If you are a fan of old movies or The Clash, this might interest you:

Sean Flynn

He was Errol Flynn’s son & a subject of a song from The Clash on “Combat Rock”.

There is a special connection between music and memories, songs are a connection to events, people, good times we have all enjoyed. When you heard a certain song, a door opens to memories, at least that the case with me but I am sure the same holds true for you. On the Mountain we play the Blues Image Song, Ride Captain Ride, one of the first times I heard this song was riding in a Dodge Dart GT heading up Route 115, it was warm day and a group of my friends were off to the Poconos for a weekend camping trip. Jump ahead about five years, a group of us on a seven hour ride to ski in Vermont and a new group, with a new sound was on the air, wasn’t really sure what a Sultan was, or a Dire Strait, but they were both swinging away. It was a fun weekend of hitting the slopes and hitting the bars, all on about four hours of sleep a night. What songs on The Mountain bring back memories for you? Drop me an e-mail or just comment on this blog. Gotta go and turn up the volume, getting ready to play “I Robot/I Wouldn’t want to be like You” by Alan Parsons Project…I remember that night.

I was driving to Philadelphia the other day, listening to Imus in the Morning on WABC, when Charles McCord announced that legendary WABC Jock Ron Lundy had died at the age of 75. I never met Ron Lundy, but it was because of him, Harry Harrison, Dan Ingram and others that I fell in love with the idea of being on the radio. The WABC signal made it into the Wilkes Barre area back in the 60’s and 70’s, especially at night when other local stations would power down for the night. It was 50,000 watts of broadcasting power, the all the hit’s, hot jingles and DJ’s that made you want to never turn the dial. WABC touted themselves as “the most listened to station in the USA” reaching far out from the New York City studios up and down the East Coast. They ran what would called in the business “a tight board” no dead air, out of a song it was a jingle, then the DJ with a fast pace talk up into the next song, always ending just in time with “77 WABC.” Man they knew how to do it and all of the DJ’s had a set of pipes on them, meaning a million dollar voice. So rest in peace Ron Lundy and thanks for getting one young man excited about the radio biz…..