Speaker 1: It's Nightside with Dan Ray. I'm going you easy Boston Radio.
Speaker 2: Carol, thank you very much for that quick intro. I
Speaker 2: am here for two more hours, officially at the end
Speaker 2: of eleven fifty nine into midnight. It'll be December twenty sixth.
Speaker 2: Christmas will be over, but Honika will keep on going.
Speaker 2: That is an eight day holiday for those of you
Speaker 2: who didn't know that. And this is what I call
Speaker 2: a segway. It's a holiday for me three or four
Speaker 2: times a year when I get a chance to do
Speaker 2: radio with this next individual. She knows the history of
Speaker 2: broadcasting backwards and forwards, whether you grew up in Cleveland
Speaker 2: or Detroit or Los Angeles. She knows the names of
Speaker 2: the personalities that you listen to on the radio and
Speaker 2: watched on TV. Please, it is my pleasure to welcome
Speaker 2: to night Side, Donna Helper, Donna Awe.
Speaker 3: Happy holidays and a happy one to you as well.
Speaker 3: And what a privilege to be here. Seriously, we have
Speaker 3: bunches of people that are listening online tonight from various
Speaker 3: places and that is just so cool because I want
Speaker 3: them to know.
Speaker 4: Who you are.
Speaker 3: See, we're live and local here, Okay, I mean we
Speaker 3: are not machines. We are live, we are local, and
Speaker 3: we are going to spend the evening with you because
Speaker 3: we want to.
Speaker 2: It's ten eight Eastern time.
Speaker 3: Yep, we are here.
Speaker 2: I am not a recording. This is not eight robot voice.
Speaker 3: Nope, we are not ai. We are we are here.
Speaker 3: And one thing that's very cool about us being here.
Speaker 3: Hanukkah and Christmas starting at the same time hasn't happened
Speaker 3: since two thousand and five. Okay, they often overlap. I
Speaker 3: mean sometimes, like you know, the last day of Honiko
Speaker 3: will be like, you know, Christmas or something. But sometimes
Speaker 3: because we're on a lunar calendar. I'm Jewish, and because
Speaker 3: we're on a lunar calendar, our holidays come at a
Speaker 3: different time every year. It's always an adventure. So this
Speaker 3: is the first time this has happened since two thousand
Speaker 3: and five. It won't happen again till twenty thirty five.
Speaker 3: So pretty amazing when you think about it. But I
Speaker 3: hope everybody had a nice Christmas. Those that celebrated you
Speaker 3: have a nice one.
Speaker 2: I had a wonderful Christmas. Nancy Grant, I spent it alone,
Speaker 2: just too all of us. I spoke to my son
Speaker 2: and he sent me for Christmas Starlight. I think it's
Speaker 2: called it's a computer like i'll call device that I
Speaker 2: can put pictures in it, and he can from something.
Speaker 3: I've seen those. I've seen those, yes, yes, And he.
Speaker 2: Put a picture of my grandson James playing with the
Speaker 2: Hess truck I sent him for the holidays.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: So how cool is that?
Speaker 2: It will get a lot of use over the next
Speaker 2: I don't know how many photos that can hold. Hopefully
Speaker 2: it's infinity because we'll be sending photos back and forth
Speaker 2: for years and years.
Speaker 3: I understand completely. So we've got a bunch of stuff
Speaker 3: we want to talk about tonight, but before we do,
Speaker 3: I've got a quick question for you. You've been doing
Speaker 3: trivia since forever. I mean I have you on the radio. Yeah,
Speaker 3: as far back as nineteen eighty. Somewhere you told me,
Speaker 3: and I may have misheard you, but somewhere you told
Speaker 3: me the DAWs Bosler was the first person that you
Speaker 3: had as your own guest on your own show. Am
Speaker 3: I remembering that incorrectly?
Speaker 2: No? You are one. You see. When I did radio
Speaker 2: originally on U and R, I was on at two
Speaker 2: a M.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 2: So I couldn't do guests. I just took phone calls
Speaker 2: and played TV themes and killed two hours. But once
Speaker 2: I went to fifteen ten, I decided, now I can
Speaker 2: have guests. I was on both in the afternoons and
Speaker 2: early evenings, and he does but it was scheduled to
Speaker 2: be on with me for one hour. He stayed for
Speaker 2: all three hours of my show.
Speaker 7: So cool.
Speaker 2: I loved that.
Speaker 3: Amazing. That have been amazing.
Speaker 2: I knew his name separate from mel Blank. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: because a lot of the cartoons I got enjoyment out
Speaker 2: of Hanna Ba Barricard tunes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like Dowes Butler who he Dawes Butler did. Like
Speaker 3: the voices it wasn't he like Yogi Bear and.
Speaker 2: And Quick Drama, Garar and Yep, Pixie and Dixie, so
Speaker 2: many different voices.
Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely must have been very cool to have him
Speaker 3: on the air so.
Speaker 2: And to have him for three hours, yeah, I'll give
Speaker 2: I'll give you a comparison. Three weeks ago, I got
Speaker 2: Mickey Dolans to come on. Yes, Nicky Dolans had several restrictions.
Speaker 2: I could only have him for fifteen minutes. I can
Speaker 2: only talk about a few different subjects. Primarily his album
Speaker 2: that Yeah has been released and dows Butler let me
Speaker 2: just flow all over his subject matter, working for Walter Lance,
Speaker 2: working for MGM Cartoons, and then our obviously of course
Speaker 2: Santa Barbara Cartoons.
Speaker 3: Hey, that's that's what I missed the most about the
Speaker 3: and I'm saying this with air quotes, good old days.
Speaker 3: There were some good old things about the way we
Speaker 3: used to be able to do radio, Okay. I mean
Speaker 3: when I discovered the rock band Rush, Okay, I couldn't
Speaker 3: do that today because today it's all like, you know,
Speaker 3: you got to have a focus group, and you got
Speaker 3: to have like sixteen people researching it, and there's a
Speaker 3: playlist and there were always these things, of course, but
Speaker 3: we music directors had a lot more freedom. And similarly,
Speaker 3: when you had guests on in the old days, they
Speaker 3: were glad to be on, so they were talk about
Speaker 3: anything terrific.
Speaker 2: I had Dwayne Hipman on, who was Tobie Gillis, and
Speaker 2: he said, you want me to come on and talk
Speaker 2: about a series I did twenty years ago?
Speaker 3: Yesp So that were the people.
Speaker 2: Who'd want to hear about it.
Speaker 3: I said, you have there, and it's it's such a
Speaker 3: different world. I mean, today it is so unusual if
Speaker 3: you can get someone who will talk about any subject,
Speaker 3: you know, the things with the restrictions, that's for real.
Speaker 3: But when they were up and coming, they were just
Speaker 3: happy as could be. When I hung out with Bruce Springsteen,
Speaker 3: and I don't want to name drop, but I mean,
Speaker 3: come on, I was a rock and roll DJ. When
Speaker 3: I hung out with Bruce Springsteen and we were going
Speaker 3: to do an interview, there were no restrictions. It was like,
Speaker 3: it'll talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Speaker 8: World.
Speaker 2: The personalities of back in the day understood that the
Speaker 2: radio person that was conducting an interview or the magazine
Speaker 2: article writer, we respected what they represented.
Speaker 9: Yep.
Speaker 2: Now would we expose the fact that now, I'm not
Speaker 2: saying Bruce Springsteen did this, but I'm saying that Bruce
Speaker 2: Springsteen kept a seventeen year old girl tied up on
Speaker 2: an airplane so when he traveled he have company.
Speaker 3: Oh you heard about that. Now, Bruce was clean as
Speaker 3: a whistle. But even if he hadn't been, Even if
Speaker 3: he hadn't, we would never have mentioned it. There were
Speaker 3: a bunch of people that you and I know who
Speaker 3: they are, and we knew that they had a little
Speaker 3: problem with let's just say the sauce, and you never
Speaker 3: never would have mentioned it, never we have mentioned it.
Speaker 2: It would be like the reporters who covered Kennedy. Yep,
Speaker 2: they may have known about the little dallianted Marilyn Monroe,
Speaker 2: but they never would have put that in print or
Speaker 2: requested he comment on it.
Speaker 3: Well, the people that covered Franklin Deellan or Roosevelt. I mean,
Speaker 3: the man couldn't walk. He was in a wheel chair,
Speaker 3: but no one photographed him in that wheelchair. They would
Speaker 3: always show him either standing or sitting behind a podium
Speaker 3: where you couldn't tell he was in a wheelchair. They
Speaker 3: cover him differently. Today.
Speaker 2: Let me take my break, and when we come back,
Speaker 2: I've got a couple of people on line, and we
Speaker 2: need to tell the listeners specifically what you and I
Speaker 2: are going to be doing up until midnight today in
Speaker 2: temperature ten sixteen twenty nine degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the window World
Speaker 1: Light six Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan is off for the rest of the year. He'll
Speaker 2: be back Wednesday, the first of January twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: but I will be here the rest of tonight, Tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: Friday night, Monday night, and Tuesday night, and for the
Speaker 2: rest of this night until midnight, Donna Halper will be
Speaker 2: joining me, and Donna tell the people what we have planned.
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, the rest of this hour, we have something
Speaker 3: planned and we have something very different the next hour.
Speaker 3: So for those that kind of jumped on already, you
Speaker 3: know that's a different story. That's fine with us. But
Speaker 3: for the rest of the hour, we wanted to talk
Speaker 3: about Christmas songs that have a special meaning for you.
Speaker 3: A Christmas song that you particularly like. I don't care
Speaker 3: if it was like number one or number ninety nine.
Speaker 3: If there's a song that really speaks to you, and
Speaker 3: even if it weren't Christmas, you'd like it anyway, tell
Speaker 3: us what that song is and tell us why it
Speaker 3: means something to you. Ditto for movies. Is there a
Speaker 3: Christmas movie that really speaks to you? Like I said,
Speaker 3: doesn't have to be number one, It could be number
Speaker 3: ninety nine, but if it's number one in your heart,
Speaker 3: give us a call and tell us about it. Christmas movies,
Speaker 3: Christmas TV shows, Christmas songs. As we wrap up Christmas
Speaker 3: with stuff that means something to you and.
Speaker 2: I mentioned this during the previous two hours dealing with trivia.
Speaker 2: The song that opened up Charlie Brown's Christmas the Kids
Speaker 2: are Skating on the Frozen Pond in the neighborhood Christmas
Speaker 2: Time is here. It was a slow paced, melodic song,
Speaker 2: hypnotic almost in the playing of it. And I love
Speaker 2: that song from the first second I heard it, yep,
Speaker 2: sitting in front of my TV watching that Yeah.
Speaker 3: And that was go ahead, no, please finish well.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying that was hypnotic and it captured me,
Speaker 2: and maybe that's the best word. It captured my.
Speaker 3: Attention absolutely, And for example, in my case, like as
Speaker 3: I said before, I'm a friendly Jewish person, so Christmas
Speaker 3: isn't my holiday, but I fell in love with Christmas
Speaker 3: Baby Please Come Home by Darlene Love the first time
Speaker 3: I heard it. I could listen to that song every day.
Speaker 3: I don't care if it's about Christmas, I'm fine the
Speaker 3: day she could have substituted Hanukkah. It's just a great
Speaker 3: song and it is aged very well and I work
Speaker 3: so well with their voice.
Speaker 2: Jesus, your voice was perfect for it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I heard that song at seven point thirty to night
Speaker 2: getting ready to do. Yes, there's a station on TV.
Speaker 2: Everybody has the option to go to the music channel
Speaker 2: station yep. And whether you like country music, Christmas music,
Speaker 2: classical music, there's a station for you. And I was
Speaker 2: listening to the Christmas songs and that wasn't there.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've got a big long list of stuff
Speaker 3: the top forty play. But I'll be interested to hear
Speaker 3: what the listeners have to say.
Speaker 2: So let's take phone calls find out and let's go
Speaker 2: to Gary and he's first, Hello, Gary, Welcome back.
Speaker 1: Gary, once going twice.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Oh okay, we dropped Gary. Let's go
Speaker 2: to Daryl in New Brunswick.
Speaker 10: Hello, Darryl, Hey, Merry Christmas, Morgan, happy honic to Donna.
Speaker 7: Thank you.
Speaker 10: You guys nailed it right in the conversation. Reference even
Speaker 10: the cartoons going back to the old days. But reference
Speaker 10: the because I still remember a cartoon named Herman. Yes,
Speaker 10: and uh with that, it's it's even if you go
Speaker 10: to W. C. Fields you watch some of the Old
Speaker 10: Man on the Trappees movie. Yes, but but reference the
Speaker 10: radio stations. You go to Detroit and you had w
Speaker 10: r I F one on one with Arthur Pentau, and
Speaker 10: Dick de Brews.
Speaker 3: Remember it will, I remember it will?
Speaker 10: And they had such an audience. Oh it was so amazing,
Speaker 10: right yep.
Speaker 3: And did you remember c kl W?
Speaker 10: I remember c k W. Yes, And there was played
Speaker 10: a lot of.
Speaker 3: Those hit songs too. Yes, they played a ton of
Speaker 3: those hit songs. So do you have a particular song
Speaker 3: that resonates for you?
Speaker 10: I would actually have to go with the uh, the
Speaker 10: Gambler guy and Kenny Rogers, Kenny Rodgers and I can't
Speaker 10: remember her name, she's Dolly Parton.
Speaker 3: Dolly Parton.
Speaker 2: Oh, they such great music. And I don't mean this
Speaker 2: as a double entendre, but they did some great music together.
Speaker 3: And Dolly did a Christmas special that we get in
Speaker 3: from Dollywood that was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Well, I love her. I had the privilege of meeting her.
Speaker 3: What a nice person, very much. What you see is
Speaker 3: what you get.
Speaker 10: Well, they have such a working ability and that's the
Speaker 10: nice thing about it. And and if they could actually
Speaker 10: bring back Saturday cartoons.
Speaker 3: Yeah I missed those.
Speaker 10: Oh but the thing is, even in today's environment, even
Speaker 10: in Canada, we actually learned about how you've developed a.
Speaker 7: Bill with that cartoon.
Speaker 8: They used to play in the Schoolhouse Rock.
Speaker 2: Schoolhouse Rock. I'm and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken. There was Bob Durrow's voice that we heard.
Speaker 2: I'm just going through my memories of those days.
Speaker 10: I'm just going with it because you had other colors.
Speaker 10: But the main point being is you guys are alive,
Speaker 10: and that yes where we are.
Speaker 3: We're so glad you called. And I know where New
Speaker 3: Brunswick is and I've been there.
Speaker 10: Well Paul Herbie was the man. And that's the rest
Speaker 10: of the story.
Speaker 3: Hey, you have us. Thanks, I can find you.
Speaker 2: I've never been there, but I can find it on
Speaker 2: a map.
Speaker 10: Well, you're always welcome my place, Sir Darryl.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, and I want you to have
Speaker 2: a happy twenty five.
Speaker 10: Hey, I got my dog d Day with me, so
Speaker 10: we're all good.
Speaker 2: You take care bye bye. Here, let's go to John
Speaker 2: in Boston. John, you're next on night side.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you very much. Of a happy honic on
Speaker 4: Marry Christmas or whatever you celebrating me.
Speaker 3: It's all good. All holidays are good. If it's a
Speaker 3: day off of all about.
Speaker 7: Us copy that.
Speaker 4: Uh, it's funny you said that somebodysons. What the holidays
Speaker 4: in a middle a week? They followed me up, it's
Speaker 4: thought about the Uh, this is the cartoons. I think
Speaker 4: they you know, they helped the educated kids a certain way,
Speaker 4: and uh, you know I was used to like of it.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite cartoon?
Speaker 7: What was your favorite?
Speaker 4: Probably the Jetson.
Speaker 2: Do you one know something most people don't even realize.
Speaker 2: There were only eleven words in their theme Meet George
Speaker 2: Jetson his boy el Roy. Now they sing it as
Speaker 2: two words, but it's one word dart or Judy and
Speaker 2: Jane his wife eleven words with a little hint of
Speaker 2: chopsticks played in the middle of the theme.
Speaker 10: But that's to be concise, very concise.
Speaker 3: There's some of those old theme songs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, my daughter you as well, both as a
Speaker 4: member of the society, as my buddy told me, I'm
Speaker 4: a member of the Menai Society.
Speaker 2: And the other thing about the the other thing about
Speaker 2: the Jetsons, they cast that very well because they used
Speaker 2: people who were known in old time radio. Penny Singleton
Speaker 2: was the voice of Jane and she was the voice
Speaker 2: of Blondie on the radio, as well as George O'Hanlon,
Speaker 2: who was George and DOWG Butler. He was Elroy and
Speaker 2: Henry Orbert the Handyman.
Speaker 4: Wow. Wasn't there were comic book Blondie?
Speaker 3: Yes, there was a comic book Blondie.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that was done by the artist Chick C
Speaker 2: h I C Chick Young.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 3: So sometime we're going to get into a whole thing
Speaker 3: about theme songs from some old TV shows, because I
Speaker 3: was watching Yoga Bear today. You know, Yogi Bear is
Speaker 3: smarter than the average bear.
Speaker 2: And Yogi Bear is always in the ranger's hair.
Speaker 3: And at a picnic table you will find there stuffing
Speaker 3: down more goodies than the.
Speaker 2: He may sleep till noon, but before it's dark you turn.
Speaker 3: You have every picnic basket that's in jelly Stone Park.
Speaker 2: Smarter, millionaire.
Speaker 3: People are going to think we're nuts. People are going
Speaker 3: to think we're nuts.
Speaker 2: You know, if.
Speaker 4: We're not nuts in a certain way, in a good way,
Speaker 4: then then the world wouldn't be the way it is,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, in a good way.
Speaker 3: Well, we're having fun on the radio, and we're just
Speaker 3: glad you're listening.
Speaker 2: Well, John, thank you for your wait.
Speaker 4: You say one song was John Lennon and so this
Speaker 4: is Christmas.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, happy Christmas. War is over? Yes, I talked
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 2: Sorry answer trivia question last hour.
Speaker 3: Yep, all right is over. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let you go for a news hit. But
Speaker 2: thank you for the call, Thank you for calling, and
Speaker 2: happy holidays. Say bye bye, good books, same do you
Speaker 2: good health? All right? Everybody you want to do what
Speaker 2: Donna suggests to give us a call, tell us your favorite.
Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a song or a movie,
Speaker 2: but we would like it if you would stick to that.
Speaker 2: I am going to give you the phone number six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty eight, eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan. This is night Side.
Speaker 3: Cheez don im Yep, there you go.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature on night Side ten thirty one twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Degrees night Side with Dan Ray. I'm w BZY, Boston's
Speaker 1: news Radio.
Speaker 2: Dan Ray is not here tonight. I am Morgan Morgan
Speaker 2: White Junior. I'm joined by Donna Helper and we're doing
Speaker 2: an interesting subject that should get the phone lines lit up.
Speaker 2: There are two people on leaving the new and.
Speaker 3: I've got a couple of people that are reaching out
Speaker 3: to us. On social media, and I am monitoring social
Speaker 3: media while we're talking, and I got one very very
Speaker 3: interesting I was going to mention this great minds Billy, Billy,
Speaker 3: You're a genius. Billy mentioned Meet me in Saint Louis,
Speaker 3: the movie from nineteen forty four, and in it, Judy
Speaker 3: Garland sings her version of have yourself a very little Christmas?
Speaker 8: Am I right?
Speaker 2: I know that well. I also mentioned that during the
Speaker 2: trivia hours before you and Jack Hart, God love him.
Speaker 2: I made a mistake. I gave credit to Bob Durrow
Speaker 2: as the voice of I'm Just a Bill. Bob Durrow
Speaker 2: did a lot of the voices mixed in with Schoolhouse rock.
Speaker 2: But Jack Sheldon, Jack Sheldon.
Speaker 9: From.
Speaker 2: A legendary trumpet player you saw on the MERV Griffin Show.
Speaker 2: He did the voice of I'm just a Bill. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm lying here on Capitol Hill. That was Jack Sheldon.
Speaker 2: So Jack Hart, thank you for that.
Speaker 3: Okay, we've got full lines.
Speaker 2: Let's let's take them one by one. Jack and Newton,
Speaker 2: Welcome to Night's Side.
Speaker 9: How you doing. I have have honka. I grew up
Speaker 9: in Wisconsin, went to Sherman's Elementary School, so I've been
Speaker 9: Washington High School. Maybe there's somebody out there listening. And
Speaker 9: back then we were able to sing Christmas songs in
Speaker 9: the schools. And I don't mean jingle bells, but I
Speaker 9: mean really, you know, heavy, beautiful Christmas songs. I remember
Speaker 9: most and I really loved this one. I don't know
Speaker 9: the neighborhood, but it's it's the line is Paul on
Speaker 9: your knees?
Speaker 3: Yeah, A Holy Night in my French class. In my
Speaker 3: French class, we learned that in French. So that was
Speaker 3: still we were still singing those Christmas carols in the
Speaker 3: fifties and sixties.
Speaker 2: Yes, can you sing any of it in French?
Speaker 3: Now, sure yes I could, but you wouldn't want to
Speaker 3: hear me sing believe me.
Speaker 9: You know it should not have been singing those songs
Speaker 9: or I mean, I think, but I didn't mind singing them.
Speaker 9: I mean a lot of you know, the rabbis and
Speaker 9: other people complained that we were forced to sing those songs.
Speaker 9: I didn't mind them, you know, singing those songs, and
Speaker 9: they don't allow those songs.
Speaker 3: Yeah. What I wasn't happy about was that they never
Speaker 3: did any Hanka songs, and there always were honkah songs.
Speaker 3: But you know, I'm still I'm glad I learned other
Speaker 3: people's songs. That's not a problem. You know, when you're
Speaker 3: a performer, you have to learn other people's songs. And
Speaker 3: I'm not just talking about myself as a performer. I'm
Speaker 3: saying that there are a lot of people in Hollywood,
Speaker 3: a lot of people that make top forty records that
Speaker 3: they're not of the religion that they're singing about, but
Speaker 3: these are great songs when.
Speaker 2: They hear Mel Simon's on the other day, did you
Speaker 2: hear him play for one of his audioclip trivia quizzes
Speaker 2: Chubby Checker singing Havanagila.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, yep, that's reliant.
Speaker 9: I mean, they're really not the non Jews, no, you know,
Speaker 9: but there was Mel.
Speaker 2: Played about a half dozen of them.
Speaker 3: Well, there's a very very good band, and I posted
Speaker 3: this for my friends on social media. There's a really
Speaker 3: good band called Nefesh Mountain n e f e s
Speaker 3: H Nefesh Mountain. And it turns out there are two
Speaker 3: Woody Guthree songs that are about Hanika because while he
Speaker 3: wasn't Jewish, he had a Jewish granddaughter and he wrote
Speaker 3: two songs for her, and they're wonderful and you can
Speaker 3: find them on YouTube.
Speaker 9: Well, the most famous really is by Adam's Chandler Oh.
Speaker 3: Yes, and that was a hit. That was actually a hit.
Speaker 3: Hey yeah, yeah live.
Speaker 9: That's mentioned everywhere, and I think it's time for Yep.
Speaker 3: It was a big hit in nineteen ninety six. It
Speaker 3: went gold in two thousand and nine. That's a gold record.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 3: He did as her novelty, but it turned out to
Speaker 3: be a hit.
Speaker 7: Go figure Jack, anything else right?
Speaker 9: I think that two and three of the most famous
Speaker 9: movies One White Christmas, the song itself of ex actually
Speaker 9: composed by.
Speaker 6: Oh Yeah, Yep Ivlin.
Speaker 9: Great movie, and I would say, you know, it's a
Speaker 9: wonderful life.
Speaker 3: Yes, classic classic.
Speaker 9: Don't know what I love about the last line of
Speaker 9: that movie, No man is a failure if he has friends?
Speaker 2: How true?
Speaker 3: Well, we're glad you called in.
Speaker 2: Thank you Jack, and enjoy the rest of it, Enjoy
Speaker 2: your holiday and the upcoming year twenty twenty five. Open
Speaker 2: line if you want to take Jack's line, it's open
Speaker 2: to you. Six one, fourteen, thirty, eight, eight, eight, nine, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. And now Jack is gone and we're going
Speaker 2: to go to Cleo in Brockton. I know this man.
Speaker 2: Hello Cleo. Happy Holidays Unday.
Speaker 7: And happy holiday. Hello to you. Listen, I hope everything's
Speaker 7: going well with you. It is, And say hi daughter
Speaker 7: Timu's daughter. Haw's a going you know.
Speaker 3: Happy to be walking around ten years cancer free and
Speaker 3: grateful every day. Yes, every day is a blessing, they say, right, absolutely,
Speaker 3: even on my worst day. I'm glad, I'm alive.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 7: I don't know if it's just this is Christmas theme,
Speaker 7: but I like want to bring up a couple of
Speaker 7: rock songs that are like Christmas. Y One is regularly Squire, Yes,
Speaker 7: the Squire he does Christmas is the time to say
Speaker 7: I Love you. Such a great song.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, And.
Speaker 7: David Bowie and Bing Crosby, Uh.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes, you cannot forget that.
Speaker 3: Yep, two people who I am told did not like
Speaker 3: each other. But it's a great record.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's a great record. And lastly, it's one of
Speaker 7: my favorite singers from a group called King Zach's. His
Speaker 7: name is Doug Pennick. He does a little Drumma boy
Speaker 7: and he made sure the same long and it's like
Speaker 7: he's such a great singer and I just he's one
Speaker 7: of those guys. When when I first heard it, I says,
Speaker 7: this Doug Pennock and I kept listening. I said, that
Speaker 7: is him. And it was on a heavy metal Christmas
Speaker 7: That's what it was called. It was a really great
Speaker 7: Christmas album. And that's one other thing I want to
Speaker 7: bring up, just kind of you brothers. You know who
Speaker 7: they are more than right?
Speaker 2: Oh sure, I'm sweet, wild and wonderful. Ooh a mystical,
Speaker 2: magical nan, Do I know these brothers?
Speaker 7: That is? That was one of my I know you
Speaker 7: were talking about songs on the TV. That song is
Speaker 7: such a great song. I listened to that periodically. Just
Speaker 7: when I did one of my radio shows I did,
Speaker 7: I played not but show tunes and that was one
Speaker 7: of the songs I put on. And a young kid
Speaker 7: came up to me and said, I never heard that song. Well,
Speaker 7: I said from a TV show. And he goes, who's
Speaker 7: the guys? I say, I said, they're the Adres Brothers.
Speaker 6: They're from Massa, wins Winthrop, the Pride of Winthrop, Massachusetts, right,
Speaker 6: And I said they're the people that wrote never my
Speaker 6: Love for the Association, huge association.
Speaker 7: Yes, and they also.
Speaker 3: Did and they just sort of a non hit that
Speaker 3: got a lot of airplay in Boston called We've got
Speaker 3: to Get It on Again again. Remember I still remember
Speaker 3: that song a.
Speaker 7: Hit, just such a great song. And they you know,
Speaker 7: I never I think one of them passed away. But
Speaker 7: you know, like I feel that a lot of Boston
Speaker 7: acts don't get enough credit for you know, we have
Speaker 7: so much great talent that comes from Massachusetts and and
Speaker 7: you know.
Speaker 3: There's a whole show we could do around that sometime.
Speaker 7: Yeah, more than that's a hint, hint, wink wings that
Speaker 7: take a look at this.
Speaker 2: If I do the show, maybe I should do it
Speaker 2: with you on the air.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all right, Dad, and Merry Christmas and holiday, Happy.
Speaker 3: Heart, Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 7: Everybody have a fantastic week.
Speaker 3: Okay, absolutely, thank.
Speaker 2: Cleo, Bye bye. All right, let's take our break. Khalil's
Speaker 2: line is open. You want to grab at six one, seven, two, five,
Speaker 2: fourteen thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: I'm Morgan's feeling in for Dan. Donna is feeling in
Speaker 2: for herself here on night Side Time ten forty five
Speaker 2: twenty nine degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios, on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Let's go to drake it and speak with Anne and
Speaker 2: happy holidays. Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 11: Thank you, Happy holidays to both of you two. I
Speaker 11: was wondering this is one of my favorite movies at
Speaker 11: Christmas time, but I don't think anyone's ever heard of it,
Speaker 11: and it's difficult to find. It's college write in a way.
Speaker 11: It's a war drama based on a truth during World
Speaker 11: War One in December nineteen fourteen. And you know that
Speaker 11: I was in it.
Speaker 3: Was this the one from two thousand and five?
Speaker 11: Well, it was. It's the Christmas Truth of December twenty
Speaker 11: fourteen and five at the con Film Festival. It was there.
Speaker 11: I guess it's an actual account. It's an actual event,
Speaker 11: and it's sixty nine account of it. The Crown Prince
Speaker 11: Wilhelm sent some opera singers to sing it.
Speaker 3: I remember I remember reading about it, but I don't.
Speaker 3: I didn't see it, but I remember reading about it.
Speaker 3: It was in a bunch of languages with subtitles. If
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, because it was based on actual events.
Speaker 11: Yeah, and you know, if everybody could do that, have
Speaker 11: a truth but then continue it. Unfortunately, there's always like
Speaker 11: a truth or you know, and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 11: everybody's fighting and killing again. It would be nice if
Speaker 11: the truth could stay. This was back in a World
Speaker 11: War One, but.
Speaker 3: You know that was it's about the For those that
Speaker 3: don't know what she's referring to, it's about that Christmas
Speaker 3: truth and that was not a myth. They actually did
Speaker 3: stop fighting for twenty four hours, you know, in December
Speaker 3: of nineteen fourteen. Unfortunately it didn't last. But it's a
Speaker 3: great little movie from what I'm looking at the reviews
Speaker 3: of it. Thank you for mentioning it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think your primarily Germans versus the French.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: They decided under a white flag, let's not shoot each
Speaker 2: other anymore. And some of the soldiers extreme exchanged gifts
Speaker 2: with each other.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 11: They showed pictures of their families, you know. One of
Speaker 11: them showed a picture of his wife just pregnant and
Speaker 11: he had to leave her behind. It like a lot
Speaker 11: of little personal stories too.
Speaker 2: How did you pick up a rifle after that and
Speaker 2: shoot the guy on the other side of the hill.
Speaker 11: That's what I mean. Yeah, you know, because there was
Speaker 11: a chaplain he and he was a stretcher carrier. That's
Speaker 11: what he was. He was Scottish and then he was
Speaker 11: a chaplain and his treacher bearer. There were two famous
Speaker 11: opera stars which was which was true? There was the
Speaker 11: French lieutenant whose was the son of a general I mean,
Speaker 11: and there was a Jewish German lieutenant. But you know,
Speaker 11: it's it's it's sad because if you could have that,
Speaker 11: you know, stops a little bit and and you would
Speaker 11: get along and you were all, you know, friends for
Speaker 11: the moment and then you know, pick up arms again.
Speaker 11: That's tragic.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm with you one hundred percent. Thank you for
Speaker 3: mentioning that. That sounds like something that people ought to
Speaker 3: pay more attention to. Is there's so many movies about
Speaker 3: everything is wrong and everybody hates everybody. But it's nice
Speaker 3: to see something where actually peace breaks out.
Speaker 11: So yeah, and you have there, you have Russian president
Speaker 11: putin what does he do? He sends he uh sends
Speaker 11: rockets into can you think of the ant? And what
Speaker 11: does he do on Christmas? Okay?
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 11: In families and children and you know, so anyways, that's
Speaker 11: that's sad. And then they'll go on what if that
Speaker 11: song that you know, like they go on fighting again
Speaker 11: after and one of you yeah, and one of you
Speaker 11: dons another day and Christmas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's John Lemon, Yeah, John Lennon from nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 3: Happy Christmas. War is over and it's got great lines
Speaker 3: to it. War is over if you want it, Yeah,
Speaker 3: if people want it.
Speaker 8: Yep.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for calling in.
Speaker 11: Oh you're welcome, says you. Take care of both of you.
Speaker 11: Happy healthy New Year to you.
Speaker 7: Think take care of bie.
Speaker 2: Kissy kissy to you. Let's go to Lemonster and talk
Speaker 2: to Dave. So, Dave, what was your favorite memory of
Speaker 2: a song, a movie, or special on TV.
Speaker 8: Well, I'd like to go back to I hope you
Speaker 8: could hear me, okay, because I'm in my car.
Speaker 3: We hear you loud and sound wonderful to us, and
Speaker 3: we even know where Lemonster is.
Speaker 8: Very good, Okay. I'd like to go back to nineteen
Speaker 8: seventy seven and I was twelve years old, and at
Speaker 8: that time I had never seen It's a Wonderful Life.
Speaker 8: I didn't know this story warrior or anything. There was
Speaker 8: a there was a TV movie on and it was
Speaker 8: called It Happened One Christmas, and it was basically the
Speaker 8: story of It's a Wonderful Life, but the roles were
Speaker 8: reversed and it starred Marlo Thomas.
Speaker 2: Marlo Thomas, I remember that.
Speaker 8: Florest Leachman played the angel and Orson Wells played mister
Speaker 8: Potter character. And I forget the gentleman's name who played
Speaker 8: opposite Marlo Thomas. He was the one who was played
Speaker 8: in Mass.
Speaker 2: It was Mash and it was.
Speaker 3: You had Marlo Thomas, Wayne Rogers, Orson.
Speaker 2: Wills, Wayne Rogers. Mike Farrell was not because he was
Speaker 2: from Mash, but he was later on in.
Speaker 3: Mash and Wayne Rogers.
Speaker 8: Yep, I remember it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Marlo Thomas. I love Marlo Thomas, Marlow Thomas.
Speaker 8: Eventually, when I when I finally saw It's a Wonderful Life,
Speaker 8: you know, I enjoyed it. But in my heart, just
Speaker 8: because I have seen that story portrayed in the TV
Speaker 8: movie version, I always prefer that version instead.
Speaker 2: And Marlow Thomas's age, gosh darn well, you see here
Speaker 2: in these Saint Jude commercials because of your father who
Speaker 2: started that whole charity. Jee and she looks like she
Speaker 2: is thirty nine years old.
Speaker 8: She does it really does.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good for her, all right, thank you, thank you
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 8: Well, Merry Christmas and thank you.
Speaker 2: All right, have one line open if you get it.
Speaker 2: You're going to be obviously chatting in the next hour,
Speaker 2: so be prepared to shift subjects or keep the reason
Speaker 2: why you're calling either way. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
Speaker 2: thirty eight eight eight nineteen, nineteen thirty And let's go
Speaker 2: to Scott calling from the community of Lynn. You know
Speaker 2: where that is?
Speaker 5: Hi Morgan, Hi, Donna, Hey, Hey, Hawaii.
Speaker 2: The city of sin You never go out the.
Speaker 7: Way you went in.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, it's got a beautiful coastline and a lot
Speaker 5: a great history about the shoe industry and generally electric yep.
Speaker 5: But I want to mention the about the song have
Speaker 5: yourself a Merry Little Christmas from the movie Meet Me
Speaker 5: in Saint Louis. Yes, yeah, Donna, you must know about
Speaker 5: the story how the lyrics were changed?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? Why didn't you Why did you tell people? What
Speaker 3: did you tell people?
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 5: I didn't see the movie, but I read a little
Speaker 5: about it, and that the original lyric was a little
Speaker 5: melancholy yep. And when when they wanted to redo it,
Speaker 5: they changed the line. Uh, will have to muddle through
Speaker 5: somehow to hang your shining Star upon the highest bow.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: Now, who who had the hit? Later on Donna?
Speaker 3: Oh everybody and this sister had a version.
Speaker 10: A lot of people did it.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's about seven hundred versions of it. Which one
Speaker 3: would you like?
Speaker 5: It's a skelet But in the from the movie? What
Speaker 5: what was the context for the song in the movie
Speaker 5: that gave it kind of a melancholy tone?
Speaker 3: Morgan? Do you remember the movie better than I do?
Speaker 3: It's been ages since I've seen it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, remember, I remember the movie, and I think it
Speaker 2: had to do with class level in an upper class
Speaker 2: high society dealing with the lower class, a class below
Speaker 2: them in that is the issue. And I hate to
Speaker 2: do this to you, Scott. I will finish talking about
Speaker 2: this on the other side of the news, because news
Speaker 2: is knocking on the door with arch knuckles.
Speaker 5: Well, happy and healthy new Year to both of you.
Speaker 3: Happy you as well, Thank you, thank you Morgan, tonight.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. We'll complete that story on the other side
Speaker 2: of the news.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right about the social class thing. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 3: now that I'm looking back on it. Yep.
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