The Don Rosen Show (Hour 1)

You're getting fatter by this second.

That's why everybody has to go on these stupid diets.

You see, every week there's like a new diet.

The caveman diet, you know, all fat.

Eat just meat.

Eat all the meat you want.

And you get skinny, just by eating meat.

That'll work.

Eat all the meat, all they want.

Just meat, meat, meat.

And you'll get skinny, like a caveman.

That's not gonna work in the long run.

The reason cavemen were skinny is because before they ate something,

they had to chase it around for a week and kill it with a stick.

I mean, yeah, if you had to track a pint of hoggandas

across the tundra for five days,

before you beat it with a boulder, sure, that would work.

Let the river run

Let all the dreamers wake the nation

Come, the new Jerusalem

Silver cities rise

The morning lights

The streets that made them

And sirens call them on

With the sun

It's asking for the taking

Trending, shaking

Oh, my heart is aching

We're coming to the edge, running on the water

Coming to the fire, sons and daughters

We, the greatest war

Stand on a star

And place a dream of peace

I, the darling, darling

It sticks away to WRGN Radio

I'm Don Rose, and I want to thank you for joining us here this morning

on a rainy gloomy morning

What is going on out there?

Why can't we have any nights like sunshundly afternoons?

It's getting depressing, isn't it?

Every day it's drizzling, raining, gloomy, foggy

I think the next chance for any sunshut is the middle of next week

But it's better than snow and ice and cold weather

I'll give you that

Right now, 36 degrees in rain

38 degrees in rain and fog

Today, 34 degrees in rain and fog

Tonight, cloudy with a high-tier 38 tomorrow Sunday

cloudy with a high-tier 37

Again, rain and 36 right now

Hey guys, this WRGN is pleased to welcome

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between 6 and 8 a.m. right here at WRGN Radio

6,09 WRGN, home town radio

refreshed a civic media station

All right, we got Easter coming up

that means candy, chocolates and so forth

Costco is selling a two-foot tall chocolate Easter buddy

two-foot tall

That's pretty big, but

the way he's four-and-a-half pounds

How can that be?

People are upset because it's hollow

and it costs $64

I can see if it was solid chocolate

but it's hollow

$64

When David Boyle was just 17

he co-founded a society for the preservation

of cruelty to long-haired men

He said that long-haired men were always being told

to cut their hair or it teased for looking like women

and that's true.

I remember when the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan show

back in the 60s as a little kid

and my grandmother said, oh they look like girls

they look like women.

Keep in mind, remember if you took a look

at what the Beatles look like then

that was not long-haired.

My grandmother went berserk when she saw it.

She thought the end of the world was coming.

Physicians rock groups lived to regret

and they include this.

Candy Logins wasn't the first to perform

a major zone for the movie Top Gun.

The producers wanted Toto to do it

but they couldn't make a deal.

Then they went to Brian Adams and Aureo Speedwagon

they turned it down as well.

I bet you they're sorry they turned it down.

Speaking about bad decisions from rock groups

think about all the groups

that were at Woodstock back in 1969

then take a look at the movie Woodstock

which one of the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Take a look at that movie

not all the groups are in their groups

like Credence Clearwater Revival

and the Grateful Dead and Mountain

said no, they don't want to be in the movie.

Their managers gave them bad advice.

They said you're selling yourself

out to commercialism.

Keep in mind it was 1969

and so CCR, Mountain

and the Grateful Dead

and some other groups said no.

You cannot put us in that movie.

So I heard an interview with Leslie West

from Mountain a couple of years ago

and he said it was one of the worst decisions

in life not to be in the movie Woodstock.

What were they thinking?

Most of the groups said yes

we want to be in it.

But those three and some others said no.

Bad decisions.

A husband and Missouri bought a lottery ticket

but only scratched off the barcode to scan it.

And found out it hit for $100,000

but didn't tell his wife.

He leapt it for her to scratch off

so she got the full experience of hitting the jackpot.

We don't know if he actually told her

that he knew they won.

But that was nice of him.

Let her experience it.

That's nice.

A travel blogger says always check,

oh wait, wait, before I read this.

When you go to a hotel room

and maybe you're going out for a nice dinner that night

or you're going to a wedding

and you're in a hotel room, you know,

you had a travel to get to the wedding or whatever.

You ever take out the ironing board

and the iron there and start to iron your clothes?

Yeah, because they were in a suitcase

and you want them to be a looker

and nice for the wedding or the night out

or the reunion, whatever you're going to.

Business deal, a business dinner.

Okay, a travel blogger says check the irons

in the hotel rooms to make sure they're clean

because more and more people, more than you think,

are using them to heat up leftover pizza.

They put the pizza on the iron.

That's gross.

And I don't think the cleaning staff checks the irons.

I've never heard of that before.

And we've used the iron all the time.

I mean, you close your own wrinkled from packing it,

laying in the trunk of the car when you travel

or on the airplane.

I never thought of checking the irons for pepperoni pizzas.

A Boeing 757 plane lost its nose wheel

shortly before taking off in Atlanta.

This happened on Saturday.

It was a Delta Airlines plane preparing to go to Columbia

when the nose wheel came off and rolled down the hill.

You know, I keep saying to you,

this is recent number 462, why I don't like the fly.

Well, this is reason 463, why I don't like the fly.

Even the doors are coming off at 16,000 feet.

People are going nuts and causing big fights on the flight.

Or the wheels are coming off on the plane.

Is it my imagination?

In the news today, CBS News, they talked about the grounding

of the flights until they start checking these things.

Is it my imagination or a lot of things going wrong

with airplanes these days?

Hmm.

A third of people say the local government

should be responsible for cleaning the sidewalks

after it's no storm.

Not the homeowner near the sidewalk.

You know, I brought that up once.

You know, if you left it up to the city

to clean every sidewalk, they'd never get it done.

And it just, you know, it's, it's an impossible task.

So it's up to the homeowner,

even though you don't own the sidewalk.

The city owns the sidewalk or well aware of that.

Even though the city owns it, you have to clean it.

30 people say, no, the city should do it.

Now, that grass strip between the sidewalk and the street.

Who owns that?

Who knows? I know him forever mowing it.

Who owns that?

I have to find out.

I mean, be hot. Be reasonable.

You expect the city to go out there with shovels

to shovel every sidewalk?

Or he's a snowblower on it.

But people have a problem with that.

All right, showbiz news.

Carrie Bradshaw.

Remember Carrie Bradshaw from Sex in the City?

Remember the opening credits from that movie TV show?

Remember they always show her skirt flying up

from the great, you know,

they are the ground greats.

They are greats in the city.

Well, that dress sold at auction for $52,000.

You know what it costs?

The production crew to buy it?

It is the trapbers of the city.

So, what is it?

It is the set of players.

I like that show sex in the city.

I have the whole thing on DVD.

I love that series.

I think they are all great in there.

Although, ladies were great, they perfect acting.

Even the movies were okay.

Not as good as the TV series, though.

And we lost somebody.

I am going to play whatever songs

in a little while, Melanie passed away at the age of 76.

You might recognize her from brand new key.

I am laid down, candles in the rain.

She had some good hits.

I think those are the only two big hits she had, though, Melanie.

Everyday skills change from time to time.

Mostly due to the new techniques.

People online are talking about the pre-90s.

Everyday skills that they have.

But it basically obsolete now.

Check these out.

Rapping textbook covers with brown paper bags.

Textbooks now mostly online.

The people, the kids don't really have it.

Or they have a Chromebook.

And you don't need to wrap a Chromebook in brown paper.

Now, I hate to date myself,

but I always do when I talk like this.

Back in the, well, let's put this right back when I went to school,

you can buy notebook, I mean textbook covers.

They generally came with different universities

on the Dartmouth, Princeton, whatever.

Think of it in my college.

And then you fold them in a certain way

and you make the textbook cover.

Or you can use brown paper bag, either one.

I like to buy the university ones.

I thought they were neat.

At the beginning of the year,

you got all your textbooks covered.

It was really nice.

And let's see, by the third week,

they were starting to fall off.

By the end of the school year,

you didn't have them anymore.

But it was nice, but that's obsolete now.

How about unnotting curly telephone wires

to get the curls facing the right way?

Landline phones are gone,

but untangling cords are still useful, I guess, for now.

I remember the phone cords, those phone cords.

I had one on the phone right here.

It's not tangled, but I have it right here.

Remembering phone numbers.

You know, I don't know my wife's work phone number.

However, I know when I hit her name on the phone

that says work, it'll come up every time.

I don't know.

I don't know my brother's phone number,

but I call her every day.

I have no idea what her phone number is.

I just hit her name on the phone.

Setting up a VCR to record a TV show in advance.

Remembering you just have to do that.

I still have a VCR in my living room.

I do it for two reasons.

It's got a clock on it.

Occasionally, I'll pull out an old VHS movie

and want to watch it.

I forgot how bad the quality was.

VHS tapes.

Plus a lot of our old home movies are still on VHS,

so I like to pull them out occasionally.

Writing in cursive.

My mother did that.

A lot of people don't do that anymore.

Using the Dewey Decimal System with a library.

We talk to our folks in the library all the time.

They don't use that anymore.

I don't think they do.

I have to ask them when they come in here.

Refolding a map correctly.

Maybe even using a map.

I haven't used a map in years.

And developing and processing photographic film.

Now, I did that last year,

only because I found an old role in the house.

And I wanted to know what was on it.

So I put it to Walgreens,

and they looked at it like, you know,

the age from 2001 to space odyssey

when they saw that giant monolith.

Remember that?

The age from...

The monkeys from 2001 to space odyssey.

It's 618.

Make it 619.

It's WRJM.

Lou Regani coming by at 630.

Today we'll talk to Lou about his program,

Music of the Stars,

going statewide on this civic media radio network.

Music of the Stars,

Music of the Stars,

Music of the Stars,

And Melanie, lay down candles in the rain.

Remember that song?

Wow.

So bright,

Can't lose high.

Oh, think it only could stay black against the night.

Oh, rise,

Then why are you again?

And if you do,

It could stay dry against the rain.

And Melanie,

She passed away the other day at the age of 76.

This is a brand new key with her big hit song.

She was very psychedelic back on the 60s.

Yeah,

Those are the psychedelic days.

Remember her would be,

She had long hair, long brunette hair,

And she wore those psychedelic type of robes and so forth.

We were so close,

There was no room,

We'd let inside each other's wounds.

Beyond that court,

The same disease,

And we all signed,

The songs of peace,

Some came to sing,

Some came to cry,

Some came to keep,

The dark away.

So bright,

Can't lose high.

But if you know we could stay black against the night.

I love that song.

I haven't heard it in so long.

And if you do,

It could stay dry against the rain.

We have a day we just lost,

Mary Weiss as well.

I thought they'll lose a lot of these people.

Mary Weiss was 75,

Melanie was 76,

Mary Weiss was the lead singer to the Shangri-La's,

Leader of the Pack.

Remember walking in the sand

And a couple of hit songs from the Shangri-La's.

Yeah, all right.

Peace, Melanie.

As she always said,

Peace out.

Yeah.

I feel bad we're losing all these people now.

But, you know,

We're aging out a little bit with some of the rock stars from the 1960s.

Some are still here.

Some are aging out.

Some are still performing like the like Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger.

Nothing stopping those guys, huh?

All right.

We'll move on from Melanie.

If you want to sound smart during small talk,

Here's the best thing to do.

Ask the other person for advice.

Put it on them.

People love to be asked advice.

Because we're all ego maniacs, I guess.

Researchers found that when someone asks us for advice,

We instantly assume they're smart for asking us for advice.

Because they had the wisdom to recognize our brilliance.

It's not something.

All right.

People think that fast food places may be cracking down on the no ice loophole

Because a woman ordered a lemonade from Wendy's without ice.

They didn't fill it to the top.

Reactions are mixed.

Some people think it's cheap for places not to fill the cups.

Especially if they offer free refills when you eat in.

Others say you're paying for the drink, not the ice.

So you should get the same amount, whether you want ice in or not.

Some workers say their cases from the amounts are automated by the machines.

I know they are.

Don't, you know, when I go, I very rarely go to fast food places.

When I do, don't they just give you the cup and ask you to fill it up yourself?

If you go to a drive-through, obviously, they're going to do it for you.

But I don't know.

The last time I went to a fast food place was a while ago,

but I got a cup.

I think what the culverts, they give you the cup and you fill it up yourself

as many times as you want.

I read somewhere McDonald's is going back to you can't fill it yourself.

That's what I read.

I don't know if it's come to fruition yet or not.

A hotel in Missouri is honoring a gift certificate from 40 years ago.

It's called the, I want to get this right, the Mulebox Hotel in Kansas City.

Back in 1983, they had a deal for newlyweds.

If you stayed for your honeymoon, you can come back for your anniversary any time in the future

and pay the same rate for the room.

$38 a night.

When that hotel's owned by Marriott and rooms go for about $200 a night,

a guy named Tim O'Brien was flipping through his wedding album and found the certificate.

He and his wife Melinda have their 40th wedding anniversary coming up on June 25th.

So they went there and they stayed there for 38 bucks.

Lesson learned, don't throw out those old coupons.

Especially when they don't have an expiration date on it.

I will tell you a coupon story.

Back in the 1950s and 1955, as a matter of fact,

this is, there's this thing that when you get a new house,

you're supposed to buy something like a cereal or something for the house,

put in the closet.

My mother bought this round box of quaker oats.

Remember the round boxes?

I still think they sell them a quaker oats.

And nobody ever opened it.

So this box of quaker oats became the family heirloom.

It was in our house from 1955 to the year 2000.

And then my mother took it to Florida with her.

Now my brother packed it wrong and it broke open and whatever.

On the packaging was an offer for a complete place setting of China,

one place setting for a dollar from 1955.

So being the troublemaker I am, I called up quaker oats.

And they said, I have this coupon from 1955.

It's on your box of quaker oats for a full place setting of China for a dollar.

Will you honor it?

It doesn't have an expiration date.

You know what they said?

Absolutely will honor it.

You send in that box of quaker oats and we'll send you the place setting.

Now my brother packed it wrong so it broke open.

So I didn't send it in but they agreed.

You give us the box with the coupon and we'll send you a place setting for a dollar.

A full place setting.

Now one place setting is not going to do much.

You need like four place settings.

But they were ready to honor it quaker oats.

Good for them.

It didn't have any expiration date on it.

That was our family heirloom, the box of quaker oats.

I'm sorry my brother broke it open.

My mother thought the weevils were living in there.

Who bugs and stuff.

But it was airtight.

They couldn't get in there.

And it turns out they weren't.

And the quaker oats, you know, were still in good condition because it was air sealed from 1955 to 2000.

That's a lot of quaker oats.

Anyways, so they were ready to honor it.

So if you do have old coupons, you know, don't throw them out.

Because some of these places will honor it.

All right, times change.

61% of Americans wish shopping malls would make it come back, including 66% of young people.

Yeah, it was a great place to hang out and you don't have to buy anything.

The top things we love about them include window shopping, food courts, and just hanging out with friends.

I just love the food courts.

I loved it when I moved to Milwaukee in 1980.

I lived right across the street from Northridge Mall.

And I remember they just renovated.

They were renovating it again and doing also.

I loved going to shopping malls.

I just loved walking up and down there.

You didn't need to wear a coat.

Yeah, it was a great place to be.

And now, Regency Mall is being knocked down at least a large percentage of it to build a supermarket in some apartments.

I used to love Regency Mall.

That wasn't a big mall.

But, you know, one's like Northridge, which is now gone.

I mean, that was a beautiful mall with a great big shopping food court.

Oh, I loved it.

I think Southridge is still around the corner.

Some malls are still there, but I think their times have come.

Gone.

629.

Luragane coming up next.

We're talking about music of the stars at WRGN, a civic media station.

I'll tell you, man, I admire flight attendants.

I really do.

I couldn't do what they do.

They're there for safety, first of all.

They've got to put up with so much garbage from people.

Have you ever been sitting in your seat and you see somebody trying to fit something in the overhead rack

that you don't make going in there like in a million years?

You know, you're looking at them like, what kind of perception problems this guy has?

And the flight attendants are so nice.

They run up and act like it's close.

You know, they run up there.

Oh, gosh.

Oh, I don't know if that's going to get up there.

We can check it for you.

You moron.

That's what I would do.

I would last like nine seconds at that job.

You know, I would just run up, hey, does that look like it's going to fit?

What the hell's the matter with?

You got this much room.

You got like a dead yak.

You don't see all these people jammed up behind you?

Oh, this is your world.

Oh, it's all about you.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Don't lose your eyes.

Give me your hand.

Do you feel my heart beating?

Do you understand?

Do you feel the same?

Am I only dreaming?

Is this burning an eternal flame?

I believe it's meant to be.

Don't I want you when you are sleeping?

If you lose me, do you feel the same?

We are at 636 at WRGN Radio.

Welcome, Lou Regani, Radio Veteran.

I mean, this guy has been there since the Morse Code was invented.

He's been there for quite a while.

How did you do your show by Morse Code originally?

How did that go?

No, we did it with smoke signals.

We had blankets on a food bonfire.

And what am I, Mr. Coyote?

Good morning, Don.

Lou Regani is a host of morning.

Music of the stars on WRGN Sunday mornings from 7 to noon.

But now, bigger news.

You can hear Lou, no matter where you're traveling in the state of Wisconsin,

because now he is statewide on all the civic media radio stations from 7 until 12 noon.

Is this the first time you've ever been statewide on a network?

Now, first time, first time ever.

Well, that's great.

Go ahead.

Well, with the internet, I guess you could stretch that a bit, but yeah.

With the internet, you're worldwide.

You don't have to worry about it.

Say what?

But on radio, and you and I are radio people.

I mean, we've been working on radio all our lives.

And let's say a little background on Lou Regani,

you actually, did you start at WLIP,

or did you start somewhere before that?

Actually, WAX, so the House of Wax in Canarsha.

I was working at American Motors Corporation,

making cars called a rambler.

And finally, after 10 years sentence there, I call it.

I've got to get out of here.

So I applied, I walked out of it.

A buddy of mine was working there on a Saturday's of volunteer.

Some people just got their own sponsors,

and this happened to be a drum and viola chord show that he wanted to put on.

It was a half an hour in a Saturday morning.

And I watched him one day, and I said, well, I can do that.

So I approached the manager, Darryl Gore, great guy.

Here's the radio name, Larry Taylor.

Excuse me, and he, I walked up by, do you have any opening?

He goes, yeah!

Wow, that was quick.

And yeah, you'll be on weekdays, because I want to get out of here.

He had sales to do, and so.

And that's how that started.

It was January 3rd, 1969.

And how long were you there, WAX?

Was there about a year and a half?

Are you familiar with the traffic safety announcement?

They used to do years ago in some stations.

Like, old traffic safety is very important.

The kids are out of school.

This message brought to you by Joe's gas station, blah, blah.

Yeah, I remember them.

Everybody ran the scene.

I did that for a while.

I left the station.

They had a new owner.

And there were some discrepancies in the way we agreed on how to do radio.

So the old story done.

So I went on to do traffic safety stuff, and it was fun.

But I gave the sponsors, I guess you could call them sponsors.

They'd pay $59 for six weeks twice a week.

And you mentioned that traffic safety drive carefully, et cetera.

And I gave them more sponsor than I did traffic safety.

And it turned out a lot of these people were making good money

because their business really went up from the traffic safety thing.

It was an outfit called Phillips advertising.

And it was based out of Evanston.

And really, it felt, let me tell you one story.

I was, there was a little guy.

And he was little about five four.

And he was doing leather works out of his garage in Rockford.

So I gave him a big spot.

The guy got so much business that he rented a star flood downtown.

And he was, and the police hired him to make holsters

and let Sam Brown belts and all that stuff.

Just kind of, so it proves that radio go works when you're advertised.

Obviously, yeah, I agree.

People, we used to tell people, this is years ago,

they said, radio doesn't work.

They said, give me $1,000.

I'll tell you how many callers we're going to get.

But that's $2,000.

And he said, well, I'm not going to do that.

Well, you don't have to worry.

Radio doesn't work, right?

And so we used to prove our point every time.

When did you join WLIP in Kenosha?

It was Memorial Day weekend of 1992.

We had a manager, great guy.

Edward Doody.

He's a D.Y.

He was an official with the Chicago White Sox.

And he came in to live and worked in Kenosha

and run the radio station.

And he had the idea along with Paul Kern,

who I'm sure you remember.

And together, they said, let's do the music of the stars.

They didn't call it that.

And it was Sunday morning from 9 until 3 in the afternoon.

So it was a long shift that I loved doing it,

and did it ever since.

Well, Ed Doody, he was our general manager here at WRJN

for several years.

And he just passed away, I think, in August of last year.

He just passed away.

Yeah, he had a huge funeral.

I went to his master at Teen George.

I was seeing Elizabeth here in Kenosha.

And Paul Kern, I just spoke to recently.

He's going to be on our WRJN Historical Marker series,

which is supposed to spoke to Paul doing great.

So we'll have Paul Kern on that, yeah.

So music of the stars.

Now, what kind of music is it?

Well, it started out not quite the format

that we remember.

It was just big bands.

That's all just big bands.

Maybe with or without a vocal.

Now it's become a stream of consciousness you might have.

Well, like, for example, last week,

it was bitter cold and windy, so I did songs about wind and cold.

You know, that sort of thing.

And believe in that, there's some good ones.

And this week, maybe we'll do something

on this crazy weather we're experiencing.

But it's stream of consciousness.

Like the savings, the day that savings time,

when that comes along,

a song is for an hour and a half on time.

And not just songs, but narrations and thoughts about the changing time.

The time changes.

I know it's, you've got almost here.

It's hard to describe.

But stream of consciousness regarding that sort of thing.

So how do you believe in that?

There's quite a bit in that idiom.

How many songs do you have in your personal library?

Oh, it's got about 45,000 LPs.

Oh, wow.

That's crazy.

Isn't that the garage?

Try to get a car on their sideways.

But yeah, the LPs are great.

And believe it or not, they're out selling compact discs.

I know they are, I am.

So that's great.

And LPs are vinyl.

They have a sound that some people insist are better than CDs.

I can't tell.

They all sound good to me.

Yeah.

Well, here's what they claim.

They claim that the vinyl LPs have more of a warm sound.

I, again, I don't hear it.

I hear CDs are wonderful.

The only thing I didn't like about vinyl discs.

And in radio, we used to, this is before they had CDs and computers.

Right.

You used to have 45 RPM records.

And used to queue it up.

They call it because when the DJ on the air said,

here come the Beatles.

You want the song to start right away.

The CDs is real easy.

It's just you pop the CD and it starts with 45 RPM's and albums.

You had to queue them up.

In other words, you had to put the needle on the record.

You had to wait till it started.

Stopped it and backed it up just a quarter of a turn.

So when you started it, it began.

Now the problem was every time you did that,

you put a little scratch in the record.

And every, you know, if you do it once or twice, it doesn't matter.

But with 45 RPM's, especially in radio's top 40 stations,

and playing the song once every hour and a half, 24 hours a day,

those queue scratches are going to sound terrible after a while.

And they did.

It started the song and go, before that, I do remember it.

It was terrible.

And the promotional companies for the,

the call the record pluggers used to come in.

These to give us four or five copies of the hottest song

because after the queue scratch got in there,

you just have to throw in the garbage.

What are you going to do?

No, I know.

And I remember them.

We had some that were so worn out.

I worked in another station later on in Racine.

And he had LPs in there that he didn't like the owner.

The owner manager didn't like certain cuts.

So he put a piece of masking tape because you could see it,

as opposed to Scotch tape or something.

Over that particular cut,

and several records there that were totally covered with masking tape.

But they still had them in the library.

Don't play any of these.

No, I promise.

Because you got masking tape on every cut on some album.

And it was funny because I think he forgot he put the masking tape

on previous cuts on that same LP.

Funny.

But true, true story.

We used to have a general manager at our station

when I, the first station I worked at back in the 70s.

He used to take a nail on an album cut.

Now we played a lot of album cuts from the group.

Yes, grateful dead and all those groups.

If he didn't think the song should be on the air,

he took a nail across the album cut and just put a scratch in it.

So it couldn't play.

Which was stupid because someday you may change your mind.

But now you can't change your mind.

And I remember calling.

Yeah, some of the great album cuts from these groups.

He would just like, yes, the group.

Yes, he would.

He didn't want.

He didn't want me playing.

I never worked overnight.

And I was a janitor at the radio station too.

So I just bought long cuts on while I used to clean the building.

And I used to put on rare earth get ready for 22 minutes.

I used to put on days of future pass by the movie Blues for 29 minutes.

Yes, roundabout, but nine minutes and he didn't like me doing it.

So he took get ready by rare earth,

22 minutes and put a nail scratch right through it so I can never do it again.

Oh, that's a great story.

I guess that's it.

Well, you know, on our WGBB Facebook page,

I probably have the best memory of all these people.

And I add these stories.

I'm up to story like number 29 now of all these things used to go on the radio station.

And while I was talking to you, I thought of another one,

because we just have two record.

Yeah, I read a station at least two turntables.

Sure.

And I remember at night, the guy who was on from 7 to midnight,

we had the cleaning person come in.

This is after I wasn't a janitor anymore.

Eventually I gave it up.

And the lady came in to claim with her duster.

And while the records on the air,

she lifted up the needle,

dusted the record,

and put it back on the record while it was on the air.

And he said there, he said,

what did you do?

She goes, I'm cleaning.

She didn't see anything wrong with it.

And that station, WAX home.

It was an FMR.

It's still on the air under different call letters.

We had spiders like it wouldn't believe in the place.

And they festered in the basement.

Apparently there was moisture or something.

The building is still there in Kenosha.

And spiders would come over and come down on your news

as you're reading the floor,

ride the record around.

And grab the brass ring.

No, I just made that last part up.

But yeah, they would land on a disc.

And I saw one one time and I had to move on

because it was laughing so hard.

It was just funny seeing the spider grabbing a free ride

on an LP.

One day at the here at the station,

this year's ago, one of the morning men

on one of our, we had an FM and AM here.

And he calls me out.

He says, there's a bat in the lobby.

I said, like a baseball bat.

Here's not like a bat hanging from the ceiling.

And this was at six o'clock in the morning.

And I go out there and there's a bat hanging upside down

attached to the ceiling.

And I said, we better tell people,

put a sign on the door.

Do not come in.

And so we called animal control.

They came with big gloves.

They took it and released it.

But it was a bat, how did the bat get in the building?

I mean, how did he fly in there?

And how long was he attack?

It was right in the hallway by the lady's room.

And he was just hanging upside down.

And it was funny when I came in, I didn't even notice it.

Who looks up at the ceiling when you come in?

Nobody does that.

Yeah, nobody does that.

We also had skunks living under the front step.

A whole family.

Oh, sure.

And one day I walked through and I see them

and they sprayed the building over and over and over again

until we had to get them removed.

Oh, they did spray.

Usually they were aggressive.

I mean, they're not aggressive.

But maybe a squirrel or a puppy dog.

Well, she had babies.

Well, she had babies.

So she was spraying the building.

Because she didn't want to wait for her.

Oh, I get it.

I mean, we didn't have spiders on our records.

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Suffer, said the quote to which he'll show the magic.

Is that your daughter, Santa?

No, really?

Yes.

Lubregonni?

Most people, you know, when I first came back, they said, where'd you dig him up?

I thought he was gone.

And so at least you got some fans that are being very kind to you.

I wondered myself, but that's all right.

Yeah.

Well, where was he?

I thought he was dead and gone.

Speaking about dead and gone, we've been losing a lot of people in the music industry lately.

We just lost Mary Weiss from the Shangri-La's, the lead singer from the Shangri-La's.

Oh, no.

And we just lost Melanie from, you know, Melanie had a couple of hit songs.

And they're dropping because they're all now in their mid-70s to 80s.

And very few like Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger are still performing.

Most of them retired and now they're, David Sol just passed away about two weeks ago too.

Yeah.

An actor but he had a hit song, don't give up on us.

So he passed away.

You know, my brother.

The Linus Johns.

The Linus Johns.

The Linus Johns, huh?

Yeah.

I said in the clowns, she introduced it.

He just passed away.

I hit a tribute tour.

Broadway show actress also.

She was in Mary Poppins and she had her own show, Linus.

Really?

I'm telling you.

My brother knew Mary Weiss because my brother performed with so many groups of the 1960s.

He played with them.

And he played with the Shangri-La's.

And so he said in the year, in the early 2000s, he began emailing back and forth Mary Weiss.

And remembering the shows they did.

And it was kind of nice, he said, just talking to her.

But he played with my brother, play with the Shangri-La's.

Ruby and the Romantics, the Cherelles, the chiffons.

Benny King, little Anthony Imperials.

Who else was there?

The Times.

He played.

Wow.

I'm trying to remember some of the other Jay and the Americans.

Yeah, he was a guitarist and he was able to read music.

Well, you and I.

So many credits.

Wonderful.

And the dots on a page, my brother sees music.

And so after these shows, there's the hand in the sheet music and he was able to, you know, play with them.

You play an instrument, though?

I do, actually, in brass.

And then I, I'm in a nightclub band in Chicago.

I just came back this morning at two.

That's the Green Mill on Broadway and Lawrence.

And that band, I've been with them 20 years next year.

Wow.

That'll ingress the grounds.

Am I played some of their music on my program?

So they're good.

Yeah, so what instrument did you play?

Any kind of brass, but I'm, I specialize in trumpet.

Well, that's great.

I never knew that.

So you live with them.

I'm okay.

I'm not, I'm not as good as some of the guys like in the connoisseur recene pops, you know, but I'm okay.

You know, I tried to learn an instrument in high school.

I took the trumpet.

I couldn't get the air thing, you know, blowing into it.

I just couldn't get the air going, you know, the air thing.

Also, then I tried drums.

I was okay at it, but I just, I couldn't follow the music.

My wife teaches piano.

And she's very good at it.

And she teaches this 10 year old girl who already plays the viola.

Now she plays the piano.

I don't know when I, we had a video of her when she first started learning.

And we look at her now and she plays wonderfully on the piano.

This kid's going places.

But I, I, I, I am see the recene concert band old somewhere long.

And I just watch these people play music with one rehearsal.

And I don't get it.

I don't know.

Are they good?

Yeah, I don't get it.

And the conductor has got to keep his eye on every section.

And I, I just don't understand how they do it.

I music people.

Yeah, music people just astound me.

So what kind of music to play in the clubs?

Well, it's like Benny Goodman already Shaw.

And I sing through it with the club.

Whoa.

We didn't know.

Greenville.

Greenville lounge.

So this is how many years you've been there?

20 years next year.

At the Greenville.

Yeah.

It's Thursday nights from eight till midnight.

Where is it?