Our most recent compilation CD This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 5 was released in 2022. The CD is available HERE, and you can read the collection's regular liner notes HERE and see the individual track credits HERE. I had originally intended to put together a lengthy set of supplemental liner notes, as I had done for This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 4 in 2017. Never quite got to it, but I did complete this entry for one of its tracks, the lovely "In The Rain" by Carolyne Mas.
This radio show, my writing, and the consequential networking of social media have brought me into contact with so many artists I've admired for so many years. I often close my eyes and wish I could go back decades and tell my younger, flailing self, HEY! Don't do that! Wait--wrong retro greeting. I'd also want to tell clueless, early twenty-something me that he/I would someday get to communicate back and forth with members of the Rubinoos, the Pandoras, the Beat, the Records, Nikki and the Corvettes, the Records, the Smithereens, the Plimsouls, THE COWSILLS! You'd interview Joan Jett and Cyril Jordan and the Ramones. Hell, you'd briefly be friends on something called Facebook with one of the Runaways (not Jett), and you'd break off contact with her!
(Not that she'd notice, sure, but that's beside the point.)
The great Carolyne Mas is one of those performers, someone I heard on record and saw on MTV, and now someone somehow in my circle of contacts. Carolyne's 1979 track "Quote Goodbye Quote" remains a Fave Rave, but my current Top O' The Mas has gotta be this lesser-known track "In The Rain."
Credit singer-songwriter Dean Landew with the finder's designation here. Dean has himself been a frequent fixture on our playlists, and he suggested Carolyne's "In The Rain" for airplay. We weren't familiar with the song, which only appeared on the (now out of print) Carolyne Mas compilation Beyond Mercury. Dean sent us the track, we were immediately smitten with it, and we started playing "In The Rain" with TIRnRR # 1001 in 2019. Thanks, Dean!
We found ourselves in direct contact with Carolyne not long after that. She's been so nice to us, and she granted us use of "In The Rain" for this compilation. And with that, This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio performs the public service of returning this fabulous, fabulous track to retail. You're welcome, people! Just part of the job here. Just part of the job.
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Carl's new book Gabba Gabba Hey! A Conversation With The Ramones is now available, courtesy of the good folks at Rare Bird Books. Gabba Gabba YAY!! https://rarebirdlit.com/gabba-gabba-hey-a-conversation-with-the-ramones-by-carl-cafarelli/
If it's true that one book leads to another, my next book will be The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1). Stay tuned. Your turn is coming.
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, streaming at SPARK stream and on the Radio Garden app as WESTCOTT RADIO. Recent shows are archived at Westcott Radio. You can read about our history here.
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