Face the world with pride.
That's good advice at any time. It's certainly a sentiment to embrace as we enter another new year. I mean, we all have some miles on us. Our paths involve turns to navigate, debris to circumvent, ground to cover. It ain't easy. We move ahead with whatever level of determination and pride we can muster.
That's our intent, anyway. Each week, Dana and I play a bunch of songs that drive us, songs we think people ought to hear. Every playlist is a reflection of that continuing effort to face the world with pride.
"Face The World With Pride" is also the title of a song recorded by the Smithereens in 1993, a track which remained unreleased for decades. But our pal Rich Firestone heard it way back when, loved it, and wished others could also hear it and love it. Rich thought it sounded like a hit.
Rich was correct.
The song was finally released to the public in 2022, on an archival Smithereens set called The Lost Album. Rich directed everyone with ears to listen to the song, and play it often. Hey! WE have ears! So we played it, and we played it a lot. A hit record. "Face The World With Pride" was This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio's # 1 most-played track in 2022.
Years come and years go. Some years are better than others. The magic of music is its ability to help us get through. You can say the same of love, of friendship, of art, and of belief. It certainly applies to the songs that enrich our lives. Music. Radio is made for music. Music is made for radio.
On This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, we end each year with a look back at our most-played songs over the course of the preceding twelve months. The mighty Fritz Van Leaven makes the countdown possible, minding our countdown stats, telling us what we have to play and in what order. As I look at the countdown Fritz compiled for us, I see song titles that reflect the uncertainty and the resilience of our chosen soundtrack: This year's gonna be our year; All the love is here; Every single day; Ya gotta get up; Life goes on; Season of loss; Something's gonna happen; Make something happen.
Face the world with pride.
With this week's show, TIRnRR begins its 25th year as The Best Three Hours Of Radio On The Whole Friggin' Planet. The Dana & Carl radio collaborations go back even further, hitting a 31st anniversary this month. We'll face what we have to face. We'll summon all the pride we can claim. Face the world with pride? Sounds like a plan, man. This is what rock 'n' roll radio sounded like on Sunday nights in Syracuse for this past year.
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This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/, and via the TuneIn Radio and Radio Garden apps as Westcott Radio.
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