WOR-FM/New York was the first commercial FM station to play Rock. This was WOR-FM's first day on the air with live talent (the station had been running jockless since July '66 due to a labor dispute). Personalities included Scott Muni, Johnny Michaels, Murray The K, and Rosko.
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Last week, we had a visit from listener Wim Reckers from the Netherlands. We were the last stop on his bicycle tour of the USA!! Here's his take on NYC.
What an amazing city New York is. Nothing to compare with. Twenty-four hours a day you are stiff with stimuli, everywhere there is something to see and experience. This time (I've been here many times) I went a little more off the beaten track, through the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn. You lack eyes and ears.
Yesterday first – for the weekly radio broadcasts on Noord and OOG – to the radio studio of Boss Radio 66 (photo 1), an internet station in Brooklyn that broadcasts old rock & roll, blues and soul 24 hours a day. I listen to it very often, you spontaneously wash and vacuum faster. From there, yesterday, the contributions with the Netherlands.
Then strolled through Brooklyn. What a circus! Stalls, music, crowds, life everywhere (photos 2, 3 and 4). Just an afternoon lunch at the Chinese, cozy between the parked mopeds (photo 5), and then on to Harlem. Same sheet a suit (photos 6 and 7). Finally, across the High Bridge (New York's oldest bridge, photo 8) to the Bronx, to Yankee Stadium for the usual game of baseball.
The New York Yankees want to convey that they – and only they – are the epitome of baseball in America. They built a stadium in 2009 for the sweet sum of 2.3 billion dollars, in the middle of the Bronx working-class district. Everything should radiate that you don't just come here to watch a baseball game. No, it's a baseball experience. The idea is that you will be taken by the hand to the baseball mecca.
To begin with, the exterior view. I came walking through the dingy Bronx streets and suddenly there he is, as if a spaceship has crashed. I don't think it's beautiful; maybe a little ugly to say, but the thing could have been designed by Albert Speer, the notorious architect of the Third Reich (photo 8).
Inside, it's all Yankees splendor. A real Yankees museum, where the old heroes can be idolized. There is a solemn silence as we shuffle reverently from one Yankees greatness to the next (photos 9 and 10). Further on is a 'Monument Park', where they are once again immortalized in bronze. The match will be lost, by the way.
At night a stop along the East River. You probably recognize this image (photo 12). New York all the way. Now some museums and shopping (it's raining here!) and then slowly packing up luggage and bicycle for the return trip next Wednesday.
Finally, I would like to thank you again sincerely and sincerely for all your sweet and heartwarming responses, over and over again. Fantastic, it was a motivation every day, and sometimes also a heart under the belt. Glad you cycled with me a bit every day, on the back of the luggage carrier. It's helped me a lot to be able to do what I've done here.
Thanks to Peter Skiera for choosing Boss Radio 66 as the #1 recommended online radio station of 2022!
Check out his Patreon page for the other stations. The runner up sounds pretty cool too!
Playlist:
The Last Word: Don't Call Me, I'll Call You
The Who: Call Me Lighting (mono 45 mix)
The Beatles: I Call Your Name (mono)
Them: Call My Name (single version)
The Thoughts: Call Me Girl
The Small Faces: Call It Something Nice
The Who: Lightning (bed)
Lulu: Call Me
The Zombies: I'll Call You Mine
Elvis Presley: Wolf Call
Primrose Circus: PS Call Me Lulu
The Mothers of Invention: You Didn't Try to Call Me
Captain Beefheart: Call on Me
Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Barbara Lynn: Call My Bluff, Baby
Big Brother & The Holding Company: Call on Me
Junior Brown: Better Call Saul
The Nomads: Call Off Your Dogs
Nick Lowe: They Call It Rock
The Greenhornes: Three Faint Calls
MC5: Call Me Animal
The Brood: Don't Call My Name
The Miracle Workers: When a Woman Calls My Name
The Sellwoods: Walk of Shame (bed)
The Nashville Teens: Find My Way Back Home
The Zombies: I Want You Back Again
The Small Faces: Come Back and Take This Hurt Off Me
Paul Ritchie & The Crying Shames: Come on Back
Spencer Davis Group: Looking Back
The La De Das: Jump Back
The Rolling Stones: Back Street Girl
The Beatles: Back in the USSR (mono)
The Easybeats: You'll Come Back
The Todds: I Want Her Back
The Intruders: I Ain't Comin' Back
The Byrds: My Back Pages (Stockholm '67)
The Grass Roots: Tell Me (You're Coming Back)
The Ventures: He Never Came Back (bed)
Mal Thursday's Texas Tyme Machine:
Zakary Thaks: Won't Come Back
The Chevelle V: Come Back Bird
Big Star: Back of a Car (Demo)
Lyres: Not Looking Back
Dead Boys: Won't Look Back
Scott Walker: The Old Man's Back Again
Bonus Tracks:
The Velvet Underground: I Heard Her Call My Name
Wet Paint: We Call Him a Man
Proctor Amusement Company: Call Out My Name
Wally Tax: You Didn't Call Me
Naz Nomad and the Nightmares: Just Call Me Sky
The Faros: I'm Calling You Back
The Henchmen: Get Off My Back
Jonathan Richman: Back in Your Life
WVON/Chicago was one of the most influential Black radio stations of the sixties and beyond. Here's E. Rodney Jones with the soul of Chicago in 1966.
With Guest DJ Michael John Carley
Playlist:
The Temptations: War
The Merry-Go-Round: Gonna Fight the War
The Talismen: Masters of War
Elvis Presley: G.I. Blues
The Clash: English Civil War (Johnny Comes Marching Home)/Hate and War
Man or Astroman?: War of the Satellites
The Gripweeds: How I Won the War
John Lennon: I Don't Want to Be a Soldier Mama, I Don't Want to Die
Bob Seger & The Last Heard: 2+2=?
The Rehabilitation Cruise: I Don't Care What They Say
The Madd: War or Hands of Time
The Monkees: Last Train to Clarksville
The Ramrods: War Party
The Hedgehogs: Peace in My Mind
The Love Flowers: Peace and Love
Curtis Mayfield: We Gotta Have Peace
William Bell: Marching Off to War
Phil Ochs: I Ain't Marching Anymore (Electric Version)
Fear: Let's Have a War
Sgt. Barry Sadler: Little Bird of Viet Nam
New York Dolls: Vietnamese Baby
Brass Against: War Pigs
Dead Kennedys: Holiday in Cambodia
The Sex Pistols: Holidays in the Sun
Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun
Amy Winehouse: Some Unholy War
Leonard Cohen: The Partisan
The Who: Won't Get Fooled Again
World Saxophone Quartet: Machine Gun
The Malarians: A Taste of Five
The Kinks: Some Mother's Son
Scott Walker: Next!
In the Sixties, Miami's WQAM was the destination station for lovers of Top 40 radio, and Rick Shaw was its brightest star. Here's Rick Shaw on Tiger Radio WQAM from September, 1964.
With Guest DJ Alex Piandes
Playlist:
The Byrds: Boston
Sam the Sham & The Pharoahs: Banned in Boston
Richard Anthony & The Blue Notes: The Boston Monkey
The Standells: Dirty Water (Live)
Lyres: How Do You Know
The Prime Movers: Where We All Come From
The New Breed: Wasting My Time
The Last Ones: Number One Again
The Blackjacks: That's Why I Always Dress in Black
The Neats: Red and Grey
Boy's Life: It Came From Here
The Nervous Eaters: Hot Steel and Acid
Triple Thick: Alright (She's Alright)
The Dogmatics: King-Size Cigarette
The Turbines: Rock in My Pocket
Downbeat Five: My Way
Classic Ruins: Let's Get Dull
The Remains: Hang On Sloopy
The Lost: No Reason Why
The Shyres: Where Is Love
Travis Pike's Tea Party: If I Didn't Love You Girl
Steve Walker & The Bold: Train Kept a Rollin'
The Rockin' Ramrods: Play It
Willie "Loco" Alexander: At the Rat
The Real Kids: Better Be Good/All Kindsa Girls
DMZ: Lift Up Your Hood
Plan 9 (with Jeff Conolly): I'm Gone
The Voodoo Dolls: Gone, Gone, Gone
The Ventures: The Rat
Mal Thursday & the Cheetahs: Torn Up
The Del Fuegos: Don't Run Wild
Robin Lane & The Chartbusters: When Things Go Wrong
Dream Syndicate: Boston
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