To quote the 1980 101 WRIF Concert Guide listing for Jay: "When he was only 10 years old Jay Brandow heard the old men in his father's bar talking about the lives they wished they had lived, and decided then he would never leave room for regrets like that. Since then he's lived in a dozen places acr...

I don't mind some of Kid's music, and he has some measure of talent, but "We The People" is a lyrically contradictory mess that comes off as a self-parody. It makes Johnny Van Zant's love letter song about Ron DeSantis, "Sweet Florida", seem like the second coming of "Freebird". "We The People" is n...

He had a good, albeit relatively short career as a singer after reaching his 40's. I remember buying the "Wolf Creek Pass" album after hearing his first radio songs, the title track and "Old Home...Cafe". The single "Wolf Creek Pass" had actually reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100, making "Convoy"...

The Guess Who 1974 song "Dancin' Fool" reminds me of Three Dog Night 1972 song "The Family Of Man" at the beginning of that song!! Both of those songs' intros reminded me of one from the 1969 Paul Revere and the Raiders hit, "Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon". That list has a lot of great songs, most of which are...

I'm guessing Mick Jones wanted more control over Foreigner's direction, and McDonald was a bit more versatile and involved in his musical, production and songwriting contributions than Jones may have preferred. Having been an original member of King Crimson was a decent resume entry prior to Foreign...

We'll never be fully able to judge the actions taken without hearing the newscast(s) in question, along with what was said to the station, and their directive to the news reporter. Until the whole picture would be available, this remains a "he said, she said, they said, we say" subject. That "said",...

I was referring to music being sped up by adjusting the pitch. That's the most common way to achieve a brighter sound and move things faster. I haven't encountered time stretching, which is adjusting the audio to fit a specific time period (and maintaining the original pitch of the audio) to the sam...

Speeding up music has been around at least since the 70's, that I remember. Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street" was supposedly sped up, after it was recorded, by his American record company, United Artists. Rafferty was supposedly not happy about that, but US copies of the album and single still have t...

No, you are WAY overthinking this. It wasn't anything about a local advertiser, just that the "click" of radios was being heard by all the nonsense. From the linked article below you see it wasn't just about specific advertiser: "WHMI () covered some recent controversial stories in the community, f...

If the news department has to run the gauntlet of advertisers' likes, dislikes and impetuous phone calls to the radio station, then it's not really news reporting any longer. They can call it news and play that game, but the facts then take a backseat to not offending advertisers. Who's really in ch...

We need meteorologists who play it straight, like Jerry Hodak used to, or have some fun with it like Sonny Eliot. I don't mind technical at times, but television weather doesn't have to be played like it's high drama, with the focus on overemphasizing the fact that the weather will impact our lives ...

The statement from WHMI was a poorly-written and vague attempt to deflect the controversy away from themselves by denying a couple of the theories being presented. Their "We wish the two of them all the best!" line especially comes off as a limp wave-off to their time at the station. It's not surpri...

For an outside-the-market perspective, which Toledo TV station would/should be the best for coverage of this weather event? It leads to a possible topic for future discussion- which station in each regional market does the best in weather reporting and presentation? That excludes the other areas of ...

R.I.P. "Johnny Fever", "Charlie Moore", and his original stage name "Don Sturdy". Thanks for the great work, Mr. Hesseman.

I agree with that. His two books, "Waging Heavy Peace" and "Special Deluxe" are pretty good, too. I've always appreciated Gordon Lightfoot, as well as both Burton Cummings and Randy Bachman for their work solo and together, but Neil's in another league altogether. Back in the long songs category, Lo...