Today's look back to the AM radio hits (and rarities!) of April 1970 garnered some of the most positive feedback in the 6 years I've been on WVKR. I think having that extra half hour, knowing I wouldn't have to rush contribued to the fun. Maybe it was just the great tunes mixed in with the WTF songs. Whatever, YOU made it fun for me. THANKS! Here's the playlist:
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=04-09-2010
Friday April 16 will feature many truly lost 60s gems--records I've never played before--along with better known singles on the charts from 1965--1969.
Friday April 23 it's the return of Johnny Tremendous! He's been away far, far too long.
Love your feedback: lostoldies@yahoo.com
THANKS FOR LISTENING!!
Sammy
www.coldspringradio.com
Friday, April 9, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
April 2nd Philipstown Food Pantry Birthday Show + Playlist
So many people to thank for participating in today's show on such a beaUtiful sunny day. The fact that you took the time to call a radio station on a day like this meant a lot to me. Thanks to
Johnny Tremendous, Judy, Tom, Gary, Sam The Tattoo Man, Keith, Alice and Jane from Lansing, Michigan! Thanks to you, I'm donating $121 dollars to the Philipstown Food Pantry in Cold Spring. Thanks also to Andrea Bach, Food Pantry coordinator for calling in and all her wonderful work with the volunteers for the pantry. Please consider donating to your own pantry or Email lostoldies@yahoo.com and I'll hook you up with ours.
Thanks also to Peter Clark for stopping by (loved the birthday cake!) and especially Primitive George who truly, truly made today that much more fun for me. Be sure to wish PG a Happy Birthday when you talk to him next week!
Thanks also to all of you who wished me Happy Birthday today. ALL you listeners are really the best. Hope to see ya next Friday!
Sammy
www.coldspringradio.com
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=04-02-2010
Johnny Tremendous, Judy, Tom, Gary, Sam The Tattoo Man, Keith, Alice and Jane from Lansing, Michigan! Thanks to you, I'm donating $121 dollars to the Philipstown Food Pantry in Cold Spring. Thanks also to Andrea Bach, Food Pantry coordinator for calling in and all her wonderful work with the volunteers for the pantry. Please consider donating to your own pantry or Email lostoldies@yahoo.com and I'll hook you up with ours.
Thanks also to Peter Clark for stopping by (loved the birthday cake!) and especially Primitive George who truly, truly made today that much more fun for me. Be sure to wish PG a Happy Birthday when you talk to him next week!
Thanks also to all of you who wished me Happy Birthday today. ALL you listeners are really the best. Hope to see ya next Friday!
Sammy
www.coldspringradio.com
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=04-02-2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
March 26, 1972 Playlist
All songs played on today's show came from Billboard's Hot 50 Soul Singles chart from this week in 1972. http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-26-2010
Email lostoldies@yahoo.com and be sure to check out www.coldspringradio.com !
Thanks for listening!
SAMMY
Email lostoldies@yahoo.com and be sure to check out www.coldspringradio.com !
Thanks for listening!
SAMMY
Friday, March 19, 2010
March 19, 1966 Playlist
Had a whole different show planned for March 19th but after the stretch of weather we had this week, I got a bad case of Spring Fever and went back to possibly THE greatest chart in the history of Billboard charts--March 19, 1966. Perfect songs for toolin' around with the windows rolled down, workin' in the yard, whatever. Thanks to Peter Clark for joining in.
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-19-2010
This week also coincided with the premiere of probably the greatest "Batman" episode ever--the debut of Julie Newmar as Catwoman and I featured clips from that very episode.
Hope you enjoyed. Email your comments lostoldies@yahoo.com and
THANKS for listening!
Sammy
www.coldspringradio.com
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-19-2010
This week also coincided with the premiere of probably the greatest "Batman" episode ever--the debut of Julie Newmar as Catwoman and I featured clips from that very episode.
Hope you enjoyed. Email your comments lostoldies@yahoo.com and
THANKS for listening!
Sammy
www.coldspringradio.com
Friday, March 12, 2010
March 12, 1970 Playlist
Today I counted down the CKLW Big 30 from from 40 years ago as I counted down to my final show on WVKR. So many great memories from this week in 1970. See for yourself:
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-12-2010
Thank you for sharing your own recollections with me on the phone. Would love for you to Email me as well: lostoldies@yahoo.com
March 19th will be a special show featuring the return of Primitive George and Peter Clark so you won't wanna miss that!
Meanwhile thanks for listening and have a great week.
Sam
www.coldspringradio.com
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-12-2010
Thank you for sharing your own recollections with me on the phone. Would love for you to Email me as well: lostoldies@yahoo.com
March 19th will be a special show featuring the return of Primitive George and Peter Clark so you won't wanna miss that!
Meanwhile thanks for listening and have a great week.
Sam
www.coldspringradio.com
Friday, March 5, 2010
March 5 Playlist: February 1970
So great to be back after an extended absence.
And SO great to have Primitive George and Peter Clark sit in with me to comment on the mostly rarities on the charts from 40 years ago last month.
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-05-2010
Next week we'll countdown the CKLW Big 30 from March 2, 1970--GOBS of great stuff! Tune in.
lostoldies@yahoo.com
Thanks for listening. SAM
And SO great to have Primitive George and Peter Clark sit in with me to comment on the mostly rarities on the charts from 40 years ago last month.
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/playlist.html?djoid=1633&date=03-05-2010
Next week we'll countdown the CKLW Big 30 from March 2, 1970--GOBS of great stuff! Tune in.
lostoldies@yahoo.com
Thanks for listening. SAM
Friday, February 19, 2010
Friday February 19 Playlist + Update + Joel Tyner
Thanks to Peter Clark for filling in today. So cool to drive down Route 9 the first 35 minutes of the show to hear those great tunes! If you missed any of what he played, here's the playlist:
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/
As Pete's show went on, a couple thoughts occurred to me. No doubt the Orphan Master selected some great 45s, he definitely did. And his professional radio announcer delivery--makes me green with envy. He's simply one of the best at what he does. Love that guy.
But as I approach my 6th anniversary with WVKR later this month, I can honestly say I'm still jazzed and excited about the music that I play. 6 years later, I'm still finding tunes to play that I've never played before--in an Oldies format, no less.
And it's more than liking a bunch of cool songs and throwing them together, it's about putting them in a context historically, and pacing them in terms of variety i.e. fast, slow, hit, non-hit, soul, rock, ballad, etc. I take time each and every week to plan this stuff out in advance because I am so passionate about the music and the era that it represents. And I want it sound good to you, the listeners, as well. The goal is to mix the tunes with the clips with the trivia so that it paints an audio picture and helps you remember where YOU were at the time or what it MAY have sounded like if you weren't.
I don't always succeed; sometimes what I think will sound good on air ultimately does not. Also, I get feedback like Too Much Soul/Rockers/Ballads and yet an equal number of Too LITTLE Soul/Rockers/Ballads comments come in. So I learned long ago, ya can't please every-one, so ya got ta please yourself.
You'll notice the format changes almost weekly--some weeks it's 4 songs then talk, others 8, sometimes talk over the songs, some times not, etc. I've tinkered with the formula so often trying to get it just right. Because it matters. The music is that important. To me at least. If I could talk over a song as well as Peter Clark, it would be a done deal!
But I'm rarely satisfied.
I am proud of what I done on WVKR thus far. I've been fortunate to have had the job flexibility that allowed me to take Friday afternoons off to come in and hopefully entertain you for 2 hours. But when I got the word a few months ago that my Saturday shift was to be no more, it was a wake up call. I had to do something else.
A door was closing. What now?
I've been thinking a long time about putting together a coffee table book about 45s. A chronological listing of every single to make the charts (plus more): "45 RPM: 1964-1970 From " Want To Hold Your Hand" to "The Long And Winding Road" ". But how to finance such an undertaking?
An Email from someone affilated with WVKR--someone I like and respect--who was displeased about something I'd written on this Blog earlier this Fall coincided with the tepid response I got during our pledge drive which coincided with a meeting I attended in my village of Cold Spring where a group of us were contemplating starting our own online newspaper. I mentioned I was a DJ at WVKR and someone halfheartedly said, "Hey, Sam, you should start your own radio station." I scoffed at the time, until I looked into it. And you know what? I saw that it was not impossible.
Getting FCC licenses, a transmitter, engineer, frequency etc to start a low power station like the one coming in the Catskills--overwhelming, but an internet radio station? Doable!
Also, serendipitous was an article in the New York Times about Montana Radio Cafe. There ARE no such things as coincidences, kids. That article, my doubts about my worth at WVKR, my new job situation, they all conspired to make me go for my dream.
Thus Cold Spring Radio is born.
And I am absolutely petrified about this new endeavor.
There is every likelilhood that it will fall flat on its face, that there is no way something like this could ever take off. Some guy sitting in a storefront window on a tourist-craving Main Street doing a live radio show, hoping to attract passersby? Hoping to get people to listen on a regular basis to music they can't often hear on other radio stations? Hoping that the station's visibility will be good for the town that I live so that yet another "For Rent" sign doesn't have to go up? Hoping that local advertisers and listeners will financially sponsor this to help keep it running????
The odds are against. Strongly.
But this was that window opening while that door was closing. Now or never. Crunch time. Open the storefront, earn some extra income, put together the book in the meantime. Whew! A dream, and now it's happening.
I'll continue to host "The Lost And Found Oldies Show" Fridays at 3 for as long as I can, but it's only a matter of weeks before I'll have to give up my time slot and believe me when I tell you how much I'm gonna miss it. Hopefully, they'll let me sub-it's a great place, really, with a lot of great people who really care, with SO much potential to be better than it is--SO MUCH--, and just the thought of not seeing Primitive George for at least a few minutes every week is not easy to face. I'm serious. For all the ribbing I do of him on air, he is tops at what he does. And he'll hate me for saying this, but he's a heckuva nice guy!
And YOU, the people who take the time to call or Email. If it wasn't for you I would be just another guy playing records in his basement. Alone. When you Email, especially, (cuz you can't know how hard it is to really pay attention on the phone and not subject listeners to dead air), it really, really keeps me going when I've wanted to save on gas money and not show up or take a freelance assignment and call for a sub. So THANK ! YOU!
As for Joel Tyner....I HATE when he shuts down the turntable right in the middle of Patti Smith's "People Have The Power"! HATE IT! It shows such a disrespect for the music and anyone listening who might actually like the song. aaargh!
Finally, I hope you'll join me Friday February 26 for February 1970 AM Radio Hits And Misses. I don't "randomly pick a year out of a hat"; it's 40 years ago this week, has been now at least once a month since 2006. Hello?
I may not have the velvety tones of the incredible Peter Clark, but hopefully you sense my passion for the music I play. I am not embarassed in the least for putting it on. Thanks for listening.
Sammy
http://www.coldspringradio.com/
http://wvkr.radioactivity.fm/
As Pete's show went on, a couple thoughts occurred to me. No doubt the Orphan Master selected some great 45s, he definitely did. And his professional radio announcer delivery--makes me green with envy. He's simply one of the best at what he does. Love that guy.
But as I approach my 6th anniversary with WVKR later this month, I can honestly say I'm still jazzed and excited about the music that I play. 6 years later, I'm still finding tunes to play that I've never played before--in an Oldies format, no less.
And it's more than liking a bunch of cool songs and throwing them together, it's about putting them in a context historically, and pacing them in terms of variety i.e. fast, slow, hit, non-hit, soul, rock, ballad, etc. I take time each and every week to plan this stuff out in advance because I am so passionate about the music and the era that it represents. And I want it sound good to you, the listeners, as well. The goal is to mix the tunes with the clips with the trivia so that it paints an audio picture and helps you remember where YOU were at the time or what it MAY have sounded like if you weren't.
I don't always succeed; sometimes what I think will sound good on air ultimately does not. Also, I get feedback like Too Much Soul/Rockers/Ballads and yet an equal number of Too LITTLE Soul/Rockers/Ballads comments come in. So I learned long ago, ya can't please every-one, so ya got ta please yourself.
You'll notice the format changes almost weekly--some weeks it's 4 songs then talk, others 8, sometimes talk over the songs, some times not, etc. I've tinkered with the formula so often trying to get it just right. Because it matters. The music is that important. To me at least. If I could talk over a song as well as Peter Clark, it would be a done deal!
But I'm rarely satisfied.
I am proud of what I done on WVKR thus far. I've been fortunate to have had the job flexibility that allowed me to take Friday afternoons off to come in and hopefully entertain you for 2 hours. But when I got the word a few months ago that my Saturday shift was to be no more, it was a wake up call. I had to do something else.
A door was closing. What now?
I've been thinking a long time about putting together a coffee table book about 45s. A chronological listing of every single to make the charts (plus more): "45 RPM: 1964-1970 From " Want To Hold Your Hand" to "The Long And Winding Road" ". But how to finance such an undertaking?
An Email from someone affilated with WVKR--someone I like and respect--who was displeased about something I'd written on this Blog earlier this Fall coincided with the tepid response I got during our pledge drive which coincided with a meeting I attended in my village of Cold Spring where a group of us were contemplating starting our own online newspaper. I mentioned I was a DJ at WVKR and someone halfheartedly said, "Hey, Sam, you should start your own radio station." I scoffed at the time, until I looked into it. And you know what? I saw that it was not impossible.
Getting FCC licenses, a transmitter, engineer, frequency etc to start a low power station like the one coming in the Catskills--overwhelming, but an internet radio station? Doable!
Also, serendipitous was an article in the New York Times about Montana Radio Cafe. There ARE no such things as coincidences, kids. That article, my doubts about my worth at WVKR, my new job situation, they all conspired to make me go for my dream.
Thus Cold Spring Radio is born.
And I am absolutely petrified about this new endeavor.
There is every likelilhood that it will fall flat on its face, that there is no way something like this could ever take off. Some guy sitting in a storefront window on a tourist-craving Main Street doing a live radio show, hoping to attract passersby? Hoping to get people to listen on a regular basis to music they can't often hear on other radio stations? Hoping that the station's visibility will be good for the town that I live so that yet another "For Rent" sign doesn't have to go up? Hoping that local advertisers and listeners will financially sponsor this to help keep it running????
The odds are against. Strongly.
But this was that window opening while that door was closing. Now or never. Crunch time. Open the storefront, earn some extra income, put together the book in the meantime. Whew! A dream, and now it's happening.
I'll continue to host "The Lost And Found Oldies Show" Fridays at 3 for as long as I can, but it's only a matter of weeks before I'll have to give up my time slot and believe me when I tell you how much I'm gonna miss it. Hopefully, they'll let me sub-it's a great place, really, with a lot of great people who really care, with SO much potential to be better than it is--SO MUCH--, and just the thought of not seeing Primitive George for at least a few minutes every week is not easy to face. I'm serious. For all the ribbing I do of him on air, he is tops at what he does. And he'll hate me for saying this, but he's a heckuva nice guy!
And YOU, the people who take the time to call or Email. If it wasn't for you I would be just another guy playing records in his basement. Alone. When you Email, especially, (cuz you can't know how hard it is to really pay attention on the phone and not subject listeners to dead air), it really, really keeps me going when I've wanted to save on gas money and not show up or take a freelance assignment and call for a sub. So THANK ! YOU!
As for Joel Tyner....I HATE when he shuts down the turntable right in the middle of Patti Smith's "People Have The Power"! HATE IT! It shows such a disrespect for the music and anyone listening who might actually like the song. aaargh!
Finally, I hope you'll join me Friday February 26 for February 1970 AM Radio Hits And Misses. I don't "randomly pick a year out of a hat"; it's 40 years ago this week, has been now at least once a month since 2006. Hello?
I may not have the velvety tones of the incredible Peter Clark, but hopefully you sense my passion for the music I play. I am not embarassed in the least for putting it on. Thanks for listening.
Sammy
http://www.coldspringradio.com/
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