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ROCKOLLECTIONS: TIME PT.2

The New Year is the inspiration for this Series, a Musical Look At Time.

And it's been a long Time coming!

Time is Precious and is always Speeding Past, I'll make a note of that

Plus how to make the best of Time, Long-Time Love and other ways of dealing with Time.

If I haven't played your favorite Time song yet, well maybe Another Time!

Join me for some Quality Time together, lol!

Here are the links to…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 6, 2016 at 5:39pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: TIME PT.1

For the first show of the New Year, a few songs for the Turning Of The Year.

The Passage of Time.

Life is pretty much all about Time!

We look at Time with a mixture of happiness and regret.

And there are so many songs about it, I have long wanted to do a Series on the subject of Time.

The Time Has Come.

It may be just me, but I think this is going to be good!…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 4, 2016 at 10:42pm — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: HAPPY “NEW” YEAR PT.2 END

This time, I will take a look at the making of New Year’s Resolutions.

Those New Beginnings.

I can understand the idea of a New Year being a time of reflection on the past, and an attempt to go in a different direction for the future.

But in point of fact, New Year’s Day is just another day- and any day can be a day for making a lifestyle change that will make you a better, healthier person.

I will use more “NEW”…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 30, 2015 at 12:42am — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: HAPPY “NEW” YEAR PT.1

This is a rerun that goes way back, I think it was only the second show I ever did from home and not at the Radio Station with Engineer Ken Stanley.

I was still working things out- mic placement, surrounding noise, cueing, etc.

Plus being my own Engineer!

In my never-ending attempt to come at our Music from…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 28, 2015 at 12:32am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2015 PT.4 END

Had the Christmas Tree lit for this show, that always inspires me and gives it a nice feeling.

This is the wrap-up for the Annual Christmas Party this year.

Sorry I left out something for Hanukkah, it is usually in tandem with Christmas but not this year- it slipped by me.

Thought I'd stick with Santa Claus for the majority of this closing Chapter.

Until the end, where I have chosen a couple where The Message Is In…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 22, 2015 at 10:29pm — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2015 PT.3

It's Week 2 of the all-inclusive, everybody's invited Rockollections Christmas Party.

What you believe doesn't matter, I don't care, it's a Party!

I noticed that the show will be broadcast terrestrially on the First Day Of Winter, and couldn't let that go by without playing a few Winter beauties!

Then the matter of Children Believing In Santa Claus.

And finally, the little known subject of How Good Santa Boogies, and…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 20, 2015 at 10:05pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: 60'S CHRISTMAS PARTY PT.2

Our 60's Christmas Party continues with Music exclusively from that Decade.

Pop, Rock, Psychedelia and Folk will all be included.

But the centerpiece as always is the Beatles Christmas Message 1965- their 3rd one, smack dab in the middle of the 60's.

What to wear to a Rockollections Christmas Party?

How about a…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 16, 2015 at 9:35pm — 10 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: 60'S CHRISTMAS PARTY PT.1

Is there a better time of year in the World than Christmas?

Of course not!

It's Wonderful.

So it is time for the Annual Rockollections Christmas Party.

The Theme Within A Theme this year is the 1960’s- ALL songs played this week will be from the 60’s, unless I foul up, lol!

Included is a group that called themselves Christmas Spirit- made up of Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan of the…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 14, 2015 at 10:54pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: VOL.5- ODDS AND ENDS PT.2

Finishing up with our Odds & Ends, something the late Scott McKenzie, of San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers in Your Hair) fame, did with his Music that to my knowledge was unique, and went undetected by listeners.

He re-wrote the same song 3 times in the course of his life!

And that's 3 times I know of, he may have done more.

I've been wanting to play these even before he…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 9, 2015 at 4:51pm — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: VOL.5- ODDS AND ENDS PT.1

Some Odds & Ends I hope you are ready for, as I am unfettered even by a Theme.

And I Am Ready!

As I was playing the first Set, the title of the album of one of the songs reminded me of Alan Freed.

Further, something triggered a memory of him being born in December.

Turned out I was right- Dec. 15th, 1921.

He's the legendary DJ from the early 1950's, and the man who supposedly…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 8, 2015 at 12:36am — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: BEATLE JOHN- IN HIS OWN WORDS

December 8th, 1980 was the night John Lennon died.

There are famous appearances on WNEW-FM by John with Scott Muni and Dennis Elsas that have been talked about and written about.

But no one ever seems to mention an insightful interview of John done by Rosko at the station over the telephone before those, in 1969!

That will be the centerpiece for this closing Episode.

Rest in peace,…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 2, 2015 at 1:03am — 8 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: BEATLE GEORGE- IN HIS OWN WORDS

It's that odd time where we are between the deaths of George Harrison, November 29, 2001 and John Lennon, December 8, 1980- two former Beatles.

If you had the joy of growing up with the Beatles, as they grew with us, and watched them develop into the what I will always call the Greatest Group That Ever Existed, then you know the sadness and mourning the loss of those 2 lads brought us.

I can honestly say- no Beatles, then…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 29, 2015 at 11:25pm — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: GIVING THANKS PT.2 END

We are so close to Thanksgiving Day you can feel the heat in the kitchen.

I will conclude these Songs Of Thanks with my usual Mixed Bag Of Music.

Plus I will break out my famous Thanksgiving Forecast,…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 25, 2015 at 2:52pm — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: GIVING THANKS PT.1

It’s just a few days until Thanksgiving Day.

And over the years the Theme Tradition for Thanksgiving shows has been Going Home

After all, that is what people are doing during the most heavily traveled time of year…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 23, 2015 at 10:46pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: AUTUMN 2015 PT.2 END

This episode will close out our Songs For Autumn.

There is something about The Fall Season that lends itself to a certain melancholy, a wistfulness, as the days get shorter and the nights colder.

Suggested listening time is a cold night.

But I am greatly pleased ANY time you listen, lol!

I'll play the BEST song ever written about Autumn and the coming of Winter, pure poetry in my humble opinion.

And I'll give the…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 18, 2015 at 12:15am — 12 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS:AUTUMN 2015 PT.1

Last week it was Fall Colors, this is more of a straight-up Celebration Of Autumn.

I will be playing more topical Songs For Autumn, and even dip into that Great American Songbook.

Leaves are a popular song subject at this time of year.

As a kid I loved walking through the fallen Leaves, still do- and the smell of burning Leaves was the smell of Autumn for me, sadly forbidden in many places.

Something in this Episode may…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 15, 2015 at 9:58pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FALL COLORS PT.2

Celebrating the Fall Colors, it is time, after almost 10 years, for the Return Of ROY G BIV!

Any idea who that is?

Well, honestly he is not a person but rather a teaching aid used by the nuns when I was in grammar school.

It was a way to remember the Color Wheel, an acronym.

And over the years, I have been vindicated, and will prove it, for…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 11, 2015 at 3:20pm — 14 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: FALL COLORS PT.1

To everything there is a Season, and we are comfortably settled in to this Season of Autumn.

It's just past October, so I'll play my favorite End Of October song.

Fall is now tied with Winter as Best Time Of Year for me!

Lots of Sports going on, a Couch Potato's Dream, lol!

But best of all are the Hues, Shades and Tones of Color everywhere!

I tried this once before years ago, and went deep into the Music Library this time.

Please…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 8, 2015 at 9:40pm — 16 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: SHOW ABOUT NOTHING PT.4 END

Moving on with our show about Nothing...I've got Nothing left.

I've got LOADS of Nothing left!

But it's time to wrap this up.

I'll go out with a final bunch of Nothing songs- including going on a Road Trip for some of them, one from my favorite lovable madman, a Steely Dan soundalike by a most unlikely person, and even a Critique Of This Short series.

These Episodes were a lot of fun for me, proving what you can do…

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Added by Mike Pell on October 28, 2015 at 3:43pm — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: SHOW ABOUT NOTHING PT.3

All things considered, Seinfeld was probably the funniest Television show ever.

And I was thinking, it would not have worked in any city other than New York!

Think about that...there's just no way- the apartments, stores, restaurants, streets, movies, etc.

The CHARACTERS are New York!

A few sound bites from the show and more of the Music of…

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Added by Mike Pell on October 25, 2015 at 10:54pm — 2 Comments