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ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.7

I am STILL doing Love & Marriage, and will do so again next week.

Hey, you got a problem with that, lol?

There are times when I tackle a Musical Theme I can't stop the ideas.

This Episode will open with how I envisioned, if I envisioned it at all, the way I would have gotten married back when I was drinking heavily, and how it would be different today.

Certainly today it would NOT be in June, July or…

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Added by Mike Pell on July 15, 2014 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.6

This is a very different Episode.

Starting with a guy perfectly willing to marry the woman but making a case for at least a Practical Arrangement.

Then that moment of realization that comes sometimes, where I realize I can go anywhere in a Theme Series.

One of the most troublesome things to a Marriage is War- the spouse is deployed, usually overseas, and that can make things very shaky at home.

But there have been…

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Added by Mike Pell on July 9, 2014 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.5

After a week off for good behavior, or the 4th Of July, I will continue with our musical exploration of Love and Marriage.

And while June has always been the most popular month for Weddings, more and more people are getting hitched in July and August.

One of the things I long ago realized for this little Rockollections show is that you can tell Stories by playing particular Songs in a particular order!

So the Centerpiece…

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Added by Mike Pell on July 6, 2014 at 11:50pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: 4TH OF JULY PT.2 END

I remind you this show is two years old, so some of what I say may be slightly dated.

Here's a bit of insight into this Rockollections thing- I had a working idea of how I was going to handle this second half of the show, starting with Schooner Fare and their song, We The People...those being the opening words of the U.S. Constitution.

They mention the Declaration Of Independence in there, and as I am listening to Schooner…

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Added by Mike Pell on July 1, 2014 at 11:40pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: 4TH OF JULY PT.1

I did this show a couple of years ago, so when you hear me say it is America's 236th Birthday, substitute 238th- on the day the Declaration Of Independence (my favorite document ever!) was approved and ratified.

Older than me, but I'm pretty damned independent too!

I had long had this idea for an opening set for a 4th Of July show, and I finally remembered to do it!

As you well know, it was July 4, 1776 when we declared…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 29, 2014 at 11:45pm — 23 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.4

I'll open this Episode with a sort of Point/Counterpoint concerning the Wedding Ceremony itself.

One song has the Groom wanting a simple City Hall bonding, while in the next the Bride would like the perfect blue sky, birds singing Nuptials in the Chapel.

Just opposite sides of the same coin!

Then three tunes that share not only beauty but a Title.

And after some modest soul-searching, I will reveal the Real Reason I…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 24, 2014 at 11:39pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.3

I started last week with Love and Marriage- Love I know about, I just never got into the Marriage part.

But as I look out the window, today seems like a nice day for a Wedding.

In this Chapter, I'll tell you about some of my Roots (we all have them)- childhood reminiscences from my life, and the Soundtrack to it regarding Weddings.

A trip back to a simpler time, when Love and Marriage did go together like a Horse and…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 22, 2014 at 10:14pm — 5 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.2

And this Lifelong Bachelor continues with Love and Marriage....some nerve, lol!

To open this Episode I'll have some Trivia about June Weddings, and a Mixed Bag Set of Music.

Then, throughout the History of Rock & Roll there have been songs about being Too Young To Get Married.

A nice fuzzy little subject for Song, but in real life something that comes with…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 17, 2014 at 10:54pm — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: LOVE AND MARRIAGE PT.1

This is the beginning of Love and Marriage, a Theme I may have no right doing, having never exchanged those Official Vows.

Then again, it may afford me a perspective that comes at it from a different angle from those who have previously been or currently are Married.

I picked June to do this because there are more Weddings this month than any other.

We have all…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 15, 2014 at 11:45pm — 10 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: NATIONAL RIVERS MONTH PT.4 END

I will start off this final episode with a few more Real River songs- for Rivers that geographically and specifically do exist.

Then a couple regarding one of America's most famous Rivers, at least in song, that we have been misspelling for well over a century!

I have a behind-the-scenes story about doing a show one time, and Engineer Ken Stanley refusing to play a song that I wanted to come on next.

So while one song was…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 10, 2014 at 11:54pm — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: NATIONAL RIVERS MONTH PT.3

Continuing on...National Rivers Month is a time to enjoy all of the things that Rivers bring to our communities.

Rivers provide drinking water, recreational opportunities, environmental ecosystems and wildlife habitats.

Rivers have also been used as a source of food, for transport, as a defensive barrier, and as a source of hydropower to drive machinery.

So don't pee…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 9, 2014 at 12:05am — 8 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: NATIONAL RIVERS MONTH PT.2

Opening up this chapter on Rivers, I have a test for you.

Sometimes I like to see just how smart the listeners are, lol!

So you have the length…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 3, 2014 at 11:37pm — 4 Comments

IT WAS THE 3RD OF JUNE...

http://youtu.be/CZt5Q-u4crc

Added by Mike Pell on June 3, 2014 at 11:35am — 2 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: NATIONAL RIVERS MONTH PT.1

National Rivers Month is celebrated annually during the month of June to promote awareness and preservation of the country's Rivers.

For this event, I have gathered a bunch of my favorite River songs.

And as usual, there are far too many for me to have time enough to play.

So I'll just let the tide take me in that Free-Form and Free-Association way of choosing the songs, flowing along like a…

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Added by Mike Pell on June 1, 2014 at 10:16pm — 6 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: VOL1: FAVORITES AND GUILTY PLEASURES PT.2

The Muse steered me a little Folkie at the beginning, and I wanted to play the two Best Songs I have ever heard about Old People.

And then I went on about the joys and adventures we used to have playing the Flip Side of Singles.

This was a nice diversion show…

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Added by Mike Pell on May 28, 2014 at 12:17pm — 5 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: VOL1: FAVORITES AND GUILTY PLEASURES PT.1

It has occurred to me that this Rockollections show will not go on forever.

Some day, for some reason, it will end, as everything does including us.

So rather than wait to play particular songs in a Theme, or finding a reason to play them, I have decided to go for myself and just play them because I want to!

These are Favorites of mine encountered over the many years I've been listening to Music, and some may be just…

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Added by Mike Pell on May 27, 2014 at 12:24am — 13 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MEMORIAL DAY 2014 PT.2 END

The Official Memorial Day Remembrance concludes for this year, but in my heart continues the other 364 days.

This time, I'll open with song about a guy who, I hate to say it, would have made it easier on his family and himself if he had not come home from war overseas.

The song contains probably the most powerful metaphor I have ever heard!

Included in this closing Chapter, the story of a tune I heard in church…

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Added by Mike Pell on May 20, 2014 at 11:59pm — 30 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: MEMORIAL DAY 2014 PT.1

Memorial Day is May 26th, it used to always be on May 30th before our fixation with Monday Holidays.

It is a day of Remembrance for those who have died in our nation's service- the ultimate sacrifice.

I'll open with song that is also a Poem, taken word for word from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

And later in, a song adapted from a Poem- this one written in 1942…

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Added by Mike Pell on May 19, 2014 at 12:36am — 4 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE COLOR RED PT.2 END

Some more Red Music, and by no means am I trying to play The Greatest Red Songs Of All Time.

As a matter of fact, I refused to leave my chair, playing only Red songs I could see and reach without getting up, lol!

A Lazy Spring Day!

The only requirement was that I LIKE the song, but I like most things I hear.

This is a show maybe even more Free-Form than usual- an unprepared, make something out of nothing…

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Added by Mike Pell on May 13, 2014 at 11:33pm — 10 Comments

ROCKOLLECTIONS: THE COLOR RED PT.1

This was one of the very few times I sat down to do a show and had nothing in mind.

I was thinking about next week's broadcast and it kind of sneaked up on me that I had to do one for this week.

What was I to do?

Well I had earlier in the week found an unmarked cassette that I threw in the player, and it was Steve Goodman visiting Vin Scelsa on an Easter Sunday on WNEW-FM.

That became an annual Easter…

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Added by Mike Pell on May 11, 2014 at 11:27pm — 6 Comments