Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm telling you easy
Speaker 1: Boston's new.
Speaker 2: Video I renumber three of Night's Side. I'm Morgan Morgan,
Speaker 2: my junior filling in for Dan. I'll be here obviously
Speaker 2: until midnight, and I will also be here tomorrow, and
Speaker 2: then Dan will be back on Wednesday for the first
Speaker 2: of the year. I do my show on Saturday nights,
Speaker 2: and just to let you know, this will be my
Speaker 2: first Saturday back beginning at nine, my old time slot,
Speaker 2: and Stink Stu Fink will be joining me and he's
Speaker 2: already planned a great show. Gone but not forgotten the
Speaker 2: people who he lost in twenty twenty four. The man
Speaker 2: you're here in the background, that's Cleo Campbell, who are
Speaker 2: coursing to stay for another hour. He went kicking and screaming,
Speaker 2: saying no, no, no, don't make me, but he's here
Speaker 2: for another hour. We have one open line, and this
Speaker 2: subject has done bidter than I thought it would. We
Speaker 2: are talking about the groups and performers seventies and eighties
Speaker 2: that were from Boston. Good grief. We've come up with
Speaker 2: at least twenty odd names, and somebody is calling on
Speaker 2: the third line as we speak. So let's begin with
Speaker 2: Jack in Dorchester. Jack, good evening, thanks for calling in
Speaker 2: and how you're doing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, well I didn't know. It's supposed to be local.
Speaker 3: But there was a place called the Cross Town Bus.
Speaker 3: It was back in Jubai August of sixty seven, and
Speaker 3: I saw the Doors.
Speaker 2: There's a group.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right after like.
Speaker 2: In sixty seven, they were just becoming the monster that
Speaker 2: they became. Did you realize what was going to happen
Speaker 2: to them?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Actually it was a friend of mine that I heard
Speaker 3: them and said, hey, we can get tires of this
Speaker 3: place called Across Town Bus. Now this was out right.
Speaker 3: I don't think it lasted very long, but any rate. Uh,
Speaker 3: so I saw the Doors and it appeared Jim Marshall
Speaker 3: was pretty sober.
Speaker 5: It.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at any rate, So he did basically the first album,
Speaker 3: Uh you know the Doors that was named the album right,
Speaker 3: And then of course, uh there was a surf and
Speaker 3: a tasket.
Speaker 2: Yes, no one has mentioned the surf.
Speaker 6: Yet, wasn't And then at one point.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure, Uncle Sam, Yeah, I don't know about that,
Speaker 3: but all I know is I saw Wilson ticket, oh.
Speaker 2: The Wicked ticket.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I know he put oh that was
Speaker 3: a great That was a really good show. You know,
Speaker 3: they had the you had the whole band come out,
Speaker 3: come out, and then he came out and yeah. Anyway,
Speaker 3: the surf was, you know, pretty amazing place and bridy
Speaker 3: and satday Idea all the time. So I used to
Speaker 3: go down there a lot.
Speaker 4: Uh but.
Speaker 2: Did you go by yourself? What did you bring a date?
Speaker 3: Oh? No, I we always had a bunch of people. Okay,
Speaker 3: well this is toool. I was, uh, you know, sixteen
Speaker 3: seventeen and and people be calling up, Hey, you're going
Speaker 3: to surf. So now I had a cow.
Speaker 2: That's why you were popular with your friends.
Speaker 1: You drove, yeah, I drove.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, so that was good. Of course I went
Speaker 3: to the Channel and Kate Montgomery.
Speaker 6: Okay we're here, We're here, yeah.
Speaker 3: Jack Montgomery and uh then.
Speaker 6: The Montgomery Dog. That was a good blue show.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The Boston I have a hotel which had a summer
Speaker 3: and coming round. Some of the bands I saw down there.
Speaker 3: But you know, so I saw a lot of groups
Speaker 3: and saw Janis jobs last concert was it had stadium
Speaker 3: Harbard Stadium.
Speaker 2: Yeah, her last concert was at Harvard Stadium.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Because I ran into road manager at Passams in Cambridge,
Speaker 3: and he was the one that told me that was
Speaker 3: her last concert. Yeah at the'y rate. Uh well, happy
Speaker 3: in a year?
Speaker 2: And Jack, may I say this to you. I want
Speaker 2: to thank you for almost thirty years of loyalty to me.
Speaker 2: You've come to the different licens I've played, You've called
Speaker 2: the different radio stations I've had as a home, and
Speaker 2: I want to thank you.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you. I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 3: I will talk to you sometime in the know year.
Speaker 2: I look forward to that, Jack, Thank you. Byebye. Jack's
Speaker 2: line is now open and available. You want to take it,
Speaker 2: and before no, it's gone there quickly. I want to
Speaker 2: let you know what I'm doing tomorrow night. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about game shows with one of the gentlemen
Speaker 2: who was probably most qualified to discuss this subject, Roger Tarpowitz,
Speaker 2: who wants in college, wrote a letter to Mark Goodson
Speaker 2: and Bill Toddman. They answered, he got a chance to
Speaker 2: interview with them. He interned and worked his way up
Speaker 2: the ladder and for over thirty years was the executive
Speaker 2: producer of The Price Is Right as E Wow. He's
Speaker 2: going to be joining me tomorrow at eight Ken Mayer,
Speaker 2: former producer of Larry Glick, is going to be joining
Speaker 2: me for two hours from nine to eleven, and he
Speaker 2: and I we have an interesting game. And clear, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give give you the setup of what I'm
Speaker 2: doing with Ken tomorrow. What is that I'd want to
Speaker 2: set up a hall of fame, Hall of fame of
Speaker 2: TV actors, Oh, who have had at least ten years
Speaker 2: of prime time experience. And now I'm going to give
Speaker 2: you an actor wh did I write his name? Tim Reid?
Speaker 2: Why is Tim Reid going to be on ten years?
Speaker 4: Bonnie Bonnie Miller?
Speaker 2: And no, not Bonnie Miller, that's wrong, Glass, Okay, Tim Reid.
Speaker 6: Oh, w Chatty and.
Speaker 4: That's seventy show he was on too.
Speaker 2: He did have a cup of coffee there and Simon
Speaker 2: and Simon and Sister Sister.
Speaker 4: I watched. I never knew he was on Simon and Simon.
Speaker 4: I never watched that show.
Speaker 2: He was the police. Every detective show has the policeman contact. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he was in police contact. So that gave him over
Speaker 2: ten years of primetime exposure. There are plenty of people
Speaker 2: like James Onness. They were on for twenty years in
Speaker 2: a row. But whether you're on one show for ten
Speaker 2: plus years or a number of shows for ten plus years.
Speaker 2: Ken and I are going to be discussing that tomorrow
Speaker 2: from nine to eleven, right, and then Buddy always for
Speaker 2: the first week of January. And I'm a bit premature,
Speaker 2: but I've already got something planned for my first show
Speaker 2: in January with stew I've got Big Elvis coming on.
Speaker 4: Oh that guy?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we're going to talk about Elvis Presley now.
Speaker 6: That I've been out there anymore.
Speaker 2: No, he's not. He's lost a lot of weight, a
Speaker 2: lot of weight. Let me take my break. All lines
Speaker 2: are full, and when we get back, we'll be speaking
Speaker 2: with Peggy, Chuck and John, not necessarily in that order.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature here on Night side ten, fifteen fifty
Speaker 2: one degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray Mine from the Window World,
Speaker 1: Night six Studios on.
Speaker 2: WBZ News Radio. Oh my goodness, this past hour in
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes has been phone hot, full line, many many,
Speaker 2: many memories about both groups, bands, performers, and clubs. That's
Speaker 2: what we're talking about. If you were around Boston in
Speaker 2: the seventies and eighties, where's your favorite place to go
Speaker 2: to catch a live act? Of some sort. Chuck and Arlington.
Speaker 2: You're next. I'm guessing Chuck is going to talk about
Speaker 2: faces since we found out they were in Arlington.
Speaker 4: Hello Chuck, Hi Chuck, Chuck.
Speaker 2: You're there, Chuck in Arlington, going once, going twice. Goodbye, Chuck.
Speaker 2: Let's now go to Peggy. Peggy, how are you?
Speaker 7: Oh honey, I'm I'm had with dreason.
Speaker 8: I will play Purging of.
Speaker 7: Hi Sweet. Listen. You two guys are bringing Niche a
Speaker 7: happy New Year.
Speaker 8: And I keeps playing my music because he played music
Speaker 8: around Christmas as I called to.
Speaker 9: Tell him that him and you know that.
Speaker 7: Now, Yes, well, I slang nine from seven to eleven
Speaker 7: at night in the seventies and last was yes, right
Speaker 7: across from the Herald newspaper. And I had come in
Speaker 7: at seven o'clock at night, and the waitresseses told me
Speaker 7: that any Sanda came in for lunch on this staff.
Speaker 7: But his daughter's birthday was this week and she was
Speaker 7: eighty seven, Jane Vanda, and that's the same age I am.
Speaker 7: And I was telling the three Sunday at math on
Speaker 7: the Saint Agels of Pope and he sets me, but
Speaker 7: you've been of looking I'm cute and he helped me
Speaker 7: to understands because they have a cane. But I'm thinking
Speaker 7: also of Paul's Mall, and I just told me what
Speaker 7: my cousin, Yeah, I'm not said the middle of that
Speaker 7: Paul's Mall. She sat with us, and I told her
Speaker 7: that she was going.
Speaker 8: Places and she certainly did.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 7: But anyway, anyway, so good to hear you two talk
Speaker 7: about the good time. I miss Snatching Cole, I miss
Speaker 7: Frank Sinatra, Miss Terry Como. I mean to me, that
Speaker 7: was she was. I don't understand the kids' music today.
Speaker 7: I can't make out one word, especially a naughty word.
Speaker 2: But Frank, Perry Como, Nat King Cole all played at
Speaker 2: one time. They all played in Boston.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Sinatra did a tour with yea was I think
Speaker 6: Dee Martin and Eliza Manelli and they played at the
Speaker 6: Boston Garden. That was you know my Yeah, My buddy
Speaker 6: went to see the his father went to see the show,
Speaker 6: and he just said, just seeing Sinatra, I was just like,
Speaker 6: it's for him.
Speaker 4: That was that was.
Speaker 6: That was one of the things he loved seeing with Sinatra.
Speaker 6: And I always say Sinatra, I love Sinatra. I think
Speaker 6: he's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I saw Frank at the Desert in early nineteen nineties.
Speaker 2: He obviously was not the man he had been in
Speaker 2: the forties, fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, but it was
Speaker 2: still Frank Sinatra and you couldn't help but enjoy the show.
Speaker 2: And I saw I saw Dean Martin on his own.
Speaker 2: I saw Sammy Davis Junior with Jerry Lewis, of all people,
Speaker 2: so I got to see the rat pack in a
Speaker 2: disjointed way.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so, Peggy, Peggy, you're still there, I guess she
Speaker 2: hung up. Happy New Year to you, Peggy. Yeah, to
Speaker 2: go to John and Stoughton. Is this the John and
Speaker 2: Stoughton that used to be a regular caller.
Speaker 11: I used to call from time to time to Larry.
Speaker 11: Let's see, Uh yeah, a long time ago.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 11: How about the camp Well, thank you vill Die. He
Speaker 11: was a great one too. So how about the Cantab Lounge,
Speaker 11: Little Joe Cook and the thrillers.
Speaker 2: Our peanut I had seen because the Cantab We played
Speaker 2: softball on Magazine Beach in the eighties and nineties, and
Speaker 2: the place we went after softball for Bevertshire two was
Speaker 2: the Cantab and I, oh, good grief, what was the
Speaker 2: name of the owner? Because from the phone to Dring
Speaker 2: he used to answer candy Tab, Candy Tab. And there's
Speaker 2: a mural on one of the side streets off of
Speaker 2: mass Have in Cambridge, just as you approached Central Square
Speaker 2: from Boston, and it had all of the major personalities
Speaker 2: in Cambridge, usually the music personalities, and among those on
Speaker 2: that wall is little Joe cook.
Speaker 11: Yep I got one more extreme Gary Sharon.
Speaker 4: Ok Sharon van Halen and he actually played Jesus Christ
Speaker 4: Superstar at one point.
Speaker 11: Yeah, a good good friend of mine as a creative
Speaker 11: director at the Boston Rock Opera. And I saw him
Speaker 11: with Kay Hanley from Letters to Cleo. Yeah, so.
Speaker 8: What do I wanted the drama on you?
Speaker 6: Hey, I have a question for you. What do you
Speaker 6: think of the group Buffalo Tom? I? I liked him,
Speaker 6: and I like.
Speaker 11: The Lemon hed the Lemonheads. The Lemonheads are great.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 11: There used to be a band called the Mission.
Speaker 8: Of Burma, which is from Boston.
Speaker 6: Yeah the Atlantics. Did you see the Atlantics?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 11: But the Mission of Burma had a second band that
Speaker 11: started called the Volcano Sons, and a good min who
Speaker 11: passed away. He was with that band yet and uh
Speaker 11: yeah they had a lot of ties to that record
Speaker 11: star on Newberry Street there the underneath, get the name
Speaker 11: of that joint. But yeah, so good scene in Boston.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Boston had a great, great performance here he did.
Speaker 11: No you gotta keep your thing. So there's a there's Cleario.
Speaker 11: I don't know if you know her Claro. She's new
Speaker 11: and up and coming, she's got roots in Boston and uh,
Speaker 11: you know, she's pretty popular right about now with the kids.
Speaker 11: So some good stuff. And then Matt Nathan's and he's
Speaker 11: kind of regional. So we'll catch up with y'all.
Speaker 4: Have a.
Speaker 2: Happy to John all right. Time to give the phone
Speaker 2: numbers again. Six five, four, ten thirty eight eight eight
Speaker 2: nine to nine, ten thirty. My friend Cleiol Campbell and
Speaker 2: I are discussing bands, performers, musical acts that played in
Speaker 2: Boston either got some notoriety or major notoriety, radio way
Speaker 2: play in the seventies and eighties, and as well some
Speaker 2: of the places that they played, you know, the rat
Speaker 2: in the rad Scaler in Boston, Chemo Square.
Speaker 6: Oh I got one for your sugar shack.
Speaker 2: Oh, good grief, how did we not mentioned Sugar Shack.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Sugar Shack was a name that.
Speaker 2: A number of clubs had across the country. And the
Speaker 2: Jimmy Gilmer song There's a crazy crazy to the place
Speaker 2: along the track, Yeah that. Yeah, sugar Shack was not
Speaker 2: the Boston Sugar Shack.
Speaker 6: No it wasn't it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a well known place that a lot
Speaker 2: of the musical acts in Boston had their fame launched
Speaker 2: from the Sugar Shack.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: And you know a band We did not mention what's
Speaker 2: that New Addition? No, no, we mentioned New Edition. New
Speaker 2: Kids Kids. Yeah they were a major band in them day.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, they're actually New Kids and New Addition toured.
Speaker 6: They actually played Singaway Park. Yeah that was definitely a
Speaker 6: mixed audience. But Michacurity brother his brothers in the band,
Speaker 6: two of his brothers in that New Kids. He said,
Speaker 6: the show is unbelievable. He said, the show is unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Wow, those were the days, and it's funny. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: keep having reunions. New Kids on the Block have had
Speaker 2: at least four reunions all over again with their fame,
Speaker 2: and they tour. And we mentioned that about New Edition
Speaker 2: because New additions on their are fortieth anniversary tour.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I new addition should be in the Roca Ll
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2: Who knows, Maybe one day we'll take you. Yea, Cleo,
Speaker 2: it's just about ten thirty. You and I have full
Speaker 2: lines on this subject. So we've been doing it for
Speaker 2: ninety minutes straight and we'll be doing it for the
Speaker 2: next half hour. All right, and it's all because of you, sir.
Speaker 2: Not mean this subject, Radar, Yes, the caller is, but
Speaker 2: you mentioned this as the Morgan we should do subject.
Speaker 6: It was a week ago, Yes, sir, all right, we're
Speaker 6: gonna have another idea for a show too.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, let's not push your luck.
Speaker 4: I'll hold it. I'll hold that, okay.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature ten thirty forty seven degrees.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Rob and I were just having an interesting exchange off air.
Speaker 2: Thank goodness, off air, Cleiar. You ready for another call? Yes, sir,
Speaker 2: let's go to Arlington and speak to Chuck.
Speaker 6: Chuck.
Speaker 2: Good evening, Happy New year.
Speaker 6: Hi Chuck, Hello, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, Morgan,
Speaker 6: Happy New Year.
Speaker 12: Can you hear me? Okay?
Speaker 6: Loud and clear yea gorgeous, gorgeous. I spent a lot
Speaker 6: of time.
Speaker 12: Living near Twin Donuts and Brighton during the eighties, and
Speaker 12: there's a club there that just has to be mentioned.
Speaker 12: They it was Cole Harper's Ferry. Do you remember that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I heard.
Speaker 12: Harper's.
Speaker 4: There are three.
Speaker 12: Bands that played there, their regional bands. They never made it,
Speaker 12: but they were absolutely phenomenal. I wonder if any of
Speaker 12: you guys or any of the listeners heard them. They're
Speaker 12: they're just amazing. First band, uh, super honey, it was amazing.
Speaker 12: The second band was Chucklehead. I never got I guess that.
Speaker 4: Hello for two.
Speaker 2: Chuck you still there? All right, Chuck is gone. Chuck
Speaker 2: called back in so we can find out that third band,
Speaker 2: and let's go to Dorchester and speak with Anne Marie.
Speaker 2: Good evening and Marie, Happy New Year.
Speaker 5: Year.
Speaker 10: Thank you. I was I was just trying to answer
Speaker 10: the question you had about the Cape with the band,
Speaker 10: the one that was the train theme, and that was
Speaker 10: Puffer Bellies.
Speaker 3: I think that's right.
Speaker 4: That is okay.
Speaker 6: I should have known that.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there used to be the DJ John Morgan. I
Speaker 10: actually he used to play in another place down the
Speaker 10: Cape he just passed away recently, but he was great.
Speaker 2: He was a DJ though, and Billy and Ken because
Speaker 2: j D was John Aldridge and he and I co
Speaker 2: wrote a musical that ran in Boston in the early nineties.
Speaker 2: But j D, Billy and Ken used to play at
Speaker 2: Puffer Bellies every summer.
Speaker 10: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And then there was also the
Speaker 10: Compass Lounge down there.
Speaker 2: Thank you for helping me remember these things.
Speaker 10: You said someone would call it and nobody did. I said,
Speaker 10: I can't let that go.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you because in my old age I get forgetful.
Speaker 10: Me too.
Speaker 2: And how often did you go to Prefer Bellies?
Speaker 6: Not that often?
Speaker 10: Not that often I was in Boston, but we would.
Speaker 10: We would get out on the weekend, maybe to happy
Speaker 10: hours and things like that. Right, and Trumpets Lounge we
Speaker 10: used to go down There was a band, PF and
Speaker 10: the Flyers, but they weren't Yeah.
Speaker 2: I heard of them.
Speaker 9: They were great.
Speaker 10: They were great.
Speaker 2: I know this without even mentioning it. You were a
Speaker 2: well behaved young lady in those days.
Speaker 10: I certainly was.
Speaker 9: Yes, I know you were.
Speaker 2: I know you were.
Speaker 6: Yes.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, Amory, thank you for having me.
Speaker 10: I love your show.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2: Amory. Good night, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4: Can I can I bring up to Charlie.
Speaker 2: Horse, Oh good grief? Yes, Bridgewater, West Bridgewater.
Speaker 6: Used to I know, you know we used to see
Speaker 6: you perform there. I got to tell you my friend's
Speaker 6: band they called the World from their band. They're up
Speaker 6: a fantastic R and B punk band, if you want
Speaker 6: to call it that. And I used to see them.
Speaker 4: There all the time.
Speaker 6: And that's a band that I just saw them recently at.
Speaker 4: In Brockton at.
Speaker 6: The Westgate Rounde and they put on a fantastic show.
Speaker 2: There's another place that you used to have a lot
Speaker 2: of musical acts come in Westgate Lounge.
Speaker 4: Yes, the same place. That's the same place. Yeah, you mentioned.
Speaker 2: That's why I said they need to be mentioned as
Speaker 2: one of those places that had great musical acts performed there.
Speaker 4: And they also switched the name the Caffety's because the
Speaker 4: guy like John Katherine and the Beaver Brown band in
Speaker 4: which he brought the band there to play and that
Speaker 4: was a great show. I've actually seen that show.
Speaker 2: Okay, well you know, okay, get it a caller. I
Speaker 2: got a couple. But there's one open line. Whoever takes
Speaker 2: this open line? Six one, seven, five, four, ten thirty
Speaker 2: or eight eight, eight, nine, nine ten thirty will be
Speaker 2: the last person for you and I to entertain here
Speaker 2: on night side. We've got Bob and Al. But there's
Speaker 2: room for one more QT TV show from the sixties.
Speaker 2: Let's go up somebody took it. Let's go to Chelmsford
Speaker 2: and speak to al L.
Speaker 6: How you doing Al?
Speaker 4: Yeah? God, I hate that song. Yeah, but venues I
Speaker 4: would act is the main act which was right over
Speaker 4: the right over the General Edward Ridge from Revere into Lynn.
Speaker 4: It was the old motel. Then you had uh Jonathan
Speaker 4: Swift's Oh yes, and of course the Channel. Well we've
Speaker 4: been mentioning the Channel it was mentioned. Okay, yeah, but
Speaker 4: one did where did you hang out?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: Mostly the Channel?
Speaker 2: And what band act did you see there that you recall?
Speaker 4: You got the dol Fuegos. Great? We just played a
Speaker 4: reunion show this past weekend at the City Winery. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 4: the one on the Stompers yet great? Great band? Uh
Speaker 4: Baron's Woodfield Nice? Oh you went to that show? I
Speaker 4: know what show you're talking about. Yeah, that was a
Speaker 4: great I wish I mean I wish I went. Honestly,
Speaker 4: I wish I went. I saw it because they were advertising.
Speaker 4: Because John Butcher actually played a show too, didn't he.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah yeah, And then of course Duke and the Drivers, Yes,
Speaker 4: very much so good band. But it's funny if you
Speaker 4: go with the del Fuego's what their you know, great
Speaker 4: boss and band. What they're all doing now, what are
Speaker 4: they doing? At least Dan Zanes I have to call
Speaker 4: him the modern day Rothie. Him and his wife child
Speaker 4: put singers for kids.
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 4: Oh what a geese in the drama runs right turn.
Speaker 4: It's a place for musicians and others for alcohol and
Speaker 4: drug problems to get them going. Warren Zanes wrote Tom
Speaker 4: Petty auto, uh autobiography. He just wrote, uh, the new
Speaker 4: Springsteene book that's being made into a movie about what
Speaker 4: he was his life was doing making Nebraska okay, and
Speaker 4: Tom Lloyd he works at NASA.
Speaker 2: Going from a rock band to working at NASA.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, you know, you know what's funny about the
Speaker 4: Dela Fagos. They were considered the number one bar band
Speaker 4: for like two years straight. Oh yeah, back in the ladies.
Speaker 4: Such a great band, such a great much so, and
Speaker 4: of course you had some great chows of suffolk Downs
Speaker 4: during the STU.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a shame man. She used as closed up
Speaker 2: because a lot of great performers, musical acts Eddie Emleman's
Speaker 2: Hot Dug Safari use downs as their backdrop.
Speaker 4: But they now this past summer they opened an outdoor
Speaker 4: facility since they've renovated all the Suffolk Downs, they didn't
Speaker 4: have an outdoor concert facility.
Speaker 13: Well they've got any room for parking, that's for sure, Oh, Jeff,
Speaker 13: And I'd have to say the most unusual double bill
Speaker 13: I sorry Suffolk was Aerosmith opening for Shy n O.
Speaker 6: But my f is a very popular band back.
Speaker 2: Then, so then that should have reversed, should have opened
Speaker 2: for Aerosmith.
Speaker 4: Right, And I'd have to say the first show I
Speaker 4: ever started Suffolk August eleventh, nineteen sixty six. My first
Speaker 4: concert ever there the Beatles. The Beatles, you're going to
Speaker 4: mention that.
Speaker 2: And do you remember who opened for them?
Speaker 4: The Rownettes, Bobby Helms burying the remains and the circle
Speaker 4: in the circus. It's funny thing was, oh yeah, Specter
Speaker 4: was sick. She did not sing on that show, just
Speaker 4: like a red rubber ball.
Speaker 2: Al, thank you, thank you for your call.
Speaker 6: Al, thank you, I having a Godfunkle get that song
Speaker 6: Happy New Year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Happy New Year is new I didn't know that
Speaker 2: Simon and Gardfunkle.
Speaker 4: Yeah all right, yeah they woke up.
Speaker 2: There is one open line.
Speaker 4: Take it.
Speaker 2: I guarantee we'll get you on. I'm pushing it, but
Speaker 2: we'll see. Let me take my break now and uh
Speaker 2: six one, seven, four, ten, thirty eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty Mary and Bob. We will get to you
Speaker 2: and maybe a third person after these messages. Here are
Speaker 2: night Side. Dan Ray is off Clil and I are here.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan, He's Cleo. Time and temperature ten forty four
Speaker 2: forty seven degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Wallfam and speak to Bob here on
Speaker 2: night Side, Bob, good evening.
Speaker 6: Hey Bob, how are you doing?
Speaker 5: Logan, I haven't talked with you in a long time.
Speaker 5: Hey guys, well here I am.
Speaker 11: Hey.
Speaker 5: Hey quick one. You did the reverse headline and opening act,
Speaker 5: the first one that came to my mind. And I'll
Speaker 5: mention my Boston band in a minute. In the early eighties,
Speaker 5: Lionel Ritchie was the headliner, and believe it or not,
Speaker 5: on his tour, Tina Turner was the opening act. I
Speaker 5: remember seeing that.
Speaker 6: It should have been the way around, was saying gonna comeback,
Speaker 6: We're going to come back at that time.
Speaker 5: And about you're absolutely right, And about seven or eight
Speaker 5: years later it was absolutely reversed. Tina Turner was headliner
Speaker 5: and Lionel Richie opened up for her.
Speaker 2: That's what it should have been. Yeah, that she can
Speaker 2: be my private dancer any day of the week.
Speaker 5: Hey, I've been in and out listening to your show tonight.
Speaker 5: Did you happen to mention or did they qualify for
Speaker 5: Boston Band The Cars?
Speaker 2: No one mentioned in the Cars. Uh did you mention that, Cleo?
Speaker 3: I did?
Speaker 6: Okay, I missed it. I'm not sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Rick, he was from New Jersey. He is from
Speaker 4: New Jersey.
Speaker 6: And WBCN was playing them a lot. And then all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, because in seventy six, the big dance
Speaker 6: in seventy six was the Cars Meat Loaf Boston, and
Speaker 6: there was one other big and John Cougar was coming
Speaker 6: up at that time too, so that was this. But
Speaker 6: Boston was definitely dominating the music scene in the seventies.
Speaker 4: Plus the disco.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Car's first singles came out in seventy eight.
Speaker 5: I remember the summer of seventy eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just what I needed.
Speaker 6: And best Friend's Girl okay, you're right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and another another venue, sort of an obscure venue.
Speaker 5: It's not it's not going to get the notoriety of
Speaker 5: some of those Boston clubs, but they did get the Stompers.
Speaker 5: Uh Kleil. You mentioned another band that played at this
Speaker 5: place as well, and also Dale and I don't know
Speaker 5: Dale and the Duds qualifies, but the mont Ponset down
Speaker 5: in Halifax.
Speaker 2: Don't know that one.
Speaker 5: It's right under right under fifty, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Hi.
Speaker 6: Bob thought to mention, good show. Thanksbout going, Bob.
Speaker 2: Happy New Year, Mary in Boston, you're next on night side?
Speaker 4: Hey Mary?
Speaker 3: How you doing?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 14: Gentlemen, Happy New Year. So someone just stole my thunder.
Speaker 14: I wanted to mention the Cars, but I grew up
Speaker 14: in situate. When I was in my mid seventies, we
Speaker 14: saw the Cars play at the Bell Boy restaurants. I
Speaker 14: doubt anyone's ever heard of that. I was hoping that
Speaker 14: the Bell Boy, Oh, we saw them play there before
Speaker 14: ever they ever even became a big band. Yeah, mid seventies.
Speaker 14: It's the cars do at Harbor.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's how you become popular.
Speaker 4: You have to tour. That was so fun.
Speaker 14: That was crazy.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 14: And then I did want to mention I guess somebody
Speaker 14: mentioned the Sands and Hull, but I was there when
Speaker 14: it was Uncle Sam's. Yes, okay, okay. And then one
Speaker 14: other thing. You mentioned Proper Bellies. But did anybody mention
Speaker 14: the mill Hill Club? I used to love going there.
Speaker 6: Somebody else mentioned I think, yeah, they did mention.
Speaker 4: It, Okay, okay.
Speaker 14: I listened to most of the show. Sorry, gentlemen.
Speaker 11: I guess I.
Speaker 9: Missed a few of the of your.
Speaker 14: Guests, but many great show. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Mary. I know you were a well behaved young lady
Speaker 2: down in the Cape in those days.
Speaker 14: Morgan, we won't go there. Oh, let's say I had
Speaker 14: a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, and I hope is a great year
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 14: Okay, thank you, thank you so much. I appreciate that, Morgan,
Speaker 14: love your show. Take care, Mary, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: And this will be the last call. Well, Rob, take
Speaker 2: the call, put them on hold. We'll see what happens
Speaker 2: after Michael, Michael and Foxborough.
Speaker 15: Welcome Morgan and Cleo and Cleo. I met you at
Speaker 15: the Fallout Shelter the beginning of the year with Lady Anamoya.
Speaker 4: Oh we have Mike Merlin. How you doing?
Speaker 6: How you doing, Mike Marland. What's going on?
Speaker 5: I'm good, Well, I'm all over the well.
Speaker 15: Thank you for taking my call. I'm going to be
Speaker 15: all over the map with what i have to say.
Speaker 15: I know we're talking about greater Boston, but in Worcester
Speaker 15: we gotta mention Sir Morgan's Cove where the Rolling Stones played.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, that and they had what was that the
Speaker 2: Steal Steal Steel Wheels concert and they only that place
Speaker 2: only had like two hundred capacity.
Speaker 15: Right, it's no longer their sadly, it's an apartment complex
Speaker 15: near the New Ballpark. And we should give some credit
Speaker 15: to folk music in Boston club Passium.
Speaker 2: And Cambridge definitely we should, yes, and also some.
Speaker 15: Folk musicians from out of Boston, especially Patty Larkin.
Speaker 6: I heard yep.
Speaker 15: I have some an album in my hand Rounder Folk
Speaker 15: Volume one Rounder Records from out of Cambridge and they
Speaker 15: have some musicians on their compilation album. And there used
Speaker 15: to be a folk magazine called Fast Folk Musical Magazine
Speaker 15: and they have a compilation of folk singers from Boston.
Speaker 15: They had compilation albums from like New York, Boston, Los Angeles.
Speaker 15: It's it's a great album. And then I'm going to
Speaker 15: go beyond folk to a lot of punk music that
Speaker 15: came out of Boston. In my hands, this a suffer
Speaker 15: this album. It's from a record company out of Boston.
Speaker 15: It's almost similar to what Tang Records did for their
Speaker 15: artists and the musicians, uh from the eighties around this
Speaker 15: compilation album. Hula Baloo, The Dogmatic, Yep, Hectic, Hey Day,
Speaker 15: Feeding Frenzy, this other band called five so they're are
Speaker 15: on this compilation album I have. Boston is a great city,
Speaker 15: was a great city for different types of music. And
Speaker 15: I know you talked mostly about rock musicians, but there's
Speaker 15: other great types of rock that came out of Boston
Speaker 15: that had an impact nationally and internationally.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 6: One group I want to bring up because you mentioned,
Speaker 6: was the group called Orpheus and they're going to mention
Speaker 6: that too.
Speaker 15: I have that album too.
Speaker 11: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: There so yeah, I can't find the time to tell
Speaker 6: you such a great song. Yeah, it is you know,
Speaker 6: I mean it didn't. It was a local hit, but
Speaker 6: they're the only group that really you know, they covered
Speaker 6: it and they actually chatted. Was a group called Rose
Speaker 6: Colored Glasses, which was a group I think from England,
Speaker 6: and also Hoody and the Blowfish did it for the
Speaker 6: album for it was a Jim Carriery album where he
Speaker 6: had to split personality. I forgot the name of.
Speaker 4: This, but myself Irene Irene.
Speaker 6: Yeah great, I mean they did a great job with
Speaker 6: it as well.
Speaker 15: So and I'm going to go West of Worcester mentioned
Speaker 15: this band that was great in the seventies, four albums
Speaker 15: on Capitol Records didn't break through as much, but from
Speaker 15: Western Mass John Thussart Dark Band, Oh yeah, and John
Speaker 15: Poussart is touring with two other musicians from his original
Speaker 15: band in smaller venues like the Cannon Natick Narrows in
Speaker 15: Far Wherever, other small venues like that, and he's still
Speaker 15: currently touring. I saw him at t Can in September
Speaker 15: and it was great.
Speaker 2: All right, Michael, I got one more person to get on.
Speaker 6: So I want to thank you for your calling you
Speaker 6: you take care of probably.
Speaker 3: Show.
Speaker 5: Yes, Happy New Year.
Speaker 4: To both of you.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. All right now Rob in West Roxburgh, you
Speaker 2: will be the final call of the night.
Speaker 9: Hello Rob, Why how you doing? I can't believe I've
Speaker 9: never called. But anyways, I just want to mention a
Speaker 9: few things. I was in a band. I played the
Speaker 9: Rod a bunch of times. I seen the Police. The
Speaker 9: band I used to go to the old original tea
Speaker 9: Party on East Berkley Street which.
Speaker 6: Is played the Tea Party.
Speaker 9: Wow, that's you original went on East Berkley. We used
Speaker 9: to sit up in the balcony and take let us
Speaker 9: Do and what's the wise show. I've seen Jack Do,
Speaker 9: Talaware and a few other bands who were always taking
Speaker 9: LSD then and uh, just a bunch of I played
Speaker 9: in the band The Attitudes. You know, we were nobody,
Speaker 9: but we had a good time and we're local guys,
Speaker 9: you know. And there's so many bands. I related to
Speaker 9: every band that you've mentioned, so I you know, I can't.
Speaker 9: I haven't lay it down to tell you. But I've
Speaker 9: seen the Police at the at the Rock when they
Speaker 9: first came here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Red I mentioned them.
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I played there a bunch of times till
Speaker 9: on off nights. But we had a good time. There
Speaker 9: was that guy that had owned the place. Do you
Speaker 9: remember that guy? He's always beat the door. Uh, and
Speaker 9: that's who you talk to all the time.
Speaker 10: You can't do it.
Speaker 9: He has to kind of disability or something. I can't
Speaker 9: remember now.
Speaker 4: But heavy set.
Speaker 9: What I've seen. Mike Bloomfield my favorite guitarist, one of
Speaker 9: them you mentioned. I took a picture of them my
Speaker 9: instrumtic handler and they didn't even come out.
Speaker 2: Rob. I hate to do it, but amount of time,
Speaker 2: but thank you for your call.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, thank you, Rob, Thank you for playing in
Speaker 6: the band.
Speaker 4: In the band, and.
Speaker 2: Thank you for two hours of great radio.
Speaker 6: Thank you any calum you know that more than and
Speaker 6: real quick.
Speaker 2: You had another idea?
Speaker 5: What is it?
Speaker 4: Blue Eye sold I actually righteous.
Speaker 6: It goes a little bit deeper than that because I
Speaker 6: played some groups I never I always thought they were
Speaker 6: black outis and come to find out they're white white artist.
Speaker 6: I was like, you gotta be killing me.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that off air because I got a
Speaker 2: news hit to make. Cleo again, thank you, Happy New
Speaker 2: Year to you. Barbara Feldon is scheduled when we come back.
Speaker 2: Hopefully she'll be where she is supposed to be. Time
Speaker 2: and temperature here on night side ten fifty eight forty
Speaker 2: seven degrees