Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBZY, Koston's new radio.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that if people wanted to call in ahead
Speaker 2: of time, before my next guests are introduced, they could
Speaker 2: Half in New England has called in. By that, I mean,
Speaker 2: I've got a call from Maine, a call from Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: and a call from Rhode Island, anxiously awaiting to hear
Speaker 2: the winnakers, Bill and Bow, welcome to Nightside.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Morgan. This is Bo and Bill
Speaker 3: wanted to chime in.
Speaker 4: I'm right here, Morgan. We're so happy to be with
Speaker 4: you tonight, and.
Speaker 2: I'm happy to have you and I have you for
Speaker 2: two hours and the last time, well and amalgamation of
Speaker 2: each time I've had you on, whether it was My show,
Speaker 2: the Morgan Show, or Nightside, eighty percent of the calls,
Speaker 2: maybe even more than that, well calling in to thank
Speaker 2: you for a performance that you gave for them at
Speaker 2: a wedding, at an event, at whatever gathering people came
Speaker 2: to see you to perform. You do all kinds of music.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say the as our old friend Rond
Speaker 2: Delaquiesa calls at the American Songbook music up and down
Speaker 2: that list of performers and classics, and eighty percent of
Speaker 2: the people had hired you for an event or had
Speaker 2: come to see you at an event, and they just
Speaker 2: were effervescent in compliments about the two of you and
Speaker 2: your stylings.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, Morgan, we put it all on the
Speaker 3: line every time we go out to perform. We play
Speaker 3: every performance like it's our last. One day it will be,
Speaker 3: but we just put everything that we have in the
Speaker 3: tank out.
Speaker 4: We give it.
Speaker 3: You know, we put our whole heart and soul into
Speaker 3: every note in every performance that we play. That's how
Speaker 3: we were raised.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you mentioned the word raised because I
Speaker 2: will have you go over your backstory how your father
Speaker 2: basically instructed you on several instruments and you just picked
Speaker 2: up the love of music through him. Is now your
Speaker 2: father has passed away. But is your mom listening right now?
Speaker 3: She sure is, Hello, Mom, She's listening to the show.
Speaker 3: She listens to you religiously all the time, and she
Speaker 3: is listening for sure that there's her yep. But you know,
Speaker 3: you talk about the backstory. I know there are people
Speaker 3: way to talk, So we're not going to talk very
Speaker 3: long about this backstory. Bill and I and my mother.
Speaker 3: We owe our late father, Ed Winnaker a tremendous debt
Speaker 3: of gratitude for sharing his love of music with our family.
Speaker 3: I would tell you that it's the best gift that
Speaker 3: our family has ever received, is the gift of music.
Speaker 3: Bill could go through the whole story, but we need
Speaker 3: not do that.
Speaker 4: We practice together.
Speaker 3: We practice together every night, and we learned every style
Speaker 3: of music imaginable, you name it. That's what our dad
Speaker 3: taught us. He said, boys, when we go out to perform,
Speaker 3: no matter what it is the audience wants to hear,
Speaker 3: we have to be ready to play it. So that's
Speaker 3: pretty much the story. And even though my dad's gone
Speaker 3: for quite a long time, we still are learning new
Speaker 3: music all the time for our brides and grooms. So
Speaker 3: we still do a lot of weddings, even at this
Speaker 3: stage of our careers, and there's still a three and
Speaker 3: we're learning new music all the time because our bribes
Speaker 3: and grooms help us. They say, these are the songs
Speaker 3: we want to hear when we learn them.
Speaker 2: I'm assuming you've got bookings already for April, May, June,
Speaker 2: July of twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: You're absolutely right about that. We have quite quite a
Speaker 3: lot of events coming up in the new year.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, let's take calls. Okay, want to jellous. Brian
Speaker 2: called first. He called before I even had the news
Speaker 2: come on Brian.
Speaker 5: Board, Well, thank you so much. And I was a
Speaker 5: Winner orchestra member back in the mid eighties. Good evening, Bo,
Speaker 5: Good evening, Bill. Hello, Brian, talk to you guys from
Speaker 5: up here in Maine.
Speaker 3: Thanks for calling in.
Speaker 5: More more than welcome. Thank you for what you did
Speaker 5: for me, Because I was just an eighteen year old
Speaker 5: kid when the Winnakers gave me the opportunity of a
Speaker 5: lifetime with their dad at Winnaker and I auditioned at
Speaker 5: the Parker House downstairs in the Last Hurrah when they
Speaker 5: were down there, and again I was just a kid,
Speaker 5: and he hired me that night and gave me an
Speaker 5: opportunity that few people my age would ever get. I think,
Speaker 5: you know, I was terribly green, but he heard something
Speaker 5: in my sound and he wanted to train me on
Speaker 5: the job, and that he did, and I will be
Speaker 5: forever grateful for that because as an eighteen year old kid,
Speaker 5: I was learning how to play the styles of Charlie
Speaker 5: Speedac Bunny Berrigan, Harry James, you know all kinds of
Speaker 5: different artists in the Great American Songbook, and I, you know,
Speaker 5: ever since I've moved back home, the greatest gift that
Speaker 5: Ed Winnaker gave me and the Winnaker family is I've
Speaker 5: worked very, very steadily since coming back home. And I
Speaker 5: was with them a little less than a year, So
Speaker 5: I am forever grateful to them. I'm forever grateful to
Speaker 5: a sideman named Teddy Kasher who used to work with them,
Speaker 5: who actually got me the job that night when another
Speaker 5: member was ill, I just slid right in and he
Speaker 5: went with another band. He went with Bill's band at
Speaker 5: that point, I believe. And so it's, you know, the
Speaker 5: Winnakers our legacy, and like you've mentioned when you came
Speaker 5: on tonight, they adapt to any style of music, and
Speaker 5: a bride and groom will ask for certain things, and
Speaker 5: they are very committed to it. And not only that,
Speaker 5: they put on one of the best shows and are
Speaker 5: the best leaders I have ever seen. So it's no
Speaker 5: wonder that the city of Boston and outlying areas have
Speaker 5: kept this wonderful, rare legacy going because they are just
Speaker 5: wonderful and I love them to pieces Ran.
Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you a question. Yeah, I'm taking
Speaker 2: you back to being eighteen, nineteen years old. You've been
Speaker 2: told by Edwinaker, you got the job, show up this day,
Speaker 2: this time, and you're going to use you now have
Speaker 2: come home. What did you tell your mom and dad
Speaker 2: and what was their reaction to this son joining a band.
Speaker 5: I said, I got the job, and you know what,
Speaker 5: if I get too scared, I guess I'll just not
Speaker 5: go back. I was scare to have the death of
Speaker 5: driving in the city because you understand that everything up
Speaker 5: here in Maine is fairly rural in comparison, you know.
Speaker 5: And here I am going to go to the Washington
Speaker 5: Street garage by myself for the first time, walking down
Speaker 5: Pie Alley, you know, after the gig. This was all
Speaker 5: new to me. So but they were very proud of me.
Speaker 5: And Eddie said, you'll need two business suits and you'll
Speaker 5: need a tuxedo as well.
Speaker 6: So and from.
Speaker 5: There we went out and we played multiple gigs all
Speaker 5: around the city, Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod. You know what
Speaker 5: an experience for a kid who, you know, just eighteen
Speaker 5: years old, would have that opportunity to do that, and
Speaker 5: like I said, they will be special to me for
Speaker 5: the rest of my life for giving me that opportunity.
Speaker 2: To guys, before I have to take a break, which
Speaker 2: is literally right around the corner, what do you want
Speaker 2: to say to Brian.
Speaker 3: Well, we're just going to say something very quickly, and
Speaker 3: I want to say that you still sound like a
Speaker 3: youthful eighteen year older even though you're a lot older now.
Speaker 3: But it was a pleasure, in an honor and privilege
Speaker 3: to work with you in the time that you will
Speaker 3: work with us. And I know I came up to
Speaker 3: Maine a few times to play some performances and you
Speaker 3: were right there too, and we played together, and you know,
Speaker 3: we love you and we just appreciate you starting off
Speaker 3: this evening of calls because this.
Speaker 5: Was I love you, Thank you so much.
Speaker 6: Bo.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I want to say Morgan that Brian actually got
Speaker 4: the same training that Bow and I got when we
Speaker 4: were ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. My dad put his
Speaker 4: heart and soul into making us good, and he put
Speaker 4: his heart and soul into Brian and Brian became great.
Speaker 2: Well, Brian, I'm glad you were the first to call
Speaker 2: because he made some powerful statements. I got it.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much much.
Speaker 2: Thanks again.
Speaker 7: Okay, thank you too.
Speaker 5: Take good care, folks.
Speaker 3: All the best.
Speaker 2: That line's open six one, seven, five, four, ten thirty
Speaker 2: or eight eight, eight, nine, two, nine, ten thirty. Grab
Speaker 2: it and you'll be the third person to speak to
Speaker 2: the Winnakers. Bow Winnaker, Bill Windaker here in BZ with
Speaker 2: the time is nine point fifteen. Temperature in Boston thirty
Speaker 2: nine degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nice Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna go right back to the phone calls.
Speaker 2: When I have Bill and Bow on the phone lines
Speaker 2: go crazy. So let's go to Rhode Island and speak
Speaker 2: to doctor Dan. Hello, doctor Dan, Hello Morgan, how are you?
Speaker 2: I am fine, sir, and you.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm great.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 6: I've called him several times over the past few years,
Speaker 6: and the last few times I was in Texas.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 6: Yeah. Now I'm and I've moved up to Rhode Island
Speaker 6: be closer to my family, and uh, I was thinking, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, they the guy. It's been such a an
Speaker 6: honor to have these two wonderful people as my friends
Speaker 6: and and play music with him. But uh, as I've
Speaker 6: moved from the from Texas to Rhode Island. I'm well
Speaker 6: aware of the tremendous difference that that some people have
Speaker 6: in terms of their feelings about politics, religion. And the
Speaker 6: beauty of the Winnokers is their music is universal. It
Speaker 6: brings joy to everybody. It has there's no issue of
Speaker 6: what your politics or your feelings might be. It's it's
Speaker 6: all positive. I've never uh, Billy's probably the most photogenic
Speaker 6: guy I know. I got photo you guys have is great.
Speaker 6: But Bill is always smiling, bo is always happy. You
Speaker 6: never hear them ever say anything bad.
Speaker 2: I never have.
Speaker 6: And it's such an important lesson for the whole world
Speaker 6: what we can. We could make so many things better
Speaker 6: if we could just kind of borrow a page out
Speaker 6: of the Winnaker playbook and just say, you know, music
Speaker 6: is love, music is kindness, Music is good for everybody. Uh,
Speaker 6: it's just you know, it's it's just so special and
Speaker 6: they'd bring that every day.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 2: And what's your response to what Dan has just said.
Speaker 3: Well, it touches our hearts very deeply.
Speaker 4: You know, Morgan. The most important thing to me is
Speaker 4: I've been trying to get Dan to leave M. D Anderson.
Speaker 4: He's bringing on cologist and had a big position. There've
Speaker 4: been trying to get him back home because we used
Speaker 4: to play together.
Speaker 6: All the time.
Speaker 4: And I met Dan when he was an undergrad at
Speaker 4: Harvard and I was an undergrad at Boston Conservatory and Music.
Speaker 4: He needed a drummer for a gig on the campus
Speaker 4: and he called Boston Conservatory and they recommended me, and
Speaker 4: we've been friends ever since. And that goes back to
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty seven. And Dan would always fill in for
Speaker 4: my dad when my father had to go to these
Speaker 4: music conventions, which were three or four times a year,
Speaker 4: and Dan would play right with the family with my mother,
Speaker 4: Bow and myself, and we played hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 4: gigs together. Dan eventually became a band leader for us,
Speaker 4: but when he took that position in Texas and M.
Speaker 4: D Anderson, I've been trying to.
Speaker 6: Get him back ever since I leaves here.
Speaker 2: Let me inter it. Guys, hold on, guys, hold on.
Speaker 2: We only have three working lines. We used to have four.
Speaker 2: I don't know why we don't have four anymore. But
Speaker 2: my producer Dan, I'm rich with the name Dan filling
Speaker 2: in a night side for Dan Ray my producer's Dan,
Speaker 2: Doctor Dan. But Dan, my producer is not going to
Speaker 2: answer the contest line. I see it. I see people
Speaker 2: keep trying to call on it. Right now, you're not
Speaker 2: going to get answered. You gotta wait until one of
Speaker 2: the three lines clear. When I say goodbye to doctor Dan,
Speaker 2: hopefully you'll be the first to take that open line
Speaker 2: so people stop calling the contest life and doctor Dan.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I just had to quickly address that.
Speaker 6: No, you got to take care of business.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I do the first. So where do we leave off?
Speaker 6: Well, we are our country needs more love and kindness
Speaker 6: from everybody, and these guys bring it.
Speaker 2: The time.
Speaker 6: It's uh, it's just a it's a lesson that we
Speaker 6: can all benefit from.
Speaker 2: What the world needs now is love, sweet.
Speaker 6: Love your see.
Speaker 2: I knew somebody would chop up with that. Yes, Jackie
Speaker 2: DeShannon nineteen sixty five. So, Dan, are you still musically involved?
Speaker 6: I hope. So we've been talking about it. Billy Bill
Speaker 6: has been my encouragement, and.
Speaker 4: I'm uh.
Speaker 6: I got my piano all set up in the house
Speaker 6: here and we're ready to make some music in the
Speaker 6: next few months.
Speaker 2: All right, are you going to be working with Bill
Speaker 2: and Bow upcoming.
Speaker 6: Well, that's up to them, of course. You know, if
Speaker 6: I get asked, I usually show up.
Speaker 4: Morgan Dance like us. He can play any song, any style,
Speaker 4: any any decade of music. He'll be playing with us.
Speaker 2: And I want the three of you to address this.
Speaker 2: We lost Quincy Jones two weeks ago, and his contribution
Speaker 2: to music is unsurpassed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well if you want top there, yeah yeah, Quincy Jones.
Speaker 4: He you know, he reminds me of the training my
Speaker 4: father gave us, because Quincy Jones went from early jazz
Speaker 4: and swing. You know, he did the Sinatra album of
Speaker 4: the Sands, but he you know, Denn, he's doing Michael
Speaker 4: Jackson later on, and he he made the transition stylistically
Speaker 4: through every decade, brilliant, brilliant albums. I have them all.
Speaker 4: Just a great innovator and bringing a ranger and just
Speaker 4: we lost a great one. And your your theme song
Speaker 4: comes from his album called Walking in Space, and that's
Speaker 4: one of my favorite albums of all time.
Speaker 2: That's the killer. The opening of my show is called
Speaker 2: Killer Joe. A bit of music that's been done all
Speaker 2: over the place. I can think of the Manhattan Transfer
Speaker 2: right now and there are words to it and the
Speaker 2: Manhattan Transfer saying it. But I like this version. That's
Speaker 2: why I chose it. I chose that bit of music
Speaker 2: to open my program. Great version, Killing Joe.
Speaker 4: The next time we see you, we're going to play
Speaker 4: that when you walk in.
Speaker 2: Thank you, I love I love you, all right, Dan,
Speaker 2: Anything else that you want to bring.
Speaker 6: Up, no, I just uh, you know, I'm so grateful
Speaker 6: for an opportunity to talk with you, and and you
Speaker 6: just bring so much goodness to the to the airwaves, Morgan.
Speaker 6: And it's an honor to talk with.
Speaker 2: You very much for that.
Speaker 3: And doctor Dan, I want to thank you for taking
Speaker 3: the time to call us tonight. And your messages is
Speaker 3: loud and clear. You know, love music, and uh, we
Speaker 3: love you.
Speaker 6: Well. I'm gonna see you soon. I I'll hope to
Speaker 6: see you next week.
Speaker 3: We look forward to that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I gotta let you go because a break is
Speaker 2: coming up.
Speaker 3: Thank you, bye, byey, thank you, thank you, doctor Dan.
Speaker 2: Ye doctor all right, that line is open. Who's got
Speaker 2: the fastest fingers to grab it? Six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: The winners will be here with me for all of
Speaker 2: this hour, half hour left to this hour and next hour,
Speaker 2: and I'm sticking with the music theme. Guys, you might
Speaker 2: like this theme. I'm going to be following musically your
Speaker 2: two hours. I've got my buddy Kleo Campbell coming on
Speaker 2: and we are going to talk about movie soundtracks, the
Speaker 2: biggest selling movie soundtracks. I knew that would get your attention, guys,
Speaker 2: and real quick. And then I'll go to break I
Speaker 2: don't know what Cleo has researched, but why don't each
Speaker 2: of you give me a guess at what you think
Speaker 2: the biggest selling movie soundtrack will be?
Speaker 4: See that's hard to tell. I know what my favorite is.
Speaker 4: It's a Breakfast at Tiffany's Henry Mancini score. But there's
Speaker 4: like I like so many.
Speaker 3: I'm with Bill. It's a daunting task, you know, be
Speaker 3: interesting to listen and find out.
Speaker 4: But I just have no idea. I mean, there's so
Speaker 4: many different tastes. I mean Ald John Williams movies. People
Speaker 4: love his music so much and the pops play it
Speaker 4: all the time. But I you know, I love so
Speaker 4: many movie scores. It goes on and on and on.
Speaker 4: So I'll be listening we'll be listening to see what
Speaker 4: people think.
Speaker 2: Well, we've got ninety more minutes with the Winnakers. Let
Speaker 2: me take my break before we talk about anything else.
Speaker 2: Let me take my break. When we come back, there
Speaker 2: are three people waiting to talk to the Winnakers. Time
Speaker 2: and temperature nine thirty thirty nine degrees.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: We're back. I got the Winnakers here, Bo and Bill
Speaker 2: and Florence is called in to chat with them. Florence,
Speaker 2: good evening to you. How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 8: Oh, it's great, Morgan? And I turned to radio on
Speaker 8: that shoe looked wild. I heard you greeting, Oh to
Speaker 8: you yesterday? Yes, yes, thank you, You're welcome, Morgan. I
Speaker 8: wanted to mantion good evening, bowing Bill. I wanted to
Speaker 8: bring up something in twenty twenty three when I called
Speaker 8: in the night of Morgan's birthday. Back then it was
Speaker 8: in September seventeenth, and I had written a poem for him,
Speaker 8: and after I read it, because you were on this
Speaker 8: show that night, and asked you if you would play
Speaker 8: Happy Birthday to him, and you did. You acknowledged him
Speaker 8: with a nice happy birthday, and I appreciated it so
Speaker 8: much and I just wanted to bring it up and
Speaker 8: thank you again for acknowledging him on his special day.
Speaker 3: So nice of you to call in tonight's Lawrence and Florence.
Speaker 2: When you mentioned the twenty third, I.
Speaker 8: Mean the year twenty twenty. It wasn't this past September.
Speaker 2: It was twenty twenty three, but that number twenty three
Speaker 2: made me realize on the December twenty third, in three weeks, basically,
Speaker 2: Jack Hart will be armed with me for two hours.
Speaker 2: And I know, I know you're kind of sweet on Jack, So.
Speaker 8: I just I love Jackie's night, special special guy. Well,
Speaker 8: and I got to say hello to him as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I just wan going to make sure you
Speaker 2: knew that he is.
Speaker 8: Upcoming good and Morgan, do you remember at the end
Speaker 8: of your poem the last couple of lines I said,
Speaker 8: when you if he is a trumpet play, you'll know
Speaker 8: that Morgan is on its way?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Do you remember it.
Speaker 2: I remember you saying that, and that means the trumpet
Speaker 2: of Quincy.
Speaker 1: Jones, right, very very good.
Speaker 2: That's my opening killer jone.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, and just you know it gave me a
Speaker 8: little tickle tonight to think about it. Knowing that Boul
Speaker 8: and Bill were going to be on, I thought I
Speaker 8: refreshed their memory a little bit. It's only a very short.
Speaker 2: Time ago, right, Well, they've got an excellent memory, and
Speaker 2: I'm sure they remember doing that.
Speaker 3: Yes, we sure do.
Speaker 8: Yes, And it was wonderful. It was wonderful. You played
Speaker 8: it all the way through to acknowledge him, and I
Speaker 8: appreciated it, and I'm sure Morgan loved it.
Speaker 2: I did. Thank you, yep, and thanks for bringing us
Speaker 2: back to our memory lane.
Speaker 8: Yes. Okay, a wonderful night all of you.
Speaker 2: Okay, you two, and have a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Speaker 8: Okay, I will thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Good night. Now, Florence's line is open. How quickly can
Speaker 2: somebody out there dial six one, seven, two, five, four,
Speaker 2: ten thirty or eight eight eight nine to up. Already done,
Speaker 2: somebody grabbed it already, not even going to finish the number.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Sarah online one Sarah in Boston, good evening.
Speaker 9: Hello, Hello, Hello, Hey, Hi, Hi everybody.
Speaker 2: Hi.
Speaker 4: Hello.
Speaker 9: So I'm I would probably need to say my full
Speaker 9: name for Bow and Bill to know me. It is
Speaker 9: Sarah Anthony Takagi calling in to say, hig.
Speaker 4: Oh, Sarah, you're one of our favorite people in the
Speaker 4: whole world. This is a very palative job, Morgan. This
Speaker 4: is a brilliant pianist. She teaches at Neweland Conservatory. She sings,
Speaker 4: she plays. Their students do great work. She's a marvelous musician.
Speaker 2: Oh what got you into music? Oh?
Speaker 9: Well, I I'm I'm from the country of Japan, and
Speaker 9: just like any Asian girl, it's part of her culture
Speaker 9: for all children to play classical music. So I was
Speaker 9: playing the piano before I even knew I would play.
Speaker 9: So I would just tell you that I didn't have
Speaker 9: a choice. And now I appreciate it. But there was
Speaker 9: a time where I certainly really didn't enjoy practicing. But yeah,
Speaker 9: so if.
Speaker 2: It went for practicing, If it went for practicing, I
Speaker 2: might have stuck with the piano because I took it
Speaker 2: for one year and my mother and grandmother said to me,
Speaker 2: just take it until June. If you haven't fallen in
Speaker 2: love with it, you don't have to take it anymore.
Speaker 2: And June couldn't come fast enough. Really, I wish I
Speaker 2: had known Bill and Bow's father ed because I guarantee
Speaker 2: and inspire me to.
Speaker 4: Love music, right right, Morgan? You do, Morgan, you love music.
Speaker 4: It's just that you don't play it, but you sure
Speaker 4: love it. And musicians I know. But Sarah and Bow
Speaker 4: and I we know that we're nothing with all people
Speaker 4: that love music, because people that love music to play
Speaker 4: for and you're one of those people that really love music.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 9: Yeah, this is a yeah. And thank you so much
Speaker 9: Morgan for this fantastic radio show. This is incredible. I
Speaker 9: mean it's a love fest.
Speaker 2: I try to have them on three or four times
Speaker 2: a year.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, Well, both the Winnakers, Bill and Bow, they're
Speaker 9: like the sunshine of the music world. They they're just incredible.
Speaker 9: Not only are they amazing musicians, but they're also like
Speaker 9: extraordinary humanitarians. Like I have to tell you, Bo just
Speaker 9: called me again for my birthday and played the trumpet
Speaker 9: over Oh my god. It was so touching. I mean,
Speaker 9: Bill and both together they schemed to and I think
Speaker 9: Bill was called texting me saying, hey, are you going
Speaker 9: to be home? You know, can we call you? And
Speaker 9: I have no idea both that you're gonna get over
Speaker 9: there and blow your horn and the world's greatest trumpet
Speaker 9: player playing birthday tune for me, just absolutely amazing. You
Speaker 9: two are just unbelievable. We are so grateful to have
Speaker 9: you on this earth. I mean, I think you go
Speaker 9: around just yeah.
Speaker 3: And we are so grateful to have you too. I mean,
Speaker 3: the spirit that you have is just incredible. Honestly, what
Speaker 3: a spirit you have.
Speaker 9: And you know, the Winnakers, I don't think gas with
Speaker 9: you guys, that was fun too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I want I want to go back
Speaker 3: to our early years of performing. You know, we started
Speaker 3: the Winnaker family. We started the Winnaker Family band in
Speaker 3: nineteen sixty two. My dad had his first band in
Speaker 3: nineteen thirty nine, but in sixty two he let all
Speaker 3: the musicians go in his band and he started with
Speaker 3: I was ten playing the trumpet. Bill was thirteen playing
Speaker 3: the drums. My mother was thirty two playing the string bass.
Speaker 3: And you know, if my father were alive today and
Speaker 3: he tried to start a family band now, it would
Speaker 3: have been impossible because things have changed so much. But
Speaker 3: my father he had a will, He had a very
Speaker 3: strong will, and his will was to form this family band,
Speaker 3: and by goodness, he did it. He used to sing
Speaker 3: the way he wanted me to play the song he
Speaker 3: used to sing. He sing it to me and he
Speaker 3: kept singing until I got the feeling inside of me. So,
Speaker 3: I mean it reminded me when you talked about your
Speaker 3: mother and how you know you started playing piano at
Speaker 3: an early age as well, So when you get that
Speaker 3: early started, it sure helps out a lot. And you
Speaker 3: know you are a brilliant musician as well. So you know, no,
Speaker 3: I mean it entirely. I love your music, yeah for sure.
Speaker 3: But you know, oh no, as I told Morgan earlier
Speaker 3: in this broadcast, you know that gift of music that
Speaker 3: we received all those years ago, it's the best gift
Speaker 3: that we ever received. And every time Bill and I performed,
Speaker 3: we are just continuing my father's legacy. And I think
Speaker 3: of my father all the time every time I perform,
Speaker 3: and I look up and I thank him for the
Speaker 3: gifts that he shared with our family. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 3: we're enormously fortunate in our family.
Speaker 2: And Sarah may May, I ask a question, are you
Speaker 2: of mixed heritage? Because you're English is very good, but
Speaker 2: I don't mean that to be.
Speaker 9: Oh so much.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 9: Actually my first language is Japanese, okay, but I could
Speaker 9: be that you know what, I'm a musician with really
Speaker 9: good years. Right, So I think when I came to
Speaker 9: America and I really started speaking like I was early,
Speaker 9: like twelve, twelve years old, So I think it's it's
Speaker 9: being young and also having a good year to learn
Speaker 9: the English language. But thank you.
Speaker 2: That's very Sarah.
Speaker 9: Well, thank you. This is the first time I've ever called.
Speaker 6: Yes, I didn't, I didn't have it.
Speaker 3: We appreciated so much, and we hope that one day
Speaker 3: you will come down to Westwood, Massachusetts and spend an
Speaker 3: evening with us. We play at this wonderful restaurant called
Speaker 3: Niroli in Westwood and we play. We play in the
Speaker 3: Supper Club Westwood, mass once a month, and we hope
Speaker 3: you'll come see us sometime. Yeah.
Speaker 9: If I see a fly or something, just let me know.
Speaker 2: And I call is from Westwood. I'm assuming it's somebody
Speaker 2: who has seen you, so oh.
Speaker 3: We'll see because then maybe we can talk a little
Speaker 3: bit more about the restaurant.
Speaker 2: All right, sir, I got to let you go, take care, okay,
Speaker 2: all right, so much bye bye.
Speaker 4: Oh great to hear from you. We love you, sir.
Speaker 2: A line is open, go for it, and I have
Speaker 2: a break to take, but Tom, you will be next
Speaker 2: here on night side. I promise time and temperature. I'm
Speaker 2: late nine forty seven thirty nine degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World,
Speaker 1: Night six Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: As promised here on Nightside, Dan is off. I am here.
Speaker 2: I am Morgan. Tom in Westwood is next. Welcome and
Speaker 2: say hello to Bill and Bowinnaker. Tom.
Speaker 7: It's Tom.
Speaker 3: How are you very well? Thanks Tom, thanks so much
Speaker 3: for calling. I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Speaker 7: Ah had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Thank you so much. And Morgan,
Speaker 7: thank you for taking my call. It's amazing that I
Speaker 7: was able to get through because I know this is
Speaker 7: such a popular show.
Speaker 2: Well it's the popularity of these two gentlemen that the
Speaker 2: phone lines have been going red hot crazy.
Speaker 7: So if if I may, I want to talk about
Speaker 7: three three things tonight.
Speaker 2: I want to.
Speaker 7: At the end, I want to try to stump you
Speaker 7: on a on a trivia question, because I do see
Speaker 7: you occasionally over at the Midway and I love your
Speaker 7: trivia nights, and thank you and you're amazing because you
Speaker 7: can't be stumped and in the information that you that
Speaker 7: you have and that you know is just truly remarkable.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, but I can be stumped, Okay.
Speaker 7: So I want to start off by saying Bill, Bill
Speaker 7: and Bow have been very very good, dear friends of
Speaker 7: mine for close to twenty years. I think I originally
Speaker 7: met them at a a Boston Lyric Opera event and
Speaker 7: and then I started following them at Skip Jacks when
Speaker 7: when they were playing at Skip Shacks in the back bay,
Speaker 7: after I would go to church at Trinity Church. And
Speaker 7: then then they had a great run in Cambridge at
Speaker 7: Upstairs on the Square where they would push all the
Speaker 7: tables aside at nine o'clock and they would play and
Speaker 7: people would you know, would dance, and people of all ages,
Speaker 7: you know, young college students, middle aged people, older people.
Speaker 6: It was just it was it was.
Speaker 7: A great, great time there. And then I I hired
Speaker 7: Dylan Bow to play at my fortieth birthday party. And
Speaker 7: I was very lucky that my my dear friends Kathy
Speaker 7: and Howie Carr hosted the party at their house. And
Speaker 7: when I sent the invitations out, you know, it said,
Speaker 7: you know, please come to Tom Aarons for youth birthday
Speaker 7: party at the home of Kathy and Howie Carr and
Speaker 7: wildly bau blah blah and music by Bill and Beau Winnaker,
Speaker 7: you know, orchestra our band. And I thought for sure
Speaker 7: that when people replied, they were going to say something like,
Speaker 7: how the hell did you end up you know, getting
Speaker 7: how he tired to throw your birthday party? But instead
Speaker 7: it was how the heck did you guys get Bill
Speaker 7: and Beau Wintaker to perform at your birthday party? The
Speaker 7: people were just amazed, and we had we had a
Speaker 7: we had a great night, and you know, people danced
Speaker 7: and and that sort of thing. And but these guys,
Speaker 7: these guys are terrific, terrific people. The restaurant that they're
Speaker 7: playing at in Westwood called Niroli secearely new restaurant. I
Speaker 7: live in Westwood and I was. I was there one
Speaker 7: night when they first opened, and Mike Desorrow, who's the owner,
Speaker 7: I spoke to him and I said, you know, would
Speaker 7: you ever consider having Dylan bau Winuker come and play
Speaker 7: in the Sopper Club? And he said, oh, you know,
Speaker 7: let's talk about it. And six months went by, nothing happened,
Speaker 7: year went by, nothing happened. And I spoke to him
Speaker 7: again and put him in touch with Dylan Bow and
Speaker 7: they played one night just sort of as a you know,
Speaker 7: as a as a test to see how it went.
Speaker 7: And and after that, after that first night, Mike I
Speaker 7: think said to Bill and Bow, can you guys play
Speaker 7: every week? And so now they're playing once a month.
Speaker 7: And I have to tell you, when they send out
Speaker 7: an email advertising that they're going to be at the restaurant,
Speaker 7: the supper club is sold out within twenty four hours.
Speaker 7: It's just incredible. The following that they have and the
Speaker 7: people that you know, that that that that want to
Speaker 7: get to the supper club to listen to them they do.
Speaker 7: They do a terrific job.
Speaker 2: Pause. I have to ask Bill Bow, you seem to
Speaker 2: have a great venue, but once a month is not enough.
Speaker 2: Are you going to maybe up it to twice a month?
Speaker 3: Well, you know that we'll we'll think about that and
Speaker 3: and sort of make that decision once we crossed the
Speaker 3: meridian and get into the new year. Uh, we possibly
Speaker 3: might play there more.
Speaker 4: But we love it.
Speaker 3: And Tom is right, this is an incredible restaurant. The
Speaker 3: services phenomenal, the food is outstanding, the supper club so beautiful,
Speaker 3: and Tom is the man responsible for getting us to
Speaker 3: play there. Now you know I've conducted the bus and
Speaker 3: pops seven different times now. And the reason why I
Speaker 3: change the subject very quickly is because Tom and I
Speaker 3: for years we talked about how we would get into
Speaker 3: Symphony Hall, going through the stage entrances right up on
Speaker 3: the stage, and Tom did some fancy.
Speaker 4: Work to help that along.
Speaker 3: And so Tom has been a guardian angel of Bill
Speaker 3: and Bow Winnaker for many years, and we love him
Speaker 3: and his family, and we're so grateful for you call
Speaker 3: to I to talk about all these important things.
Speaker 2: Tom. Look what you've done. You've given them a gig ah.
Speaker 7: They're wonderful people, and anybody that knows Dylan bow Well
Speaker 7: know that you can you can call them anytime, and
Speaker 7: the answer is always yes, no matter what, no matter
Speaker 7: what it is, it's always yes. I know that we
Speaker 7: love them.
Speaker 2: I have called them to beyond. They've been on me
Speaker 2: more times than I can remember, and only once because
Speaker 2: they had a prior commitment, were they not able to
Speaker 2: be on. But the first words out of their mouth
Speaker 2: can you give us another date? Another time? And we
Speaker 2: worked it out. So they've never told me no, they don't.
Speaker 7: They never let you down, Let you down, got news coming.
Speaker 2: But thank you for your call.
Speaker 7: All right, hey call, So great of you to call Tom.
Speaker 3: We really appreciate it.
Speaker 2: All right, Tom, what would your trivia question? Real quick?
Speaker 7: Okay, tell me what the origin of the call letters
Speaker 7: for GBH W GBH.
Speaker 2: Came from Great Blue Hills.
Speaker 6: Goodbye, Tom, Oh my god, good night.
Speaker 2: Oh let me throw it to news. We've got another
Speaker 2: hour at Bill and Bow. We have an open line
Speaker 2: six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight eight eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. Grab it if you can. Time and temperature
Speaker 2: nine fifty eight thirty nine degrees