1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:02,402 Oh, gosh. 2 00:00:02,402 --> 00:00:05,105 Steph just says we're on. Right or wrong. 3 00:00:05,105 --> 00:00:07,941 Hey, welcome to What's Good with John and Joyce. 4 00:00:07,941 --> 00:00:10,510 And, what's good is we're hanging out together. 5 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:11,811 You and I, this time. 6 00:00:11,811 --> 00:00:14,280 You know, I'm laughing because we feel like we did 7 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:16,950 a such a great show before this. Just talking. 8 00:00:16,950 --> 00:00:17,283 Right? 9 00:00:17,283 --> 00:00:19,819 You know, about music, and they're the behind the scenes 10 00:00:19,819 --> 00:00:22,322 stuff that, And we're thinking we have a show here. 11 00:00:22,322 --> 00:00:23,957 We have a couple of shows of the behind the scenes. 12 00:00:23,957 --> 00:00:25,825 But Joy, something near and dear to our heart. 13 00:00:25,825 --> 00:00:27,660 And by the way, welcome to What's Good with John and Joyce, 14 00:00:27,660 --> 00:00:29,329 available on all streaming platforms. 15 00:00:29,329 --> 00:00:32,832 What's Good with Johnny Joyce is sponsored by woodwinds Wedding and Special Events 16 00:00:32,832 --> 00:00:36,836 Venue in Branford, Connecticut and Silvio's award winning Italian sauces, 17 00:00:36,936 --> 00:00:40,073 which you can buy anytime online at silvio's. 18 00:00:40,073 --> 00:00:44,077 Sauces.com that's silvio's sauces.com. 19 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:45,745 Go to YouTube today. 20 00:00:45,745 --> 00:00:47,547 Type in what's good with John and Joyce. 21 00:00:47,547 --> 00:00:50,283 Share it with everybody you know, because quite frankly, 22 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:54,187 the more subscribers we get on YouTube, the more you know, sponsors we can get. 23 00:00:54,187 --> 00:00:59,192 And, we could take this thing to a higher level and do more good with. 24 00:00:59,192 --> 00:01:01,161 We just want to be able to reach more people. Yeah. 25 00:01:01,161 --> 00:01:05,965 Which is, good thoughts, you know, just to show that will relax you 26 00:01:05,965 --> 00:01:11,137 when you listen to it and gets you away from the news and all that stuff. 27 00:01:11,137 --> 00:01:15,408 So that's why we call it what's good, because we only talk about what's good. 28 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:16,342 That's right. 29 00:01:16,342 --> 00:01:19,345 We are here to talk about something near and dear to our heart today. 30 00:01:19,512 --> 00:01:21,781 Music, music, music choice. 31 00:01:21,781 --> 00:01:24,284 Any music just soothes the soul. 32 00:01:24,284 --> 00:01:25,785 It's therapy. 33 00:01:25,785 --> 00:01:26,686 It is therapy. 34 00:01:26,686 --> 00:01:28,488 Imagine a world without music. 35 00:01:28,488 --> 00:01:29,856 No healing. 36 00:01:29,856 --> 00:01:33,226 There was always a world with, I think they were always like making music 37 00:01:33,626 --> 00:01:35,261 and banging rocks. 38 00:01:35,261 --> 00:01:38,398 Making music reminds me of an old song called troglodyte 39 00:01:38,865 --> 00:01:40,266 that was a big hit in the 70s. 40 00:01:40,266 --> 00:01:43,470 How good they came, man. Cave woman 41 00:01:44,838 --> 00:01:45,305 look it up. 42 00:01:45,305 --> 00:01:48,308 Okay, 1971 RCA song, thankfully, 43 00:01:49,142 --> 00:01:52,112 by the Jimmy Castor Bunch. 44 00:01:52,212 --> 00:01:54,180 Check it out, because some of your folks are saying, this guy's nuts. 45 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:56,783 Watch this. Okay, but go look it up. 46 00:01:56,783 --> 00:02:01,154 The Jimmy Jimmy Castor Bunch troglodyte did Jimmy Castor Bunch, right? 47 00:02:01,354 --> 00:02:02,489 Do other things, too? 48 00:02:02,489 --> 00:02:05,492 Yeah, they had a song called Ape Man. Okay. 49 00:02:05,992 --> 00:02:07,427 Yeah, you'll hear it every now and then. 50 00:02:07,427 --> 00:02:10,864 But, you know, if you're under 50 years old, that was his niche. 51 00:02:11,064 --> 00:02:13,800 Yeah. Like, hey, it was all troglodyte. 52 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,336 Did he do a Halloween song or, mole ape man? 53 00:02:16,336 --> 00:02:18,171 I guess they could both be considered. Yeah. 54 00:02:18,171 --> 00:02:20,206 Halloween. Yeah. 55 00:02:20,206 --> 00:02:23,109 Well, we'll talk about that and our Halloween show next month. 56 00:02:23,109 --> 00:02:23,843 No more. 57 00:02:23,843 --> 00:02:26,312 They didn't have the catalog, of course, the Fab Four, 58 00:02:26,312 --> 00:02:28,348 but they did have a couple of those Beatles. 59 00:02:28,348 --> 00:02:31,084 Well, I'm wearing the Beatle shirt because this is the first album 60 00:02:31,084 --> 00:02:32,051 that I ever bought. 61 00:02:33,453 --> 00:02:34,320 To say I 62 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,024 love the Beatles would be a grand understatement. 63 00:02:38,124 --> 00:02:41,794 Yes, as my mother said one day she walked into my room 64 00:02:42,695 --> 00:02:46,900 and she said, first, I'll tell you what she said. 65 00:02:46,900 --> 00:02:51,304 She said, Joyce, can't you do anything in moderation? 66 00:02:51,304 --> 00:02:53,439 Or why are you such an extremist? 67 00:02:53,439 --> 00:02:55,942 And I said, what? She took a picture of me. 68 00:02:55,942 --> 00:02:59,979 I have that picture someplace, and I'm standing 69 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,483 a mist on my walls. 70 00:03:03,950 --> 00:03:06,286 I mean, it wasn't just a poster of the Beatles. 71 00:03:06,286 --> 00:03:09,856 It was the length of the the wall, right? 72 00:03:09,889 --> 00:03:11,958 All all four of them. 73 00:03:11,958 --> 00:03:13,660 And this one and that one. 74 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:17,530 And I had a shirt on and I have pins on, and it's like, what? 75 00:03:17,564 --> 00:03:18,631 What are you talking about? 76 00:03:18,631 --> 00:03:23,670 You know, but I loved what was it about them that really got your attention? 77 00:03:23,670 --> 00:03:24,504 You know, something? 78 00:03:24,504 --> 00:03:26,606 It was like an awakening within me. 79 00:03:26,606 --> 00:03:29,742 And some people thought that I love the Beatles 80 00:03:29,742 --> 00:03:31,477 like I wanted to marry a Beatle. 81 00:03:31,477 --> 00:03:33,780 I wanted to be a Beatle. 82 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:35,782 I even got a guitar. 83 00:03:35,782 --> 00:03:41,788 And I would sit listening to them and I would try to play I, I have no talent. 84 00:03:42,021 --> 00:03:44,891 No talent where you have a lot of other areas. 85 00:03:44,891 --> 00:03:49,028 Yeah, but playing music or singing is not one of them, 86 00:03:49,395 --> 00:03:53,466 but I was, I got immersed into it prior to that, 87 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:59,172 because I was the youngest of three, I, I listened to what they were playing. 88 00:03:59,172 --> 00:04:00,273 So I was always playing in the house. 89 00:04:00,273 --> 00:04:03,476 Bob Dylan or Joan Baez or something like that. 90 00:04:04,043 --> 00:04:07,914 But when the Beatles hit, I can't explain 91 00:04:07,914 --> 00:04:11,084 that phenomenon that happened because it happened world wide. 92 00:04:11,117 --> 00:04:12,185 I got an explosion. 93 00:04:12,185 --> 00:04:15,188 Yeah, that really resonated within me. 94 00:04:15,288 --> 00:04:18,057 So much so that 95 00:04:18,057 --> 00:04:22,362 when I was 12 years old, I walked to the big library 96 00:04:22,362 --> 00:04:25,598 in New Haven, Connecticut, and I had the idea 97 00:04:25,865 --> 00:04:29,435 that I bet one of their phone 98 00:04:29,435 --> 00:04:33,473 numbers is listed in an old directory that I could find. 99 00:04:33,773 --> 00:04:36,776 So I went and asked the librarian, could I see 100 00:04:36,776 --> 00:04:39,712 some old phone books from England? 101 00:04:39,712 --> 00:04:41,381 She said, sure, we have them. 102 00:04:41,381 --> 00:04:43,316 That's just that was genius. 103 00:04:43,316 --> 00:04:46,052 I, I was just like in Liverpool, right? 104 00:04:46,052 --> 00:04:46,853 Specifically. 105 00:04:46,853 --> 00:04:51,190 So I found George Harrison's mother's name 106 00:04:51,691 --> 00:04:54,694 in Liverpool, a market lane. 107 00:04:54,761 --> 00:04:59,565 And guess what I did called, I called, and at that time you had a pay. 108 00:04:59,766 --> 00:05:01,501 Right. So I just a lot of money. 109 00:05:01,501 --> 00:05:05,204 I just prayed my mother and father wouldn't see the bill, 110 00:05:05,438 --> 00:05:09,809 but I called in his sister Louise answered, and I told them hello. 111 00:05:09,809 --> 00:05:11,911 I was, yeah, and then I'm a huge fan. 112 00:05:11,911 --> 00:05:14,580 I live in the United States, blah blah blah. 113 00:05:14,580 --> 00:05:16,949 And she said, give me your address. 114 00:05:16,949 --> 00:05:21,020 So I gave her my address and they sent me paraphernalia. 115 00:05:21,454 --> 00:05:24,190 You know, a sketch of George. 116 00:05:24,190 --> 00:05:27,927 And then I'm so sorry, we're going to talk music, but that's fine. 117 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:29,162 This music. Yeah. 118 00:05:29,162 --> 00:05:34,801 So the next thing I did is I wrote her, and I asked if she would send me 119 00:05:34,801 --> 00:05:37,804 a list of, girls my age 120 00:05:38,137 --> 00:05:41,140 in the neighborhood who lives on Mac Lane. 121 00:05:41,507 --> 00:05:45,278 If they want to become pen pals with American girls. 122 00:05:45,278 --> 00:05:47,613 Now, in this day and age, it would be emails. 123 00:05:47,613 --> 00:05:50,683 But I asked for addresses she sent me. 124 00:05:50,683 --> 00:05:54,420 So she sent me about 30 addresses and. 125 00:05:54,654 --> 00:05:58,257 And I called ABC and New Haven 13 waves. 126 00:05:58,257 --> 00:05:59,926 That was my first job in radio. 127 00:05:59,926 --> 00:06:02,662 Let's listen to waves in case you want to win it. Yep. 128 00:06:03,696 --> 00:06:04,430 And I 129 00:06:04,430 --> 00:06:07,900 asked if they would like to do a contest, 130 00:06:08,334 --> 00:06:11,504 and the winners of contests would get the names of a person 131 00:06:11,671 --> 00:06:16,275 that lived on market slang for George Harrison's, you know, connection. 132 00:06:16,743 --> 00:06:18,111 And they did. 133 00:06:18,111 --> 00:06:21,147 And then I did another one through George Harrison's 134 00:06:21,147 --> 00:06:24,150 sister called rings for Ringo. 135 00:06:24,317 --> 00:06:27,420 And so then but waves called me. 136 00:06:27,420 --> 00:06:31,824 It was like, I think there was Tracy, who was a deejay at the time, 137 00:06:32,325 --> 00:06:36,162 and asked me if I'd like to come in and discuss the Beatles. 138 00:06:36,896 --> 00:06:39,632 No, I was 12 years old. They had no idea. 139 00:06:39,632 --> 00:06:44,170 So when they saw me, it was like, oh, it was like this. 140 00:06:44,604 --> 00:06:46,839 You thought you were maybe 18, 19, 20? 141 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:47,640 Yeah, yeah. 142 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,643 So they did let me like, I don't know, 143 00:06:50,643 --> 00:06:53,813 like pull new stories and things like that. 144 00:06:53,913 --> 00:06:55,281 Well, what a great program and just, 145 00:06:55,281 --> 00:06:58,418 just how benevolent she was to set you up with all those pen pals. 146 00:06:58,584 --> 00:06:59,886 Oh, she's wonderful. 147 00:06:59,886 --> 00:07:02,889 But in the 80s, when I had a party at my house 148 00:07:03,189 --> 00:07:06,225 and I probably was silly enough to show all my paraphernalia 149 00:07:06,225 --> 00:07:10,229 and signed albums and everything, they were there were gone. 150 00:07:10,229 --> 00:07:11,097 Taken. 151 00:07:11,097 --> 00:07:12,331 Really? Yeah. 152 00:07:12,331 --> 00:07:14,767 Don't know who to this day don't even want to know. 153 00:07:14,767 --> 00:07:19,605 But, it's like, oh gosh, it's just not all of that good. 154 00:07:20,406 --> 00:07:23,609 But that was my, you know, beginnings 155 00:07:23,609 --> 00:07:27,380 of music and being so happy listening to it. 156 00:07:27,814 --> 00:07:29,916 It really was. Yeah. 157 00:07:29,916 --> 00:07:32,118 And my parents couldn't understand it at all. 158 00:07:32,118 --> 00:07:36,255 I got thrown out of elementary school class because I came 159 00:07:36,255 --> 00:07:40,059 in one day with my pins all over my jacket, and I cut my hair 160 00:07:40,293 --> 00:07:41,727 like the Beatles had the bangs. 161 00:07:41,727 --> 00:07:43,863 I did the I did the whole thing. 162 00:07:43,863 --> 00:07:48,000 And, the, the sister, because it was a Catholic school, wouldn't let me in. 163 00:07:48,601 --> 00:07:50,236 And I was sent home. 164 00:07:50,236 --> 00:07:52,405 And then my mother was just like, 165 00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:56,742 so I just fixed my hair, so, you know, 166 00:07:56,909 --> 00:08:00,413 it didn't look like a Beatles cut and took all the pins off me. 167 00:08:00,680 --> 00:08:03,516 Well, seems like every generation goes through that because, you know, when 168 00:08:03,516 --> 00:08:07,019 when Sinatra came out, you, though, the Bobby Sox was all went crazy. 169 00:08:07,019 --> 00:08:09,188 And a lot of the the Navy men didn't like him 170 00:08:09,188 --> 00:08:10,957 because they were a little bit jealous of him or whatever. 171 00:08:10,957 --> 00:08:14,060 And then, of course, when Elvis came out, you know, it was Elvis 172 00:08:14,060 --> 00:08:17,530 mania and, and, he was banned by all the churches. 173 00:08:17,530 --> 00:08:19,732 He was the devil. Yeah. And all that. 174 00:08:19,732 --> 00:08:23,736 And you look at the stuff that he did now and the Beatles and it's tame, right? 175 00:08:23,803 --> 00:08:26,472 Compared to a lot of stuff you, you see nowadays. 176 00:08:26,472 --> 00:08:28,908 So what was your first album? 177 00:08:28,908 --> 00:08:30,443 Oh mama or CD? 178 00:08:30,443 --> 00:08:33,279 I mean, because you were always working in radio. 179 00:08:33,279 --> 00:08:37,083 I know, I know, I mean, prior to that, usually they say when you when you're like 180 00:08:37,416 --> 00:08:40,653 11, 12, 13 years old, that's when your music taste is kind of formed. 181 00:08:41,153 --> 00:08:44,156 That's when you start really acknowledging music. 182 00:08:44,457 --> 00:08:47,393 So you know, late 60s, early 183 00:08:47,393 --> 00:08:50,730 70s really was like my my jam for a while. 184 00:08:51,130 --> 00:08:53,132 But I really, I really can't remember because music 185 00:08:53,132 --> 00:08:55,334 was always playing in our house all genres. 186 00:08:55,334 --> 00:08:56,702 My mom and dad loved everything. 187 00:08:56,702 --> 00:08:59,705 Yeah, that had the old 78 were playing jazz. 188 00:08:59,772 --> 00:09:02,909 We're playing gospel, blues, rock and roll, rhythm, all blues. 189 00:09:03,042 --> 00:09:06,312 Oh yeah, yeah, it was like a melting pot in my house. 190 00:09:06,579 --> 00:09:09,215 So we heard it all and I loved it all. 191 00:09:09,215 --> 00:09:11,484 And I was never a musical snob. 192 00:09:11,484 --> 00:09:12,752 I loved it all. 193 00:09:12,752 --> 00:09:15,922 Whether it be watching Soul Train or The Lawrence Welk Show 194 00:09:16,188 --> 00:09:19,825 or Brian Campbell, Johnny Cash, you know, it didn't make any difference. 195 00:09:19,825 --> 00:09:22,962 I loved it all, whether it was rock, pop, country, rhythm and blues. 196 00:09:23,396 --> 00:09:24,430 So I grew up that way. 197 00:09:24,430 --> 00:09:29,368 And still to this day, I never want to lose that childlike innocence, right? 198 00:09:29,368 --> 00:09:31,337 And I still listen to a lot of new music, 199 00:09:31,337 --> 00:09:35,207 and I probably know the new music as well as any 18, 19, 20 year old. 200 00:09:35,207 --> 00:09:35,908 And it's great. 201 00:09:35,908 --> 00:09:39,278 The top 40 music of today, because I have to play with my deejay business. Yes. 202 00:09:39,278 --> 00:09:39,579 Yeah. 203 00:09:39,579 --> 00:09:42,515 You know, and I and I played on the radio and I top 40 and whatever 204 00:09:42,515 --> 00:09:45,284 you keep hearing over and over, sometimes it does grow on you. 205 00:09:45,284 --> 00:09:46,085 It does. Yeah. 206 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:48,554 There's a lot of good new music out when people have a tendency. 207 00:09:48,554 --> 00:09:51,557 So when they get older they think, oh, nothing like the old right? 208 00:09:51,591 --> 00:09:53,960 Right. I don't buy that. I don't buy that. I buy it at all. 209 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:56,996 And we can continue to grow and evolve because I don't want to be that person. 210 00:09:56,996 --> 00:10:00,833 Oh, the old days were the best days and well, no, these are the good old days. 211 00:10:00,833 --> 00:10:03,102 As Carly Simon said in her song. 212 00:10:03,102 --> 00:10:05,771 Yes, yes, I think right, right. Yes. Yeah. 213 00:10:05,771 --> 00:10:07,239 These are the good old days. 214 00:10:07,239 --> 00:10:10,242 So I was thinking of like songs that made me happy. 215 00:10:10,443 --> 00:10:13,112 Right. So what? Like what songs would. 216 00:10:13,112 --> 00:10:15,815 Well, what I don't know, like what would uplift you? 217 00:10:15,815 --> 00:10:17,149 Maybe you didn't go through. 218 00:10:17,149 --> 00:10:20,219 Did you go through the angst of a teenage girl? 219 00:10:21,053 --> 00:10:25,424 Oh, I remember back in the day when your, your biggest challenge was who 220 00:10:25,424 --> 00:10:29,128 you going to go out with over the weekend or are you what's your what? 221 00:10:29,128 --> 00:10:30,997 Your mom was going to pack for lunch the next. 222 00:10:30,997 --> 00:10:32,131 Right, right. 223 00:10:32,131 --> 00:10:33,799 It seemed so trivial compared. 224 00:10:33,799 --> 00:10:37,236 But when I when I remember growing up hearing songs like Build Me Up Buttercup, 225 00:10:37,670 --> 00:10:41,173 foundations, that's a song Your Mama Don't 226 00:10:41,173 --> 00:10:44,944 Dance, rocking pneumonia and the boogie Woogie flu in the early 70s, mid 70s. 227 00:10:44,944 --> 00:10:46,312 Crocodile rock. 228 00:10:46,312 --> 00:10:49,682 Yeah, you know, a bad, bad Leroy Brown, all the fun stuff. 229 00:10:49,882 --> 00:10:52,351 And I loved a lot of the R&B disco stuff. 230 00:10:52,351 --> 00:10:54,420 Yeah, of the 70s. I loved rock n roll. 231 00:10:54,420 --> 00:10:58,190 I love the country, I, you love I mean, Elvis met Elvis. 232 00:10:58,190 --> 00:10:58,791 Really? Yeah. 233 00:10:58,791 --> 00:11:00,960 Wait, Elvis really cross country. 234 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,496 Also, Elvis was the gospel. 235 00:11:03,496 --> 00:11:07,767 Elvis is the only artist who's in 5 or 6 different halls of fame. 236 00:11:08,401 --> 00:11:12,705 She's in the Rock Hall of Fame, the blues, the country gospel. 237 00:11:13,172 --> 00:11:15,408 I think he's in some of the rockabilly. 238 00:11:15,408 --> 00:11:17,710 He's he's in them all. Have you gone to Graceland? 239 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:19,178 I have, you have. 240 00:11:19,178 --> 00:11:20,479 I have no reason why. 241 00:11:20,479 --> 00:11:21,914 It was a lot smaller than I thought. 242 00:11:21,914 --> 00:11:23,849 It was pretty gaudy, really. 243 00:11:23,849 --> 00:11:25,051 But what blew my mind 244 00:11:25,051 --> 00:11:28,854 was the big giant museum with all the gold and platinum records 245 00:11:29,221 --> 00:11:32,892 from all over the world and like, keys to the city. 246 00:11:32,892 --> 00:11:36,729 So any time he go to a city, mayors would meet with him, governors 247 00:11:36,796 --> 00:11:39,932 and presidents would go to his movie sets and meet with him. 248 00:11:40,266 --> 00:11:42,601 Yeah. I mean, the guy was like, incredible. 249 00:11:42,601 --> 00:11:48,007 I mean, how how super, super popular he was and still is in 2025 and still is. 250 00:11:48,007 --> 00:11:50,976 I don't think there's been anyone like him. 251 00:11:50,976 --> 00:11:51,277 Nope. 252 00:11:51,277 --> 00:11:54,013 As far as solo artist, no, nobody Comes close. 253 00:11:54,013 --> 00:11:55,014 And the Beatles. 254 00:11:55,014 --> 00:11:57,183 So Elvis and the Beatles are probably the two 255 00:11:57,183 --> 00:12:00,953 the biggest icons of all time in music, right? 256 00:12:00,986 --> 00:12:01,387 Bar none. 257 00:12:01,387 --> 00:12:04,190 If you want to go. My record sales to both of them. 258 00:12:04,190 --> 00:12:09,128 The Beatles really opened the doors for the ink for the England. 259 00:12:09,128 --> 00:12:12,331 I mean, the Mersey Beat came over here, 260 00:12:12,531 --> 00:12:15,835 Dave part five and yeah, Peter and Gordon and all those great bands. 261 00:12:15,835 --> 00:12:21,073 Yeah, we started to hear about them and yeah, that that's where my mind was. 262 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:22,742 Right? You know, I wanted to be there. 263 00:12:22,742 --> 00:12:26,779 I wanted to live in Liverpool and, and just be part of that scene. 264 00:12:26,779 --> 00:12:29,281 And, and you and I met when I was working at peel. 265 00:12:29,281 --> 00:12:31,450 Both working at peel are in the 80s. 266 00:12:31,450 --> 00:12:34,453 And we just connected right away, which led to the podcast 267 00:12:34,453 --> 00:12:35,521 now that we're doing together, 268 00:12:35,521 --> 00:12:39,358 which is wonderful, which we were doing, I think promotions and things that, 269 00:12:39,992 --> 00:12:42,995 PR when we were in, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, 270 00:12:43,028 --> 00:12:45,231 up on the second floor, they had the studio 271 00:12:45,231 --> 00:12:48,067 and they had the couch, and they had a pool table table, 272 00:12:48,067 --> 00:12:51,103 and we'd have to close the door sometimes because we'd be going on 273 00:12:51,103 --> 00:12:52,538 the radio talking. Right. 274 00:12:52,538 --> 00:12:57,276 I did on Rock with Van Halen in the pools, you hear the sound of the 275 00:12:57,543 --> 00:13:00,412 the balls, you know, in the background clacking and scratching. 276 00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:03,215 Exactly. It's like, guys, can you hear we're on the air here, you know? 277 00:13:03,215 --> 00:13:04,216 And yeah, great. 278 00:13:04,216 --> 00:13:07,219 But it was just so much fun because it was so loose 279 00:13:07,319 --> 00:13:10,089 and it was a community appeal at the time. 280 00:13:10,089 --> 00:13:12,458 It was a real community. 281 00:13:12,458 --> 00:13:16,395 I used to love staying there after hours when I could because, you know, 282 00:13:16,695 --> 00:13:18,063 I was that teenage mom. 283 00:13:18,063 --> 00:13:20,332 So I had little kids at home. 284 00:13:20,332 --> 00:13:22,168 But, the lich. 285 00:13:22,168 --> 00:13:24,770 Oh, no such luck ever happened to the Lich. 286 00:13:24,770 --> 00:13:27,840 Lich, if you listen to this, contact us please. 287 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,708 We love the Lich working with him. 288 00:13:29,708 --> 00:13:33,212 Loved him great man and had a passion for music. 289 00:13:33,212 --> 00:13:34,947 Second to none, second to none. 290 00:13:34,947 --> 00:13:36,849 He was a music encyclopedia. This guy. 291 00:13:36,849 --> 00:13:38,484 Oh, yeah, he was. 292 00:13:38,484 --> 00:13:41,720 He, he did a show with Jimmy Cop, like I know on PBS. 293 00:13:41,787 --> 00:13:44,190 Love, Jimmy conflict from Live Nation. 294 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:47,827 Thank you, Jimmy, for everything you contributed to our state and beyond. 295 00:13:48,093 --> 00:13:51,463 You know, Shelly Finkel, Jim coppock yeah, his fabulous 296 00:13:51,931 --> 00:13:54,900 but lich I would go into the studio, 297 00:13:55,467 --> 00:13:57,803 you know, after 5:00 298 00:13:57,803 --> 00:14:01,273 and he would crank journey. 299 00:14:01,273 --> 00:14:05,611 Oh, I mean, he loved drank it and I loved it. 300 00:14:05,644 --> 00:14:06,011 Yeah. 301 00:14:06,011 --> 00:14:06,712 And he would be 302 00:14:06,712 --> 00:14:10,649 playing drums on the counter, you know, because he, he was a drummer, I think. 303 00:14:10,649 --> 00:14:12,351 Yeah. Yeah, he always had the bandana on. 304 00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:14,320 He always had the bandana on. Yeah, yeah. 305 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,055 And and, like this. 306 00:14:16,055 --> 00:14:18,123 Not suspenders. What do you call it? The, 307 00:14:19,692 --> 00:14:21,527 Like the denim jump thing. 308 00:14:21,527 --> 00:14:22,361 Yeah. 309 00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:24,163 Like a, like a farmer style. 310 00:14:24,163 --> 00:14:26,265 Yeah. Almost like the farmers, but you know. 311 00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:29,235 Yeah, yeah, but he was a very unique style. 312 00:14:29,235 --> 00:14:30,035 Really unique. 313 00:14:30,035 --> 00:14:33,239 But just think of the great people we worked with over the years in radio. 314 00:14:33,272 --> 00:14:36,909 Yeah, I mean, there's too many to mention, but we work with some of the greats, 315 00:14:37,543 --> 00:14:39,845 you know, here in the Connecticut marketplace and beyond. 316 00:14:39,845 --> 00:14:44,083 Well, that's what launched my business for over 20 years, 317 00:14:44,083 --> 00:14:47,152 working with Michael Bolton and Mariah Carey 318 00:14:47,152 --> 00:14:50,155 and everything, John Mellencamp, Carly Simon, Billy Squier, right. 319 00:14:50,222 --> 00:14:52,958 Worked with that one? No, no, I wanted to work. Do you see these? 320 00:14:52,958 --> 00:14:56,462 Do you notice that I've got Billy Squire Pinson never work with Billy Squire. 321 00:14:56,462 --> 00:15:00,966 No really I thought you know he's the one I wanted to love. 322 00:15:00,966 --> 00:15:02,001 Billy Squire. 323 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,903 We're supposed to meet with him. 324 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:05,771 It was me Michael. 325 00:15:07,406 --> 00:15:09,208 And we were at Sherman's 326 00:15:09,208 --> 00:15:12,878 Tavern, which is now the Union, restaurant. 327 00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:15,114 We're talking to some local Connecticut, so. 328 00:15:15,114 --> 00:15:16,815 Yeah, but it's. 329 00:15:16,815 --> 00:15:22,221 Well, Billy Squire was, playing with rat round and round. 330 00:15:22,254 --> 00:15:24,690 Round around the New Haven Coliseum. 331 00:15:24,690 --> 00:15:29,161 So, he was invited to join Michael 332 00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:32,498 at Sherman's Tavern on the green, 333 00:15:33,065 --> 00:15:35,634 and I was so excited. 334 00:15:35,634 --> 00:15:37,036 I was like, oh, this is it. 335 00:15:37,036 --> 00:15:39,004 I'm finally going to get to meet him. 336 00:15:39,004 --> 00:15:40,172 I love his music. 337 00:15:40,172 --> 00:15:44,610 I love the fact that he wrote his music like he produced his videos at all. 338 00:15:44,910 --> 00:15:45,644 He really did. 339 00:15:45,644 --> 00:15:49,281 And that's what I respect about a lot of musicians when they can do that. 340 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:52,952 And I think, 341 00:15:52,952 --> 00:15:56,488 his keyboard player at the time probably did more to Allen. 342 00:15:56,488 --> 00:16:00,926 Saint John showed up and but Billy wasn't showing up, 343 00:16:00,926 --> 00:16:03,929 but there was no cell phone then to call. 344 00:16:03,963 --> 00:16:05,731 Coliseum was already closed. Right. 345 00:16:05,731 --> 00:16:07,199 What are we going to call? 346 00:16:07,199 --> 00:16:08,200 So we waited. 347 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,271 They left and they left with, you know, I had a bottle of. 348 00:16:12,338 --> 00:16:14,473 They had a bottle of champagne on the table. 349 00:16:14,473 --> 00:16:17,076 So I said, I'm just going to sit here and wait. 350 00:16:17,076 --> 00:16:19,912 So I just kept sippin it, sipping away. 351 00:16:19,912 --> 00:16:23,615 And then I realized like an hour later, okay, this is not going to happen. 352 00:16:23,882 --> 00:16:28,020 And when I went to get up, John, I was so drunk, 353 00:16:28,954 --> 00:16:29,555 I didn't even 354 00:16:29,555 --> 00:16:33,659 realize it until I thought, oh my God, I can't walk, right? 355 00:16:33,826 --> 00:16:37,396 So I had to hold on to table, 356 00:16:37,396 --> 00:16:42,001 get myself out, gingerly walk, gingerly walk to my car. 357 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,169 Sorry to say. 358 00:16:44,169 --> 00:16:44,903 Yeah. Jerome. 359 00:16:44,903 --> 00:16:46,605 Oh, I didn't know how else to get home. 360 00:16:46,605 --> 00:16:51,710 Yeah, I drove really slowly and I was thanking God that he made it home. 361 00:16:51,710 --> 00:16:53,412 I didn't get arrested. That's grace. 362 00:16:53,412 --> 00:16:55,147 But yeah, but. 363 00:16:55,147 --> 00:16:58,217 So that was my almost meeting with Billy Squier. 364 00:16:58,450 --> 00:17:01,553 But he's one of the ones that he eluded. 365 00:17:02,087 --> 00:17:02,921 He eluded me. 366 00:17:02,921 --> 00:17:07,993 But when he played in concert and open up for Queen to. 367 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:11,797 Yes, that's the concert I saw with my husband to be, 368 00:17:12,064 --> 00:17:14,466 Wayne Wayne and rest his soul. 369 00:17:14,466 --> 00:17:16,301 Love you Wayne. Yes, yes. 370 00:17:16,301 --> 00:17:18,337 And I loved him so much that night 371 00:17:18,337 --> 00:17:21,540 because we took my son's, we took a friend of theirs, 372 00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:26,278 and he said to me, come up to the stage, go up to the stage. 373 00:17:26,545 --> 00:17:28,514 And I thought, I love this guy. 374 00:17:28,514 --> 00:17:29,715 He gets this. 375 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:32,718 He's not jealous that I love Billy Squier. 376 00:17:32,751 --> 00:17:36,388 And he was comfortable enough in himself, so he was comfortable in his own skin. 377 00:17:36,422 --> 00:17:37,623 Oh yeah. 378 00:17:37,623 --> 00:17:40,359 Yeah. So he's got a great photo. 379 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:44,797 We'll probably put up of Billy on stage and. 380 00:17:44,797 --> 00:17:45,798 Yeah, it's a really 381 00:17:45,798 --> 00:17:49,835 it's a really good photo and some of Queen as well, but I didn't. 382 00:17:49,835 --> 00:17:52,504 I loved Queen, but I love Billy. Right. 383 00:17:52,504 --> 00:17:53,272 You love that. 384 00:17:53,272 --> 00:17:54,306 Oh yeah. 385 00:17:54,306 --> 00:17:57,276 So dance around and, you know, it was fun. 386 00:17:57,276 --> 00:18:00,279 It was just such a fun night. Good memories. 387 00:18:00,345 --> 00:18:03,182 Radio is meant not to work with Billy Squier. 388 00:18:03,182 --> 00:18:04,450 Because you know what? 389 00:18:04,450 --> 00:18:06,351 Sometimes you don't want to meet your heroes. 390 00:18:06,351 --> 00:18:08,320 You don't want to meet your heroes. 391 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:09,855 But here's what happened. 392 00:18:09,855 --> 00:18:12,791 What happened with me, anyway? Working. 393 00:18:12,791 --> 00:18:14,460 I was always backstage. 394 00:18:14,460 --> 00:18:18,130 Whether it's Oakdale Theater backstage, Palace Theater, backstage, 395 00:18:18,363 --> 00:18:24,603 opening my own business, working with artists backstage and stuff happens. 396 00:18:24,603 --> 00:18:27,806 Like who didn't get their backstage passes, joist or some. 397 00:18:27,806 --> 00:18:31,610 I was always called, I was there, I was meeting with, 398 00:18:31,610 --> 00:18:34,613 the radio people or whatever. 399 00:18:34,780 --> 00:18:39,017 There would be someone on a microphone saying, Joe Joyce, 400 00:18:39,017 --> 00:18:42,855 can you please come to this room and please come to the green room or whatever? 401 00:18:42,855 --> 00:18:44,790 I'm sure you put out a lot of fires, too. 402 00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:47,092 Yes, a lot of fires. 403 00:18:47,092 --> 00:18:51,430 So then I started to not enjoy going to concerts 404 00:18:51,430 --> 00:18:54,700 because it brought back memories of work. 405 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:56,301 Yeah, instead of enjoying it. 406 00:18:56,301 --> 00:19:01,140 So the one concert I did not want to meet my the guy 407 00:19:01,140 --> 00:19:04,143 that I also really look because I just love music was Johnny Mathis. 408 00:19:04,810 --> 00:19:08,881 So I asked Wayne to cover that show for me 409 00:19:08,914 --> 00:19:12,251 because usually, you know, he would take pictures, but 410 00:19:12,251 --> 00:19:16,121 then you'd have to make sure that their, their writer was met and all that. 411 00:19:16,522 --> 00:19:19,258 And Wayne could do that and he knew, you know the 412 00:19:19,258 --> 00:19:22,294 talk about the writers I mean what they are kind of demanding of. 413 00:19:22,327 --> 00:19:22,594 Yeah. 414 00:19:22,594 --> 00:19:25,597 Like like what's on their list to make sure they got the right water or 415 00:19:26,165 --> 00:19:29,501 like the green Eminem's or something, that that was always the story, right? 416 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:35,140 Yeah, I meant so I went and covered another show that night. 417 00:19:35,140 --> 00:19:38,277 It was Jay Leno that what they were also doing in Hartford. 418 00:19:38,610 --> 00:19:40,479 So I went to the Jay Leno Show. 419 00:19:40,479 --> 00:19:43,081 I left Wayne with Johnny Mathis. 420 00:19:43,081 --> 00:19:43,916 Oh, geez. 421 00:19:43,916 --> 00:19:46,919 And I came home and I said, so how did it go? 422 00:19:46,952 --> 00:19:50,489 And we just said to me, oh, Joyce. 423 00:19:50,689 --> 00:19:53,792 He said, this is this show you shouldn't have missed. 424 00:19:53,992 --> 00:19:57,029 He said, Johnny Mathis cooked for us all. 425 00:19:57,062 --> 00:19:58,430 Oh, no, that's right. 426 00:19:58,430 --> 00:20:03,669 He was quite the chef from what I and he all just sat around talking to him. 427 00:20:03,669 --> 00:20:07,172 And in memory I could hear my heart breaking again. 428 00:20:07,639 --> 00:20:09,875 And the thing is, he was a big track star too. 429 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,610 Yes, I do remember. 430 00:20:11,610 --> 00:20:14,613 Yes, I saw a documentary on him, you know, super sweet. 431 00:20:14,613 --> 00:20:16,582 Yeah. Johnny Mathis. Yeah. 432 00:20:16,582 --> 00:20:18,317 So it was Johnny Mathis. 433 00:20:18,317 --> 00:20:20,485 I didn't get to me, but I just. 434 00:20:20,485 --> 00:20:22,020 So you know, and I. 435 00:20:22,020 --> 00:20:25,891 And also Julie Andrews, I had Wayne cover Julie Andrews 436 00:20:25,891 --> 00:20:29,261 because she's just so, you know, I think she played 437 00:20:29,261 --> 00:20:32,731 in the original production of My Fair Lady in the 50s. 438 00:20:33,232 --> 00:20:37,069 My, my wife and I went to see it locally here in Connecticut at the Ivy. 439 00:20:37,202 --> 00:20:39,071 That's why not when we talk about movies. 440 00:20:39,071 --> 00:20:40,572 That's one of my favorite musicals. 441 00:20:40,572 --> 00:20:43,575 My Fair Lady could have danced. We have her. 442 00:20:43,742 --> 00:20:47,346 But she was such a lady that when Audrey Hepburn met her. 443 00:20:47,346 --> 00:20:50,782 And Audrey Hepburn even said, you should have had that role. 444 00:20:51,216 --> 00:20:54,453 She said, my dear, it was meant for you. Yes. 445 00:20:54,753 --> 00:20:55,954 You know, it was very gracious. 446 00:20:55,954 --> 00:20:58,290 Thank you all that if it was meant to be, it would have been her role. 447 00:20:58,290 --> 00:21:01,460 Yes, but but, you know, Julia wasn't hurting too much, you know. 448 00:21:02,027 --> 00:21:05,931 So Wayne covered that show for me because I thought, I don't want to find out. 449 00:21:05,931 --> 00:21:09,001 She's a prima donna or a diva again, 450 00:21:09,668 --> 00:21:12,504 not only the best, but his pictures of her 451 00:21:12,504 --> 00:21:16,275 that she's in her bathrobe with her glasses on and she didn't care. 452 00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:17,943 She was just sitting comfortable in her own skin. 453 00:21:17,943 --> 00:21:19,645 Yeah, yeah. 454 00:21:19,645 --> 00:21:20,712 That's fantastic. Yeah. 455 00:21:20,712 --> 00:21:23,448 And we've been very fortunate, Joyce, between the two of us, to meet 456 00:21:23,448 --> 00:21:27,719 so many great entertainers over the years, all different genres. 457 00:21:27,719 --> 00:21:30,589 I know you've worked with a lot of comedians too, that you've really enjoyed. 458 00:21:30,589 --> 00:21:34,192 I really love the you know, there's not one comedian that I didn't have. 459 00:21:34,192 --> 00:21:38,330 And of course, one of my favorites, Regis Regis was love, Regis Philbin. 460 00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:40,332 Wonderful. Love them. Yeah. 461 00:21:40,332 --> 00:21:41,767 So down to earth. Yes. 462 00:21:41,767 --> 00:21:45,270 What he was on TV was exactly how he was. 463 00:21:45,637 --> 00:21:47,172 You know, off TV. 464 00:21:47,172 --> 00:21:48,607 Well, I used to love, you know, with him and Kathie Lee, 465 00:21:48,607 --> 00:21:51,009 but also when his wife came on. Joy. Joy. 466 00:21:51,009 --> 00:21:53,912 She was great. Yeah, they were great together, as is. 467 00:21:53,912 --> 00:21:57,082 Like Kelly now with Mark, there's just no synergy between them. 468 00:21:57,082 --> 00:21:57,949 Great combo too. 469 00:21:57,949 --> 00:21:59,051 Yes. Yeah. 470 00:21:59,051 --> 00:22:01,887 So speaking about music, I just okay. 471 00:22:03,221 --> 00:22:04,389 You know, 472 00:22:04,389 --> 00:22:08,393 so Michael because I spoke about Michael because Michael Bolton, I met him 473 00:22:08,860 --> 00:22:13,465 well I met him at Toad's place, you know, really going to his real name. 474 00:22:13,632 --> 00:22:16,234 Yeah, it was Michael below. And he was with blackjack. 475 00:22:16,234 --> 00:22:16,668 They were great. 476 00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:19,671 We were playing them the two of them had kind of a harder rock sound. 477 00:22:19,771 --> 00:22:22,841 Well, that's the Michael Bolton that I knew best. 478 00:22:22,841 --> 00:22:24,776 Leather pants. Yes, yes. 479 00:22:24,776 --> 00:22:28,613 You know, bandana around his neck and yeah, he was rock and roll. 480 00:22:28,947 --> 00:22:29,681 He was rock and roll. 481 00:22:29,681 --> 00:22:33,552 But he wrote music and he wrote Laura Branigan's. 482 00:22:33,552 --> 00:22:35,554 How am I supposed to live with that? Do it. 483 00:22:35,554 --> 00:22:38,557 You know, so many, so many great, heartfelt songs 484 00:22:39,091 --> 00:22:42,461 and, behind the scenes, they, you know, decided 485 00:22:42,794 --> 00:22:46,131 with the record company that that's the way he should go. 486 00:22:46,131 --> 00:22:47,699 But he was always a rocker. 487 00:22:47,699 --> 00:22:49,801 Yeah, you know, at heart. 488 00:22:49,801 --> 00:22:53,105 And but he had a big female following, especially with his huge, big, 489 00:22:53,138 --> 00:22:54,272 big, big following. 490 00:22:54,272 --> 00:22:57,509 So when he was at Toad's place, I would see the, 491 00:22:57,509 --> 00:23:03,448 the women they see of women singing along to his first untitled 492 00:23:03,448 --> 00:23:07,052 album, Michael Bolton, that came out in 1983 493 00:23:07,652 --> 00:23:11,623 and it was hardly out, but they were singing along to every song. 494 00:23:11,656 --> 00:23:12,457 Must have shocked him. 495 00:23:12,457 --> 00:23:16,094 Looking out, oh, I didn't know my song, so let me tell you, I said that to him. 496 00:23:16,094 --> 00:23:18,330 I said, did you see them? 497 00:23:18,330 --> 00:23:21,767 And he said, Joyce, I wear glasses. 498 00:23:21,833 --> 00:23:23,235 I didn't have my contacts. 499 00:23:23,235 --> 00:23:26,238 Oh no, he said, it's all a blur. 500 00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:29,941 I said, keep doing that because you have this dreamy 501 00:23:29,941 --> 00:23:33,678 look in your eye looking out at the audience, 502 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:37,983 and maybe if you could see them really clearly, you know, 503 00:23:38,116 --> 00:23:42,954 you might not have that, that look, I mean, I think he's put contacts. 504 00:23:42,954 --> 00:23:46,024 Of course, you know, and probably had laser. 505 00:23:46,391 --> 00:23:48,326 Maybe he doesn't even need glasses. 506 00:23:48,326 --> 00:23:52,097 But it was in that moment, you know, that I thought, 507 00:23:52,631 --> 00:23:55,200 Holy moly, this guy's got that 508 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,203 charisma, you know, has got that, 509 00:23:58,603 --> 00:24:01,606 you got the it factor, which, you know, the great ones have. 510 00:24:01,973 --> 00:24:04,609 So when they came up to apply to do an interview. 511 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:08,246 Yeah, I think he did it with Brian Smith, Brad, Brian Smith and Barbra. 512 00:24:08,246 --> 00:24:10,682 They were a great team. I think Brian works. 513 00:24:10,682 --> 00:24:12,451 I don't even think Barbara was there yet. 514 00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:16,054 I think it was just Brian de radio doing something at the station. 515 00:24:16,221 --> 00:24:17,122 Oh, wow. Radio. 516 00:24:17,122 --> 00:24:20,659 Yes, yes, I'm it's a car dealership and it's an a car dealership. 517 00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:22,427 So is it really. Yeah. Okay. 518 00:24:22,427 --> 00:24:26,498 So Jeff, see, you know that guy on the tree plug for Brian? 519 00:24:26,498 --> 00:24:28,233 Call us. Yeah. Yes, Brian. Great. 520 00:24:28,233 --> 00:24:29,701 Great guy, great talent. 521 00:24:29,701 --> 00:24:32,404 Yeah. Yeah, really great guy. 522 00:24:32,404 --> 00:24:34,973 But I remember he he was speaking to 523 00:24:34,973 --> 00:24:38,009 Michael and I had this idea of 524 00:24:38,009 --> 00:24:41,847 like what to do, like how to bring the fans together 525 00:24:41,847 --> 00:24:46,451 because working at NPR, that's where the calls would come through. 526 00:24:46,952 --> 00:24:49,855 And I think I may have mentioned this to you before, where people 527 00:24:49,855 --> 00:24:54,292 would call and say, you know, my, my daughter's dying. 528 00:24:54,292 --> 00:24:56,161 I mean, really sad stories 529 00:24:56,161 --> 00:24:59,798 and like the Starlight Foundation or, you know, what other foundation? 530 00:24:59,798 --> 00:25:02,801 There's so many people they deal with nationwide 531 00:25:02,834 --> 00:25:05,570 and they just wanted to meet like 532 00:25:05,570 --> 00:25:08,573 Michael or Kelly Lewis with the news or whatever. 533 00:25:08,607 --> 00:25:10,141 Did you work with you? 534 00:25:10,141 --> 00:25:13,411 I know, but when you came up to the station, 535 00:25:13,879 --> 00:25:15,981 yeah, we had great conversations afterwards. 536 00:25:15,981 --> 00:25:19,851 I remember being on the air when he was there with 38 special, the New Year. Yes. 537 00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:22,821 That was that was the show. Wow. That was the show. 538 00:25:22,821 --> 00:25:26,658 So let me go back to like manifestation for a second. 539 00:25:26,658 --> 00:25:29,928 Where we first began our show was talking about this. 540 00:25:30,729 --> 00:25:33,732 So it was when MTV 541 00:25:34,199 --> 00:25:37,202 first really hit the airwaves. 542 00:25:37,502 --> 00:25:40,505 The journey had a, a video out, 543 00:25:40,839 --> 00:25:44,543 and in the background was a woman with a clipboard. 544 00:25:45,210 --> 00:25:48,313 And I said to myself, I want that job. 545 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,251 I want to be that person behind the scenes, working this somehow. 546 00:25:53,652 --> 00:25:56,254 And it was at, that show 547 00:25:56,254 --> 00:25:59,257 with Huey Lewis and 38 special, 548 00:25:59,791 --> 00:26:03,862 I have my clipboard because we had contest winners from polar, 549 00:26:04,195 --> 00:26:07,198 and I was part of, like, organizing things. 550 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:09,501 And I looked at myself, looked down. 551 00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:13,438 I said, oh my God, I am this woman with the clipboard. 552 00:26:14,072 --> 00:26:16,641 This is what I invested. 553 00:26:16,641 --> 00:26:17,609 Yeah. 554 00:26:17,609 --> 00:26:22,714 So that was really an eye opener for me because I'm laser focused on things like, 555 00:26:22,981 --> 00:26:26,851 I love hard, the Beatles, right, Billy Squier yes. 556 00:26:26,851 --> 00:26:29,754 I mean, I didn't manifest him, but that's okay. 557 00:26:29,754 --> 00:26:32,357 You still have time. He still looks good. 558 00:26:32,357 --> 00:26:33,058 Yeah, sure. 559 00:26:33,058 --> 00:26:35,827 I hear you sing in a way, yes. 560 00:26:35,827 --> 00:26:37,963 But, Yeah. 561 00:26:37,963 --> 00:26:41,666 But music has always been so healing, so healing for me. 562 00:26:41,666 --> 00:26:45,637 I remember on Michael's first and, you know, his first album 563 00:26:46,671 --> 00:26:48,340 was, Fool's Game. 564 00:26:48,340 --> 00:26:50,208 Now, I loved Fool's Game. 565 00:26:50,208 --> 00:26:52,477 That was really uplifting. It was like intense. 566 00:26:52,477 --> 00:26:54,312 I mean, the one that really got my attention was that's 567 00:26:54,312 --> 00:26:57,182 What Love Is all About. I remember that being his first mega hit. 568 00:26:57,182 --> 00:27:00,785 Yeah, that was the first, like, ballad power ballad that he wrote. 569 00:27:01,052 --> 00:27:03,755 Yes. And soul providers like one of my favorite soul profile 570 00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:05,624 all time, like, steel bars. 571 00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:08,627 City bars? Yes. With Bob Dylan. Yes. 572 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,129 But the one that I wore. 573 00:27:11,129 --> 00:27:12,063 Oh, yes. 574 00:27:12,063 --> 00:27:15,767 And I had a vinyl CD playing this, and I wore it out 575 00:27:15,967 --> 00:27:21,006 because it was a bad time romantically in my life with someone way. 576 00:27:21,006 --> 00:27:23,708 Eventually more than a few of those I eventually married. 577 00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:24,542 No. Oh, really? 578 00:27:24,542 --> 00:27:28,246 Yes, I did, so, But it was. 579 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,383 I almost believed you. 580 00:27:31,383 --> 00:27:34,886 I almost believe, but it was it was therapeutic for me 581 00:27:35,253 --> 00:27:38,657 because it cut out all the sorrow, 582 00:27:38,957 --> 00:27:44,229 and it made me feel like I wasn't alone because Michael wrote that, you know? 583 00:27:44,229 --> 00:27:46,264 So it really was healing. What do they say? 584 00:27:46,264 --> 00:27:48,333 Sad songs say so much. 585 00:27:48,333 --> 00:27:50,035 Oh, like the Elton John's song. 586 00:27:50,035 --> 00:27:51,436 Oh yeah. Yeah, it really does. 587 00:27:51,436 --> 00:27:51,803 You know. 588 00:27:51,803 --> 00:27:55,573 Or no, nobody likes sad songs, but they do, you know, Ronnie Milsap or 589 00:27:56,041 --> 00:27:56,941 so many of those songs. 590 00:27:56,941 --> 00:28:01,413 I love speaking to you about music because it's sort of like the Bible in a way. 591 00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:05,016 You remember who sang it. 592 00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:10,088 I remember the name in the Bible I can remember, like what? 593 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:11,823 What resonated with me. 594 00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:15,660 You can give me the passage where it okay, well, you've got a great memory. 595 00:28:15,727 --> 00:28:18,296 Well, the thing is, like at the radio station, we geek out a lot. 596 00:28:18,296 --> 00:28:22,100 We'll have conversations, fellow deejays, and we'll talk in song titles about it. 597 00:28:22,167 --> 00:28:25,804 I mean, and it's really geeky, but we have so much fun with it, 598 00:28:26,071 --> 00:28:27,372 no matter what genre. 599 00:28:27,372 --> 00:28:29,674 So as we wrap up, I just want to give a special 600 00:28:29,674 --> 00:28:33,311 not because it's of The Beatles, Michael Bolton, Billy Squire, 601 00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:36,181 got emotions in motion. 602 00:28:36,181 --> 00:28:37,515 How I love that song. 603 00:28:37,515 --> 00:28:40,118 I love Everybody Wants You to find it. 604 00:28:40,118 --> 00:28:42,153 You know it's you in the dark. 605 00:28:42,153 --> 00:28:43,755 Yeah, my gosh. 606 00:28:43,755 --> 00:28:46,758 Yeah. Also Barry Manilow. 607 00:28:46,825 --> 00:28:48,159 Yeah. Great. Great entertainer. 608 00:28:48,159 --> 00:28:51,162 Everything that he did, Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston, 609 00:28:51,663 --> 00:28:55,100 Tina Turner, I mean, I'm a big fan of all of them. 610 00:28:55,233 --> 00:28:58,069 Music that really shapes our lives. 611 00:28:58,069 --> 00:28:59,704 And each and every day in our house. 612 00:28:59,704 --> 00:29:01,206 Joyce music is playing. 613 00:29:01,206 --> 00:29:01,406 Yeah. 614 00:29:01,406 --> 00:29:04,375 And we've had, you know, we have it going on in the morning all throughout 615 00:29:04,375 --> 00:29:08,012 the day, you know, whether it be, you know, rock, you know, soul, 616 00:29:08,012 --> 00:29:11,683 rhythm and blues, Christian music we like as well, smooth jazz. 617 00:29:12,484 --> 00:29:14,786 It's all going on a classical music classic. 618 00:29:14,786 --> 00:29:17,322 Love it. You ask me mostly just soothes us. Right. 619 00:29:17,322 --> 00:29:19,958 But we're doing some work in the morning, right around the house. 620 00:29:19,958 --> 00:29:22,694 So why don't you tell us what your favorite songs are? 621 00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:24,863 You can leave us a message in our bio. 622 00:29:24,863 --> 00:29:28,833 We've got a link, but you can message us on Facebook 623 00:29:29,067 --> 00:29:31,936 BR on there and give us ideas for shows you would like. 624 00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:32,871 Absolutely. 625 00:29:32,871 --> 00:29:36,374 Talk to us, talk to us where this is interactive and we appreciate you 626 00:29:36,374 --> 00:29:39,477 because without you there's no show and maybe we'll have you on the show. 627 00:29:39,811 --> 00:29:40,612 That'd be great. 628 00:29:40,612 --> 00:29:43,648 Yes, yes, that's what's good with John and Joyce. 629 00:29:43,648 --> 00:29:44,315 Right. 630 00:29:44,315 --> 00:29:46,251 So thank you so much. And, check us out. 631 00:29:46,251 --> 00:29:47,685 Subscribe to us on YouTube. 632 00:29:47,685 --> 00:29:49,754 Just type in what's good with John and Joyce. 633 00:29:49,754 --> 00:29:50,555 Share it with everybody. 634 00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:51,022 It's free. 635 00:29:51,022 --> 00:29:53,958 Or you can, you know, check out a whole bunch of other platforms. You can. 636 00:29:53,958 --> 00:29:56,961 Yeah, subscribe as well. Till next time. 637 00:29:56,995 --> 00:29:59,097 There's a song in our hearts, right? Keep on singing. 638 00:29:59,097 --> 00:30:01,199 Love that. Bye for now.