Southie IIRC.
With all due respects, your Uncle Dale/Kiss 108 reference is incorrect. If you are referring to the Top 300 of Kiss 108's first 20 years, which they did during Memorial Weekend of 99, "Stairway To Heaven" was no where to be found on the countdown. "Wishing On A Star" was #108, NOT #1... the #1 song of that countdown was "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor... However, they DID indeed air the Dale/Start Me Up/Sunny Joe White confrontation as you described...
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Vin P(R.I.P.) is MAd at this..And so am I .jane grant said:
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TowerBuzz
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jane grant said:
I cant agree that was the worst format change ever heard. Fast Freddy babbling about how they took 20 Ipods and hooked them all up to the station, AWFUL.
Great moments?
1. Dale Dorman interviewing the Indigo Girls on Kiss and their starting the interview by badgering him about why they play their song all sped up and bitching at him that he was ruining the song until Dale abruptly endedd the interview by saying thanks for coming girls" . Can any present or former Kiss people confirm the rumor that they physically assaulted dale after the interview?. LOL
2. Opie and Anthony's "hundred grand" bit. One of the funniest things I have ever heard even though it sounded like it was a set up and not too real. I still listen to that cd today!.
3. Mark Parenteau getting the Hilltop steakhouse cow heads back. Mark saying to the owner of Hilltop he had to admit it was sort of funny and the man stone faced reply; No it is not!. Classic Parenteau when he was the king!.
4. Nick Carter calling Mark Prenteau on the air on his first day in New York!. Nick disguised his voice with a bad Boston accent and asking Mark who the guy on bcn with all the clapping was. Mark clueless yelling "Nick Carter he sucks"!. I was not in radio yet I just worked in an office and my buddies and I laughed at that for months. Later I understood the balls it took that kid to play a phone call from a superstar legend that he replaced saying that he sucks. LOl funny.
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AnaHadWolves
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...the first time Arnie Ginsberg ever uttered "Woo Woo!" on the air.
TowerBuzz said:
About your #1. ...
Ah, yes... I remember the days when Kiss 108 would speed songs up... "Two Princes" by the Spin Doctors comes to mind right away... I swear sometimes they would play that at near doublespeed, really cranking up the pitch... I imagine they did this to cram more songs into a set... since those were the days of "Your 12-in-a-row hit music station Kiss 108"...
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radiorama1 said:
Yes they pitched them really fast for a few years!. I think it must have been Indigo Girls "Gallileo" that drove them over the edge because it sounded like a dance song!!.
radiorama1 said:Steve N. said:I'll agree on when Gary LaPierre interviewed David Brudnoy for WBZ on his death bed as one of my three greatest moments in Boston radio history. My others (both from Kiss 108 at the beginning of its top 40 history in 1981 - albeit with a heavy R&B/disco prescence):
Uncle Dale on Kiss 108's Top 300 Memorial Weekend Countdown of all time, loudly proclaiming "Great disco song!" at the end of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway To Heaven." (It was in the mid-30s, while "Wishing On A Star," predictibly enough, was #1.)
Another one from Uncle Dale: he had gotten through playing the Stones' now-classic "Start Me Up" when he fired it up again, and was interrupted by the now late Sunny Joe White, who "suspended" Dale on the air, and apologized to the listeners who listened to the "argument." Dale hung out the next day at the Castle Island area in Southie IIRC.
With all due respects, your Uncle Dale/Kiss 108 reference is incorrect. If you are referring to the Top 300 of Kiss 108's first 20 years, which they did during Memorial Weekend of 99, "Stairway To Heaven" was no where to be found on the countdown. "Wishing On A Star" was #108, NOT #1... the #1 song of that countdown was "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor... However, they DID indeed air the Dale/Start Me Up/Sunny Joe White confrontation as you described...
Actually they DID do that back in 81 when Kiss was still leaning towards being the FM RnB station Boston NEEDS! Stairway to Heaven WAS played and Wishing On a Star was #1.
mcamp said:
The one he did with me on WMBR about a month before that was pretty good too. Charles in a non-commercial station with no playlist, and a huge library with vinyl dating back to 1961. He was like a kid in a candy store.
1) Tom Sandman's Christmas shows on WBCN - Back to the Future.
2) Kiss 108 and WBOS as all disco stations.
3) Carlos the computer and Billy West on The Big Mattress
4) F105 playing Stairway to Heaven every night at 10pm.
5) WAAF in the late 70s/early 80s, when they played Black Sabbath and AC/DC, and their motto was "Crank It Up!" Guess they still play those bands, but now mixed in with a lot of crap....
6) Mark Parentau's annual visit from the kazoo band.
7) Carter Alan's nightly Battle of the Bands. Nights remained great too with Bradley J and Tami. (Tami is, sadly, currently doing 30 second "music news" segments on the jock-less JACK FM in Los Angeles.)
8) WCOZ in its "Kick Ass Rock and Roll" days. (Helped that I was 12 at the time, I guess....)
9) Ken Shelton playing Joe Jackson every Friday.
10) WBZ FM when it was a rock station.
11) The Harvard station (forget call letters) doing the "Orgy" where they played every song by an artist.
12) Ask the Manager on WSBK. OK, that's a TV memory, but that was fun to watch...
2) Kiss 108 and WBOS as all disco stations.
3) Carlos the computer and Billy West on The Big Mattress
4) F105 playing Stairway to Heaven every night at 10pm.
5) WAAF in the late 70s/early 80s, when they played Black Sabbath and AC/DC, and their motto was "Crank It Up!" Guess they still play those bands, but now mixed in with a lot of crap....
6) Mark Parentau's annual visit from the kazoo band.
7) Carter Alan's nightly Battle of the Bands. Nights remained great too with Bradley J and Tami. (Tami is, sadly, currently doing 30 second "music news" segments on the jock-less JACK FM in Los Angeles.)
8) WCOZ in its "Kick Ass Rock and Roll" days. (Helped that I was 12 at the time, I guess....)
9) Ken Shelton playing Joe Jackson every Friday.
10) WBZ FM when it was a rock station.
11) The Harvard station (forget call letters) doing the "Orgy" where they played every song by an artist.
12) Ask the Manager on WSBK. OK, that's a TV memory, but that was fun to watch...
scooty430 said:
WHRB - they still do the "Orgy" periods twice a year, for about about a month at the end of the school semesters. They may not necessarily play every song by an artist, but they still have lengthy programs at those times featuring one artist or group, or a very specific genre of music.
What I don't understand is how they get away with it since the enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which limits broadcast stations that also stream on the web from playing more than four songs by any one artist or group within any given three hour period (and no more than three consecutively, the fourth must be separated by a track from a different artist). Unless they shut off their webstream for the "Orgies", they're risking exorbitant fines.
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