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ROCKOLLECTIONS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE PT.5

If you are just joining us, since the beginning of the New Year, I have been playing songs about the Past Present and Future.

I started with the Future, and now we are firmly in the Present.

Or as it is also known,…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 20, 2014 at 11:24am — 8 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE PT.4

Continuing happily along with this Past Present and Future Series, we are right where we belong, in the Present,

And I'll have some Musical Recommendations for Living In The Present.

Sometimes it's risky business, but we all do…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 15, 2014 at 11:10am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE PT.3

It is early in the year, and my musical look at the Past, Present and Future rolls along, just like in real life.

A couple of songs about the Future to begin, then one that you will surely know, that sounds like it should be about the Future, just by its title alone.…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 12, 2014 at 11:39pm — 10 Comments

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Added by Mike Pell on January 11, 2014 at 3:08am — 16 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE PT.2

It's Music for the Past, Present and Future, continuing with the Future.

The main thing to tell you about this Chapter is that 2...TWO... songs I thought of while planning the Series I couldn't find.

As in I don't HAVE…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 8, 2014 at 12:37am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE PT.1

I'll start this opening episode off with a few more songs to Ring In The New Year!

Then, taking that thought about a new year prompting Reflections On Life, I will greatly expand on it.

Bringing us the beginning of a new Theme Series- songs about the Past, Present and Future.…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 5, 2014 at 10:57pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LIFE AND THE NEW YEAR PT.2

Happy New Year!

I sure hope that hungover feeling and that throbbing, alcohol-soaked head make you feel like 2014 is going to be GREAT, LOL!

Grab a hot coffee packed with caffeine and join me as we listen to Songs Of Life on this Lazy First Day Of The Year.

Here's my prediction for you for this coming year: Before it is over, there will really good moments and really bad moments!

But we'll get through them…

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Added by Mike Pell on January 1, 2014 at 4:09am — 3 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LIFE AND THE NEW YEAR PT.1

It occurred to me that there are certain times of the year that you think about Life.

Birthdays are one, certainly the beginning of a New Year is another.

You take a look backwards at where you've been, and a look ahead at what may be coming up in your Life.

And a Theme was born!

Early on, you'll hear a song that I cannot…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 30, 2013 at 9:48am — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS EVE 2013 PT.2 END

Alright, it's back in the low 30's temperature-wise in New York, and that is proper- it feels like Christmas.

As I mentioned in the first half, I don't remember this show ever falling on December 24th.

So Christmas Eve is the Theme.…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 24, 2013 at 12:24pm — 12 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS EVE 2013 PT.1

First off, it almost hit 70 degrees today in New York City...that's just not right!

I have the fan on now, lol!

Next, while thinking about a Theme for this year’s Christmas shows, I saw that the second week's terrestrial broadcast would fall on Christmas Eve.

And oddly, I don't remember the show ever falling on December 24th.

So the Theme for these next two halves is in fact Christmas Eve.

ALL the songs I play will…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 22, 2013 at 11:33pm — 8 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2013 PT.2

We begin this 2nd half with a song that is not a Christmas song at all.

But so Joyous it seemed right to play.

Then a quick 180, with a song by Tracy Newman and the Reinforcements that made Dolly Parton cry!

After that, an annual tradition, the Beatle Christmas Message to…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 18, 2013 at 12:24pm — 5 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: CHRISTMAS PARTY 2013 PT.1

When I started to do this show, it occurred to me now in 2013, that it was at Christmastime in 2009 when I launched the official name change to Rockollections, complete with a new theme song.

I was never happy with that old name Rock Lives, and I wasn’t the one who picked it.

Nothing else changed- even to this day I am the same guy, and have continued to play my somewhat eclectic choices of…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 15, 2013 at 11:45pm — 6 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 extremely undetected by listeners.

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

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Added by Mike Pell on December 11, 2013 at 10:07am — 4 Comments

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

Time for a Personal Day.

I like these because I say to myself, let’s really go free-form and see what happens.

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

And I'm…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 8, 2013 at 11:40pm — 7 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REMEMBERING GEORGE & JOHN PT.2 END

A show originally broadcast in 2006.

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

While most were watching Monday Night Football, I remember I was watching a hockey game (it's a BETTER game!) on TV with a buddy when the phone rang and another friend told me John was shot.

I quickly put the stereo on to WNEW-FM, then the best…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 4, 2013 at 1:10am — 5 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: REMEMBERING GEORGE & JOHN PT.1

This is an old show, originally broadcast in early December 2006.

As I note in the opening, 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 unparalleled joy of growing up with the Beatles, as they grew with us, and watching them develop into the what I will always call the Greatest Group That Ever Existed, then you know…

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Added by Mike Pell on December 1, 2013 at 9:49pm — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 2013 PT.2 END

I really miss doing these Thanksgiving shows with Engineer Ken Stanley.

They and the Christmas Shows were the most fun for us each year.

Like every Rockollections, I get to make a statement, send a message.

As I have said many times, Music is my form…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 26, 2013 at 10:53pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: HOME FOR THANKSGIVING 2013 PT.1

A different kind of start this year, as I am perplexed by all this Black Friday business.

Seems to me that instead of people being thankful for what they HAVE, they are more interested in what they WANT!

Once again, I remind you that Thanksgiving is the most heavily traveled time of the year in the U.S.

50 million travelers…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 24, 2013 at 10:53pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: SALUTE TO RADIO- GHOST OF RADIO PAST FINALE

This Salute To Radio has been 15 years in the making.

To begin this Grand Finale, I'll have a look at how it must feel for a struggling artist or band to finally get played on the radio- subject nowadays to the odorous, obscene power of Program Directors.…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 20, 2013 at 11:28am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: SALUTE TO RADIO- RADIO IN FILM AND TV

Nearing the Finale, the first of the last two Chapters of our Salute To Radio, I'll start with a song I only have on an old cassette from the 80's.

And it sounds it, lol!

Then a brief look, not as long as I would have liked, at how Radio has been portrayed in other Media.

In this case, Film and TV.

All leading us to the Sad Life of a DJ, and the best song ever about that.

One that had to be…

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Added by Mike Pell on November 17, 2013 at 11:43pm — 14 Comments