Russ took a moment from his busy schedule to say, “Hello again! It's time for another Monday Music Mambo. Today is a special day for us - it's Radio Day!”
1. What is your favorite radio station?
It's a toss-up these days between WERU-FM, a community-based radio station loosely associated with Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul and Mary fame) as it started out in a corner of a chicken house on his property, and Maine Public Radio station WMEH-FM, a listener-funded radio service that specializes in classical, jazz, Celtic and world music and world-class news service. WERU-FM is folksy, fun and funky in the music played and runs the gamut of the far-left wing political spectrum in it's “news” coverage (that's OK – there's always WVOM-FM, The “Voice of Maine”, if you need an extreme right-wing POV fix).
2. What kind of radio stations did you listen to while growing up?
As a young kid, my first awareness of radio station(s) were the Philadelphia clear channel, Top 10 (this was back when dinosaurs roamed and there weren't but one or two new releases per week) AM stations my mother listened to and the local AM outlet that played country music, polkas and announced school closings. Despite my mother's preference for current crooners, my father was addicted to Big Band and Swing-era music, so that was what we heard in the evening and weekends when he was around. Babysitters opened my eyes to “Rock and Roll” at a relatively early stage in my oh-so-warped development. Of course, there was Dick Clark's “American Bandstand” on the local TV station after school that we had to watch with the babysitter(s) if we were inside because of bad weather. Later, it was WABC in New York that captured my imagination at night. Then a move to Maine reintroduced the concept of local programming with WGUY and WABI-AM being the two that stand out in my memory now, in addition to such clear channel favorites late at night like WBZ in Boston and WWV in Wheeling, West Virginia. In college, when not listening to the station(s) I managed or worked for, I listened to “progressive” rock stations in Montreal. In addition, all through the sixties I listened to shortwave radio while I was out of the country.
3. If you had control of a radio station right now, what five songs would you play? You can pick anything you want, you're in control!
The five enamourata I'd choose right now have all been mentioned in previous Monday Mambo's here, I think. Let's start the set off with Dire Strait's evocative Down to the Waterline. Bringing the mood back up a wee bit would be the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. Smooth it out with Bob Dylan's Modern Times breakout hit, Someday Baby. Slow it back down and somber with Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Bring it on home with Leonard Cohen's irreverent Closing Time. There you have it – The All Male Review of the Sixties Dead (or soon to be dead) movers and shakers of the past millennium...
The rules are, there are no rules!!! All you need to do is copy and paste the above questions into your blog and add your responses. After you've finished, return here and leave us a comment so we'll know you've Mamboed. Be sure your Mambo is linked back to http://bdinsanity.blogdrive.com so others can dance too.
Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. If one of the questions doesn't inspire you then simply "pass" it. Just use your imagination and dance like crazy!
If you don't have a blog or you're an exhibitionist *woo hoo* feel free to Mambo right here in our comments section. There's absolutely no pressure ... although it's called the Monday Music Mambo you can Mambo on any day.
Until next time, this is your music-lovin' Mememeister saying have a good Monday and a good Mambo!
Posted at 12:34 am by rfduck the music-loving mememeister
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