Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2: Al once again, thank you, and I truly appreciate when
Speaker 2: you're doing news and you throw it back to me
Speaker 2: with a very simple intro. Morgan White Jr. I'm he
Speaker 2: he is me. I'm being cute with grammar. I am
Speaker 2: going to be here till midnight. I have lined up
Speaker 2: what I feel is a superb set of guests tonight,
Speaker 2: and my next guest is a media historian. And I've
Speaker 2: been doing radio since nineteen eighty. I've worked at a
Speaker 2: good six seven radio stations in the greater Boston market,
Speaker 2: been with BZ since roughly nineteen ninety five ninety six,
Speaker 2: and I have never met anyone who knows so much
Speaker 2: about media history. She's worked in various markets, and for
Speaker 2: those of you who don't know, you wouldn't know of
Speaker 2: the group Rush if it weren't for her. She has
Speaker 2: been very kind to me over the years. I know
Speaker 2: we have her on for two hours, but tonight I've
Speaker 2: only got her for one. Please welcome my friend Donna Helper.
Speaker 3: Donna.
Speaker 4: Now you're supposed to say my guest needs no introduction,
Speaker 4: and I gave you one, but don't you love it
Speaker 4: when they say, you know, my first guest needs no introduction,
Speaker 4: and then they like talk about the person for twenty minutes. Yes,
Speaker 4: there it is. Well, you know what, it is a
Speaker 4: privilege to be on with you anytime, whether I'm doing
Speaker 4: the Morgan Show or whether you're filling in for Dan Ray.
Speaker 4: You and I are two people who just love radio,
Speaker 4: and it's so cool to be able to get together
Speaker 4: and just talk about some radio and some music and
Speaker 4: some trivia and just you know, have a good time.
Speaker 2: I gave you a little plug wrapped around the reintroduction
Speaker 2: of Bradley Jay to beusy listeners. He's coming in Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 2: and Wednesday. I think it's Monday. He's got Peter Wolfe's schedule. Yes, yes,
Speaker 2: which ties in with what you and I are going
Speaker 2: to be doing for the next hour. Tell everybody what
Speaker 2: you and I have planned.
Speaker 4: Well, for one thing, we were talking some of you
Speaker 4: a little inside baseball here. Some of you know that
Speaker 4: we do a little bit of show crip before we
Speaker 4: come on the air, and we were talking a few
Speaker 4: weeks ago about concerts that people have seen in Boston,
Speaker 4: and then we started talking about entertainers who are from
Speaker 4: Boston and then and it just kind of went from there,
Speaker 4: and I see an opportunity to give a little respect
Speaker 4: to Boston and to Massachusetts, not only about people that
Speaker 4: were born here that became famous, people that were raised here,
Speaker 4: but maybe people that you saw in Boston or in Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: So that's what I was under the impression. We were
Speaker 4: doing the impression about something different.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, And I'm going to give an example.
Speaker 2: I live in Newton, and this gentleman was born in
Speaker 2: the gentleman I'm about to mention, and we say Boston,
Speaker 2: and it could be Newton, it could be Framingham.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Greater Boston, anything in eastern Massachusetts. I'll even
Speaker 4: take western mass you know what I'm saying. It could
Speaker 4: be less come in here.
Speaker 2: With the funny spelling. If that's where they're from, we
Speaker 2: consider them Boston, yep.
Speaker 4: Part of the family. And uh, who are you thinking about?
Speaker 4: You were you were from?
Speaker 5: I guess I was thinking.
Speaker 4: About someone from Newton, Robert Wooden. Yeah, and I was
Speaker 4: thinking about Amy Poehler.
Speaker 2: Oh there you go.
Speaker 4: But may I tell a quick story since you mentioned rush,
Speaker 4: let's get everybody started here and you'll see where I'm
Speaker 4: going in a second.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: Now, obviously Rush are not from Boston, Okay. I mean
Speaker 4: I've seen them play in Boston a multitude of times,
Speaker 4: and I feel very fortunate they are. Indeed, but when
Speaker 4: Rush were inducted finally into the Rock and Roll Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame in twenty thirteen, they were on the bill
Speaker 4: with someone who from Boston, and it's somebody that I've
Speaker 4: always liked her music, and I felt terrible that she
Speaker 4: didn't live long enough to see her induction. She passed
Speaker 4: in twenty twelve, and she was inducted in April of
Speaker 4: twenty thirteen. I was there, and I'm talking about the
Speaker 4: Queena Disco, the Pride of DoD Chest.
Speaker 2: Miss Darnah Games summer. Yeah, I'm being cut by calling
Speaker 2: your Donna Games. That was her.
Speaker 4: That was there, absolutely, and her husband and her kids
Speaker 4: were there. Kelly Rowland inducted her from Destiny's Child. I mean,
Speaker 4: there wasn't there wasn't a dry eye in the house. Okay.
Speaker 4: It was just an incredible evening and I wish she
Speaker 4: had lived to see it. But that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 4: People that are from Boston or from Greater Boston people
Speaker 4: who became famous. Now, real quick, A lot of people
Speaker 4: think Jay Leno is from Boston.
Speaker 2: He's from the North Shore, is he not?
Speaker 4: He was raised on the North Shore. He was raised
Speaker 4: in Andover, Okay. But he was born in New Rochelle,
Speaker 4: New York. But we kind of adopted him because he
Speaker 4: moved his family moved here when he was just a
Speaker 4: little kid. I'm sure he doesn't remember New Rochelle, so
Speaker 4: we kind of count him in a way. And Ben
Speaker 4: Affleck the same way. Ben Affleck wasn't born in Boston either.
Speaker 4: He was born in Berkeley, out in California, but his
Speaker 4: parents moved to Falmouth and there you have it. So
Speaker 4: let's think about some people who were either born in
Speaker 4: Boston raised in Boston, but they are known for being
Speaker 4: from the area. And if you saw them perform, so
Speaker 4: much the better.
Speaker 2: Would you like to know a Jay Leno's story? Would
Speaker 2: a lot of people do not know?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Please, I've met Jay, what a nice person.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, and I'm sure you've heard this. When he
Speaker 2: first started out, he was a kid, late teens. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: somehow he spoke to the manager of this particular club.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to mention its name, just yet, and
Speaker 2: he said, you know, there's downtime of three or four
Speaker 2: minutes in between your acts. Can I get up on
Speaker 2: stage and do some of the comedy. The guy looked
Speaker 2: at him, crosssied and said, you're gonna get killed, kid,
Speaker 2: but sure, go ahead. So Jay Leno began entertaining the
Speaker 2: old guys that were perverts at a strip club in
Speaker 2: Boston call the Teddy Bear Lounge, which near the old
Speaker 2: Playboy Club. Oh yeah, and that's where he learned how to.
Speaker 4: Handle a crowd, absolutely, because you've got to be able
Speaker 4: to handle those hecklers. You really do. Hey, you know
Speaker 4: who else I didn't realize was from the area until
Speaker 4: I started like doing research for this.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna stop you here because
Speaker 2: we get a couple of calls and I gotta do
Speaker 2: a news hit.
Speaker 4: I'm Tony says hello. By the way, to.
Speaker 2: All right, let's take a break. Time and temperature here
Speaker 2: on Nightside nine fifteen, I'm assuming it's still eighty five degrees.
Speaker 1: You're on night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to night Side. I'm Morgan filling in for Dan.
Speaker 2: And by the way, I was just chatting with one
Speaker 2: of the two producers. Tonight, we've got Rob as usual,
Speaker 2: you have Rob producing nightside, but Shane, who normally is
Speaker 2: with me on Saturday nights, is here. I'm just getting
Speaker 2: to extra time behind the board. And now let's give
Speaker 2: you the fourth member of our crew. Donna, help her
Speaker 2: and Donald. Let's take we've got full lines. Let's get
Speaker 2: some of these people on air. Let's go to Lynn
Speaker 2: Mass and speak to lrow Lorow. Good evening, Welcome aboard.
Speaker 6: How are you Morgan? Always good to talk to you.
Speaker 6: I wish your true happiness. I hope that good things
Speaker 6: happen for you and your family and your cat. Thank you,
Speaker 6: and Alison, I have to say we're such a her like.
Speaker 6: All the time I hear her, I always think of
Speaker 6: Jim Brady. I don't know why she sounds so hugh, Alice.
Speaker 7: Is she sounds so cute.
Speaker 6: I always look forward to hearing from what she's on
Speaker 6: what she has to say. Happiness be with her and
Speaker 6: all your listeners, including the one that's going to be
Speaker 6: on ater Me whoever that is.
Speaker 2: Okay, Donna.
Speaker 6: I have to thank you Donna, because you are interactively
Speaker 6: on Twitter. Not too long ago, I told you that
Speaker 6: I have some idea years about like about like a
Speaker 6: slow gens radio station. And also I sent some uh
Speaker 6: feedback to Channel four and I told you that he
Speaker 6: replied to me within ten minutes they didn't even think
Speaker 6: about it and said, oh it's not going to work out.
Speaker 6: But anyways, aside from that, take it for that help
Speaker 6: and thank you for your good advice. And you was
Speaker 6: asking if we saw anything any performed Boston performers. I
Speaker 6: have to mention a couple of names that you that
Speaker 6: you folks might know. So back the same year that
Speaker 6: the Vomban and the American bomban happened around I think
Speaker 6: it was a February. Back then, Channel seven was NBC affiliate,
Speaker 6: so that back then they had the Today Show. They
Speaker 6: came to Boston. There was at Fanniel Hall, And luckily
Speaker 6: for me, I got to see the Today Show a
Speaker 6: few times when they came to Boston. So that particular
Speaker 6: year I met Nancy Chen who was locally Channel seven.
Speaker 6: She became on CBS. Most recently I haven't seen her.
Speaker 6: She was mostly on Saturday mornings. Recently, I haven't seen
Speaker 6: her at l maybe about a year on there. Uh,
Speaker 6: she was on CBS Saturday mornings. Uh she became famous,
Speaker 6: you know, like you know, CBS is around the country,
Speaker 6: so she was on there. David Wade as well, he
Speaker 6: was on the CBS Evening News on week nights and
Speaker 6: also back then, uh around what was the year that
Speaker 6: Mariton after Boston bomban happened. Jeff Glore, Uh, he was
Speaker 6: also on Channel seven. He also was on CBS Saturday mornings.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 6: Also, I haven't seen him recently, probably within.
Speaker 8: A year or so, you know.
Speaker 6: Uh so both him and Lissi Chen was on the
Speaker 6: CBS Saturday Mornings.
Speaker 4: Okay, you mentioned you mentioned somebody in passing, and I
Speaker 4: don't know if you got the name right, but if
Speaker 4: you're referring to David Muir, it.
Speaker 6: Was no Davia Wade. Yeah, David Wade was on Channel four. Yeah,
Speaker 6: David mull Also, I think he's from.
Speaker 4: Barton, are he's on He was absolutely on the air
Speaker 4: here in Boston before he went on to be famous
Speaker 4: on ABC.
Speaker 6: Ok No, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, of course I
Speaker 6: know I know them them too. Yes, So David Wade
Speaker 6: is some one on Channel four. Yeah, he's he's on
Speaker 6: Wheat nights on Channel four locally, but he was also, uh,
Speaker 6: he was I think filling in. He was filling in.
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, my mistake. He was filling in on CBS
Speaker 6: Evening News. So he became famous, you know, like to answer,
Speaker 6: y'all course, and.
Speaker 4: You know, very definitely yep, yeah, just sort of de
Speaker 4: chiming on that.
Speaker 6: Appreciate do thank you, I appreciate all your help. And Morgan,
Speaker 6: I wish you true happiness. Happiness be with you and
Speaker 6: your family and the cat and the next call for
Speaker 6: it there is. I wish them true happiness as well.
Speaker 8: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Bye bye in connect call is in Quincy, Keith and Quincy.
Speaker 2: Welcome to night side.
Speaker 8: Good evening, Donna and Morgan Keith.
Speaker 4: We know how to say Quinsy. The rest of the
Speaker 4: country name no, but they think it's Quincy in the
Speaker 4: rest of the country, but it's not.
Speaker 8: There's seventeen other cities in towns. I know they all
Speaker 8: pronounced Quincy.
Speaker 4: I know we're the best. We're the best. We do Quincy.
Speaker 8: Well, do you know why we say Quincy.
Speaker 4: I was under the impression that's how John Adams and
Speaker 4: John Quincy Adams said it.
Speaker 8: That's right exactly. They that's how they pronounced it. Back
Speaker 8: in the late sixties, in the early seventies, I saw
Speaker 8: Tom Rush at the Paul's Mall and.
Speaker 2: Jazz Paul Well.
Speaker 4: I used to go there all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very special venues. They were just special venues on
Speaker 2: Boylston Street. They were, I'll tell you.
Speaker 8: And my roommate college roommate was a blues freak, and
Speaker 8: he kept telling me, you got to come with me
Speaker 8: and see his band. You got to come with me
Speaker 8: to see his band. So it was at a place
Speaker 8: called the Catacombs, and I don't remember that, I remember it
Speaker 8: very well, yep, okay. And so you go down to
Speaker 8: a cellar and then there's a sub basement and it
Speaker 8: was five bucks to get in, and you get a
Speaker 8: drink with the five dollars of cover charge, and it
Speaker 8: was Jay Giles really became famous.
Speaker 2: They were all.
Speaker 4: Those were the days got I saw us so many
Speaker 4: great stars at Paul's Mall, and a lot of up
Speaker 4: and coming folk music folks. You know, you're right about Tomas.
Speaker 4: I think I saw Ian and Sylvia there a while back,
Speaker 4: you know, years ago when they were still together.
Speaker 8: A lot of a lot of good groups coming in,
Speaker 8: and the place that I remember best was in the
Speaker 8: South End, the original Boston Tea Party, which was an
Speaker 8: old yeah remember that.
Speaker 4: Yes, I used to go there too, very definitely. And
Speaker 4: the Psychedelic Supermart. Remember the Psychedelic Supermarket.
Speaker 8: Oh, all kinds of groups would come there, and the
Speaker 8: guy that owned it had a sign outs that help
Speaker 8: want it's all my roommate and now he went over
Speaker 8: and asked him and he says, look, he's I'm just
Speaker 8: starting up, but I really don't have any money. But
Speaker 8: if you help me out, you know, with the staging
Speaker 8: and all this kind of stuff, you can bring any
Speaker 8: of your friends and to see the shows were free.
Speaker 8: So we did that for a whole semester. It was great.
Speaker 8: Helped meet cream, we got to meet I mean, there
Speaker 8: was all kinds of who there you old Fleetwood Mac,
Speaker 8: the original Fleetwood Mac, not the one now. And these
Speaker 8: guys are great. We'd take them out because they had
Speaker 8: no place nowhere to go, so we'd take them over
Speaker 8: the Ken's and Copley. It was open till three o'clock and.
Speaker 2: A lot of places would close it too, and they
Speaker 2: would rock cab no buses, but after two o'clock the
Speaker 2: ts stopped.
Speaker 8: Note suys, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2: It, but they'd go over there and get a noth Yeah.
Speaker 3: That was young for the days.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah. I had all kinds of autograph pictures and
Speaker 8: albums from all these different groups, and unfortunately my apartment
Speaker 8: burned down and I lost everything. So okay, so woman
Speaker 8: upstairs left the space heater on and ignited the drapes
Speaker 8: and that was everything was gone.
Speaker 4: So sure, since you're talking about that, remember when Tanglewood
Speaker 4: used to have rock stars because I went out that
Speaker 4: Tanglewood back in nineteen sixty nine. I still remember it.
Speaker 4: And I saw the Jefferson Airplane, BB King and the
Speaker 4: Who for like seven bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't even buy a beer for that nowadays.
Speaker 4: Oh, you can't get an get parking tree.
Speaker 8: The old gray Tree used to be the field up there.
Speaker 8: He had no it was it's the name of I
Speaker 8: think now it's torn down. But Janis Chopplin and Big
Speaker 8: Brother and Holding Company were there. That was the last
Speaker 8: one of the last concerts together before.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they had all these little cool venues. Speaking of Tanglewood,
Speaker 8: with my wife and I were just out there last
Speaker 8: weekend to see Garrison Quila and Ferry Home Companion. He
Speaker 8: made a comeback, and so that was we go out
Speaker 8: there every June to see him. We really like it.
Speaker 8: Then he stopped, you know, he ran into a little
Speaker 8: problem there and he started performing and so uh huh,
Speaker 8: he just he had a little revival this time. He
Speaker 8: got a little coming back. But yeah, tangled with a
Speaker 8: special place. All kinds of places around were yeah.
Speaker 1: Memories, yep, yep.
Speaker 4: Used to go to the Club forty seven, speaking of
Speaker 4: Tom Rush Club forty yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a it's a bygone era. Unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Well that's why we're doing this.
Speaker 4: That's why we're doing We wanted to do this.
Speaker 8: I can't remember seeing the who. The who came and
Speaker 8: they instead of going to Boston Guards, they said, we'll
Speaker 8: play four nights at the old Music Hall, okay, because
Speaker 8: they just didn't they didn't believe that, you know, the
Speaker 8: garden was a proper place for acoustics, which there wasn't.
Speaker 8: It was a sports are in it. Yeah, So we
Speaker 8: went to see him that one night and remember these
Speaker 8: said the concerts on the common.
Speaker 2: Oh, I remember that. I remember that. So I hate
Speaker 2: to do this, Keith, but I've got a news hit
Speaker 2: to take. So I got a wave goodbye, Okay, but
Speaker 2: thank you for your memory, thank you for the all right,
Speaker 2: bye bye six eight eight, eight, nine to nine, ten thirty.
Speaker 2: We've got ron in New York, but we'll get to
Speaker 2: run after quick break. Donna is here, I am here,
Speaker 2: thank you. Dan isn't but we're doing the best we
Speaker 2: can to hold the fort time and temperature nine thirty
Speaker 2: seventy nine degrees.
Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Boston's News Radio once again.
Speaker 2: Dan is off. He's off for the rest of this
Speaker 2: week and all of next week. He'll be back whatever.
Speaker 2: The second July Monday is. I don't have that date
Speaker 2: in front of me, but you can figure it out.
Speaker 2: Go look at the calendar and find it. I am
Speaker 2: fortunate enough to have tonight tomorrow and next Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 2: and between me, Bradley Jay will be filling in for
Speaker 2: Dan Ray Here on Nightside, I am joined right now
Speaker 2: by Donna Helper, and she and I speaking about the
Speaker 2: myriad of entertainers who've appeared in Boston entertaining appeared all
Speaker 2: over the country and beyond.
Speaker 4: And I started to say to you, I'm sorry to
Speaker 4: interrupt you, Morgan. I'm a horrible person, but I when
Speaker 4: I was doing the research for this segment. To make
Speaker 4: sure that I had all my ducks in a row,
Speaker 4: I started looking at the names of people that are
Speaker 4: from here, and it's like, yeah, you know, the usual
Speaker 4: suspects came up, the people that are like really famous
Speaker 4: that everybody thinks off, like Matt Damon and you know,
Speaker 4: James Taylor and people like that. But I was surprised
Speaker 4: that a couple of folks that are well known for
Speaker 4: oldies are from the area, like Bobby Boris Picket It
Speaker 4: is a Monster mash School Summerville. He was from Somerville,
Speaker 4: that musical that.
Speaker 2: We put together, Don't Touch That dile Yes. He was
Speaker 2: one of the.
Speaker 4: Actors in Oh Yeah. And also our friend Norman Greenbaum.
Speaker 4: He's from Maldon with Spirit in the Sky, which was
Speaker 4: a huge hit in the late sixties and has just
Speaker 4: had like a resurgence, and you know, the pride of Malden, Massachusetts.
Speaker 4: So I just thought i'd mentioned the two of them
Speaker 4: for all the oldies fans out there.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go to New York. Ron is in
Speaker 2: New York, and Ron, thank you for calling night Side.
Speaker 9: Good evening, Donner and Morgan, how are you doing tonight?
Speaker 6: We're doing great, how you doing great?
Speaker 9: Great show so far. I grew up in I grew
Speaker 9: up in Lynn and spend most of my time there
Speaker 9: in New York now, but uh I had a friend
Speaker 9: and also a good entertainer from the Freddie Cannon.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, actually.
Speaker 9: He was from Revere, but he went to school and
Speaker 9: then and we grew up with them. And you know
Speaker 9: he's always entertaining.
Speaker 4: And palisades Tallahassee.
Speaker 6: Yeah, where the action is.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, begin regular is. Arnie Ginsburg used to play
Speaker 4: him so much.
Speaker 9: I mean, oh yeah, yeah, that's that's where he was.
Speaker 9: His the trump that took him over without the Hollywood
Speaker 9: oh yeah, from from when when.
Speaker 4: He was he was so popular with Arnie's listeners that
Speaker 4: he took one of his songs called Paddy Baby, which
Speaker 4: never became that big a hit, but he turned it
Speaker 4: into Arnie Ginsburg. And so instead of Patty Baby, the
Speaker 4: one that the kids all know, he did Arnie Ginsburg,
Speaker 4: the guy with the swinging show, and it was just
Speaker 4: a great parody.
Speaker 2: It's Ernie Ginsburg show.
Speaker 9: So anyway, he was one of he was actually one
Speaker 9: of many people from Lynna and Mayor pretty well, I
Speaker 9: mean they had some actors to.
Speaker 2: Lynn.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, that's a little classical.
Speaker 4: I'll be very honest with you. I've never heard that.
Speaker 4: I mean I when I think Lynn, I don't think
Speaker 4: Telly Savalas. I thought he was born in New York.
Speaker 4: I well, I'm he may have been, he may have
Speaker 4: spent he may have been raised in I'm not saying
Speaker 4: he wasn't, because an awful lot of people were born elsewhere,
Speaker 4: but they spent so much time in Massachusetts that everybody
Speaker 4: thought they were from here. But I could swear, and
Speaker 4: if I'm wrong, I'll admit it. I could swear that
Speaker 4: Telly Savalis was born in New York. And let me
Speaker 4: just very quickly out the joys of the Internet. Born
Speaker 4: in Garden City, New York, in nineteen twenty two, raised
Speaker 4: in New York, went to Floral Park High School. No,
Speaker 4: I don't. I don't, sim and Lynn, sorry he must,
Speaker 4: but you're you're half right. He later moved to Lynn
Speaker 4: when he was in like what used to be called
Speaker 4: junior high school, which today would be middle school. The
Speaker 4: first eumpty fumpty years of his life were in New York,
Speaker 4: and then his family did move to Lynn. So there
Speaker 4: you go. I did not know that bringing up that say,
Speaker 4: but they didn't stay. So he went back to New
Speaker 4: York and graduated from Floral Park High.
Speaker 9: And we had we had another for a little who
Speaker 9: else we had? We had a famous quession played Walter Brennan.
Speaker 4: Remember him, oh clearly, Oh my god?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 2: And where was he from?
Speaker 9: When he was originally from from uh swampscot Master he
Speaker 9: moved to when he was a kid.
Speaker 4: Okay, absolutely remember I remember reading about.
Speaker 2: That long before the real McCoy's in the forties and fifties.
Speaker 2: He was almost like that Gabby Hayes roll in B Westerns. Yes,
Speaker 2: he was in so many B Westerns. And my favorite
Speaker 2: line was not spoken by Amos McCoy. It was spoken
Speaker 2: by Will's Sonnet. Because he was in the guns of
Speaker 2: Will's Sonnet.
Speaker 4: I will never him from the song Old Rivers that Mule.
Speaker 2: Olds and Let's take the Road.
Speaker 9: I got a quick, quick one for you. You probably know this.
Speaker 9: So what was the B side of Old Rivers?
Speaker 2: I do not know.
Speaker 9: It was Halsey epiguide of John H.
Speaker 7: Glen.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, I remember, very good right, Yes it was.
Speaker 4: It was played on Top forty around here. It went
Speaker 4: absolutely nowhere but it did get some airplay.
Speaker 2: All right, Ron, I got to take another call, but
Speaker 2: thank you for making this call.
Speaker 9: Thank you. Have a good night folks.
Speaker 2: YouTube, Bye bye. Let's go well by the way phone
Speaker 2: number six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight
Speaker 2: eight eight, nine to nine, ten thirty. This is a
Speaker 2: night's side you want to call in for only about
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes more. We're going to be talking about well
Speaker 2: known Bostonians that may have been born here entertained here.
Speaker 2: We'll leave it up to you to throwing names like
Speaker 2: Telly Savalas and Walter Brennan. Let's go to Marblehead and
Speaker 2: speak to Tommy. Tommy, good evening.
Speaker 10: Good evening, John and Morgan. Thank you so much for
Speaker 10: this show tonight. It's quite a history lesson.
Speaker 2: Okay, well add to it. I'm going to go off.
Speaker 9: The rail a little bit.
Speaker 10: I just wanted to ask either of you or both
Speaker 10: of you, are you familiar when the greatest rock and
Speaker 10: roll band of all time back when they were first
Speaker 10: gotting out in the sixties. Supposedly, and I didn't go
Speaker 10: on the internet because I just want to relax tonight,
Speaker 10: but supposedly they played at Manning Bowl in wind Massachusetts
Speaker 10: and the concert, from what I understood and why I've
Speaker 10: heard from people, ever happened because there was a riot.
Speaker 2: Well, the greatest rocking rolle Banding Stones. I was about
Speaker 2: to say, the greatest rocking roll band by name in
Speaker 2: history is the Rolling Stones. You have to say that
Speaker 2: if you're introducing them to come on stage.
Speaker 10: Absolutely that I was working enough to do them playing
Speaker 10: in two thousand and.
Speaker 8: Four at the way.
Speaker 10: But I'm just wondering if that was like one of
Speaker 10: the biggest bands to ever play outside of Boston, which
Speaker 10: it was in Land, which is by we close to
Speaker 10: Boston as we know.
Speaker 4: Well, the Beatles played.
Speaker 10: Your knowledge of that or your opinion of that.
Speaker 4: Well, the Beatles played at Suffolk Downs, which is sort
Speaker 4: of Revere, isn't it, And.
Speaker 10: The Beatles plays heard that and also the Beatles played
Speaker 10: at Suffolk Towns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, the Beatles absolutely did. And Gary Lapierre, god
Speaker 4: rest his soul covered it. It was one of his
Speaker 4: first assignments. What a great gig that must have been. Yeah,
Speaker 4: So yeah, the Stones played the Manning Bowl in June
Speaker 4: I think of nineteen sixty six. Okay, but the Beatles
Speaker 4: absolutely did not play the Manning Ball However, they did
Speaker 4: play Suffolk Downs, and as I said, I know that
Speaker 4: for a fact because Gary Lootiear was there and one.
Speaker 2: Of the one just one more thing, go ahead.
Speaker 10: Do you have any knowledge about when the Stones were
Speaker 10: scheduled to play in lynn In that there was a
Speaker 10: riot that prevented them from playing.
Speaker 2: Donna.
Speaker 10: I heard the Hell's Angels were involved in this, and
Speaker 10: that there might have been a stabbing or two, but
Speaker 10: that that.
Speaker 2: Story from what I've heard.
Speaker 10: Okay, I'm sure there's someone else there that has the knowledge,
Speaker 10: and if I could go on the internet, I would,
Speaker 10: but tonight I'm just relaxing. But that story has oh
Speaker 10: very much for this outstanding show.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Tommy, bye bye. But by now, the.
Speaker 4: Only angels and stuff that.
Speaker 2: Happened in Ultima, California.
Speaker 4: Yes, as far as I know, there wasn't a stabbing
Speaker 4: or Hell's Angels. I mean, I'm looking at the ad
Speaker 4: for the show from the Manning Bowl three dollars, three
Speaker 4: dollars to see the Stones.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's he's got the story right, but the
Speaker 2: location wrong by three thousand miles. So Tommy, yes, that's
Speaker 2: that story happened, but not in Massachusetts. It happened in California,
Speaker 2: and if I'm not mistaken, part of the fee that
Speaker 2: the Hell's Angels had for being in charge of security
Speaker 2: was a couple of cases of beer and like two
Speaker 2: hundred dollars cash something like that.
Speaker 4: And as far as I know, there was no riot.
Speaker 4: There was, I mean it was. There were a lot
Speaker 4: of fans that were kind of pushing and shoving. There
Speaker 4: were a lot of people that wanted to try to
Speaker 4: get in and couldn't get in. But I'm looking at
Speaker 4: the reviews. They played for twenty minutes. The fans were
Speaker 4: upset because they didn't play longer. But I don't see riots,
Speaker 4: and I don't see Hell's Angels, and I think that
Speaker 4: was somewhere else entirely like Altamont.
Speaker 2: Let me take my last break of this hour. By
Speaker 2: the way, those of you who are fans of as
Speaker 2: I call her, the Empress of Entertainment, Joyce Cole Hawick
Speaker 2: will be here next hour, but Mark and Newton will
Speaker 2: be next on the phone after this break. Time in
Speaker 2: temperature nine point forty seven seventy nine degrees.
Speaker 1: It's night Side with Dan Ray on Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Have about eight minutes left with Donna Helper. But that's
Speaker 2: only half of night Side tonight. We still have another
Speaker 2: two hours from ten to midnight. I'll tell you more
Speaker 2: about that after Donna and I take a call from
Speaker 2: Newton and speak to Mark.
Speaker 7: Hello, Mark, Hello, Donna and Morgan. He'll be as quick
Speaker 7: as I can. You mentioned briefly at Ams and of
Speaker 7: course the Ms Brothers. They were from Malden, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 7: Georgia Gibbs I believe was born in the Worcester.
Speaker 4: Area, Yew Georgia Gibbs.
Speaker 7: Yes. And the tune Weavers featuring Margot Sylvia who had
Speaker 7: that big hit Happy Happy Birthday Baby. I believe they
Speaker 7: were from Roxbury Gibtag Yes, Yes. And the Jamie Summertime,
Speaker 7: Summertime they were from I believe, Georchester.
Speaker 2: And we know that story. Donna tell that the background
Speaker 2: story on that.
Speaker 4: Oh God, to get into a long thing about Shuram
Speaker 4: Feller and so on and so on.
Speaker 2: Surm Feller was the announcer at Family Park and he
Speaker 2: was the driving force behind the Jamies.
Speaker 4: Tried to get songwriting credit for it, and there's a
Speaker 4: real question about whether he actually wrote the song. But
Speaker 4: in fairness, it was really common back in those days
Speaker 4: for producers of records to also get songwriting credit. So
Speaker 4: but yeah, long before Sharam was Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys
Speaker 4: and girls. The announcer at Fenway Park. He was on
Speaker 4: the radio with Judy Valentine, God Rest her Soul, and
Speaker 4: they did a show called A Feller and His Girl
Speaker 4: and they used to be on the old w E E.
Speaker 2: I and had I had Judy a number of time
Speaker 2: song Yes WBZ with me, Mark anything else, just a.
Speaker 7: Few others Orpheus and the Barbarian.
Speaker 4: And multi in the barber Yes, are you a boy
Speaker 4: or are you a girl? Yes? Indeed, thank you for
Speaker 4: the call. Thank you and AVS TV fans know that
Speaker 4: Ellen Pompeo from Grey's Anatomy Everett, Yes, right of Everett.
Speaker 2: All right, so market's gone. Let's now go to We
Speaker 2: have two more people to try to get on in
Speaker 2: four minutes to do it. Josephin Lynn, Welcome aboard.
Speaker 3: Good welcome, Donna. I wanted to give you support. I
Speaker 3: love music. I wish there was a record stores e
Speaker 3: CDs there and I wanted to give you support for
Speaker 3: your case. I won my case with MCD. I hope
Speaker 3: you win them and knock them dead because that was
Speaker 3: wrong what they did to you. But I.
Speaker 4: Coy for another day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll call back Morgan when your open lines with
Speaker 3: my cancer story. Things aren't going well about Donna. Where
Speaker 3: can we find record stores around here? CDs?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: I love those? It's so hard. I don't buy online.
Speaker 3: I can't. I'm not good at it.
Speaker 4: No, I know exactly what you're saying. There are still
Speaker 4: a few record stores in the area, a lot of
Speaker 4: used record stores and places like that. But Randolf someplace you.
Speaker 2: Like to go Randolph Music, for one, Yep.
Speaker 4: I never Pippy White. I used to go to Skippy White.
Speaker 2: I had Skippy on as recent as a year ago.
Speaker 2: He had a big live show in Boston last July.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 2: And his record store, the last one was in Egleston Station.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I used to like to go to cheap
Speaker 4: O Records. Yeah, I love you.
Speaker 3: Is that the place to go to because I can't
Speaker 3: go to Randolph It's kind of far from me and
Speaker 3: if the ride goes here. But done that. Is there
Speaker 3: any record stores in Boston?
Speaker 4: I don't even know if they're open anymore, to be
Speaker 4: very honest with.
Speaker 3: You, Oh my god, so many of those.
Speaker 4: Stores are no longer around as far as I know,
Speaker 4: cheap O Records is still around. They're in Cambridge, okay,
Speaker 4: and they want to get a call. They're in Central
Speaker 4: Square in Cambridge. Give them a call, see if they're
Speaker 4: still there. They were still there with a couple of
Speaker 4: months ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But again, I wish you well in support.
Speaker 4: Thank you honey much.
Speaker 2: Jo So thank you for the call.
Speaker 3: I got one more call you later, God bless.
Speaker 2: Okay, I've got one more call to take with Donna.
Speaker 2: Let's go to drake It and speak to Ernie. Hello, Ernie, Hey.
Speaker 5: Hi, Donna, and Hi Morgan Hello.
Speaker 4: Hey, hey, how are you Hi?
Speaker 8: You guys.
Speaker 5: Of course you probably know this. Betty Davis was born
Speaker 5: in Lowell. Yes, indeed, I knew that Nick and McMahon
Speaker 5: is from Lowell. Yes, he is young with the Lowell
Speaker 5: High School.
Speaker 7: Yep.
Speaker 5: And I wanted to Donna, you probably might know this.
Speaker 5: Bob and Ray got the start at.
Speaker 2: W L l A Y L l A H and
Speaker 2: then they eventually wound up on w U H D H.
Speaker 2: And uh, I think I've had Bob Elliott on yep.
Speaker 5: This actor in the fifties Windell Corey.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, he's from where.
Speaker 5: He's from, Drake At, Massachusetts. Is he really?
Speaker 2: And that's where you're from?
Speaker 5: Yes, I am excellent. You can geat, you can google
Speaker 5: it up. He went to Draket High School.
Speaker 4: He's been Drake It okay, excellent?
Speaker 2: Any others here?
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 2: Any other names you want to bring up?
Speaker 6: Wow?
Speaker 5: Here for me, all my memories screwing up in the
Speaker 5: sixties was the Commodore Ballroom and Lowell and all.
Speaker 7: All of you know.
Speaker 4: They used to have some wonderful talent out at the
Speaker 4: Commodore Ballroom.
Speaker 5: Yes they did, Yeah, all of you know.
Speaker 4: I used to I used to like the Surf Ballroom
Speaker 4: in Fantasket because that was closer to me. But Commodore
Speaker 4: and they.
Speaker 5: Would travel with Circuit Tana.
Speaker 9: Sure.
Speaker 5: Sure, one night they would be in Lowell. The next
Speaker 5: night they might be at Hampton Beach. You know what
Speaker 5: I'm saying right absolutely at the Candy Lake Ballroom. And
Speaker 5: so yes, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: In the amount of time.
Speaker 4: But thank you Joey much, thank you, Thank You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Babbeye Donna, thank you. We squeeze, kidney, We squeezed a
Speaker 2: lot into one hour.
Speaker 4: Yes we didn't, We didn't even get to mention James
Speaker 4: Spader of The Blacklist and Legal so many others. We'll
Speaker 4: do it again.
Speaker 2: Sometimes I saw the Tavares opened for the Jackson's, just
Speaker 2: the Jackson's in the early eighties in Providence. Good time,
Speaker 2: another story for another day.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, thank you so much for having me on, and
Speaker 4: thank you to everyone for listening. And you've got another
Speaker 4: very excellent hour coming up, two.
Speaker 2: Hours, and Donna, you know I wish you well.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, much love to everybody you take
Speaker 4: care Bybeye.
Speaker 2: Time and temperature here on night side nine fifty eight
Speaker 2: seventy nine degrees