Thursday, July 26, 2012

Girl's Name in the Title - Part 2 (Bobby G hosting) July 26, 2012

This is the playlist for the Rock Show 0f July 26, 2012
 1) Jenny Take a Ride 2) Little Latin Lupelu 3) Devil With the Blue Dress On/Good Golly Miss Molly - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels
 4) Cara Mia - Jay and the Americans
 5) Mary, Mary 6) Valleri - The Monkees
 7) Stormy - The Classics IV
 8) Oh! Carol 9) Alice In Wonderland - Neil Sedaka
10) Maybelline -  Johnny Rivers
11) Lovely Linda - Paul McCartney
12) Eleanor Rigby 13) Lady Madonna - The Beatles
14) Walk Away Renee - The Left Banke
15) Jackie Blue - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
16) Camille - Al Kooper
17) Suzanne - Judy Collins
18) Sylvia - Focus
19) Sara Smile - Hall and Oates
20) We Built This City On Rock and Roll*** 21) Sara - Starship
22) Melissa (Live) - Greg Allman
23) Catedonia - Robin Trower
24) Dawn (Go Away) 25) Candy Girl 26) Marlena - The Four Seasons
27) Runaround Sue 28) Ruby Baby 29) Donna the Prima Donna - Dion
30) Michelle 31) Anna 32) Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds 33) Lovely Rita - The Beatles
34) Hello Mary Lou - Ricky Nelson
35) Honolulu Lulu _ Jan and Dean
*** A future show was promoted which will feature Radio and DJs mentioned in the title or lyric.
PS - Thanks to Bill Sobel tonight for a great dinner and his "Sara" requests.
PSS - Thanks to Monica D. for her requests - I will try to get to the rest of them in the next edition.
RG 7-26-12

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Playlist for July 19 (Bobby G. Hosting)

This is the playlist for the 8th Edition of Different Songs With The Same Title
 1) Portable Radio - Hall and Oates * Note: Played this to open because in our immediate area lots of people had no power and could listen only if they had a portable radio (See previous blog)**
 2&3) Real Love - Steve Winwood / The Doobie Brothers
 4&5) Magic - The Cars / Pilot
 6&7) Dangerous - Doobie Bros. / Michael Jackson
 8&9) Lucky Man - Steve Miller / Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
10&11) For You - ELP / Ricky Nelson
12&13) Music - John Miles / Madonna
14&15) How Long - The Eagles / Ace
16&17) Today - Todd Rundgren / Jefferson Airplane
18&19) Bluebird / Paul McCartney / Buffalo Springfield
**Little did I know that we would be knocked off the air in the second hour of the show!

Playlist for July 18, 2012 (Bobby G hosting)

 1) Highway Star 2) Never Before 3) Smoke on the Water 4) Hush ( all by Deep Purple )*
 5) All I Can Look At Is You - Tom Pacheco
 6) Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
 7) Your Smiling Face - James Taylor
 8) Blackbird - Kenny Rankin
 9) The Times They Are A Changin' (Early Version) - The Byrds
10) Albatross - Judy Collins
11) Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez
12) Catch The Wind - Donovan
13) Birdeye Heaven - Tom Pacheco
*Jon Lord, Keyboardist of Deep Purple passed 7/16/12
Selections 5 - 13 I intended to play between sets of the concert that didn't air. A severe storm did not allow us to carry Jim Dawson ( see previous blogs)
14) East/West - Herman's Hermits
15) Only A Northern Song - The Beatles
16) Southbound - The Allman Brothers
17) Southern Cross - Crosby, Stills, and Nash
18) Southern Man - Neil Young
19) Here At the Western World - Steely Dan
20) West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
21) Southside - Moby
22) Southbound Saurez - Led Zeppelin
23) Looking East - Jackson Browne
24) Southern Nights - Glen Campbell
25) South Street - The Orlons
26) Reptile - Eric Clapton ( closing instrumental )
Selections 14 - 25 were a "Direction Theme" show that was half done but filled in nicely for the second hour.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Bobby G on the Storm of July 18 Part 2

   About 5 pm I was still in my car on the way to WCWP and finally made it to Northern Blvd. The traffic light was working but any cars turning south on Glen Cove Road had to turn into the shopping center because there was no cars getting through the 4 feet of water in front of Dunkin" Donuts. It took 30 minutes to cross the intersection and cover a distance of 100 yards. Northern Blvd. was as bad as Glen Cove Road but there were no live wires that I saw. As I got to the campus, the rain was letting up as I parked by the library - the campus perimeter road was underwater too. At 6 pm, I walked in the station and said hi to Dan, the station manager and deadpanned, "I'm glad I left early so I could kill time reading my book."
   Dan was in and out but we couldn't get the necessary connection to carry the promised concert with Jim Dawson. I did a show with the things I planned to do from 7 to 7:30 and explained to disappointed listeners over the air what was going on with the weather around the station. I called my youngest daughter at home and nothing was a problem there she reported as I played my CDs. I always carry extra material with me and put together the rest of the two hours while Dan worked and kept me company until about 8:45. (The concert was recorded by Scott Perschke and Tony Traguardo and will air August 1 with Scott hosting and Jim calling in on that Wednesday).
  Going home was no problem and Thursday I arrived at the station with no problems to fill in for Bernie Bernard. I opened with "Portable Radio"by Hall and Oates and mentioned tongue in cheek that it was the only way for some listeners to hear us in the dark near or on the Post campus. My prepared show for the night was rolling along until about 8:10 when we lost power and were left sitting in the dark. The lights came back on a few seconds later but the board and computer take a minute or two to boot up. I had just finished a EAS (Emergency Alert System) Test in the last half hour and gotten new info to read over the air from Christina Kay, fellow DJ and Dan's assistant, about what would be open/closed for Friday on the campus. Some buildings had power and others didn't. I got a great deal of help from Jett Lightning and Jay Elzweig who helped copy updated material and made phone calls,etc. (Thanks guys!) Also, special thanks to Zack Parker for getting a bunch of technical problems solved and giving live updates on the air on my show as well as on the Grooveyard with Scott Perschke later.
    I know we provided a service to the college and immediate area because I was getting lots of e mails from listeners as the night moved along. I hadn't had as much activity as a broadcaster in a very long time. I showed Scott my phone e mails from Facebook that night right after Zack did an second update. I was happy to have had a great group of people working with me and knowing people were listening.
   Rg 7/20/12
   P.S. - I am going to think twice before playing "Portable Radio" again!

Bobby G on the July 18th Storm

     I was looking forward to a relaxing afternoon on my drive up to LIU-Post and hanging out for a while before going on the air at 7 pm. for my Wednesday night shift at the radio station. I wanted to get there really early because we were doing a live remote from Port Washington of a concert with songman, Jim Dawson. I even bought a book to read if it was really quiet. I walked my dog, Romeo and spoke to Janine, our nice station secretary while doing so. I told her I was leaving extra early to help out the station manager, Dan (if I was needed).
   I left Bayside at 4 pm. Traffic was slow, then really slow on the Long Island Expressway. It started to rain so I was glad the dog had been walked before the predicted thunderstorm hit. Boy. did I feel smart. What good timing! I exited at Glen Cove Road about 4:20 figuring another 10 - 15 minutes tops to get to WCWP. Five minutes later all hell broke loose. Trees started to come down blocking traffic in both directions as the storm got really strong. Up ahead both lanes came to a complete stop. A car in the right lane had a live wire on top of it and the car right next to it had a tree on top of it. I turned on my cell phone and called 911. I was 20 or so cars behind the standstill. The operator came on and I told her we needed the fire dept. and/or the police to come. Cars started to drive in and out of a gas station one at a time to get around the 2 stopped cars. The operator said she would call right back. As I got right on top of the 2 damaged cars a police car cut in front and the officer got out and waved me on as a fire truck came from the opposite direction. The operator did call back and I told her I was waved on and  that EMS was also coming.
     I felt lucky that I wasn't the one trapped in the car. I drove a little further and trees came down on both sides of the road leaving one lane for 4 lanes of traffic. All the traffic lights were out north of the Expressway but no more accidents yet. About a mile before Northern Blvd. all traffic was made to turn left into a residential area. I hoped in wasn't a loop with no exit. Up ahead as I turned I saw several cars in 3 to 4 feet of water near the Dunkin' Donuts. I sometimes stop in there and pick up donuts for the college students who do a sports show from 6 to 7. That wasn't going to happen this Wednesday - sorry guys!

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Hello folks, It's Jett Lightning, Join me tonight 7pm EDT 07/12/12 on The Rock Show,Theme is "Ain't Nothin' But a SHE Thing," on 88.1 FM in Nassau County and WCWP.ORG over your pc, click on the Listen Tab, then click the 88.1 box, The Grooveyard follows at 9pm