From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V10 #131 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Tuesday, May 24 2005 Volume 10 : Number 131 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Agua de Beber [Max Wellhouse ] Off Topic: Laura Fygi ["Desianto F. W." ] Re: Agua de Beber ["Dennis J. Majewicz" ] Re: Agua de Beber ["Dennis J. Majewicz" ] Re: Agua de Beber ["Paxety Pages" ] Re: Agua de Beber [Leslie Osborn ] Re: Agua de Beber [Bill Roberts ] Re: Agua de Beber [Bill Roberts ] and don't forget WLAC... ["Brian Powers" ] Re: and don't forget WLAC... ["Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: Agua de Beber There's a Lujack car conglomerate in Davenport these days. Wonder if it's a relation or the real McCoy? Lexus, among other brands.. Lujack is not the most common of names. I think all thew stations that start with C are from Canada. Any one else think this way? Just like Wolfman Jack's "Ain't this XERB, baby??!!" was in Mexico, but covered half the country on the right night. KMOX in Saint Louis(1120AM) is heard pretty regularly in 44 states. Good to know if you are a Cardinals fan. The Denver Station is KOA at 850. It used to be that all "W" stations were.east of the Mississippi river and all "K" stations were west of the Mississippi. One exception was WHO 1040 in Des Moines DM&FS At 08:58 PM 5/22/2005, PParm16424@aol.com wrote: >Ah yes, Larry Lujack. That's a name I had forgotten. > >Don't ask me why, but I still remember one rather lame joke one of them on >WLS told back in '74. (I remember where I was living when I heard it.) It was >told in preparation for playing a song by Chicago. It went something like >this: > >In the royal court, there was "Sir Nose", "Sir Eye", and "Sir Ear". But, >there was one disraught knight, requesting of the king to get his name >changed. >"Why?" asked the king. "Because, I have been "Sir Chin" so long.... (groan >here) >Yeah, sorry about that. It's wierd what stays with ya', even from 31 years >ago! > >And CKLW was another favorite of mine, but I am not remembering where they >were located. Detroit, maybe? > >Phil P. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 03:34:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Desianto F. W." Subject: Off Topic: Laura Fygi Hello all, I hope everybody is fine. It seems that everybody here is still talking about radio stations. If it's OK, I'd like to add two, 103.35 SAS-FM, the one who gave me the first touch of Basia in early 1990's (I've told you in my story) and 100.9 RCT-FM, used to be my favorite station in 1994 - 1996, the time when I still could listen to World Chart Show. But of course all of you won't undrestand the radio stations that I mean, so you can forget what I said. Last Friday, I bought a Laura Fygi album entitled "The Lady Wants To Know". I know it's an old album and I'm sure that some of you have already known/had it. I think Laura's appearance is what the most westerners would say "exotic". The first time I know her was from an Audio & Video magazine in Indonesia. In some articles, the writers in the magazine mentioned her name quite frequently when they made some test of some new audio equipments (speakers, amplifiers, CD players, etc.). Then, she came to Jakarta, singing in the Java Jazz, in early 2005. I read the report in the newspaper with a big picture of her. Later, I searched the info about her in the Internet. She is from the Netherlands, as far as I know, and the Netherlands has a special relationship with Indonesia. Daniel Sahuleka, who sings "Don't Sleep Away This Night My Baby" and "Love To Love You" also live in the Netherlands but he was born in Indonesia. Laura's face is quite common for Indonesian, so, is it possible that she has an Indonesian blood? Maybe, though I doubt it. I have to dig deeper in the Internet to find out but maybe later. The album that I bought has 16 songs. The list: 1. Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars) 2. It Might As Well Be Spring (From "State Fair") 3. Dindi 4. The Lady Wants To Know 5. Triste 6. If You Went Away 7. You Do Something To Me (From "Fifty Million Frenchmen") 8. Each And Everyone 9. Something About Him 10. How Insensitive (Insensatez) 11. Disse Alguem (All Of Me) 12. Tell Me All About It (Duet With Michael Franks) 13. Oh Telephone 14. Sabor A Mi 15. Baubles, Bangles, and Beads (From "Kismet") 16. Till There Was You (From "The Music Man") Frankly, the first time I played it, I think I chose the wrong time to listen to all the songs. It should be played in the night, sitting on the rug near the fireplace, dim light, a bottle of fine wine, two glasses, and a beautiful companion, rather than in a sunny day in a small hot room full of things from books, a bed, to a used tyre and some spare parts, in the afternoon. But nevermind with that. After all, if I had to make a perfect setting to listen to it, my family would think I'm crazy. Some of the songs such as "It Might As Well Be Spring", "Triste", "You Do Something To Me" (the oldest song in this album - 1929), and "Oh Telephone" caught my attention instantly. But the funny thing is that, the only song that keeps playing in my mind is "The Lady Wants To Know", because of its calm style. IMHO, Laura's voice is not as strong as Basia, even it is too soft in some songs though it also sounds lively in "Triste". But surely it won't give you sore ears. Moreover, Laura adds my collections of female vocal/singer records since I decided to listen to female singers more (and male vocals less) though of course I'm selective enough not to grab all female vocals. Well, as a boy who has to face all men's things everyday, female's voice would feel like a thirst quencher in my soul. One of the weaknesses is that, she didn't write her own material as what Basia did. If she did it, maybe she would be able to show the soul of the songs more perfectly. But I think not all singers were given to make their own materials, and maybe Laura is wise enough to realize her limitations, so she decided to sing someone else's songs rather than to push her luck to make her own. Another rare attitude in this crazy music world in these days. OK, enough for now. Thank you for your time and attention. Czesc, Desianto F. W. Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 06:42:17 -0400 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: Agua de Beber I didn't mean to slight WBZ, Phil. I listened to them, too. Bruce Bradley, Dick Summer, Jeff Kaye. Dick Summer is the reason I have Ultimate Spinach and Orpheus on vinyl! (Wasn't Larry Glick there, too?) Dennis - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 10:03 PM Subject: Re: Agua de Beber > > Dick Summer was like, chopped ham? Evenings WBZ through the '60's he played > Hendrix, Cream, Springfield, Dead, and commented on Electric Flag, Insect Trust. > He promoted Ultimate Spinach, for God's sake! I listened in south Florida on clear > nights, before I went north annually for parental struggle situations. > > On 22 May 2005 at 20:02, Dennis J. Majewicz wrote: > > > > > Steve, that blowtorch from Buffalo was WKBW, 1520 KHz. Heard up and down the > > Eastern Seaboard and as far away as Europe. It had a rich history with such > > names as Joey Reynolds, Tom Shannon, Dick Biondi, Jack Armstrong, Rod Roddy, > > Don Berns, Jefferson Kaye among others either starting out there or working > > their way up. > > > > I loved that station. Growing up in Buffalo, I had the opportunity to hear > > it whenever I cared to. > > > > I was a radio junkie, you see. Even as a small child in the late 50's I > > pretended to be a dj with my record player at home. Later on, a couple of > > friends and I started a pirate station on AM. We had a lot of fun until the > > FCC decided we should stop. A week later I had a legitimate job at a local > > station, and worked in the business for a few years. Enough time to get it > > out of my system. At the time I worked in it, Buffalo was a number 18 > > market. If the Canadian listeners could be included (which was not allowed > > by the ratings companies) it probably would be in the top 10, Toronto being > > close enough for a much larger audience. (It's a declining market, currently > > around number 52.) One of the guys I pirated with went on to work for 'KB. > > He started in 1969 and worked overnights, so you may have actually heard > > him. I had fun on-air, but found I liked engineering much better. I've been > > in that end of it for 31 years now, 23 of it in television. > > > > Listening to distant stations was a hobby for me back then. Of course WLS > > was easy to get in Buffalo. I remember Larry Lujack. New York City was a > > favorite, though. WABC was thrilling to listen to in the mid-60's. Those > > guys were so tight- the jingle packages were amazing. CKLW was another fave. > > We could get it during the daytime here and the Bill Drake years were > > phenomenal. I think the most distant station I heard was from Salt Lake > > City. This was with ordinary transistor radios. My cousin heard LA one > > night. Of course AM radio was much different back then. With so much RF > > radiation now, the noise floor on AM is very high and distant signals are > > harder to receive. A lot of you may not realize that AM sounded much better > > back then, also. Up until the late 80's, frequency response was not as > > limited as it is now. There is a strict limit in bandwidth now, 10 KHz is > > the max. It makes for muddy sounding radio. > > > > By the way, we had our version of the Wave format here in the late 80's. The > > call letters were WBMW. Who do you think the target audience was? Could they > > have lived in the affluent suburbs? :-) Anyone remember the name Jon > > Butterfield? He was one of the syndicated announcers when the stations > > weren't running live assist automation. Very distinctive voice. > > > > Great memories. > > > > Dennis > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Steve Richardson" > > To: > > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 2:27 PM > > Subject: Fw: Agua de Beber > > > > > > > > > > Growing up in Maryland in the late '60's I remember listening to a > > Buffalo, > > > NY AM station at night. (Can't recall the call letters) They would play > > > Dylan album cuts and stuff like Neil Young "Down By the River," the full > > > album versions, stuff you'd never hear on AM. FM radio in cars was still > > a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:17:02 -0400 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: Agua de Beber CKLW is located in Windsor, Ontario, although its programming focus was Detroit. Dick Purtan was another Buffalo DJ. He was here for a couple of years before moving to Cincinnati and then Detroit. (Although I don't know him, he's a regular contributor to a Buffalo broadcasters mail list I'm on.) Dennis - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leslie Osborn" To: Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 10:59 PM Subject: Re: Agua de Beber > > > And CKLW was another favorite of mine, but I am not > > remembering where they > > were located. Detroit, maybe? > > Yeppers, though before my time, so I don't remember > it. Much lamented loss by my parents though. I believe > there was a station later that did many a homage to > it. Wasn't Dick Purtan a DJ there? > > > > -- Leslie O. > > "You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just gonna ask where they're goin', and hook up with them later." -- Mitch Hedburg > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail Mobile > Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:19:48 -0400 From: "Paxety Pages" Subject: Re: Agua de Beber Yes, the "C" stations are Canadian. Other exceptions to the "W" east and "K" west in the U.S. are the first commercial radio station in the U.S. - KDKA in Pittsburgh, and WFAA in Dallas. And while mentioning great stations, don't forget WLAC in Nashville with it's great DJ - "John R" (John Richbourg.) http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/wlac/wlacdex.html un abrazo, juan http://paxety.com/Articles/blog ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:51:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Agua de Beber > (Although I don't know > him, he's a regular contributor to a Buffalo > broadcasters mail list I'm on.) That's brilliant! I grew up with his morning show and characters-- he was hilarious. - -- Leslie O. "You know, I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just gonna ask where they're goin', and hook up with them later." -- Mitch Hedburg Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:26:22 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: Agua de Beber I grew up in Moline. Quoting Max Wellhouse : > > There's a Lujack car conglomerate in Davenport these days. Wonder if it's > a relation or the real McCoy? Lexus, among other brands.. Lujack is not > the most common of names. > > I think all thew stations that start with C are from Canada. Any one else > think this way? Just like Wolfman Jack's "Ain't this XERB, baby??!!" was > in Mexico, but covered half the country on the right night. KMOX in Saint > Louis(1120AM) is heard pretty regularly in 44 states. Good to know if you > are a Cardinals fan. The Denver Station is KOA at 850. It used to be that > all "W" stations were.east of the Mississippi river and all "K" stations > were west of the Mississippi. One exception was WHO 1040 in Des Moines > > DM&FS >c ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:27:25 -0500 From: Bill Roberts Subject: Re: Agua de Beber Wasn't KSTT the rock AM station in the Quad Cities? Quoting Max Wellhouse : > > There's a Lujack car conglomerate in Davenport these days. Wonder if it's > a relation or the real McCoy? Lexus, among other brands.. Lujack is not > the most common of names. > > I think all thew stations that start with C are from Canada. Any one else > think this way? Just like Wolfman Jack's "Ain't this XERB, baby??!!" was > in Mexico, but covered half the country on the right night. KMOX in Saint > Louis(1120AM) is heard pretty regularly in 44 states. Good to know if you > are a Cardinals fan. The Denver Station is KOA at 850. It used to be that > all "W" stations were.east of the Mississippi river and all "K" stations > were west of the Mississippi. One exception was WHO 1040 in Des Moines > > DM&FS > > At 08:58 PM 5/22/2005, PParm16424@aol.com wrote: > > >Ah yes, Larry Lujack. That's a name I had forgotten. > > > >Don't ask me why, but I still remember one rather lame joke one of them on > >WLS told back in '74. (I remember where I was living when I heard it.) It > was > >told in preparation for playing a song by Chicago. It went something like > >this: > > > >In the royal court, there was "Sir Nose", "Sir Eye", and "Sir Ear". But, > >there was one disraught knight, requesting of the king to get his name > >changed. > >"Why?" asked the king. "Because, I have been "Sir Chin" so long.... (groan > >here) > >Yeah, sorry about that. It's wierd what stays with ya', even from 31 years > >ago! > > > >And CKLW was another favorite of mine, but I am not remembering where they > >were located. Detroit, maybe? > > > >Phil P. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 11:20:25 -0700 From: "Brian Powers" Subject: and don't forget WLAC... Hi All, I used to listen to WLS and "John R" growing up in Green Bay, WI (land of the cheeseheads). (our other musical choices were bubble-gum and polka's)....yikes! There was another "John R" we used to listen to at WLAC -Nashville, TN, which is where I first heard Aretha, Sam and Dave, Jimmie Smith, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight and the Pips (back then we thought for sure they were called the Pimps), and many others. They have a great website discussing their history at: http://www.yodaslair.com/dumboozle/wlac/wlacdex.html makes good reading for any music buff. The love of this type of music prompted us to put a band together ( I played B3 and Tenor sax), and we played clubs throughout the midwest doing then what most people think of now as "that Blues Brothers kind of music". ahhh....the memories... Brian ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 17:57:49 -0400 From: "Dennis J. Majewicz" Subject: Re: and don't forget WLAC... > They have a great website discussing their history at: > http://www.yodaslair.com/dumboozle/wlac/wlacdex.html makes good reading > for any music buff. > Good point, Brian. There are numerous tribute websites out there. One for WKBW is here: http://wkbwradio.com/ The classic Big 8, CKLW is here: http://www.thebig8.net/ The KB site has a lot of fun memories for me. Watch out, though, they have audio clips that play with every new page. (I really hate when people do that.) The CKLW site has a lot of info and old jingles... Dennis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:48:43 -0400 From: pineking@gwi.net Subject: Re: Agua de Beber Larry Glick was at BZ throught the late '80's, then turned the reins over to (the late) David Brudnoy. Who knows, mabey the Glickster is histoire as well. But about Dick Summer, in the mid-'60's, before psychedelia was a house-hold word, his playlist included just about every act that performed at Monterey in 1968 and more, plus he talked a lot about why mainstream listeners weren't ready for what was termed at the time 'progressive rock'. He also aired east coast groups such as the Blues Project, the Velvet Underground, the Electric Flag which in the days before FM took off had no other outlet anywhere in New England that I knew. It helped my feeling of superiority over my Monkees-loving sisters - retch! Summers is still around - he does a lot of voice-overs. On 23 May 2005 at 6:42, Dennis J. Majewicz wrote: > > I didn't mean to slight WBZ, Phil. I listened to them, too. Bruce Bradley, > Dick Summer, Jeff Kaye. Dick Summer is the reason I have Ultimate Spinach > and Orpheus on vinyl! (Wasn't Larry Glick there, too?) > > Dennis > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 10:03 PM > Subject: Re: Agua de Beber > > > > > > Dick Summer was like, chopped ham? Evenings WBZ through the '60's he > played > > Hendrix, Cream, Springfield, Dead, and commented on Electric Flag, Insect > Trust. > > He promoted Ultimate Spinach, for God's sake! I listened in south Florida > on clear > > nights, before I went north annually for parental struggle situations. > > > > On 22 May 2005 at 20:02, Dennis J. Majewicz wrote: > > > > > > > > Steve, that blowtorch from Buffalo was WKBW, 1520 KHz. Heard up and down > the > > > Eastern Seaboard and as far away as Europe. It had a rich history with > such > > > names as Joey Reynolds, Tom Shannon, Dick Biondi, Jack Armstrong, Rod > Roddy, > > > Don Berns, Jefferson Kaye among others either starting out there or > working > > > their way up. > > > > > > I loved that station. Growing up in Buffalo, I had the opportunity to > hear > > > it whenever I cared to. > > > > > > I was a radio junkie, you see. Even as a small child in the late 50's I > > > pretended to be a dj with my record player at home. Later on, a couple > of > > > friends and I started a pirate station on AM. We had a lot of fun until > the > > > FCC decided we should stop. A week later I had a legitimate job at a > local > > > station, and worked in the business for a few years. Enough time to get > it > > > out of my system. At the time I worked in it, Buffalo was a number 18 > > > market. If the Canadian listeners could be included (which was not > allowed > > > by the ratings companies) it probably would be in the top 10, Toronto > being > > > close enough for a much larger audience. (It's a declining market, > currently > > > around number 52.) One of the guys I pirated with went on to work for > 'KB. > > > He started in 1969 and worked overnights, so you may have actually heard > > > him. I had fun on-air, but found I liked engineering much better. I've > been > > > in that end of it for 31 years now, 23 of it in television. > > > > > > Listening to distant stations was a hobby for me back then. Of course > WLS > > > was easy to get in Buffalo. I remember Larry Lujack. New York City was a > > > favorite, though. WABC was thrilling to listen to in the mid-60's. Those > > > guys were so tight- the jingle packages were amazing. CKLW was another > fave. > > > We could get it during the daytime here and the Bill Drake years were > > > phenomenal. I think the most distant station I heard was from Salt Lake > > > City. This was with ordinary transistor radios. My cousin heard LA one > > > night. Of course AM radio was much different back then. With so much RF > > > radiation now, the noise floor on AM is very high and distant signals > are > > > harder to receive. A lot of you may not realize that AM sounded much > better > > > back then, also. Up until the late 80's, frequency response was not as > > > limited as it is now. There is a strict limit in bandwidth now, 10 KHz > is > > > the max. It makes for muddy sounding radio. > > > > > > By the way, we had our version of the Wave format here in the late 80's. > The > > > call letters were WBMW. Who do you think the target audience was? Could > they > > > have lived in the affluent suburbs? :-) Anyone remember the name Jon > > > Butterfield? He was one of the syndicated announcers when the stations > > > weren't running live assist automation. Very distinctive voice. > > > > > > Great memories. > > > > > > Dennis > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Steve Richardson" > > > To: > > > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 2:27 PM > > > Subject: Fw: Agua de Beber > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Growing up in Maryland in the late '60's I remember listening to a > > > Buffalo, > > > > NY AM station at night. (Can't recall the call letters) They would > play > > > > Dylan album cuts and stuff like Neil Young "Down By the River," the > full > > > > album versions, stuff you'd never hear on AM. FM radio in cars was > still > > > a ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V10 #131 ****************************