This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl is simply too large a concept to be neatly contained within a mere three-hour weekly time slot. Hence these occasional fake TIRnRR playlists, detailing shows we're never really going to do...but could.
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| Yep. I was there. Green Jello played, too. |
I lived in Buffalo from late summer of 1982 until not-quite-spring of 1987. The story of my life in Buffalo is told in a memoir called The Road To GOLDMINE. And one of its highlights was listening to WBNY-FM.
BNY was the student-operated station at Buffalo State College, but its adventurous New Music Radio format was fascinating to this twenty-something non-student. When I look back at the radio stations that influenced my half of the gestalt and pepper that sparked This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl, I can still see and appreciate the ongoing impact of WBNY.
Tina Peel's Hullaballoo au Go-Go. Cal Zone!'s Down At Lulu's. The Tom Calderone Variety Show. Heather Holland-Hyphen, aka the Coffee Orphan. I listened to WBNY all the time. I remember calling in when Tina Peel was attempting to play Mad Libs on the air, and I contributed answers like Micky Dolenz and Rock 'em Sock 'Em Robots. I remember making too-frequent requests for Translator and X, prompting the jocks to beg me to please request something else. I won tickets to see the Waitresses and the Bangles. I turned on that Buffalo station, and couldn't believe what I heard at all.
This was great radio, served up by a great radio station. WBNY even gave the world my own first-ever attempts at hosting radio shows, when I did a pair of guest appearances on WBNY's amateur DJ series Ha! Ha! I'm On The Radio. The roots of 50% of TIRnRR.
If I had to specify the radio stations that had the most significant influence on whoever the hell I am and whatever the hell I've done, WBNY-FM would be lodged alongside the formative impact of Syracuse's WOLF-AM and WNDR-AM Classic Top 40 in the early to mid 1970s and the freer-form vistas of Utica's WOUR-FM circa '76-'78, with an honorable mention to WBSU in Brockport. Yeah, WBNY was that important to me.
So here's a playlist built with tracks my rock or roll memory bank--that's an in-joke--insists I heard on WBNY. I am not under oath, and I concede the possibility/probability this includes stuff I heard on other Buffalo stations, from WUWU-FM to 14 Rock AM to 97 Rock.
But it's mostly WBNY. And together, it all sounds like a time capsule of my experience as a WBNY listener in the '80s.
New Music Radio.
Decades later, it still feels fresh to me.
This Is Rock 'n' Roll Radio with Dana & Carl--y'know, the real one--airs Sunday nights from 9 to Midnight Eastern, on the air in Syracuse at SPARK! WSPJ 103.3 and 93.7 FM, and on the web at http://sparksyracuse.org/ You can read all about this show's long and weird history here: Boppin' The Whole Friggin' Planet (The History Of THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL RADIO). TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS are always welcome.
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