Speaker 1: It's Night's Side with Dan Way.
Speaker 2: I'm WBZY Canton's new radio.
Speaker 1: I'm Morgan. Hello, my voice is a bit better. I
Speaker 1: on Friday doing night Side as I'm doing now had
Speaker 1: Bradley Jay on, and Bradley Jay was on because there
Speaker 1: was an event Saturday at the Paradise. He was a
Speaker 1: part of it, and he won the publicize that there
Speaker 1: was a whole celebration with legendary eighties musical performers in
Speaker 1: Boston at the Paradise. They had an auction, a silent auction,
Speaker 1: and you could have gotten your hands on some great memorabilia.
Speaker 1: I had already scheduled my next guest, but now I'm
Speaker 1: able to tie both events together my next guest or
Speaker 1: I'll mention this name shortly, and that event at the
Speaker 1: Paradise Saturday. And ironically, my next guest had called in
Speaker 1: last Monday or Tuesday and brought up the fact that
Speaker 1: it would be a great show to put a tip
Speaker 1: of the hat to all the people that played in Boston,
Speaker 1: which is why a couple of days later I called
Speaker 1: him to be on, and Cleil will accept any opportunity
Speaker 1: to have my microphone shared with him. He's been on
Speaker 1: a a number or number of times. And this goes
Speaker 1: back about ten twelve years, Morgan, can I be on
Speaker 1: with you just once? I want to be on with
Speaker 1: you just O Ncee wants to talk about music. And
Speaker 1: I said, all right, Cleo, have you on. That was
Speaker 1: eight nine, ten appearances ago, and here you are again.
Speaker 1: Welcome tonight's Cleo Campbell Logan.
Speaker 3: First of all, thanks for having me on. And like
Speaker 3: I always like to say, you always inspire me to
Speaker 3: do radio. And part of doing radio is the showmanship
Speaker 3: and you have that quality. And I do borrow from
Speaker 3: you when I'm on area once in a while.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
Speaker 3: Yep?
Speaker 1: Is it borrow or is it theft? Okay? Perfect move perfect.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to say something to you that you
Speaker 1: you may hate, You may shiver, you may tremble. This
Speaker 1: is an hour it would be It could be two.
Speaker 3: Even three.
Speaker 1: No, it would not be three. I will not be
Speaker 1: three because Barbara Feldon is scheduled for eleven o'clock. But
Speaker 1: the guest I had scheduled for eight o'clock wasn't where
Speaker 1: he was supposed to be. I had to move Joanne
Speaker 1: from ten to eight. And I've got you so I
Speaker 1: may keep you up to eleven. We'll see.
Speaker 3: Yes, there's no problem. We're talking first of all, Boston music.
Speaker 3: Hands down, I'm all in.
Speaker 1: And two hours isn't even enough to do the subject right.
Speaker 1: And it might be one, it might be two.
Speaker 3: Yes, You're absolutely right, and and I what I'm going
Speaker 3: to say is I'm a huge supporter of Boston music.
Speaker 3: I'm in my sixties. I've been seeing a lot of
Speaker 3: these bands for a number of years, and luckily I
Speaker 3: had a chance to interview this group called Lady Anamoya.
Speaker 3: They just changed their name to Avery Machel Music, who
Speaker 3: she is such a phenomenal singer. Some of the places
Speaker 3: to the Places. She just played with another group she
Speaker 3: does double Duty. She played with this group called Little
Speaker 3: Lies and she does the Christine mcv pot it's a
Speaker 3: tribute to Fleetwood Mac plus her own group, the Avery
Speaker 3: Machel Music. And she's actually releasing a new song this Friday,
Speaker 3: which is I'm really exciting. The name of the song
Speaker 3: is Away from Me. People, support your local app check
Speaker 3: out the song. Check out the song, go download it, listen,
Speaker 3: enjoy it, and some of the I watched some clips
Speaker 3: from a dad. He sends me clips of her performing
Speaker 3: with this group a little lies and he's such a
Speaker 3: great band. I just love I lovely with Mac. They're
Speaker 3: not a Boston band, but I do lovely with Mac.
Speaker 1: Is your dad listening to you tonight?
Speaker 3: No, he is.
Speaker 1: You didn't tell your dad that you were.
Speaker 3: On I did tell him. I did tell him, and
Speaker 3: he pretty much just was like, my dad, okay. For gospel.
Speaker 3: My dad does gospel show. And for gospel show. One
Speaker 3: of the groups I can honestly say from Boston that
Speaker 3: I know is the Bullet Brothers. I saw them as
Speaker 3: a kid. You know, Mike Bulk there, that's their family member,
Speaker 3: and I saw that, you know, they were they were
Speaker 3: a great gospel But I don't know if they're still
Speaker 3: toring or anything anymore. But I really enjoyed it as
Speaker 3: a kid, you know, growing up in the seventies. So
Speaker 3: you know, Dad, you know, I wish he would okay,
Speaker 3: and it's early enough, but I like I could rebroadcast
Speaker 3: the show and play it for him. I listened to
Speaker 3: my dad show. I listened to my Dad show. He
Speaker 3: plays a lot of great gospel music. He plays the
Speaker 3: earlier stuff of gospel music. He hangs out well, used
Speaker 3: to go to Skippy White, who you had on several times.
Speaker 3: Give me White. Skippy White had the best, not just
Speaker 3: gospel music, but he had a lot of R and B.
Speaker 3: He was he was Skippy.
Speaker 1: Just did a show this summer with all the legendary
Speaker 1: soul groups of the seventies stylistics.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Let's go over some of the I'll say two or three.
Speaker 1: You say two or three legendary performers from the eighties
Speaker 1: that had Boston roots like uh Aeros Smith or New
Speaker 1: Edition or Peter Wolf turn.
Speaker 3: Jig was then mm hmm. Now for me, I would
Speaker 3: go a little bit deeper. I would go to Pixies,
Speaker 3: the Del Fuegos, Yes, and James Taylor. And I'm gonna
Speaker 3: bring up James Taylor, James Taylor football. Hear James Taylor
Speaker 3: live Chef like the record? Have you do you listen
Speaker 3: to James Taylor.
Speaker 1: I have't listened to James Taylor since before I ever
Speaker 1: heard of you.
Speaker 3: Well, he's the I call him the founder of singer songwriters.
Speaker 3: I mean he signed with Apple Records. He signed with
Speaker 3: the Beatles. That's how much of a great oddist he is.
Speaker 3: And the Beatles, you know, sold off Apple Records and
Speaker 3: closed it down. And then he became James Taylor and
Speaker 3: he was married to Colie Simon and they had Brocking Bird.
Speaker 3: I used to like that song now his brother Livingston.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen Livingston perform?
Speaker 1: Yes, I have. Remember I've got you beat by about
Speaker 1: a decade.
Speaker 3: Yes, you do. So.
Speaker 1: When you were still in junior high and high school,
Speaker 1: I was going to clubs and again the Paradise Everybody, Everybody, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jazz Workshop, Paul's Mall, the Channel, the Rat, the conglomeration
Speaker 1: of clubs in Chemo's Square, Coacadis, Lipstick, and yesterday I
Speaker 1: went to all of these clubs and some of the
Speaker 1: places outside of Greater Boston. Uh say, I've got a
Speaker 1: mental block in the name of the place.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Swingers that was up in Framingham.
Speaker 3: I never heard of that one.
Speaker 1: They were round and their gimmick was they had an
Speaker 1: attractive young lady too swinging while the groups are on
Speaker 1: stage playing. I saw can you remember seeing Harold Melvin
Speaker 1: and the Blue Notes at Swingers?
Speaker 3: Oh Wow? And Teddy with them.
Speaker 1: Teddy was still with them before he realized that Harold
Speaker 1: Melvin was ripping him off, which is another story entirely
Speaker 1: tell you what. Let me take my break. This subject
Speaker 1: is for you, the listeners, the night Side listeners. If
Speaker 1: you partook of all of these places and names that
Speaker 1: we just mentioned, give us a call. Six one, seven, five,
Speaker 1: four thirty, eight, eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 1: This is Nightside without Denray. But this is Nightside fifty
Speaker 1: one degrees.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: Oh if only they would pay me? How many times
Speaker 1: I say, Dan, it's off tonight. I'm Morgan, Morgan went Junior.
Speaker 1: Been a part of the BZY landscape for Good Grief
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five ninety six. I do my own show
Speaker 1: on Saturday evenings nine to midnight. I say that because
Speaker 1: I've just gone back to starting at nine and I'm
Speaker 1: here with a buddy Clinton. I used to hang out
Speaker 1: together prior to me doing BZY Radio, and we had
Speaker 1: a friend and I used to have I used to
Speaker 1: have Frank o'ching on periodically as well. And Frank knew
Speaker 1: sixties and seventies television better than anybody I had ever met.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, he was fantastic.
Speaker 1: He took it personally when Prunell Roberts quit Bonanza. It
Speaker 1: was like Frank was insulted. That's a decision an actor
Speaker 1: made for his own career. But he passed away. Frank
Speaker 1: passed away, and yeah I started miss him, But yeah
Speaker 1: I do too.
Speaker 3: I mean he was such a such a fantastic person
Speaker 3: to talk to.
Speaker 5: And you know, like and we we used to ask. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we go back and walk with certain groups, I mean
Speaker 5: cern TV shows, and and I could never catch him.
Speaker 5: He always was on point when he came to a TV.
Speaker 1: Always, always, always, always.
Speaker 3: Not trick him, could not trick him.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's stay on. Let's stay on subject.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, I tell you one of the things I
Speaker 3: like about the Boston music scene. I want you to
Speaker 3: think back in the seventies. Okay, you were around I
Speaker 3: was still a kid at the time. You know, we
Speaker 3: dominated the radio airwaves if you think from like seventy
Speaker 3: seventy four to about eighty eight, you know, at that
Speaker 3: time period because in the seventies we had Let's start
Speaker 3: off with one of my favorite groups to listen to
Speaker 3: is Boston And you know Tom Shows an engineer Tolaroid.
Speaker 3: He developed a demo called the Boston First Album, and
Speaker 3: the music on there was It's timeless, like the greatest
Speaker 3: hits album. The only feeling, oh yeah, more in the
Speaker 3: feeling the guitar work, four play. You know, you listen
Speaker 3: to that particular album, you could listen to it continuously
Speaker 3: and it never loses. It's that that that feeling. There's
Speaker 3: more than the feeling. That's why he had it on
Speaker 3: that album. So I think when I for me personally,
Speaker 3: when I put I still look at that album to
Speaker 3: date and believe it or not, Whoony in the Blowfish
Speaker 3: beat them for the like for the most albums sold
Speaker 3: by a new group, And I don't even consider that.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I can't consider it. I always say Boston
Speaker 3: is that is that group? I mean that that album,
Speaker 3: hands down was one of the greatest first albums ever released.
Speaker 3: And I have a bunch of them, and that's that's
Speaker 3: the whole show within itself. I know they, I know
Speaker 3: they played the Paradise and another group that played the
Speaker 3: Paradise I'm gonna bring up and you definitely know who
Speaker 3: it is, John Butcher Axis. Yeah, I saw ad. I'm
Speaker 3: sorry you saw him.
Speaker 1: I was about to say all of the music that
Speaker 1: we have brought up will discuss this hour. Yes, legendary, legendary, legendary,
Speaker 1: and the music still holds up today. Any of the
Speaker 1: groups or musical acts that we have just mentioned, anything
Speaker 1: by them, you put on a turntable and play it,
Speaker 1: it holds up fifteen twenty years later. Here we are
Speaker 1: on the cusp of twenty twenty five, and we're talking
Speaker 1: about music that held the charts in the seventies and
Speaker 1: eighties that still can compete with anybody out there today.
Speaker 1: You talk about Hooty and the Blowfish five, you mentioned
Speaker 1: you know, John put your access or Aerosmith or I can't.
Speaker 1: There are so many different acts that you can pay
Speaker 1: and it depends if you want to go with rock
Speaker 1: versus pop, versus soul versus folk, all of them, all
Speaker 1: of them. Go to your old record collection, take out
Speaker 1: an album, put it on your turntable right now, nine
Speaker 1: twenty four, on December thirtieth, right now. It still comforts
Speaker 1: you as you listen to it.
Speaker 3: You have to listen to un vinyl. You cannot listen
Speaker 3: on a CD. You have to listen to it un
Speaker 3: vinyl to hear the popping. And it's just the vinyl
Speaker 3: is where it's at and it's making it. It's bad
Speaker 3: people prefer vinyl today than they did instead of the CD. Myself,
Speaker 3: I had a bunch of vinyl. I had the Group's
Speaker 3: Slave samrth Wind and Fire my Nerds. I had to
Speaker 3: host Star Wars Star Wars album with John Williams. And
Speaker 3: you know you have to listen to that on vinyl
Speaker 3: and you can't look like I said, the CD is great,
Speaker 3: but it's like putting the Beatles album on and just
Speaker 3: listening to the snap crack on pop. It's so great
Speaker 3: to listen to it on vinyl.
Speaker 1: I agree with that. And the problem with CDs and
Speaker 1: they are Christine. There are very few background noises the
Speaker 1: pops that you refer to them. Yes, but the envelopment
Speaker 1: that the music coming off of vinyl just cannot be replaced. No,
Speaker 1: it can't, No, it can't.
Speaker 3: And my daughter calls me a musical snob. She mentions
Speaker 3: a bunch of the group she listens to, right, honey,
Speaker 3: I can't listen to it. They don't have the equality.
Speaker 3: And you know she loves Taylor Swift. I have none
Speaker 3: against Taylor Swift. Oh you know, I know, but I
Speaker 3: definitely like I compare, I said, until she could sing
Speaker 3: like Tina Turner, you know, Tina Turner was selling out stadiums.
Speaker 3: And Janet Jackson, you know, obviously Stevie Nicks, who I
Speaker 3: think I love her voice. She has such I like,
Speaker 3: very distinctive voices that delsa tone voice, you know, and
Speaker 3: Stevie Nicks has that.
Speaker 1: Anyone, I'm going to interrupt you here to take a call,
Speaker 1: to get this call in before I have a news hit.
Speaker 1: So let's go to New Hampshire and speak to Wendy. Wendy,
Speaker 1: good evening to you.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year, Wendy, Happy news.
Speaker 4: I wanted to just mention a couple of clubs I
Speaker 4: used to go to in the late eighties or early nineties. Okay, okay.
Speaker 4: One was in Somervella. Was Club three.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with Club three, I'm not.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And there was a couple in Revie Sammy's Patio, Yes,
Speaker 4: and the Atlantic Lounge.
Speaker 1: And what do you remember any of the acts that
Speaker 1: you saw at these places?
Speaker 4: They were all kind of bands from throughout the the US,
Speaker 4: but they were just all starting out.
Speaker 1: Okay. And I don't mean to be embarrassing when a
Speaker 1: man asks this question of a woman, but what age
Speaker 1: bracket were you.
Speaker 4: And those days? I was in my mid.
Speaker 3: Twenties, okay, okay, And.
Speaker 4: To either of you, Statio Sammy's Statio is a very
Speaker 4: popular music place in Revere. It was on Revere Beach.
Speaker 1: Okay, I've heard of it. I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: went in there, and do either of you. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think of the place coming in down route to
Speaker 1: into Boston. What was the name of that bar, that
Speaker 1: that legendary place. I can't think of it. Either of
Speaker 1: you remember, no.
Speaker 3: Or what year? More than for me, Like I said.
Speaker 1: I'm very eighties and nineties.
Speaker 3: Was it Akuku that restaurant?
Speaker 1: No? No, no, no, that was a Chinese rest strat, No, no,
Speaker 1: no no. If anyone out there knows of the establishment
Speaker 1: that I am mentioning, call in and help me with
Speaker 1: the name. Six seven, five, four, ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine, nine,
Speaker 1: ten thirty. And Wendy, maybe some of.
Speaker 4: Your listeners will remember these places.
Speaker 1: Okay, anybody who remembers the places Wendy just brought up,
Speaker 1: please call in and thank you for listening.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, I'd love to listen. Yeah, all right, enjoyed
Speaker 4: the show.
Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Wendy. Yeah, by bye, all right, perfect time.
Speaker 3: You think that will probably play damn more than it
Speaker 3: would probably be the Stompers, not that that whole area,
Speaker 3: that whole north Shore area. The Stompers was covering every
Speaker 3: everywhere at the time, and they're they're great there and.
Speaker 1: The Fools World Dance Party. It was a great song.
Speaker 1: Tell you what. Yes, we've got too more people calling in,
Speaker 1: so I'm going to take my break right now. Oh
Speaker 1: we've got full lines. I'm going to give Robert chance
Speaker 1: to answer these calls and put them in queue. You
Speaker 1: want to call in, don't the lines are full time
Speaker 1: and temperature here on nights side. I'm not Dan Ray,
Speaker 1: I'm Morgan. Dan is off. He'll be back on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Time and temperature again, nine thirty fifty one degrees.
Speaker 2: It's Night with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 1: No Dan tonight, No Dan tomorrow. You got me, Morgan
Speaker 1: White Junior been a proud of BZ roughly since nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five ninety six. I've been doing my show on
Speaker 1: Saturday night here for years, beginning nine o'clock this weekend.
Speaker 1: And let's go right back to our phone calls. Heather
Speaker 1: and Arlington, thank you for calling in. Happy news.
Speaker 6: Hey, how I'm frey New Year?
Speaker 1: How are you good?
Speaker 6: Thang? So I was calling in with the place that
Speaker 6: was on Route two. I grew up in Islington and
Speaker 6: it's faces. Is that what you're talking about?
Speaker 1: That's exactly the name. I couldn't think of it. Think
Speaker 1: I knew somebody would know.
Speaker 6: I think that I remember going there.
Speaker 1: All right, and who did you see? What music lacks?
Speaker 6: It was a lot of the nights that when I
Speaker 6: would go, it was a lot of DJ nights, a
Speaker 6: lot of culture club like it was Glate eighties, a
Speaker 6: lot of DJ stuff or cover bands or they would have.
Speaker 1: Cover bands right, and cover bands were everywhere in Boston
Speaker 1: surrounding area, and they were going a lot of these
Speaker 1: cover bands were fantastic equal to the act that they
Speaker 1: were covering. Maybe the Smitch and Better Man.
Speaker 6: I remember seeing a great Zeppelin one mmm.
Speaker 1: Mmmm and clon what we were about to say.
Speaker 3: One of the groups I used to see for me,
Speaker 3: Joey Scott in the Connection. I used to see them
Speaker 3: all the times at Frank You might have saw them
Speaker 3: through the years. You might have passed cross pass with
Speaker 3: them sometimes and they Joey Joe I got to know
Speaker 3: Joey and he used to play like a lot of
Speaker 3: classic O, R and B songs like covers and it's
Speaker 3: you know him and John Zuko. They did a great job.
Speaker 3: And those when you listen to cover band, make sure
Speaker 3: don't go there just say I'm gonna hate the band.
Speaker 3: Go there and enjoy the music and enjoy it. That's
Speaker 3: all I can say.
Speaker 1: He's just something you think of this group, Mason Dixon
Speaker 1: in the line, and they were a group that was mixed.
Speaker 1: You didn't find either found a white group or a
Speaker 1: black group. It's rare that you would find all the
Speaker 1: personnel being black and white combined.
Speaker 3: Yes, and.
Speaker 6: I didn't think of it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And obviously of all of the bands that had Boston
Speaker 1: as their base, I'm probably gonna say New Edition sold
Speaker 1: more records. Aerosmith was close, but New Addition they're still together.
Speaker 1: They've broken up, getting back, broken up, gutting back, and
Speaker 1: they are still together even though Bobby Brown left them
Speaker 1: for a while. And a lot of people feel if
Speaker 1: it weren't for Bobby Brown getting to know Whitney Houston,
Speaker 1: she would still be here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he.
Speaker 1: Influenced bad habits around the both of them yes, and
Speaker 1: I won't go any further. So so Heather, yea true
Speaker 1: what are you doing on New Year's Tomorrow? New Year's Eve?
Speaker 6: Debating whether or not to go into town or stay
Speaker 6: home and watch a movie?
Speaker 1: You know what, Heather, stay home and watch a movie.
Speaker 6: That's kind of what I'm thinking. That's kind of where
Speaker 6: I'm leaning towards, truthfully.
Speaker 1: That's that's a great suggestion and cuts down on the
Speaker 1: opportunity for anything unforeseen happening to you.
Speaker 6: Right, And you know, by the time you get into
Speaker 6: town and get back out of town and yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: and you.
Speaker 1: Have to take pup of transportation because there's no place
Speaker 1: to park, you can't drive the streets. So I understand that.
Speaker 3: More than what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I'm here tomorrow night. I'm here tomorrow night from me
Speaker 1: to midight. Okay, my plans are already in cement. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell both of you something. For like three or
Speaker 1: four years in a row, I did first night they
Speaker 1: had me at the Hinds Auditorium and I did my
Speaker 1: trivia show three different time slots two No. One to
Speaker 1: two thirty three to four thirty five to six thirty
Speaker 1: and I was wiped at the end of each of those.
Speaker 1: And one night it was just the worst weather, sleep snow,
Speaker 1: freezing temperatures, and getting there was okay. I had to
Speaker 1: park in the area because they had stuff to carry,
Speaker 1: but going home I kept wishing I had parked a
Speaker 1: little closer and was gone awful. Got home, head pillow
Speaker 1: became good friends, and I was asleep within a half hour.
Speaker 3: I bet, yep, let me let you go.
Speaker 1: But thank you.
Speaker 6: All right, thanks, take care, Happy New Year to you both.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you so much more than what I
Speaker 3: was gonna say to you. Smiths had a second life
Speaker 3: when they did a duet with run DMC because they
Speaker 3: were they were really down in the eighties, you know,
Speaker 3: they were barely making it, and they did that duet
Speaker 3: with run DMC and Arrow SMIs just blew up again
Speaker 3: and they did quite well. And Errol Smith, when you
Speaker 3: think Boston, when you say Boston, who do you think
Speaker 3: up off the top of your head, like right away.
Speaker 5: Musically Boston, Okay, to the group Boston, that's one.
Speaker 1: I think, Errol Smith, I think new edition.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: What about three? Thank you for placing her maybe towards
Speaker 1: the top of that list. Here's a young lady quit
Speaker 1: her senior year of high school so she could be
Speaker 1: with the touring company of Hair. She killed it with
Speaker 1: Hair killed it and her own career, and she had
Speaker 1: the oh what was her product? You would know, cleo,
Speaker 1: the product that used love to love you Baby. It
Speaker 1: was a fragrance and I can't think of that launched
Speaker 1: her career to the nation. Yes, because singing that song
Speaker 1: and the heavy breathing and the central sigh love to
Speaker 1: love you Baby, that did it. Everybody wanted to know
Speaker 1: who is that woman?
Speaker 3: You know, It's funny more than I was in my
Speaker 3: office one day and I had that song coin one
Speaker 3: of my coworkers walked by, knocked on my door and said,
Speaker 3: are you okay in there?
Speaker 1: You're okay? I would have said, are you alone in there?
Speaker 1: That's what I would have said.
Speaker 3: Tell you what, anybody, I'm sorry, No, I'm.
Speaker 1: Just gonna throw out the phone number again. We've got
Speaker 1: two people on hold, one open line. We are talking
Speaker 1: legendary locations and musical acts from the seventies and eighties
Speaker 1: that grew out of Boston. And let's take another call.
Speaker 1: Let's take Joe in Boston. Hello Joe, Happy New Year
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 6: Too.
Speaker 8: Joe had already told you. But it was Faces in Allington, right,
Speaker 8: and there was one of the club I wasn't a
Speaker 8: big concert goer band here. But the Channel in Boston.
Speaker 1: That yeah, I mentioned the Channel in South Boston right
Speaker 1: by the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 8: One question, I'm not sure where they're from. Where Earth
Speaker 8: Women Fire? Where they were?
Speaker 1: They were not from Boston, No, No, they weren't local
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: I think they were from Chicago, Chicago. This was the
Speaker 3: first thing that popped into my head. I could be wrong.
Speaker 3: I can look it up.
Speaker 1: And one of my favorite songs is from Earth Wind
Speaker 1: and Fire Reasons and it's got to be the concert version.
Speaker 8: I've never been to many concerts, but my girlfriend took me.
Speaker 8: We went to see them at Mohigan Son put on
Speaker 8: one of the best shows I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you that. And by the way,
Speaker 1: you were right, Nancy looked it up, Cleo, it was Chicago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're good.
Speaker 8: Okay.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you.
Speaker 1: About the quick story. I was hired in the nineties.
Speaker 1: I was hired to do trivia for a lot of
Speaker 1: different companies and corporations. They would have a business and
Speaker 1: they were advertising themselves and I would go along when
Speaker 1: they had not concerts, but it doesn't matter. This company
Speaker 1: hired me to go to Philadelphia. I took my son
Speaker 1: with me. I think I've told parts of this story
Speaker 1: in the past. My ex wife did not want me
Speaker 1: to bring my son, and he was time to go.
Speaker 1: He's fourteen years old and a chance to go to Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: I finally got her to say yes. This company had
Speaker 1: a huge concert as a culmination point of their event.
Speaker 1: Earth Wind and Fire was one of the group's playing
Speaker 1: and I'm saying, hot dog, I get to see them
Speaker 1: live for free, and I had a press pass. My
Speaker 1: son came down with a cold.
Speaker 3: Oh no, So I have.
Speaker 1: Two choices, go see one of my favorite groups and
Speaker 1: enjoy their show, or be a father, bring my son
Speaker 1: back to the hotel and take care of him. The
Speaker 1: choice wasn't even a choice. Yeah, I had to be
Speaker 1: a father and take him back to the hotel. And
Speaker 1: that was my only chance to see Earth Wind and Fire.
Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
Speaker 3: Ye? Be a father? Yep, yeah, yeah. The Earthpoint of
Speaker 3: Fire is such a great group. I mean, I wish
Speaker 3: it was from Boston. I think.
Speaker 8: Prior to Bottles, Yes, I believe They all had a
Speaker 8: degree from Berkeley School of Music.
Speaker 1: And Tavarus was from New Bedford, Boston.
Speaker 3: Per se, that's what I might have been thinking of. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I try to. I try to keep it like the
Speaker 3: local as well as the New England area of the band.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, because we, like I said, we put a
Speaker 3: lot of great music out.
Speaker 1: Who done it? Who stole my baby from me? Heaven
Speaker 1: must be Michigan Angel. Oh she's gone?
Speaker 3: They were, definitely they were on the Saturday Night Live
Speaker 3: on Saturday Night Fever sounds that, Yes, they were. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And I.
Speaker 1: Love the line she's gone. I'd pay the devil to
Speaker 1: replace her.
Speaker 8: That's all right I need then, you guys have a
Speaker 8: great new yea.
Speaker 1: To you. Thanks for the call. Let me take a
Speaker 1: break here. We'll get Billy and Randolph next. Anyone else
Speaker 1: wants to call in. We're talking about locations and bands
Speaker 1: from the seventies and eighties here on Night Side with
Speaker 1: the time is nine forty six fifty one degrees.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Way Live from the Window World
Speaker 2: Nice Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 1: All right, Cleil, I got bad news for you. What's
Speaker 1: that You're gonna be on as well as nine to ten,
Speaker 1: ten to eleven. Now, don't cry.
Speaker 3: Come on, I'm not gonna cry.
Speaker 1: Be a brave soldier. Do you deal with the band news?
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, I'm good. I can handle it. You sure
Speaker 3: bring it. I'm right all right.
Speaker 1: I could have Rob go out and call in another
Speaker 1: line and have him for an hour.
Speaker 3: No, I'm good, Morgan, yes for this. Come on, now
Speaker 3: you should know that.
Speaker 1: I'm just busting at chops. Let's go to Randolph and
Speaker 1: speak to Billy. Billy. Thanks side, Morgan.
Speaker 3: How are you brother?
Speaker 1: I'm fine, Billy. How are you?
Speaker 7: Happy New Year to you too?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I don't know if you mentioned it, but Lucifers, the
Speaker 7: ken Moore Club and ken Moore Square, I did.
Speaker 1: Mention that the three there were like three clubs all together,
Speaker 1: and one of them went out and then they brought
Speaker 1: back another. So Lucifers, Yesterday's Lipstick and Kadi's right.
Speaker 7: Kadi's was downstairs, right, Lucifer's was the showroom upstairs. And
Speaker 7: if you remember the Lewis and Clark Expedition, what a show.
Speaker 1: And that was another one of the bands that were
Speaker 1: a mixture of black and white performers. Lewis and Clark right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they went on to Hawaii and everything, and they
Speaker 7: a lot of tour on but just didn't make the
Speaker 7: big time. But another club they were big inn was
Speaker 7: the mill Hill Club on the Cape in the summer time.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, it's a lot of bands down there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's they had a lot of great bands. What's
Speaker 1: the name of the place that had a train motif
Speaker 1: on the Cape?
Speaker 7: I can't remember the train. Yeah, and I'm talking back
Speaker 7: in the seventies now, yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, and they had the whole thing was trains locomotives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was called Cohoots, Morgan, it wasn't hoots.
Speaker 1: Okay, nobody will know it and they will call in
Speaker 1: like they called in with faces.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but this is a great show tonight, Morgan. I'm
Speaker 7: loving this stuff, man, because I grew up and you're
Speaker 7: talking about the vinyl and everything. You're killing me tonight,
Speaker 7: and you're killing me.
Speaker 1: I'm happy, you're happy. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. Here is my lineup that was originally scheduled
Speaker 1: eight o'clock. Jerry Beck Cleo was scheduled for nine, Joe
Speaker 1: Ane Desmond was scheduled for ten, and Barbara Feldon ninety
Speaker 1: nine on Get Smart is scheduled for eleven. Jerry Beck
Speaker 1: wasn't where he was supposed to be, so called Cleo,
Speaker 1: but Cleo wasn't able to do eight o'clock. He was
Speaker 1: scheduled for nine, and that's what he set up for.
Speaker 1: So I had joe Ane Desmond come on at eight.
Speaker 1: Kleiol's off for nine, and I'm gonna hold Cleo through
Speaker 1: the hour that would have been Joanne Desmond's hour, and
Speaker 1: Lord help me let Barbara Feldon be wish he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be in eleven.
Speaker 7: That's a lot of work.
Speaker 4: That's a lot of work.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rob and I work well as a team, and
Speaker 1: we were able to make it happen, and people listening
Speaker 1: had no idea because it's so smooth. There was a
Speaker 1: guest today, there's a guest at nine. That guest at
Speaker 1: nine is going to be here till eleven. And if
Speaker 1: Barbara Feldon is which he's supposed to be, I can
Speaker 1: sleep well tonight.
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 7: So I just wanted to I just wanted to mention
Speaker 7: maybe you saw the Yeah, back on the day the
Speaker 7: Summer Thing Productions used to put them all on Summer Thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how we didn't put those out there. Summer thing.
Speaker 3: The Boston Common shows, we saw some.
Speaker 1: Great I saw some great shows there. I saw Curtis
Speaker 1: Mayfield do almost his whole Superfly album there summer.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 1: Cool man, watch a show and you wonder what the
Speaker 1: funny thing it is. Now. I'm doing this for memory,
Speaker 1: but I do not recall any unnecessary activity at this event,
Speaker 1: because they had it every year, and if they were
Speaker 1: destructive elements to it, they would not have done it
Speaker 1: the following year. They would have canceled it, right.
Speaker 7: And they had them all around the city Morgan, like
Speaker 7: you could see. It was in Dorchester, Calmon, Rosendale. You
Speaker 7: know they're moving them around pretty good. Back then, it
Speaker 7: was great time. Yeah, all right, Billy, thank you, all
Speaker 7: right man, you know, happy New Year to you. Be
Speaker 7: safe now, yeah you too. Thanks guys, good night.
Speaker 1: Billy's line is open if you want to grab it,
Speaker 1: do it. Let's go. We've got time. Call line one.
Speaker 1: Bobby and Lynn.
Speaker 3: Hello, Bobby, heybody, You're.
Speaker 1: Happy New year.
Speaker 3: Happy New Year to year too. You ever get up
Speaker 3: to a club in Beverly called Sandy's.
Speaker 1: No, but I heard about Sandy's.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was run by the Salem Beverly Bridge there
Speaker 3: and I saw Jonathan Richmond there. Oh love, Oh yeah, God,
Speaker 3: bless you man. I gotta tell you one thing. That
Speaker 3: song on road Runner, she would be the Boston song
Speaker 3: because it hits all the elements of Boston. Why they
Speaker 3: don't play that enough? I don't get it. Road Run
Speaker 3: is one of my favorite songs to listen to a Firman.
Speaker 3: Great song, great song, great song to be dropping nine
Speaker 3: one on at the stop the Shop. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 3: mentioned most.
Speaker 1: Of the places. I was like, the Channel was great.
Speaker 3: Really, it's the Channel, and of course of things like
Speaker 3: you just said, the summertime Conscious, the summer thing conscious.
Speaker 3: I saw Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Yeah, it was great. Oh.
Speaker 1: One thing about the Channel. Of all the places that
Speaker 1: we mentioned, the Channel had its own parking area, which
Speaker 1: was great because a lot of plays try to find
Speaker 1: a parking space around the Paradise. Try to find a
Speaker 1: parking space and kim O Square if you're going to
Speaker 1: any of the clubs that we mentioned about Katie Lipstick yesterday, Lucifer,
Speaker 1: you know every place. Yeah, in the city was tough
Speaker 1: to find a place to put a vehicle, but the
Speaker 1: channel had tons of parking.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. A friend of mine, a friend of mine,
Speaker 3: saw Bob Molly and the Whalers play there. Okay. He
Speaker 3: said it was like unreal. He just said, because he
Speaker 3: was up and coming. He was just coming up. Bob
Speaker 3: Molly was and he played at the channel and he said,
Speaker 3: the only thing that was this it was Bob ally
Speaker 3: and a lot of weed.
Speaker 1: So, oh my goodness. All right, Popy, you're gonna let
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 3: Okay, yep, thanks for the one.
Speaker 1: Bobby's line is open, vacated just for you. Six one, seven, five,
Speaker 1: four ten thirty or eight eight, eight, nine to nine,
Speaker 1: ten thirty. You want to call in and reminisce along
Speaker 1: with Cleo Campbell and myself. You are welcome, welcomed, ed,
Speaker 1: welcomed to do so, and we'll get to Jack and
Speaker 1: Chuck on the other side of the news. And I
Speaker 1: had to threaten clear with torture to stay for another hour.
Speaker 1: And you're just loving this, aren't your Cleo?
Speaker 7: I am.
Speaker 3: I know you bring up a couple of groups when
Speaker 3: we come back, Okay, A couple of groups. Don't want
Speaker 3: to mention that that well very for me. One's very
Speaker 3: personal and the second one is I finally got into
Speaker 3: their music because someone inspired the list start to listen
Speaker 3: to them.
Speaker 1: When we come back. Time and temperature here on night
Speaker 1: side nine fifty eight fifty one degrees