Speaker 1: It's night with Dan Ray. I'm tell you feazy Boston
Speaker 1: News Radio.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you the three communities that are
Speaker 2: represented on my call screen, water Town, Houston, and Australia.
Speaker 2: Who are the only people that can draw that type
Speaker 2: of response, not just from Massachusetts, not just from America,
Speaker 2: but from all over the world. The Winnakers, Bill and
Speaker 2: Bow are here if you want to call in, and
Speaker 2: I'll give you the phone numbers. Do the best you
Speaker 2: can to grab it as quickly as you can. Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
Speaker 2: thirty eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty Bill
Speaker 2: and Bow?
Speaker 3: How the heck are you guys?
Speaker 4: We're great?
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 5: Morgan?
Speaker 2: I'm doing very well. Did you hear the lineup that
Speaker 2: we have awaiting you?
Speaker 4: That actually gave me goosebumps?
Speaker 6: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: Well, let's I've got somebody spending long distance money from Australia.
Speaker 2: So let's take Barbara in Australia first, and we'll deal
Speaker 2: with who you guys are to strangers with a little
Speaker 2: introduction as we take phone calls.
Speaker 3: Barbara. Uh, pardon me for saying it this way, but good.
Speaker 5: I goody, goody.
Speaker 3: Mike and Barbara when you're a little girl.
Speaker 2: Did you watch the exploits of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo?
Speaker 5: No, I lived in America.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so why oh there you go?
Speaker 5: How do you goletter?
Speaker 7: We read the newsletter, so we said we're going to
Speaker 7: ring in and say hello.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks for calling you're first.
Speaker 5: This is amazing, Thank you so much. Hi, how are
Speaker 5: you guys?
Speaker 8: Very very well? Barbara is Rodney nearby?
Speaker 5: He is, He's right with me.
Speaker 8: God, Wow, it's so great to hear your voice. What
Speaker 8: a wonderful way to start our show tonight.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Well, we, as I said, we read the newsletters, so
Speaker 7: we said we'd better call in say hello.
Speaker 8: Well, we appreciate that so much. We we so enjoyed
Speaker 8: your visit not so long ago. It's always a treat
Speaker 8: to see you both, and even more so tonight for
Speaker 8: you to take the time to reach out to us.
Speaker 5: What would you like to.
Speaker 8: Tell Morgan and people all over America right now?
Speaker 7: Well, I'd like to say that the Winnakers are the best.
Speaker 5: If you love swing, is it there though?
Speaker 3: Well we all knew that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's wonderful. Rodney, What would you like to say?
Speaker 8: These are two beautiful people. And when we visit I'm
Speaker 8: from Australia, Barbara's originally from America if she's lived here
Speaker 8: for a long time, and then we visit to Boston,
Speaker 8: it's always a treat to visit.
Speaker 6: Bill and Bow and their mother. Just beautiful people.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you for those kind words. Radio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well, I thank you for calling in
Speaker 2: and being first.
Speaker 10: We really be willed.
Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
Speaker 8: Take a care, great to hear from you.
Speaker 3: Good value.
Speaker 2: Two lines open A line is available six one, seven, two, five, four, ten,
Speaker 2: thirty eight, eight, eight nine to nineteen thirty And I'm
Speaker 2: going to ask either one of you to give your
Speaker 2: backstory for people who've never heard of Bill Bow Winnaker.
Speaker 3: Tell your history. Tell your story.
Speaker 8: Well, interestingly enough, when I was ten years of age,
Speaker 8: I joined my father's band. My father was a very
Speaker 8: well known band leader in the Boston area, and he
Speaker 8: had his first band in nineteen thirty nine, and he
Speaker 8: played all over New England with that band. And he
Speaker 8: told the musicians in this regular band that someday he
Speaker 8: was going to have a family band. And the guys
Speaker 8: in this band, they figured that when Bo and Bill
Speaker 8: graduated college, they would probably join his band. But my
Speaker 8: father was very forward thinking, and when I was ten,
Speaker 8: he thought I was ready to join his band. And
Speaker 8: we had been rehearsing for about a year and a
Speaker 8: half or so, and he had taught us maybe one
Speaker 8: hundred songs. By then, Bill was bringing on his drums
Speaker 8: as a young boy, and he knew he was going
Speaker 8: to be a rummer. I had a lot of hot air,
Speaker 8: and my father thought that the trumpet would be perfect
Speaker 8: for me, and it was. And then sure enough, one
Speaker 8: Mother's Day, soon after, my father came home with a
Speaker 8: string base for my mother. Some of your listeners have
Speaker 8: heard this story before, but it's still a good story.
Speaker 8: He brought a string base for my mother and she
Speaker 8: was expecting a washer and dryer and was I don't think.
Speaker 8: I don't think. She talked to my father for two
Speaker 8: weeks afterwards because she was so upset, but she learned
Speaker 8: the base and the four of us played together for
Speaker 8: coast to twenty years. We traveled all over New England.
Speaker 8: We spent two summers on Block Island, two summers on
Speaker 8: Cape Cod, four summers at a resort in Maine, five
Speaker 8: summers on the Provincetown boat, and then the biggest break
Speaker 8: of our life came when we started working at the
Speaker 8: Parker House hotel, and we would end up working and
Speaker 8: performing at the hotel years. My mother and father lived
Speaker 8: in the hotel, pretending those years they had dinner with
Speaker 8: mister and Missus Dunphy, the owners of the hotel, just
Speaker 8: about every single night, and boy, that really sped up
Speaker 8: us getting known in the city of Boston. People would
Speaker 8: come from Beacon Hill, you know, they come from the
Speaker 8: State House. People would come from all the hospitals. Many
Speaker 8: people we played at the Parker House from nineteen seventy
Speaker 8: seven to nineteen ninety one, and many people that are
Speaker 8: listening to this show tonight. Many people had their first
Speaker 8: dates at the Last Hurrah and the Parker House and
Speaker 8: would end up getting married there. And of course we
Speaker 8: were the house band in the hotel, so we would
Speaker 8: in addition to playing in the Last Hurrah, my father
Speaker 8: was leading a band, then my brother Bill was leading
Speaker 8: a band. I was leading a band. We would have
Speaker 8: a band upstairs on the roof of the hotel for
Speaker 8: the weddings, and then we would have a piano six
Speaker 8: nights a week in Parker's restaurant and a harvest on Sundays.
Speaker 8: So the Parker House was really what really turned things up,
Speaker 8: turn the heat up for us, and it was a
Speaker 8: great opportunity. But since then, we left the hotel in
Speaker 8: ninety one and then a couple of years later we
Speaker 8: went to Washington, DC with the twenty one Orchestra and
Speaker 8: we played at pill Clinton's inaugural ball. Aretha Franklin staying
Speaker 8: with our band that night. That was that was something
Speaker 8: I'll never forget as long as I live.
Speaker 2: All Right, bo bo bo bo bo, I'm going to
Speaker 2: stop you here, take a break. We've got oh my goodness, Watertown, Gloucester, Houston,
Speaker 2: and Westwood all calling in to talk with the Winnaker brothers.
Speaker 2: You want to join the ones on hold six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty, eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. We'll get you through two time and temperature
Speaker 2: here on night Side ten sixteen seventy five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: We've got callers coming out of the woodworks to speak
Speaker 2: to Bill and Bo Winnaker. So let's go to Watertown
Speaker 2: and speak with Neil. Neil, you're next here on night side.
Speaker 9: Hello, good evening. The reason I'm calling is though, because
Speaker 9: I know one of the brothers, Bill and Bow. I'm
Speaker 9: not sure which, but they called one night. He called
Speaker 9: one night and answer the question and who was playing
Speaker 9: Red Nichols And it was Danny Kay. Is that correct?
Speaker 3: That was over the weekend? Yes, that is correct?
Speaker 9: All right? So and then I put that in my mind.
Speaker 9: The brothers knew about Arthur Price Sock, and they knew
Speaker 9: about musicians on the Art Link Letter Show. But the
Speaker 9: reason I'm calling is Red Nichols had a guitar player
Speaker 9: and his name was Luigi Francisco Valaro and he was
Speaker 9: eighteen years old, and I guess he was. Then he
Speaker 9: went to the Sammy K Band and he was known
Speaker 9: as lou Rolaro. In the nineteen forty two we got
Speaker 9: booed because Mussolini had just made a pack with Hitler, right,
Speaker 9: so he's Sammy Kay said no offense, but you have
Speaker 9: to change your name. And and so he's up there
Speaker 9: and he's going to make his debut as a singer
Speaker 9: because he's a good singer. And he says, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 9: Don Cornell and Don Cornell, who's that? And is that
Speaker 9: story essentially true or am I.
Speaker 4: Just well, Don Cornell was got very famous, so I
Speaker 4: don't know that story. But Don Cornell became a household
Speaker 4: word in those days.
Speaker 9: All right, Okay, Yeah, one of his friends was telling
Speaker 9: us on a radio show and I was just I
Speaker 9: wasn't listening critically, but I just it's just a memory
Speaker 9: that I have, Okay. And one other thing, Morgan, Don Cornell,
Speaker 9: because I know you talked to Dale Evans's daughter, Is
Speaker 9: that correct?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 9: I did, and he he made a cover of the
Speaker 9: Bible Tells Me So, which was written by her, and
Speaker 9: she wrote a letter to and thanked him for putting
Speaker 9: the song on the map in England.
Speaker 2: Okay, O'Neil, you're very well versed in music.
Speaker 9: I'm reliable, so I just was hoping, well, thank you.
Speaker 3: For bringing it to the table.
Speaker 9: All right, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Good night to you, and hello to Gloucester. Let's go
Speaker 3: to Dana in Gloucester. Hello, Dana, Hi, how.
Speaker 7: Are you.
Speaker 6: Hi?
Speaker 3: Bill?
Speaker 11: Hi Bo? This is Dan.
Speaker 8: Good evening, Good evening, Dana. Great to hear your voice,
Speaker 8: and thank you so much for calling tonight.
Speaker 11: Sure sure, I thought I would briefly tell the story
Speaker 11: of how I met Bill and Bow in nineteen sixty eight. Okay,
Speaker 11: kind of assassinated story. I grew up in Newton, Massachusetts,
Speaker 11: and my family decided to vacation up at Point Sebago
Speaker 11: in Maine. And I was up there, and I was
Speaker 11: fourteen years old at the time, and figured i'd go
Speaker 11: to the recreation room to see if they had a
Speaker 11: ping pong table because I always loved ping pong. I
Speaker 11: walked in and there's a boy about my age standing there.
Speaker 11: I introduced myself and I challenged him to a ping
Speaker 11: pong game. Little did I know it was Bo Winnaker.
Speaker 11: And we get to talking as we're volleying, and I
Speaker 11: asked him what he was doing there. He said he
Speaker 11: was there with his family band, and I got all
Speaker 11: excited because I had just taken up trombone and I
Speaker 11: had only had a few lessons. I hardly knew what
Speaker 11: I was doing, but Bo was kind enough to invite
Speaker 11: me to play with the family band that night, which
Speaker 11: I thought it was absolutely amazing, and I took him
Speaker 11: up on the offer, and I ended up playing I'm
Speaker 11: Getting Sentimental over You with the Winnaker family, and it's
Speaker 11: something I'll always remember it was quite something.
Speaker 8: Yes, And you know what, Dana, I can remember that
Speaker 8: it was many many years ago. I can't remember exactly when,
Speaker 8: as you said, we were both yeah, sixty eight maybe
Speaker 8: something like that, but I remember vividly and I remember
Speaker 8: how much fun that was having you join us.
Speaker 11: It was a blast. I mean, it was just something
Speaker 11: that I've always remembered and thinking back, that was the
Speaker 11: start of a fifty six year friendship started that that
Speaker 11: evening over the ping pong table.
Speaker 8: Well, thank you so much for taking the time to
Speaker 8: be in touch with us, and we really appreciate it.
Speaker 8: And it's great to hear your voice.
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you both. Good night, good night, Thank you
Speaker 11: you by bye.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Houston and speak with Dan. Dan, welcome tonight, Morgan.
Speaker 3: How are you. I'm finding you, sir, I'm great. Can
Speaker 3: you hear me loud and clear?
Speaker 6: Fantastic? Well, it's such a treat to be on I
Speaker 6: guess this is my third time talking with you, Morgan.
Speaker 5: Okay, and uh, hey guys, hey Dan.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 6: Everything that people have said is so wonderful and important,
Speaker 6: But I I would add a different dimension to this,
Speaker 6: you know. I uh, I'm a cancer doctor at m.
Speaker 6: D Anderson Cancer Center and uh, I'm just finishing up
Speaker 6: my career. I'm going to be retiring end of August.
Speaker 6: And it's been twenty two years and I'm a Boston kid.
Speaker 6: I'm going to be coming back to the Northeast. Okay,
Speaker 6: but I've I've been playing with Bill and both since
Speaker 6: nineteen sixty seven and we've performed many times together. The
Speaker 6: music is is tops. But you know what they bring
Speaker 6: in addition to that is an honesty and magic from
Speaker 6: the music that it relates to everybody. You watch these
Speaker 6: guys play, and everybody's happy. And even people who don't
Speaker 6: really have musical history musical performance in their in their life,
Speaker 6: they can see the musicians enjoying what they're doing and
Speaker 6: bringing entertainment to people, and and and and and honesty
Speaker 6: and the number of people that we've interacted with in
Speaker 6: our lives. The the three of us young people who've
Speaker 6: learned music, and music is the great equalizer, right. There's
Speaker 6: no there's no politics, there's no issues about who came
Speaker 6: from where. It's just the music that unites us. All
Speaker 6: all the people know.
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to give credit where credit
Speaker 2: is due. Their father Billain. Bo's father taught them not
Speaker 2: just how to play an instrument, but taught them what
Speaker 2: music can be when it's done properly in front of
Speaker 2: an assembled group. Am I right when I say that?
Speaker 6: Bo?
Speaker 3: Bill?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 8: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: And you know doctor Yeah, let me tell you this.
Speaker 4: So we're talking to doctor Dan carp And when my
Speaker 4: father was a manufacturer's representative for the Gretz Drum Company,
Speaker 4: he would have to go to these conventions and Dan
Speaker 4: would fill in with the family band on piano, and
Speaker 4: Dan played so much with us. After those years of
Speaker 4: the family band, Dan would actually became a band leader
Speaker 4: for us until he had to take a big job
Speaker 4: down in Texas. But Dan's a great musician, Morgan and.
Speaker 8: A great guy.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you. We're three brothers. And Edwinaker was a
Speaker 6: genius and he and his genius was in the way
Speaker 6: he took music, the big band arrangements and he he
Speaker 6: made them into a six eight piece ensemble and captured
Speaker 6: all the magic of that music. But again, more than that,
Speaker 6: he hired all different kinds of people and it was
Speaker 6: only because they were They love the music and they
Speaker 6: were good. He didn't care who they were. We didn't
Speaker 6: care who we were playing for it was just all
Speaker 6: a wonderful emotional high uh and I and and just
Speaker 6: it just again. It brings people together. But not only that,
Speaker 6: we uh, you know, we're I'm gonna put in an
Speaker 6: old plug for Camp Encore in Maine where we've been
Speaker 6: and the guys have a beautiful house up in Maine
Speaker 6: and Naples, Maine, and we've played at this music camp
Speaker 6: and three generations of kids have come through teaching, learning
Speaker 6: from Bill and Bill and being mentored by them, and
Speaker 6: people who've either gone on to be very wonderful professional
Speaker 6: musicians or professionals in other areas. One of the guys
Speaker 6: that we're going to see this week when I come
Speaker 6: back for a reunion at camp is a guy who
Speaker 6: went to Harvard Harvard Business School, a guitar player. He
Speaker 6: was mentored by our dear friend Wayne Glins from Kansas.
Speaker 6: So we all play together. And the point is the
Speaker 6: music is it is an incredible platform for learning and
Speaker 6: discipline and and and accomplishment. And so we get these
Speaker 6: young people who come through play the music, love the music,
Speaker 6: and learn how to entertain, learn how to relate to people,
Speaker 6: stand up in front of an audience and whether you're
Speaker 6: a CEO, an m B, A whatever you do, and
Speaker 6: a doctor. You learn how to relate to people and
Speaker 6: and all of that is the magic of the music
Speaker 6: and Ed Ed Ed Winnaker started it all, and then
Speaker 6: Bill and Bow, you know, improved on it with a net.
Speaker 6: So I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful for this experience
Speaker 6: and for you for the friendship we've had, and it's
Speaker 6: so much more than the music.
Speaker 3: Morgan, Doctor Dan, thank you for your call.
Speaker 2: And I hate to I'll show you up so quickly,
Speaker 2: but I've got a break to take, which will include
Speaker 2: a commercial to end news here on night.
Speaker 5: Thank you, doctor Dan.
Speaker 2: Bye, doctor Dan. Thanks time and temperature here on night
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Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten, thirty, eight, eight, eight, nine, two, nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. If you want to call in and speak
Speaker 2: with music legends from our area, the Winnicre brothers, Bill
Speaker 2: and Boa here and I am going to go to
Speaker 2: Westwood and speak to Tom and Tom you've been holding
Speaker 2: for almost twenty five minutes. Thank you for your patients.
Speaker 12: Oh You're very welcome. It's great to be on and Morgan.
Speaker 12: I said hello to you recently at the Midway trivia.
Speaker 3: Night there every Tuesday.
Speaker 12: So Bill and Bow usually refer to me as their
Speaker 12: manager or their marketing and public relations director. Okay, and
Speaker 12: I love these guys and I've had the pleasure of
Speaker 12: knowing them for close to twenty years. And what i
Speaker 12: can tell you is I've never had a request of
Speaker 12: them that they've said no to. And I'm going to
Speaker 12: give you an example of a nice story.
Speaker 10: I had the.
Speaker 12: Pleasure of being a dear friend to gentlemen doctor Joseph Murray.
Speaker 12: He was from Wellesley, Massachusetts, and doctor Murray was awarded
Speaker 12: the Nobel Prize in medicine. He did the first organ
Speaker 12: transplant back in nineteen fifty four, and he won the
Speaker 12: Nobel Prize in nineteen ninety, about about a year before
Speaker 12: he passed away. I had called over at the house
Speaker 12: one day and asked if I could stop over and
Speaker 12: visit and drop a gift off. And when I got
Speaker 12: to the house, doctor Murray was excited to help me
Speaker 12: sit down at the kitchen table. He wanted to tell
Speaker 12: me a story about a memorial service that he had
Speaker 12: been to that day and how wonderful it was, and
Speaker 12: I kept saying, well, what was what was so wonderful
Speaker 12: about it? He said the music. To him, the music
Speaker 12: was was terrific. And so the more he talked about it,
Speaker 12: the more I, you know, sort of understood that obviously
Speaker 12: music was important to him. So I said to him,
Speaker 12: doctor Murray, I said, this is what I'm going to
Speaker 12: do for you, I said, when you die, I said,
Speaker 12: I'm going to have my friends Bill and Bow Winnaker
Speaker 12: come and play at your funeral. And he said, you're kidding.
Speaker 12: He said, you'd really do that, and I said absolutely.
Speaker 12: He paused for about a half a minute and he said, well,
Speaker 12: wait a minute. Is there any way that I can
Speaker 12: hear them before I die? So I said yes, I said,
Speaker 12: we're going to We're going to set it up. So,
Speaker 12: you know, the following year, he turned ninety and the
Speaker 12: family had a get together with his six children and
Speaker 12: several of his grandchildren and some family friends and that
Speaker 12: sort of thing. So I called Bill and Bow and
Speaker 12: I said I need a favor. And Bo's answer anytime
Speaker 12: I call and say I need something is is always yes.
Speaker 12: So I said, I need you to show up at
Speaker 12: the Murray house three o'clock on Sunday afternoon with the
Speaker 12: band and play for a couple of hours and you know,
Speaker 12: entertain them and that sort of thing. So they did.
Speaker 12: The family had just a wonderful, wonderful time. They played,
Speaker 12: they remembered their wedding songs from nineteen forty five, danced,
Speaker 12: they just had a great time. And before doctor Murray
Speaker 12: died he would often say to me, he said, you know, Tom,
Speaker 12: I've had a very curious and fulfilling life. Met a
Speaker 12: lot of remarkable people, you know, had dinner with the
Speaker 12: King of Sweden, and a lot of you know, medical
Speaker 12: dignitaries and that sort of thing that he said. I
Speaker 12: can tell you that having the Winnakers come and play
Speaker 12: from my family and for my ninetieth birthday was truly
Speaker 12: one of the highlights of my life. And it's a
Speaker 12: tribute to these guys. And you know, doctor Dan just
Speaker 12: used the term magic of the music. But I would say,
Speaker 12: you know, doctor Murray certainly extended life and happiness to
Speaker 12: many many people. But Bill and Bow in a sense,
Speaker 12: they've done the same. And I would say my term
Speaker 12: would be medicine of their of their music nicely. They're
Speaker 12: they're terrific people. I'm just so privileged to know them.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 4: I want to butt in here for a second. Tom
Speaker 4: has changed our life in the last couple of months
Speaker 4: because he's the one that went to this beautiful new
Speaker 4: restaurant in Westwood called the Rolli and he said to
Speaker 4: the owner, he says, you've got to have Bill and
Speaker 4: Bow play here. So Bow and I went there and
Speaker 4: had dinner just to check it out. And it's a fabulous,
Speaker 4: fabulous restaurant, and so we set up an interview with
Speaker 4: an executive out there and she said, let's try having
Speaker 4: you guys. We got a room called the Supper Club,
Speaker 4: and let's let's try it one night. So we went
Speaker 4: out there and we played that one night. We sent
Speaker 4: out a noticed newsletter to all our fans and it
Speaker 4: sold out immediately. And after that first night, they said,
Speaker 4: why don't you play every week? And we said no, no,
Speaker 4: let's go gradually. So we're playing there once a month
Speaker 4: and that's all thanks to Tom Aaron who's on the
Speaker 4: line right now. And all five times that we've played there,
Speaker 4: they're Thursday nights once a month. It's been sold out
Speaker 4: as soon as we announced the date, it just sells
Speaker 4: out immediately. The food is out of this world. Tom,
Speaker 4: you can tell him more about the restaurant.
Speaker 8: You know. I love the staff. It's a young staff,
Speaker 8: but they're very attentive and just very welcoming and gentlemen. Nice.
Speaker 8: But I want to just Bill had this idea of
Speaker 8: talking about Nuoli, but I want to talk about Tom
Speaker 8: for a second and turn the tables on him because
Speaker 8: he's been our guardian angel for those twenty years. In
Speaker 8: many ways, I'll leave it at that as the guardian angel.
Speaker 8: But we've talked about so many different things, and I
Speaker 8: poured my heart out to Tom one time. I said,
Speaker 8: you know, Tom, one of my dreams is to stand
Speaker 8: on the stage at Symphony Hall and play with the
Speaker 8: Boston Pop And we talked about that for a number
Speaker 8: of years and then magically, magically, Morgan, I got the
Speaker 8: call to conduct the Boston Pops. And I've done it
Speaker 8: seven different times. And really I went to the New
Speaker 8: England Conservatory of Music, which is diagonal across from Symphony Hall. Yes,
Speaker 8: and I will tell you that, you know that one
Speaker 8: of the greatest experiences of my life. It's like getting
Speaker 8: to the top of the mountain to be able to
Speaker 8: stand on that stage and work with the finest musicians
Speaker 8: in the world. And I got to do it seven times.
Speaker 8: And Tom's a big reason for that.
Speaker 5: Well, it sounds like a.
Speaker 2: Mutual emiration society between you to the Winnakers, and the
Speaker 2: Winnakers to.
Speaker 3: You, no doubt, well, no doubt.
Speaker 8: We love We love Tom and his family. And you
Speaker 8: know he has opened a lot of doors for us.
Speaker 8: And he's correct because whenever Tom calls, no matter what
Speaker 8: it is, I've played a few funerals, uh, even his
Speaker 8: dear fathers, and you know the answer will always be
Speaker 8: yes for Tom.
Speaker 12: And likewise and Morgan. I think what would be great
Speaker 12: sometime is this is a great venue. But I think
Speaker 12: I mentioned this to Bow recently. Let's find a venue,
Speaker 12: a stage where where we where we can do this,
Speaker 12: you know, live for a couple of hours, you know,
Speaker 12: talk a little bit, take some questions, have them play
Speaker 12: some music, do a little bit of trivia with you.
Speaker 12: I think it would be a really fun night to
Speaker 12: to put something like that together.
Speaker 3: It can be.
Speaker 12: All right, You're welcome, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Tom, let me say this. We've got three people
Speaker 2: patiently waiting. I'm about to take a break. One thing
Speaker 2: I will always advise when I'm on a break. If
Speaker 2: you hear me say I have full lines, don't let
Speaker 2: that stop you from dialing the phone number, because people
Speaker 2: hang up or any number of things can cause a line.
Speaker 3: To be available to you.
Speaker 2: Six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight, eight, eight,
Speaker 2: nine to nine, ten thirty. We are speaking with the
Speaker 2: Winnaker brothers, part of the music scene not just Massachusetts,
Speaker 2: but in New England and beyond for over half a century.
Speaker 3: They're here.
Speaker 2: Jean and Brookline. You've been patient. You've waited about twenty
Speaker 2: minutes the second with them. With a couple of commercials,
Speaker 2: I will lead off with you Jimmy in New Hampshire,
Speaker 2: Glenn and Brighton. You'll get your chance to speak with
Speaker 2: the Winnakers, but I've got to make a break. Time
Speaker 2: and temperature ten forty five seventy five degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Way live from the Window World,
Speaker 1: Nice Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: I was right.
Speaker 2: We did have a drop off, So if you want
Speaker 2: there is a line available for you if you would
Speaker 2: like to speak to Oh Whiz Bill and Bo Winnaker.
Speaker 2: I am now going to go to Brookline and speak
Speaker 2: to Jean.
Speaker 3: Gene. Welcome to night Side.
Speaker 7: Thank you for taking my call. It was well worth
Speaker 7: a way to speak to you and the brothers.
Speaker 5: Okay, I have a question them.
Speaker 6: We missed you so much. It's been such a long
Speaker 6: time since we've seen you.
Speaker 7: Well, what happened was I broke my kneecap and I
Speaker 7: was in a brace for like four months, so I
Speaker 7: couldn't it down my stairs. And at that point you
Speaker 7: were playing at Cooks and my sister's home from Australia,
Speaker 7: so I was wondering if she knew where that woman
Speaker 7: was from Australia. We had gone on a cruise to Canada,
Speaker 7: which is beautiful, but when you were playing, she's already
Speaker 7: going to be gone. She was very upset about that
Speaker 7: because she really, really really wants to see you guys,
Speaker 7: because I do not give you guys compliments, and when listening,
Speaker 7: I will compliment you. But yes, that's what happened. I
Speaker 7: brought my kneecap and I was in a brace. I
Speaker 7: couldn't get down that. It's us now, So now you're
Speaker 7: playing someplace different on once a month and Thursdays in Westwood.
Speaker 8: Yes, we are the restaurant is called Naroli n.
Speaker 10: E R O l I.
Speaker 8: It's at two R L I, Yes, Washington Street in
Speaker 8: the Westwood, mass In the phone number there is seven
Speaker 8: eight one.
Speaker 5: Uh huh three seven five.
Speaker 7: Three seven five yes, two.
Speaker 8: Five nine four, and it it's best to make a
Speaker 8: reservation because the restaurant does sell out.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: So it was one thing you want to do, yes,
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 8: Sorry tonight one.
Speaker 7: I can't read my scribble.
Speaker 8: All right, so we'll do it one more time. Seven
Speaker 8: eight one seven five uh huh two five.
Speaker 7: Nine four seventy eight one. Okay, make a reservation, okay.
Speaker 8: Ask for a reservation in the supper club.
Speaker 5: That okay, But it.
Speaker 8: Is really good gait to hear your voice. We always
Speaker 8: love playing for you.
Speaker 5: Well I didn't.
Speaker 7: I mean I listened more than anyways. That lots of times.
Speaker 7: He just trivy is way beyond an over my head.
Speaker 7: So it's like, I'm not gonna call. So I try
Speaker 7: not to make myself look like a complete moron about
Speaker 7: saying they get to be on some point. They're going
Speaker 7: to be on some point. So it's n I said,
Speaker 7: But let me just turn the down, I said, Oh
Speaker 7: I was, I said, oh, I think I didn't call
Speaker 7: it right away. I could not remember the number. Too busy,
Speaker 7: and I was like, oh my god, I got through.
Speaker 7: I'm like so psyched. That's great.
Speaker 3: I give the number. Approach me every ten minutes.
Speaker 7: I know it. I know you do. But it's like
Speaker 7: if I don't have a pen and a piece of paper,
Speaker 7: it goes in one ear and write out the other.
Speaker 7: It's like, I'm clue.
Speaker 5: Yes, we've been fourteen thirty.
Speaker 6: We've been so worried about you because it's been such a.
Speaker 5: Long time, but just a very long time.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Wait, and I'm glad you're recovering and you're ready to go.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I crashed my knee gap in October and I was
Speaker 7: in embrace until my god, what's March. I think it
Speaker 7: was like March. I wasn't embraced for a really long time.
Speaker 7: I totally crashed my kneecap up. It was all my
Speaker 7: stupid is what happened. So I was just in waiting
Speaker 7: because I had your phone number. I lost your phone number,
Speaker 7: so I was just hoping that I would catch up
Speaker 7: to you guys at some point. But I'm ps like
Speaker 7: to hear that you guys. I mean, I know you've
Speaker 7: been doing a lot of private playing, but you're doing
Speaker 7: that once publicly, the real least to Washington Street. You
Speaker 7: know what West was.
Speaker 8: The next time we see you, will definitely give you
Speaker 8: our number. How can we get her our number to her?
Speaker 3: Morgan where you were, Rob can do it?
Speaker 10: Okay? Good?
Speaker 2: All right, So Jeane, we're gonna put you on hold. Okay,
Speaker 2: put Jeane on hold and give her their phone number.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's already. That would be great.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Glenn and make sure I get Glenn
Speaker 2: on before the news.
Speaker 3: So Glenn, you got about four minutes.
Speaker 10: That's fine. I'm just glad Jean's not in the Witness
Speaker 10: Protection program. The last time I last time I took
Speaker 10: to her was the day after Christmas, Sunday, December twenty
Speaker 10: six one. Right, it took Yeah, the last time we
Speaker 10: sat and spoke to each other. And just good to
Speaker 10: know that she's getting better. Sorry about the kneecap.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh, so Glenn, what's up? I want to know.
Speaker 10: Where's Westwood because I take the ride.
Speaker 3: Westwood is near Norwood the other side. Does that help you?
Speaker 10: Well? I hope the ride goes there.
Speaker 5: I think it does.
Speaker 10: Oh good, So it's called Noli's all right. I thought
Speaker 10: you were playing at Cooks. No more.
Speaker 8: We still play there periodically, but not on a regular basis,
Speaker 8: just here and there.
Speaker 10: Tan Ray and I have a mutual friend who named Ron,
Speaker 10: who lives in Newton. He's a pharmacist. He works in Westboro.
Speaker 10: He wants to take me to you guys.
Speaker 5: Oh, I hope he's listening.
Speaker 4: Yeah, is that wrong?
Speaker 10: Goodebt? Yeah, I didn't know if it was. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: don't know if legal to mention his last name. Yeah,
Speaker 10: that's Ron Goodebt. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well he's a big, big BS fan.
Speaker 4: He's probably listening tonight. But you you, he'll take you, definitely,
Speaker 4: he'll he'll take you.
Speaker 10: Oh no, he's good for a promise. He and I
Speaker 10: are best friends now.
Speaker 3: Guys.
Speaker 2: Wait, wait, Glenn, hold on. You are doing a bang
Speaker 2: out business once a month? Is it conceived that will
Speaker 2: be every other month or even every week up and coming?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, it's up to us. But we want to do
Speaker 4: it gradually at first, and so we're gonna stick with
Speaker 4: once a month for a while, and then maybe we'll
Speaker 4: do twice a month. Okay, But I just want to
Speaker 4: say that if anybody needs their piano tunes. You know,
Speaker 4: times are tough right now. Glenn is a fantastic piano tuner.
Speaker 4: So if anybody needs a piano tune, just get in
Speaker 4: touch with Rob or if you can, give your number
Speaker 4: and he'll do a great job for you.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I tuned for a real estate guy for his
Speaker 10: birthday party last week, and you make a plane and
Speaker 10: a guy named Herman Johnson. He knows you. He performed there.
Speaker 10: He used to play at Ryles. He's a horned player
Speaker 10: in Cambridge back in seventy four. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's getting close to the news, So give your
Speaker 4: phone number and maybe we can get some piano tuning jobs.
Speaker 4: You do such a great job.
Speaker 10: Should I leave it with Rob?
Speaker 4: Well, Rob, you can give it right on the air
Speaker 4: because it's known. You know, it'll be great people. If
Speaker 4: they need their piano tune, they'll take it right now, all.
Speaker 3: Right, Glenn, just say names with which you can drop.
Speaker 2: Like Jordan Rich Yeah, uh.
Speaker 10: Steve, Steve, Bob Rowley, Well he passed.
Speaker 3: And if you want, you can use my name as well. Glenn.
Speaker 10: Oh, thank you right now. I owe you my wife, thanks.
Speaker 3: Anything else while you're here.
Speaker 10: Uh So it's he's saying it's called Norelli's any r
Speaker 10: a O wait.
Speaker 8: And n e r let me let me spell it
Speaker 8: for you.
Speaker 5: N E r O l I Niroli.
Speaker 8: All right, and it's two eighty two Washington Street in Westwood,
Speaker 8: mass Oh.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 10: We see one night you played Thursday nights here, Yeah,
Speaker 10: Thursday night from six to eight pm.
Speaker 8: And you need to make the reservation in the supper
Speaker 8: cub because if you make it in the restaurant, you
Speaker 8: won't be able to hear the music, right, all right?
Speaker 10: So now Ronde does Ronda Gooddale? Go there, she's my favorite.
Speaker 8: There, she was just there the other night.
Speaker 10: Yeah, she's she's wholesome, she's my favorite gift.
Speaker 2: All right, Well now let me we've done Hall Hail
Speaker 2: the gangs all here. Let me take my news break.
Speaker 10: I'll let you guys.
Speaker 8: Go all right, okay, thank you for calling.
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