Speaker 1: It's nice sid.
Speaker 2: I'm going you crazy Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: Then Winniker Brothers are here and we have just about
Speaker 3: fifty one minutes of show to go with them. Phone
Speaker 3: lines are full, but if you want, I'll give you
Speaker 3: the phone numbers, and as soon as the line becomes available,
Speaker 3: rapidly dial six one, seven, two, five, fourteen thirty or
Speaker 3: eight eight, eight nine to nineteen thirty and before I
Speaker 3: take our next call. Gentlemen, I know your mom's health
Speaker 3: was not what it could be. Has she improved it all?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yep, she's doing better with the help of the
Speaker 1: Good Lord. She will turn ninety eight years of age
Speaker 1: on August fourteenth.
Speaker 3: It's adorable.
Speaker 1: We're excited about that. And she's she's had some issues,
Speaker 1: but she is tenacious.
Speaker 3: Well, she's listening. I would say, you keep getting better
Speaker 3: and we all love you.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. He is listening to every word.
Speaker 3: All right, then let's go to New Hampshire and speak
Speaker 3: to Jimmy. Jimmy, thank you for calling. You've got the
Speaker 3: way brothers.
Speaker 4: Whenever sky's look great to me, he had trouble begins
Speaker 4: to do. Whenever the winter winds become too strong, I
Speaker 4: concentrate on you.
Speaker 5: Hi, guys.
Speaker 1: Hey Jimmy.
Speaker 5: That's Jimmy Page and he is one of our most
Speaker 5: favorite singers. He's a great singer. And I say to
Speaker 5: Jimmy every time I see him, We've got to make
Speaker 5: a CD with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we have to someday.
Speaker 1: Brother.
Speaker 4: I'm just happy to talk to you again because being
Speaker 4: up here in New Hampshire, we get stuck, we get
Speaker 4: stuck a little. And the one thing that you do
Speaker 4: is you keep me involved by all of the postings
Speaker 4: that you put out. So that's really great to see.
Speaker 4: And I happen to catch this one that you were
Speaker 4: going to be on tonight, and if this is as
Speaker 4: closet as I can get to the Winnaker Brothers, that's what's.
Speaker 5: Going to be for tonight.
Speaker 1: It's so great to hear your voice.
Speaker 4: Honestly, I know, brother, that was actually a song I
Speaker 4: think one of the first songs we ever did at
Speaker 4: the old skip Jack on a Sunday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you know we Bill and I were talking
Speaker 1: about skip Jacks tonight. When we finished up at the
Speaker 1: Parker House Hotel about to fourteen years we started playing
Speaker 1: at skip Jacks and we ended up playing there for
Speaker 1: twenty six years. Sunday Brunch for twenty six years.
Speaker 6: It was great.
Speaker 3: Skip Jackson Waltham or in Boston, No, no, Skip Jacks
Speaker 3: right in Boston, right okay, right behind the Trinity Church. Yeah.
Speaker 4: We used to enjoy their their food and you guys
Speaker 4: on Sunday and it was great. Also, something happened today
Speaker 4: that was obviously charmatic, if you will, because up on
Speaker 4: Craig's cell phone came our dinner with a Nette at
Speaker 4: the lake years ago.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, remember that? Yeah, how about that?
Speaker 4: He made a he made a chef's dinner out there
Speaker 4: for Velma and uh and Annette and me and uh
Speaker 4: before you guys arrived for the weekend. So we had
Speaker 4: to shuttle off. But we hope she's doing well. That's
Speaker 4: I heard that comment before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she she's We have dinner together every night here
Speaker 1: and when we sit around the table and talk about
Speaker 1: how we're feeling, she's usually feeling better than me or Bill.
Speaker 4: I know we're also going to be in a perfect
Speaker 4: storm to something.
Speaker 1: But you know, we have a lot to be thankful for.
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that we still have our mother. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna.
Speaker 4: So nice to get out.
Speaker 1: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: We'll try to get out and see you at some
Speaker 4: point that you keep posting it and I'll find my
Speaker 4: way back into Boston to hear two of the most
Speaker 4: generous artists that there are in existence to day.
Speaker 1: Well, you're very kind and it's great to hear you,
Speaker 1: but it will be better to see you. So all
Speaker 1: right here, thank you for the phone call.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you brother, thanks for putting them on tonight.
Speaker 4: You have a great night on everybody.
Speaker 1: Bye bye, bye bye.
Speaker 3: Now all right, let's go to Middleborough and speak to
Speaker 3: gg GG. You're next here with the Winnakers.
Speaker 7: Hey, no gg, double G Yeah, double G. Yeah.
Speaker 8: I thought i'd pop in and thank the Winnakers for
Speaker 8: having me on the gigs this week. I was able
Speaker 8: to fill in on some gigs, and I will tell
Speaker 8: you they're not exaggerating when they're telling you how wonderful
Speaker 8: that supper club is, because it really is. I think
Speaker 8: a lot of your fans would would love it if
Speaker 8: they can, if they can actually get reservations. I know
Speaker 8: it sells out soon, but the family connection that you have,
Speaker 8: it's a warm It was a warm, very warm gig
Speaker 8: actually physically and figuratively. It was a warm gig, because
Speaker 8: the outdoor gig was a very warm gig we had.
Speaker 8: We had. We had a lot of fun and obviously
Speaker 8: top shelf musicianship, but you know that's always that's always
Speaker 8: something that you know, it's brought to life much more
Speaker 8: when the people are so cool. So we did. We
Speaker 8: had a we had a lot of fun, and I
Speaker 8: just thought I'd pop in and say hi and tell
Speaker 8: you Morgan, I've I've I've heard you so many times.
Speaker 8: I've gigged for many years, many decades in the Boston area.
Speaker 8: And when you're in your car and you you know,
Speaker 8: when you're stuck someplace far there's a lot of night
Speaker 8: construction in Boston. Even sometimes coming home from New Hampshire
Speaker 8: over Vermont, you put on bes you are busy is
Speaker 8: your thing, you know, Oh you're you. And it's so
Speaker 8: funny because where we all listen to you. I mean,
Speaker 8: I think that Bo and Bill can can just verify
Speaker 8: every musician. I've been listening to you and other musicians
Speaker 8: that I know have called in to answer a trivia
Speaker 8: question or something. It's just hysterical, like something that I
Speaker 8: just got off a gig with is in their car.
Speaker 8: So this is like, this is Boston for your listeners
Speaker 8: right now. This is really kind of legendary because you
Speaker 8: guys have all been the fabric for what how many decades?
Speaker 3: For me, I've been here since roughly nineteen. I started
Speaker 3: radio in nineteen eighteen. I've been with BZ roughly since
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 9: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: And Gigi, I want to tell you something like this week.
Speaker 3: You have no idea how many phone calls I've had
Speaker 3: to make and shifting times back and forth. Tonight I
Speaker 3: had a guest who didn't show, and within three minutes
Speaker 3: I was able to take a guest that I would
Speaker 3: have had on Wednesday and insert her into tonight and
Speaker 3: do the best I can and try to make it
Speaker 3: look seamless. It's a lot of hard work in the
Speaker 3: doing radio.
Speaker 8: Was that your education person that you had on your
Speaker 8: equational Yes, oh well that's great. Well I'll tell you
Speaker 8: Bo and Bill, you had a situation that you really
Speaker 8: needed coverage in, and I'm glad that it got to
Speaker 8: be me because I like your last color Jimmy. You
Speaker 8: guys were talking to Jimmy and his story is kind
Speaker 8: of my story with you with you folks.
Speaker 9: Skip Jacks It was Skip.
Speaker 8: Jock's and I don't know how I managed to sit
Speaker 8: in with you, but you both looked at each other
Speaker 8: and you just weren't sure. I'm not sure because we
Speaker 8: hadn't known each other, and you had this look of
Speaker 8: relief once I started It's singing. Well, the relief that
Speaker 8: was brought to your faces.
Speaker 2: I sat.
Speaker 8: I went there with my husband.
Speaker 7: It was a.
Speaker 8: Brunch and I sang a Billie Holiday arrangement, and I'm
Speaker 8: so glad I got to do that with you over
Speaker 8: the weekend. And I hope that your situation smooths out.
Speaker 9: And then.
Speaker 1: I hope so too. But I want to tell you
Speaker 1: you did an incredibly fantastic job, really, and you're a
Speaker 1: great person and have a glowmote of talent. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you thank.
Speaker 8: You so much. I really appreciate the compliments. And like
Speaker 8: I said, it was an honor you had played forty
Speaker 8: years ago at my friend's wedding, and I was just
Speaker 8: it just made it more. I even wore the bracelet
Speaker 8: she passed away, but I wore the bracelet she gave
Speaker 8: me to the gigs, So that's.
Speaker 7: What I did.
Speaker 8: You're really very welcome.
Speaker 1: I'll be talking to you soon. I can assure you bybebye.
Speaker 3: There goes Gg and Jim and Boxford will be next
Speaker 3: after these messages here on night Side, heard only on
Speaker 3: WBC News Radio ten thirty with a time is eleven seventeen.
Speaker 3: Temperature has been holding all night long. It's seventy five degrees.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: A lot of people have called in tonight. That's why
Speaker 3: when I have the winnakers on, I usually slot them
Speaker 3: for a two hour commitment, and I have one line available.
Speaker 3: Anyone who wants to dial six one, seven, two, five
Speaker 3: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine,
Speaker 3: ten thirty, there is a line waiting for you. Let's
Speaker 3: go to Boxford and speak to Jim. Jim, welcome aboard.
Speaker 6: Hey Morgan, how are you.
Speaker 3: I'm fine, loud and clear.
Speaker 6: Jim, great, this is the first for me. Actually, I'm
Speaker 6: from Lynn. I'm in Boxford now, but I'm from Lynn,
Speaker 6: and I just wanted to say I knew I became
Speaker 6: middle aged when I could sit and watch on television
Speaker 6: a Red Sox game and started to listen to talk radio.
Speaker 6: I know I'm now old because I'm calling in for
Speaker 6: the first time ever, so I just want to make
Speaker 6: that introductories and so.
Speaker 3: What are you twenty three, twenty four years old?
Speaker 6: I'm being funny, give or take fifty years or so years,
Speaker 6: you know, but I want to say hello to Bo,
Speaker 6: because Bo and Bill, I'm not sure I ever met you,
Speaker 6: but I met your father, because I don't know if
Speaker 6: you remember Gil Fishman Bow and the jazz Boat and
Speaker 6: the concert cruise.
Speaker 1: Oh, we worked with Bill on the boat. We worked
Speaker 1: with Gil and Fenton Holland for a number of years
Speaker 1: and fantastic.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, and that's I worked those two cruises for
Speaker 6: the summer of seventy six and seventy seven while I
Speaker 6: was going to law school, and that's where I met you.
Speaker 6: And so impressed was I and my girlfriend at the
Speaker 6: time with you guys that you actually played at a
Speaker 6: wedding in nineteen eighty one at the Oakley Country Clubs.
Speaker 6: And why this is important, it was in November of
Speaker 6: eighty one when the Great Lynn Fire happened and you
Speaker 6: could see the half of the city burning down from
Speaker 6: the hill in Belmont, you know, with the Oh my god,
Speaker 6: country Club Oakland. I'm sorry, was it.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, Oakley Country Cup.
Speaker 6: Yes, yeah, but you guys were fabulous, You were terrific.
Speaker 6: It was great to be able to listen to you
Speaker 6: and have you come entertain us. And I just wanted
Speaker 6: to call in that say thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, will you do us a huge favor and someday
Speaker 1: come out to Nioli and reintroduce yourself to us so
Speaker 1: that we can, you know, reconnoiter our friendship.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and that's Westwood, you said.
Speaker 1: West in Westwood, mass Yep, it's too. Eighty two Washington Street,
Speaker 1: Naroli an E ro o l I. And you want
Speaker 1: to ask for the Supper Club when you do come
Speaker 1: with their one Thursday night a month. The next night
Speaker 1: is September nineteenth, six pm, eight pm in the supper Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'd love to love to see you. You sound
Speaker 1: so great. And are you still practicing law?
Speaker 6: Oh god, sadly yes. You know what they say about
Speaker 6: old lawyers ever retired, they just lose their appeal.
Speaker 3: I wish I had a room shot for that.
Speaker 1: Well, Jill could have. You know, I always think of this,
Speaker 1: but if you have a job that you love, you
Speaker 1: never work a day in your life. And I know
Speaker 1: Bill and I we've sort of found the fountain of
Speaker 1: youth by being able to play music. And I just
Speaker 1: want to see this that we owe our father a
Speaker 1: tremendous debt of gratitude for sharing his love of music
Speaker 1: with us. I haven't said that yet, but I want
Speaker 1: to emphasize that. And I don't want to short change
Speaker 1: my mother because she told Bill and myself hundreds of times, boys,
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost any extra to be nice, and the
Speaker 1: more good deeds you do in this world will translate
Speaker 1: into a better quality life. And Bill and I just
Speaker 1: keep doing good deeds and our life gets sweeter and
Speaker 1: sweeter by doing that. So Jim, thank you for sharing
Speaker 1: that story with us. It's a fantastic story. And I
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing you and your.
Speaker 6: Wife, and kudos to you guys. And I'm sorry, well,
Speaker 6: what was your dad's name again? Because he truly was
Speaker 6: a gentleman and a wonderful musician.
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, ed ed Winaker, that was my father. And
Speaker 1: you know those jazz boat cruises, we played them and
Speaker 1: they were so exciting, you know, that was such a
Speaker 1: great time for us. We of course, we played on
Speaker 1: the Provincetown boat for five summers and we were doing
Speaker 1: those jazz cruises and we were working awfully hard back
Speaker 1: then and we're still working awfully hard, but we're having
Speaker 1: a lot of fun.
Speaker 6: So thank you. Ahead good. No, it's not work if
Speaker 6: you love it right, it's exactly and Fenton were great
Speaker 6: guys to work with you, so.
Speaker 1: They absolutely were. But thank you for taking the time
Speaker 1: to reach out to us tonight. It really touches us steeply.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Jim, first time ever. Thank you guys, and
Speaker 3: let's take James from Midford. James, thank you for calling.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Night Side. How are you. I'm finding you.
Speaker 10: I'm doing well. You know, I've never called one of
Speaker 10: these shows before, but when you talk about the Winnakers,
Speaker 10: it resonates in me because I know we have the
Speaker 10: hipoprivacy and all that. But the mother I used to
Speaker 10: take care of for her for treatments for ophthalmology.
Speaker 3: Oh that's what radio does. It's a small world.
Speaker 1: It reconnects, it does, you know.
Speaker 10: And she told me about the Winnakers. She told me
Speaker 10: everything about the band, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 10: honestly I knew nothing about it, and it made me
Speaker 10: look up, you know, and start to do research on
Speaker 10: it because she told me about the history of it.
Speaker 3: You know, guys.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's so great of you the call. We appreciate
Speaker 1: that so much. I'll tell you my mother has been
Speaker 1: the first and that's been able to share all the
Speaker 1: stories about our family for all these years, you know,
Speaker 1: Bill and I sixty two years we've been doing this,
Speaker 1: and my mother's the gatekeeper. She knows all the stories.
Speaker 1: She knows of going down in New pomp Rhode Island
Speaker 1: and playing for the Vanderbilts, and playing for mister and
Speaker 1: missus Henry Cabot Lodge's fiftieth wedding anniversary. She knows all
Speaker 1: the stories, and she's been the gatekeeper, and she met
Speaker 1: you and she started sharing the stories of our music
Speaker 1: with you. And it's so wonderful that you have taken
Speaker 1: the time to call in. My mother's listening right now.
Speaker 1: So if you want to send a message to her,
Speaker 1: go right ahead.
Speaker 10: Well you let her know that I worked with doctor Song.
Speaker 10: I was her assistant for years and that's how we met.
Speaker 1: My mother still goes every six weeks to get that
Speaker 1: shot for macular degeneration, so she's still.
Speaker 10: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: So boy, it's so great to hear from you, and boy,
Speaker 1: this was very touching that you would take the time
Speaker 1: to call.
Speaker 10: You know, I'm driving, I'm just listening, you know, I
Speaker 10: like listening to the talk shows. But honestly, God, this
Speaker 10: is the first time I've ever called.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad we got you to reach for the phone.
Speaker 10: I've never called any radio show in my life unless
Speaker 10: I'm trying to win something.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, don't be such a stranger. You can do
Speaker 3: it again and again after that.
Speaker 10: Honestly, you know I won't because it felt really good
Speaker 10: to talk about this. You know, it's such a big
Speaker 10: you know, her legacy, which is still going on, is
Speaker 10: so amazing that it's something that needs to be talked
Speaker 10: about on a regular beat.
Speaker 3: James, Well, we thank you for that very kind statement.
Speaker 10: You're welcome, and I appreciate everything that your family has
Speaker 10: done in the music industry.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I hope we hope our past will cross
Speaker 1: one day.
Speaker 6: I hope so too.
Speaker 4: I really do, Okay, I hope, I hope.
Speaker 6: You You're welcome.
Speaker 10: I hope you guys have a great night enjoying good
Speaker 10: luck with your mother and family.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jan Thank you so much.
Speaker 10: Have a great night, guys.
Speaker 1: We will bye bye.
Speaker 3: Now we're so close to a break, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to take the next call. But Diane, I've got a
Speaker 3: couple of commercials. I've also got the news hit. So
Speaker 3: we'll get to you roughly about three minutes or so.
Speaker 3: I promise you'll be right after that. Anyone else wants
Speaker 3: to jump on six one, seven, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight,
Speaker 3: nine to nine, ten thirty. I am speaking with music
Speaker 3: legends Bo and Bill Winnaker. They've been entertaining people in
Speaker 3: the New England area beyond the New England area for
Speaker 3: close to sixty plus years. And if they ever entertained
Speaker 3: for you at a wedding or a function, whatever, you
Speaker 3: want to call in and say thank you for what
Speaker 3: they did for you back in the day. Here is
Speaker 3: your opportunity. And before I do anything else, Tomorrow's Tuesday,
Speaker 3: you want to come see me do Trivia Live. That
Speaker 3: would be at the Midway Restaurant to sixty nine Washington
Speaker 3: Street that's in Denham from six pm to seven point thirty.
Speaker 3: Come on by. You'll get a chance maybe to see
Speaker 3: some of the people that participate with me here in
Speaker 3: BZ like mel Simon's. And that's about that. So let
Speaker 3: me give it to Rob. Diane will next after these messages.
Speaker 3: Time and temperature eleven twenty nine, temperature seventy five degrees.
Speaker 2: It's night Side with Dan Ray Boston's News Radio.
Speaker 3: I am very fortunate to have Bill Winnaker his brother
Speaker 3: Bo Winnaker, entertainers in this area for decades. And let's
Speaker 3: go to fair Haven and speak with Diane. Diane, you've
Speaker 3: got the Winnakers here for me.
Speaker 7: Hello, Hello, Hello, this is Diane calling Saint Laurent. And
Speaker 7: I couldn't let's me even go by without tossing my
Speaker 7: hat in the ring bow. And Bill, especially Bo played
Speaker 7: with my father for many, many years. My father was
Speaker 7: a pianist, and Dave Bo was a household and Ed
Speaker 7: was a household name around our house, and so I
Speaker 7: feel like they are somewhat part of the family, and
Speaker 7: so I just wanted to say, Hi, Oh you guys
Speaker 7: doing tonight.
Speaker 1: We're doing really well. We're having a fun time. This
Speaker 1: has just been a very exciting evening hearing from so
Speaker 1: many people, and especially you. I want to talk about
Speaker 1: your your dear departed father, Bill, Saint Laurent. He was
Speaker 1: a member of my band for many years. He was
Speaker 1: a bringing canist. He taught at Berkeley College of Music,
Speaker 1: and you know, one of the greatest vibe players in
Speaker 1: the world studied with your father, and he said he
Speaker 1: learned more in your father's course than any course that
Speaker 1: you ever had at Berkeley.
Speaker 7: And you know, yes, Gary Burton, Yeah, Gary Burton, he had,
Speaker 7: he did. He gave a statement. He wasn't able to
Speaker 7: be at my father's funeral, but he passed along at
Speaker 7: statements that I read live. I mean, it was. It
Speaker 7: was one of the most touching statements I think I've heard,
Speaker 7: because you know, that's a part of my father's life.
Speaker 7: I didn't really know anything.
Speaker 2: About you know.
Speaker 7: However, when I was at Berkeley, he knew who I
Speaker 7: was and just opened right up to me about my father.
Speaker 7: So it's been very touching over the years to meet
Speaker 7: people who have known him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, let's not let's not forget your mother either.
Speaker 1: She was a brilliant teacher, pianist and teacher, and so absolutely.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, yes, that's how they met. Yep, my parents met.
Speaker 7: I got a lot of music in me, Yep, I do.
Speaker 7: And I'm very grateful for having had both my parents.
Speaker 7: My mother just recently passed away, but I just had
Speaker 7: to say thank you so much for being part of
Speaker 7: a joyous part of my father's life. He just adored you,
Speaker 7: absolutely adored you.
Speaker 1: We had a great relationship and Bill had a twinkle
Speaker 1: in his eye. You know, there was just something about Bill.
Speaker 1: He was just such a lovely gentleman. Yeah, Brian musician
Speaker 1: really honestly, he you know, he worked in Norwood at
Speaker 1: the high school and he was a great conductor of
Speaker 1: the chorus and everything. But he could play great jazz
Speaker 1: and he had just do it all he could range.
Speaker 7: I do like to I have to take the blame
Speaker 7: for that high school job because he was he was
Speaker 7: digging quite a bit over the years and heavily, and
Speaker 7: he was getting his masters at be Boston Conservatory when
Speaker 7: I was born, and so this forced him to take
Speaker 7: the quote unquote day job. But it turned out to
Speaker 7: be one of the greatest experiences of his life. You know,
Speaker 7: he's the choir director.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The students loved him, they did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really did.
Speaker 5: You know, the whole all the students that that we're
Speaker 5: lucky to say be in the courses.
Speaker 1: He led those courses.
Speaker 5: Year after year.
Speaker 6: He they adored your.
Speaker 7: Father they did, and they actually there's a number of
Speaker 7: them that attribute their careers to him, you know, most
Speaker 7: of them you can read on Facebook, you know, as
Speaker 7: opposed to I don't see them, but I do catch
Speaker 7: comments that they've made on Facebook about him, and and
Speaker 7: had talked to him at his funeral as well, that
Speaker 7: they attribute their own careers to him. So it's it's
Speaker 7: just it's are inspiring, you know. I mean, he was
Speaker 7: my dad practicing piano day and night, and and of
Speaker 7: course he had his his groups over to the house,
Speaker 7: and you know, I went on a few gigs with
Speaker 7: him and my mom, so I got to see a
Speaker 7: little bit of that. And he's he's the same at
Speaker 7: home as he was out in the world. He's just uh,
Speaker 7: you know, very You wouldn't know how much of a
Speaker 7: genius he really was. I think because he was he was.
Speaker 7: He had a very light touch to him, and he
Speaker 7: was very personable.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he was a gentleman in every sense of the word. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're so so nice and thoughtful to call in tonight.
Speaker 7: Well, I don't have as much to say as some
Speaker 7: of your other people, but this is your life film
Speaker 7: Bo and a Girl, wonderful wonderful to him.
Speaker 1: Your call is spoken volumes. Believe me, you sent all
Speaker 1: the right things tonight and we appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I owe a deep gratitude to you. I really do. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I know we've spoken on the phone. Now, we've spoken
Speaker 7: since my mother's passing, which was seven months ago. But
Speaker 7: prior to that, when I was growing up, we used
Speaker 7: to speak on the phone. I was like a little secretary,
Speaker 7: you know. And yeah, so it was. And it was
Speaker 7: joyful here and practicing for his gigs and then loading
Speaker 7: up the car like a one man band heading off
Speaker 7: to play with the winn Grows. So I thank you.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun and we made a
Speaker 1: lot of great music. The music was always was exceptional
Speaker 1: when Bill was playing that piano.
Speaker 7: On higher level. It really is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to say thank you for taking the
Speaker 3: time to call us.
Speaker 7: Oh, you're very welcome. Thank you for having me on.
Speaker 3: You're very welcome.
Speaker 7: And good night. We'll talk soon. Love you both very
Speaker 7: very much.
Speaker 3: By now, before I take my last break of the hour,
Speaker 3: there was a woman when I came to see you,
Speaker 3: what three or four years ago at Brothers. There was
Speaker 3: a young woman's singer and I cannot remember her name.
Speaker 3: Is she still performing?
Speaker 1: Well, she she's moved to California. She went off with
Speaker 1: her boyfriend to California. I believe she's still doing some
Speaker 1: singing out West, but she's been gone now for a
Speaker 1: couple of years. What was her name, Zoe? Yes, that's it, yep,
Speaker 1: lovely young woman.
Speaker 3: Well she's out in California, and you and I both
Speaker 3: know that's a very rich place for a performer to be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to interrupt for a second. She's actually
Speaker 5: in Las Vegas, so you.
Speaker 3: Might run into her in Vegas.
Speaker 5: Moved, she moved to Las Vegas, and I don't know
Speaker 5: exactly where she is, but she's there, and you love
Speaker 5: Las Vegas. You're going to run into her, I think.
Speaker 3: Well, I would love to if she is performing in Vegas.
Speaker 3: I would love to sit in the audience and just
Speaker 3: watch her singing entertain.
Speaker 5: Well, we'll keep you posted when we get more information,
Speaker 5: all right.
Speaker 3: Because I I just got to feel this kid's got
Speaker 3: it and she's going to make it one day.
Speaker 4: Well, we put our heart and soul into working with her.
Speaker 6: We worked with her for a couple of years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we would get together with her every week, and
Speaker 1: you know, As Bill and I have told you before,
Speaker 1: we've mentored over two hundred musical musicians over the years,
Speaker 1: and that's the throw for us. We love it.
Speaker 3: Name a couple of people that quote unquote have done well.
Speaker 3: They've stepped up, so to speak, just right for a
Speaker 3: couple of.
Speaker 1: Grace Kelly, she is a young woman who has traveled
Speaker 1: the world over. She's a saxophone player and singer. And
Speaker 1: I worked with her for two years. She would come
Speaker 1: over to my house and we would work and she
Speaker 1: is a brilliant musician. She's very famous. Grace Kelly. I
Speaker 1: mean you listen as they know her, okay. And Tony
Speaker 1: du Bois. He's a blind autistic pianist living in the
Speaker 1: Midwest right now.
Speaker 9: Me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Tony is a genius. They have made a
Speaker 1: movie about his life and they have written a book
Speaker 1: about his life. That happened to happen to the Winnakers yet,
Speaker 1: but that's happened to Tony de Blois and Tony. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So those are two people that are pretty famous that
Speaker 1: have traveled the world over. And then we have a
Speaker 1: number of musicians. One of our trumpet players who worked
Speaker 1: with us for years was the lead trumpet player with
Speaker 1: Frank Sinatra. And he was in my band at.
Speaker 5: The Parker House and when he graduated college, after playing
Speaker 5: with me for a few years, he got the job
Speaker 5: as lead trumpet player with Frank Sinatra. And he always
Speaker 5: calls us and writes to us and tells us he
Speaker 5: owes it all.
Speaker 1: To us well to learn the swing like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, As I said, we have mentored over two hundred
Speaker 1: musicians from Berkeley College and Music Wing the Conservatory, Boston University.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's just something that we loved doing it.
Speaker 1: It was giving back. That's why we did that. They
Speaker 1: rehearsed at our house. I don't know if I've told
Speaker 1: this story to you before, but they would. We lived
Speaker 1: right in Coolidge Corner. Yeah, very very close to the
Speaker 1: Trader Joe. It's very close to Trader Joe's. That's where
Speaker 1: we live now. And we lived in a small little apartment.
Speaker 1: They were apartments back then, they weren't condos. It was
Speaker 1: rent control. We were living for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars a month for a two bedroom apartment. And in
Speaker 1: the apartment we had a piano set up, we had
Speaker 1: a string bass, we had drums and every Monday, we'd
Speaker 1: take these COVID kids and we rehearsed with them for
Speaker 1: two hours, and we'd be playing the swing music that
Speaker 1: we were playing at the Parker House Hotel, and we
Speaker 1: were teaching these young musicians, very gifted musicians, but we
Speaker 1: were teaching them how to swing that music. And we'd
Speaker 1: send them home with tapes of the music. That's when
Speaker 1: they were cassette tapes. And then we played for two
Speaker 1: hours and then Bill and I would drive. These would
Speaker 1: have six, seven or eight musicians in our apartment. No
Speaker 1: one ever complained. It was a six unit building and
Speaker 1: we were blaring away, but it was swing music, and
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't that loud, but it was for people.
Speaker 1: I said, you think the music's too loud. They said, no,
Speaker 1: it's perfect. We love it. So we'd take the kids
Speaker 1: to Newton to a restaurant called Cantina a Brutsi, and
Speaker 1: back then on Monday, and on back then on Monday nights,
Speaker 1: it was all the pasta. You could eat for less
Speaker 1: than five dollars, and so we would treat these kids
Speaker 1: to a meal. And you know, when you're a young
Speaker 1: student and you get a free meal, that goes a
Speaker 1: long long way. But this restaurant was all the pasta.
Speaker 1: You could eat for like less than five dollars, and
Speaker 1: I always ate more than any one of the kids.
Speaker 1: I think, I think I have a hollow lake. People say, well,
Speaker 1: where do you put it? I said, well, I verted off.
Speaker 1: You know, I got a lot of uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what do I have.
Speaker 3: Anyways, did you guys play Zitos in Boston?
Speaker 1: No, we didn't know. We played at Grub.
Speaker 3: Remember I played there too. I did trivia that.
Speaker 1: My god, you know what we were doing there. This
Speaker 1: was before we worked at the Parker House Hotel. This
Speaker 1: was our stop. We played about a year there on
Speaker 1: Thursday nights, and we were doing the Gong Show of
Speaker 1: all things at the end of the Yeah, well yeah,
Speaker 1: we were playing swing music there. We had our six
Speaker 1: p swing band playing there. But then we would do
Speaker 1: the Gong Show and we had The place was packed.
Speaker 1: It was the most hilarious thing you've ever saw in
Speaker 1: your life, all the different acts that would come in
Speaker 1: every week and play with us.
Speaker 3: But did you do jumping into the woodside for the
Speaker 3: dancing machine?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let me take my last.
Speaker 3: Break, get it out the way and just chat with you, guys.
Speaker 3: That's the magic of Bill and Bow. I'm gonna throw
Speaker 3: it to rob By saying time and temperature eleven forty
Speaker 3: seven seventy five degrees.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: We have very few minutes left with my guests Bill
Speaker 3: and Bo Winnaker. And if there are people out there
Speaker 3: listening that would like to maybe learn how to play
Speaker 3: an instrument, how to approach singing, how to do something
Speaker 3: musically that you've always wanted to try but never really
Speaker 3: had the gumption to go through with it, here is
Speaker 3: your opportunity. Guys, give a phone number where people can
Speaker 3: reach you.
Speaker 1: Sure, they can reach us two ways. They can call
Speaker 1: six one seven two seven seven six six seven three
Speaker 1: that's Bill number, or they can call my number, Bose
Speaker 1: number at six one seven four six nine three four
Speaker 1: three seven.
Speaker 3: And tell everybody about the third week of September and.
Speaker 1: Well, on September nineteenth, from six to eight pm, we'll
Speaker 1: be playing at Niroli. It's a wonderful Italian restaurant. You
Speaker 1: can get anything there. It's located at two eighty two
Speaker 1: Washington Street in Westwood. The phone number there because you
Speaker 1: do need a reservation. It's seven eight one three, seven
Speaker 1: five two five nine four Thursday September nineteenth from six
Speaker 1: to eight pm. You need a reservation and make sure
Speaker 1: you make it in the supper cub, which is in
Speaker 1: the back of the restaurant. It holds eighty.
Speaker 3: People, so you just can't walk in off the street.
Speaker 1: Well, you probably they set up a table. One of
Speaker 1: my friends showed up without a reservation and he said
Speaker 1: he was a friend of Bo's, and they brought out
Speaker 1: a table for him and set it right up in there.
Speaker 1: They had, you know, one extra seat available for him.
Speaker 1: So no, it's a it's a good idea to have
Speaker 1: a reservation. But sometimes you can show up and they
Speaker 1: can sit you at the bar or something like that.
Speaker 1: So it's worth a try, but i'd recommend a reservation.
Speaker 3: So it's like the movie Goods Fellas if if you
Speaker 3: kind of know somebody, if you get lucky, they'll bring
Speaker 3: a table out the back and set set it down
Speaker 3: right up front.
Speaker 1: They've done that a few times. They'll just they'll do
Speaker 1: it because they're very they're very a chroma. That's it.
Speaker 1: They are really accommodating.
Speaker 3: Well they did it for ray Leota and Goodfellas.
Speaker 5: They sure did.
Speaker 4: Listen.
Speaker 1: I know we have a couple of minutes left, but Morgan,
Speaker 1: we want to thank you. And I know we haven't
Speaker 1: been on for a number of months. You've called us
Speaker 1: religiously and asked us to come and we said, you know,
Speaker 1: we're just not ready now. But I'm so glad we
Speaker 1: reconnected tonight. This was so much fun. I hope you
Speaker 1: had as much fun as we did.
Speaker 3: Oh, definitely, definitely, And we will do it again. You
Speaker 3: know that.
Speaker 6: Oh, I know that.
Speaker 1: I know we will every two, three.
Speaker 3: Four months. Your phone rings, It's me and I say,
Speaker 3: can you do this date at this time?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Well, you know we're back now, we're back in the loop.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: We had a little time off. We just had to
Speaker 1: take care of a few little things. But this was
Speaker 1: wonderful tonight. It was just a very special evening.
Speaker 3: Now, I want you to do me a favor, and
Speaker 3: this is a personal favor. You did it for me
Speaker 3: once before at Brothers. I want you to play a
Speaker 3: little bit of Killer Joe and tell the people that
Speaker 3: are there and ROLI's that you're playing this for your buddy, Morgan.
Speaker 1: Consider it done. Just let us know when you're coming,
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll take care of it. We'll you know,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll take it right down the middle for you.
Speaker 1: We'll swing it out for you.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I'm there or not. Just knowing that you
Speaker 3: play it okay all that matters. And I cannot believe
Speaker 3: that I see the person calling in now with three
Speaker 3: minutes of show to go, put them on. It's almost
Speaker 3: I sure bet that she will call with me and
Speaker 3: minutes of show to go. Rob screen her as quickly
Speaker 3: as you can and change your light so I'll know
Speaker 3: she's ready, because this is a woman from Wisconsin. And
Speaker 3: and Karen, I say this to you all the time.
Speaker 3: Why do you wait till the end of the show
Speaker 3: to call in?
Speaker 9: Didn't you get the message? No, you're not supposed to
Speaker 9: chastise me, because all I one does say hello and goodbye.
Speaker 3: Well, call earlier to say hello and goodbye.
Speaker 9: Well something I couldn't. I couldn't.
Speaker 10: And so.
Speaker 9: Is Bow and Bill.
Speaker 3: There still here?
Speaker 9: Go ahead here, Hi, Hi, Morgan and Bow and Bill.
Speaker 9: And I just want to say hello to both you.
Speaker 9: I love you both. I missed you, and I'm trying
Speaker 9: to get out there and and with that, I'll see
Speaker 9: it at midway and neurally's.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, sounds good. But we should tell everybody that's
Speaker 5: listening that Bo came out to Wisconsin and did a
Speaker 5: big comment start out there and invited you and that
Speaker 5: was quite a night.
Speaker 9: Yeah, sure was. I'll never forget it, I know. Okay,
Speaker 9: thank you, Okay, good.
Speaker 3: Night, good night, Karen. She has a habit of doing that,
Speaker 3: calling at the very end, but you guys were her
Speaker 3: incentive to call in. I want to thank you both
Speaker 3: for coming on. I hope your mother continues to get
Speaker 3: on the mend and you see all the people that
Speaker 3: call in who have been touched by your professionalism and
Speaker 3: the music that you have put forth Winnaker style, and
Speaker 3: that's that's basically about it.
Speaker 1: Well, we appreciate it so much. We appreciate you so much,
Speaker 1: and I hope you have a great show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Night on Wednesday night.
Speaker 1: Wednesday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ben Parker will be here tomorrow night.
Speaker 4: No, no, I'm talking.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the restaurant gig.
Speaker 3: Oh my restaurant gig. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, that's what I was referring. I was referring
Speaker 1: to that.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, thank you for that and now I'll speak
Speaker 3: to you guys. Next time I speak to you guys.
Speaker 3: I also want to thank h William Keck who is
Speaker 3: on Teacher Terry and I'll be here Wednesday night. I
Speaker 3: want to thank Rob Brooks. I want to thank Terry
Speaker 3: and Gray and the Dan Ray audience. Thank all of you.
Speaker 3: By Boston