November 11, 2024 • 41 mins
This week, we highlight the following music from these Central PA artists:
Darcie Miner - “Back to Before”
Winter Parks - “Stuck Between”
Central Pennsylvania Youth All-Star Band - “Do They Know It’s Christmas” WORLD PREMIERE!
Shea Quinn & Glenn Hamilton - “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy”
New Found Freedom - “Look Away” & “Leave the Bad for the Good”
Special guests: Scott Frange & Charlie Middleton of New Found Freedom
Listen on 97.3 FM or FROM ANYWHERE:
TheRiver973.com/Listen
To submit your music for consideration for a future episode go to:
www.cpmhof.com/radio
Hosts: Glenn Hamilton & Brandon Valentine
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Central Pennsylvania Youth All-Star Band:
Virginia Franks of Burn the Jukebox
Addily Park
Addi Grace
Juliet
Ava Karlita of Kopper and Kash
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Darcie Miner - “Back to Before”
Winter Parks - “Stuck Between”
Central Pennsylvania Youth All-Star Band - “Do They Know It’s Christmas” WORLD PREMIERE!
Shea Quinn & Glenn Hamilton - “Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy”
New Found Freedom - “Look Away” & “Leave the Bad for the Good”
Special guests: Scott Frange & Charlie Middleton of New Found Freedom
Listen on 97.3 FM or FROM ANYWHERE:
TheRiver973.com/Listen
To submit your music for consideration for a future episode go to:
www.cpmhof.com/radio
Hosts: Glenn Hamilton & Brandon Valentine
—-
Central Pennsylvania Youth All-Star Band:
Virginia Franks of Burn the Jukebox
Addily Park
Addi Grace
Juliet
Ava Karlita of Kopper and Kash
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Proudly Pa. This is the local show with a Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame on the River seven three.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
All right, welcome into season two, episode thirty four. I'm
Glenn Hamilton from the River. Brandon Valentine, my buddy over
from the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, sir, always happy to be here on a Sunday evening.
The curator of all of the music that you hear
on the show. That's a fancy thing to basically just say,
I select the music from the submissions. He picks the tunes,
and boyd, we got a good one tonight, boy we do.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We have some Central PA royalty coming in later. We'll
have a couple of special guests. Scott Frange and Charlie
Middleton are coming in here together and they have re
recorded some songs with their band from when they were kids,
Newfound Freedom, and we're going to feature a couple of
those songs a little bit later on.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Great story, for sure, it really is. And we also
have a world premiere.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes, yes, it's We've got through the Halloween season here
or in November. We're about to approach the Christmas season.
If you haven't decorated yet we start the conversations about
joy to the burg.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And this year the Central Pennslvania Music Hall of Fame
and the Youth Music education program via the Youth Music
or the Youth All Star Band, I should say, recorded
a Christmas tune and we are doing the world premiere
right here. It actually comes out tomorrow or midnight tonight,
I should say, via streaming services.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So you heard it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Here first, you will in about ten minutes. Yes, indeed,
don't go anywhere, as.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They say, don't touch that dial. But I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We're starting the show with one of my absolute favorite
Central Pa artists. She's been around for quite a while
and since she was young, and she's been doing this
since she could hold a guitar pretty much. One of
my absolute favorite singer songwriters. And I just think she's
such a prolific songwriter. It's great that she's doing stuff again.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Agreed.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This is her brand new song. This is Darcy Minor
and her song back to before on the local show
on the River ninety seven to three Little Children.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I will always remember you.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
So with drawn like the billy.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
That lapis to be listen, they're all less. It's been rough,
hanging on a home some day will be eighteen. There's
anybody know that these kids were. We did a dream,
live though we had survive if we lost, get.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Back back to when my heart was.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Back when lead.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Back to before me, when will be I will go
away from the village eventually. I'd asked only if they
were all, if they did it for the thrill.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I think we wore for the ambitious kids.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
I believe the willowgy screaming they captured the flag until
the diamond, when we slid down the head.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
The pavement, the bird.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
We were raised with.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
If your heartache still, how could.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
You ever come back.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Back to the harn was open back when I leap
back till before friend Safari broken.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
D you haven't fish way to people, back.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Back to in the hearts, back when Oddaly that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Home to before week with Brock. There is a.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Two before we back two were to be for real,
back to the far to before we bad, before that,
two people do that too, before.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
That, two people before we have a b.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's the local show on the river ninety seven three.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
All you questioning the principle when you're.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Living always sands against the scattered or pictures.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
The one the two that's behind speaking those pictures think
I'm miss you better. The things that I've been doing
has been.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Proving that stuck between the.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Security bard and things are sounds criche butts phobias go
in and stuck between wet, how hard and pass carry
for the things. Ian's question that it's probably it's falling
off if it is like get down mad and now
(07:12):
go away a pin. It don't feel like I'm up
too much. I'm doing everything.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
That How long was this selling? Are you telling it.
Speaker 11 (07:37):
Now?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Then?
Speaker 9 (07:38):
I'm like, Betty gets upset.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And you see.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What I said.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
John's been throwing to do this for years.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
It's not the guy for accomplishing. So that's his problems.
No job, no women, all the right guys. What are
we supposed to tell him?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
How much there is for him to live?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
For much?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I lie.
Speaker 12 (08:47):
Says this ship that's for me. It's going Betweens and
my pa call for the thing any he says.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
This ship that's for me.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It sounds so good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Winter Parks on the local show on the River ninety
seven to three, but you might know him as his
real that's his stage name.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's right, Winter Parks.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
But James Clippel, such an amazing talented musician here in
Central PA. Keyboard player, but great songwriter. He could play
anything pretty much.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, I would say he's a multi instrument menalist and
I believe he does all the music for his tracks
there for the Winter Parks project as well. That's stuck
between one of his newest as well, so you can
check that out on streaming services as well.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And before that, Darcy Minor my good friend, our good
friend and back to before. That's her latest song. And
the video for Darcy song is incredible. Just YouTube, Just
go to YouTube and search Darcy Minor back to Before. Yeah,
she's incredible, such a great voice, such a great songwriter.
And the sentiment in that song as well, you know,
(09:54):
being eighteen with an open heart, it's very nice to
listen to for sure, really is.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And so well produced.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, So yeah, I don't know if you know
what's the date today. It's the tenth, right, It's the
tenth day of Christmas. That's what Bill and I have
been saying on the Morning show, because you know, after
Halloween it's it's all systems go for Christmas fair.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And you know, as listeners here on the local show
and here at the River ninety seven to three, we
partnered with the Joy to the Burg Christmas Project, which
is a Christmas compilation album Holiday compilation album. And this
is the sixth year, the sixth year of Jordan the
Burg as well as the sixth year of the cpmas
isn't that something both born the same time?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
But if you haven't seen, the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall
of Fame has had a youth All Star band. You
can check it out on all digital streaming services as
well as YouTube. Last year, the Youth All Star Band
came out with a cover of Baba O'Reilly. That's right,
so amazing, highly acclaimed. You know, I think there's I
don't even know, fifty thousand views on YouTube or something.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
At this point, there ought tobate.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It won a CPMA and at that point it was
all kids through the age of thirteen and eighteen. And
we've added some talent to make a video and release
a song. This year, partnered with Jordan the Burg to
do a Christmas song and what other better you know,
it's almost got that we are the world vibe same
thing for benefit of West Africa. There the nineteen eighty
(11:23):
four cover of Do They Know It's Christmas? By band
Aid band Aid right right? They featured everybody in that thing.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, everybody from boy George to Bono and everybody in
between was on the original.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So this is so great.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We've teased it as a world premiere and the kids
themselves have not heard the finished product on this, so
this will be the first time there I'll listening to it.
So if you're out there and you're part of this project,
film one of these reaction videos with it as well,
because we'd love to share it on our social media.
So this is twelve individuals from Central Pennsylvania who are
(11:56):
between the ages of fourteen and eighteen twelve different names
rattle them off afterwards here, but you know who you
are out there here. It is the world premiere of
the Central Pennsylvania Youth All Star band version.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Of Do They Know It's Christmas? On the local show
in the River ninety seven three.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's Christmas time.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
There's no need to be afraid at Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Ween in liight and we vanishing it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And then ol.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
Of Flancy, we can spread a smile of joy through.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Your arms around the world. Christmas side, the say you
if they thought the.
Speaker 15 (13:09):
Other lines.
Speaker 16 (13:12):
At Christmas time, it's hard be while we're having fun.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The world outside your window and this world.
Speaker 17 (13:27):
Of dready.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
With a kissl love can kill you. And misterthan have
reached you.
Speaker 13 (13:38):
And the Christmas bells start ring there, all the cleaning
chimes of well tonight we're reaching down inside.
Speaker 16 (13:52):
Shani brings peace, enjoy this Christmas to Western Africa, the
song of.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Hope, and there's no hope tonight. N is concert everything
my to touch? To be scared? How can I know?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
It's Christmas? Ship all.
Speaker 14 (14:33):
Last and no days to concent know it's Christmas time?
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Christmas, It's Christmas time?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Wow? How epic is that? I have goose bumps, as
do I and I was there for the recording.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's the Central Pennsylvania Youth All Star Band and their
cover of band aids.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Do they know it's Christmas? For joy to the berg?
Who all is on there? There's a lot of people involved.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yes, First shout out to Derek Houston recorded that at
the Green Room Studios in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and on that track,
Virginia Grace Franks of Burned the juke Box Addalie Park,
Addie Grace, Juliette Ava, Carlita of Copper and Cash, Julia Denny,
Noah Gibney, my son Ethan Valentine on the drums, cz
(16:27):
Mo Ismael Levi Dickinson on bass, Alex Lee Warner on guitar.
Also Noah Gibney played keys there, and all twelve of
those teenagers also sung on the track, So everybody who
played an instrument sang, and those who did not play
an instrument saying such an impressive.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
It really is, right, And there's a video for it
as well. That's right. It'll be out tomorrow eight am, all.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Right, but the song hits streaming at midnight tonight, so
that's just less than four hours.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Away, and you'll be listening to it all season long.
I'm sure. Yeah, it's great speaking of Joy to the Berg,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Last year, one of the most infamous songs from the
album Joy of the Berg was Shae Quinn and uh
and I believe you right, Glenn Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I think I was on that on that I think
it won an Award for Best Holiday Cover too.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I did the being Crosbie part, Shay Quinn did the
the the David Bowie part and GK Visuals did the video.
We had so much fun with it so and it's
a great transition too because Winter Parks James played, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He played on the piano.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, Scott friends who we're going to be talking to
here in a second with the yep flapping the bass
and Logan Bdard on drums.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I mean it was an all star band that we
put together for this.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So here it is.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
This is a peace on earth, Little drummer boy on
the local show on the River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 17 (17:56):
Come, They told me pauluper pump pum a new born
king to see Pa rump.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
A pump pound, How fine it gifts. We bring par
rumper pump pom to lay before the king.
Speaker 17 (18:19):
Pa rubber pump pom, rubber pump pum rub a pump pump.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Comes over me power and yells from now perhaps.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Our fire ring.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Pop to see the king.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Rub again.
Speaker 13 (18:57):
So rub a bum.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Jaunty.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
Every must be relayed whatever, every time must be bad.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Cow forrest man to hear all all God Ris rumble
(19:42):
boll com true.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
I am my child to niort.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I see my twenty four him, I see him.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
N that's shay Quin and Glenn Hamilton Peace on Earth,
(20:34):
Little Drummer Boy on the local show that was from
last year's.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Joy to the berg Roger.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
We had so much fun doing that and uh James
Clappel on the piano, and uh we had Logan Bodard
on the drums and Scott Frange on the base and
we're gonna have Scott. Scott's actually in the green room
waiting to come in with Charlie Middleton to talk about
their newfound freedom reunion. We're going to hear a couple
of songs that they've reworked in and hear about the
(21:00):
history of that incredible band. Coming up on the local
show on the River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 3 (22:09):
We're back on the local show on the River ninety
seven to three. I'm Brandon Valentine my co host Glenn Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Here, we have some very.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Special guests in the studio. In fact, we have Central
Pennsylvania Rock Royalty with us in the studio, Scott Frane,
who is not only a local musician, he also owns
the Players Exchange in Lemoinne there and as part of
Shay Quinn's band who sold the world. We also have
Charlie Middleton in here, who is for years and years
(22:36):
a part of the Middleton Brothers, absolutely legendary and will
one day be in the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They should be.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But Charlie Middleton is also here. Charlie, Scott, how are
you guys doing right? We're doing Well's so the reason
you guys are in here today is because a few
months ago, you guys, you guys had been together back
in the early seventies when you were just kids in
(23:05):
a band called Newfound Freedom Right, and you had written
some songs. We're out playing some shows and you guys
kind of got some tell us how this project came about.
Why you guys decided to come back and re record
these songs. His memory is much better than mine, so
I'll let him talk, all right, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
About a year ago I decided to and I call
him godly notions. I get him during my life, and
somebody nudged me and said, you know, you need to
contact Charlie. It's been fifty years bam broke up when
we're going to be signed by Electure and offer the tour,
and he said, you got to get together. So I
called Charlie and he came in my store and I
(23:46):
hadn't seen him for a long time. And we played
a lot of major concerts back then, tens of thousands
of people. Yeah, and that was like a collapse of
both of us. A lot of emotion, a lot of crying, tears,
joy hug we do every time. And one thing led
to another. I have an annual Christmas party, a lot
of friends coming. We had Charlie up at Christmas and
(24:09):
they're all talking to us and was there. One was away,
but they came up and Charlie said, I think we
should do the records over. Well, the history on that
is when we were sixteen seventeen, Electra Records and Entertainment,
who booked the Outlaws, sent us up the Shaggy Dog
Studios in Stockers, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Wow, to talk about the history of that place.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Well, that was Shaggy Dog. We didn't know that. We
were naive. We were naive at the who was there?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Kids?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
We're walking in the door and James Taylor's house was
to their left and all the Guthries was to the right,
and John Lennon spent weekends there, unreal and Hendrix. There's
a picture of Hendrix on the wall. We both never
forgot that. There's a picture of a guy with four
Brinskies carrying tapes out and Hendrix is in the middle. Wow,
and Stan, I understand, goes so, and then lou Ree.
(25:02):
John Lennon spent weekends there and Alice Cooper's came there
the night that we were there he goes as Alice
comes manager. People were people were hot on us in
the industry as an Electra was following us around a lot,
and they just signed a bad company queen and there
was nobody.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Nobody had heard of him. So you guys are right
in the mix with those guys. Well, we were kids,
I'm telling you. I just turned seventeen, Charlie was seventeen,
Stand was probably nineteen, and Paul Meyer's a guitarist, does
fabulous guitar work. And we spent what five days they
were recording singles and came back in the world changed.
We were on Starview all the time. The records which
(25:44):
you'll hear then now have been redombe, but the originals
are on the CD. And we came back and forty
five's were done and the band uh got legs big time.
And then we changed the guitar player that was with
the original and then out of Bob Barry on piano,
who was probably the finest pianist in the region, and
(26:04):
that band became over the top. We moved freedom that
we opened up for major people. Excuse me, it really
is that time, Yeah, yeah, but that's what we did.
We Cindy did, and uh, we got really then the
Outlaws agency got involved and we're really getting doing big
openers a lot of major bands. And then they offered
(26:26):
us a sixteen week tour some in this up and
an album. The Electra did and the band broke up.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Glenn Brandon I said before that's what happened, massive exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's what I couldn't leave personal reasons. My mom my
pop up had a stroke, and I was in love
and Bob Barry was getting married and he goes, uh,
we had no idea.
Speaker 20 (26:49):
It was that close, and we had an opportunity. We
had to jump at it. We had to jump at
the opportunity brand in England, we had to jump at it.
So that's why we had this get together. And like
I said, everything fell the part that night and not
expect we had we had. We replaced you guys in
a heartbeat, but it wasn't the same. We were talking
about that on the way over. His chemistry is you
(27:10):
got and timing, so you know, if.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's like lightning in a bottle. They say that when
you get the right exact people together beatles stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
We have played together together. We have played together as
kids and we were young, and Charlie wrote the great songs.
I wrote great basslines. It was it was a thing,
and Stan was phenomenal. The harmonies on the early.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Cuts with Stan were Charlie singing together those brotherly gospel.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Music and that always makes it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, they had a Milton to sing harmony and real singing,
really sing it.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So I guess Electris heard them, like, these guys are
doing Eagles before the Eagles and Poco for Poco, and
they were so that's on the original recordings, and they
were like, that's what probably happened. These guys got a lot,
so it just they offered a sixteen week tour. I'm
playing the Cleveland Colleseme with average wife and a bors
call and all this stuff, and we said, can't do it.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, Griefs walked away.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Well, it was summer seventy five, after playing thirty thousand
people with Sugar Love three days in a row.
Speaker 20 (28:15):
We were kids, so we didn't realize we were believe
we did not realize how good we were, well, how
good other people thought we got an electoral thought we were.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
So they were already from college educations. Hey, we can
make some jack with these guys.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well, we're going to jump into this first track that
you guys re recorded. This was your big hit, the
first thing that you really wrote together and went up
and re recorded it. Where did you re record it?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Drop a Danzas studio right up with a Solemn.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Records, and this is you've got obviously Stanley, your brother,
Stanley Middleton passed away eleven years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I can't believe it's been that year, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
This is all dedicated to stan right, just your memory.
He was the greatest drammer I've ever worked with. I
work with all the top.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Ones, so it's hard to fill Stanley's shoes. But Logan
Bedard is on the drums on this track he started.
And your niece, Meghan Fenton Charlie plays the violin on this.
Speaker 20 (29:12):
There's a neat connection with that. She's actually still in
high school and I said, why don't we let her
play the violin because she's a good violin.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
She's like the same age you guys will when you
recorded these originals exactly. Well, let's hear this is fifty
years later, the re recording of look Away. It's newfound freedom.
Charlie Middleton and Scott Frange on the River Local Show
on the River ninety seven three in iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
When I knew that this would funly come in last.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
Now had time together, It's all passed, loving you, what's
all I've tried to do?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Now you say you found somebody.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I'm suber.
Speaker 16 (30:17):
Since you let me down, looking for some answers out
of the fuming and this time so I'm.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Gone mad all behind, look away, look away. Hey, Hey,
(31:01):
you don't care. You've broken other height, but hurting is
the worst part. So don't you come and running back
to me. You are going now, I am.
Speaker 15 (31:16):
Set free the rooming wil waver I'm mentis.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I guess I'll take the highway.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
It's nothing lord news and I'm gone online, look.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Away, look Away.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
The River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This is the local show with the Central Pennsylvania Music
Hall of Fame and talk about some Hall of famers
from right here in Central PA. Scott Frane and Charlie Middleton.
This is the re recordings of the band Newfound Freedom
from the early seventies here with at the time with
Charlie's brother Stan Middleton was in the band.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
But I love that you guys.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Went back up there and recorded that revisited all of
this incredible history that you had together and you hadn't
really played or done anything together for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
It still sounds good.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
That amazing, It really does, because you know, a great
song is a great song timeless. We'll talk about some
of the pressures there were on you guys when you
were in high school, playing all these big shows and
having record companies sniffing around your door.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
We used to hold each other up, like together going
in front of Sugarlow from twenty thousand or whatever. The concerts,
we would just stand there and everybody good. I remember
opening up for James Cotton that was our first big concert,
was like five thousand and then everybody was either standing, Bob, Barry,
Mike smoking cigarettes. I think Charlie was on the pot.
(33:17):
My hands were ice cold. But like we're kids, we're
eighteen walking out. But when we do it, when we
get on cored, the place is going nuts and standing.
We know we're getting you know, I don't remember thinking
about this. People say you guys like say let's make
a million dollar hit. We never thought about that. We
just played our We rehearsed and played our asses, and
there were no like friends say to me, well, a practice.
(33:39):
So you guys who brought the beer and who brought
the nothing?
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
No, nothing, we work, okay, nothing. Ever, I never saw
a beer can in four and a half years or
a joiner.
Speaker 18 (33:49):
It was work.
Speaker 13 (33:50):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
And don't forget you had the originals and all of
a sudden the covers we did. How about Steely Dan
and Zappa and Renaissance and Gary Wright?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Really difficult stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You never ahead of our time. I believe we were
definitely now when I look back in retros.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
And really for your age even how what the kind
of stuff you were playing back then? The shops that
you had back then. I'm believe it was seventeen and
there was no easy songs on that set. Well, speaking
of that, let's let's play this one because this has
very psychedelic. It's got some definitely some Zappa vibe to it,
some Steely Dan to it. This is Leave the Bad
for Good.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Written by Charlie. He was like fifteen or fourteen.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
This is written when you wrote this, Charlie the Bad
for I don't remember when I wrote that.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well that was before I came, Yeah, it was I
wrote the bass for it. All right.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, here it is. This is re recorded just a
few months ago. This is Leave the Bad for Good.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's Newfound Freedom reunited on the local show on the
River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
There is also the start of Little Party.
Speaker 15 (36:00):
I'm looking at the world today, I usually the same.
What I say when I look is usually bad. So
I stay here in mama and live my song. The
song is Sleeve the band the Dude, and it's.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Turning along for me to change the world. I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I'm saying.
Speaker 13 (36:37):
That.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Say my name.
Speaker 15 (37:11):
When I'm looking at the world today a hugely facade.
What else see when I look as usually back?
Speaker 11 (37:25):
So I stay here in my and live myself. The
sonestly hit the Bad Coude and it's time Alone.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
You're in.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
The River ninety seven to three. This is the local
show that was Newfound Freedom and Leave the Bad for
Good re recorded for posterity because Charlie Middleton and Scott
Frange lifetime buddies, got together as of about a year
ago and decided they wanted to re record all this
magic that they had put together with Charlie's brother Stanley,
(38:23):
and you guys came up with a couple of great
songs you have some other players to.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Play with you.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
But also on the CD are four other songs from
the original recordings.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
With you guys exactly, and they were actually recorded on
vine ol. So it's not a trend.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
It's not something that's so groovy right now.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
We had that was the only outlet you had, right,
they came out on records exactly, but you recorded them
in the.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Studio with like you know, on Tate.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
June June in high school.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Well, there's there's also a great article in PA Musician magazine,
which month issue was that? May I believe that was
back in the summer. All right, so but the PA Musician, Yeah,
that's on the back of the poster. Oh, that's on
the back of the poster that there's a poster included.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Every Oh, so you can get the start. So the
article is on the back of the poster.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
So find out the history of Newfound Freedom and how
this all came together.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And uh, just unbelievable to have you guys in here.
It really is.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Scotch Absah and Charlie Middleton.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
How can people pick up a copy of the CD?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Come by players exchange? I just give copies out to
have somebody to give out and I stop buying. Everybody
knows the story, and there's a story. There have a
lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
And oh you've got an awesome store, dude, there's no
doubt about it. I could spend hours in there.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Uh And and the other thing is Brandon is going
to help you guys get these songs up into the
digital realm so people can listen to these anytime anywhere,
because they should be out there forever.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
They should hit on there for sure. Oh, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
That's that's that's just my no doubt.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
And even if somebody here's it and say, hey, I
want to record that myself exactly, I need to talk
to you, Scott, Frane, Charlie Middleton, an absolute aut of
known you guys forever. It's an honor to have you
guys in here, and it's so cool to see you
guys and hear you guys making music again.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
It's been a pleasure being here. Glenn. Thank you so
much for all you do, and thank you for all
the history and all that you've done around the area.
And thank you Brandon for what you did putting this
Hall of Fan together. Quite a triumph. Outstanding, body, outstanding,
very proud of what you've done.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
You're welcome, Scott, glad to have you in.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
So cool having those guys then, all right, Brandon, how
can people get their music submitted for consideration?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yes, check out the website cpmhof dot com. If you
go to the link at cpmahof dot com slash radio,
there's a form there where you can actually submit your
music for consideration for airplay right here on the local
show in the River ninety seven three, and.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Also nominate the artists and bands that you want to
win Central Pennsylvania Music Awards next year. Those tickets go
on sale December first for the big Awards ceremony March
fifth at American Music Theater in Lancaster. For Brandon Valentine,
I'm Glenn Hamilton. We appreciate you listening every week to
the local show. We're on every Sunday night at eight
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Proudly Pa. This is the local show with a Central
Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame on the River seven three.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
All right, welcome into season two, episode thirty four. I'm
Glenn Hamilton from the River. Brandon Valentine, my buddy over
from the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yes, sir, always happy to be here on a Sunday evening.
The curator of all of the music that you hear
on the show. That's a fancy thing to basically just say,
I select the music from the submissions. He picks the tunes,
and boyd, we got a good one tonight, boy we do.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
We have some Central PA royalty coming in later. We'll
have a couple of special guests. Scott Frange and Charlie
Middleton are coming in here together and they have re
recorded some songs with their band from when they were kids,
Newfound Freedom, and we're going to feature a couple of
those songs a little bit later on.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Great story, for sure, it really is. And we also
have a world premiere.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Yes, yes, it's We've got through the Halloween season here
or in November. We're about to approach the Christmas season.
If you haven't decorated yet we start the conversations about
joy to the burg.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
And this year the Central Pennslvania Music Hall of Fame
and the Youth Music education program via the Youth Music
or the Youth All Star Band, I should say, recorded
a Christmas tune and we are doing the world premiere
right here. It actually comes out tomorrow or midnight tonight,
I should say, via streaming services.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So you heard it.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Here first, you will in about ten minutes. Yes, indeed,
don't go anywhere, as.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
They say, don't touch that dial. But I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
We're starting the show with one of my absolute favorite
Central Pa artists. She's been around for quite a while
and since she was young, and she's been doing this
since she could hold a guitar pretty much. One of
my absolute favorite singer songwriters. And I just think she's
such a prolific songwriter. It's great that she's doing stuff again.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Agreed.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
This is her brand new song. This is Darcy Minor
and her song back to before on the local show
on the River ninety seven to three Little Children.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I will always remember you.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
So with drawn like the billy.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
That lapis to be listen, they're all less. It's been rough,
hanging on a home some day will be eighteen. There's
anybody know that these kids were. We did a dream,
live though we had survive if we lost, get.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Back back to when my heart was.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Back when lead.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
Back to before me, when will be I will go
away from the village eventually. I'd asked only if they
were all, if they did it for the thrill.
Speaker 8 (03:13):
I think we wore for the ambitious kids.
Speaker 7 (03:18):
I believe the willowgy screaming they captured the flag until
the diamond, when we slid down the head.
Speaker 8 (03:28):
The pavement, the bird.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
We were raised with.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
If your heartache still, how could.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
You ever come back.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Back to the harn was open back when I leap
back till before friend Safari broken.
Speaker 8 (04:07):
D you haven't fish way to people, back.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
Back to in the hearts, back when Oddaly that.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
Home to before week with Brock. There is a.
Speaker 7 (04:49):
Two before we back two were to be for real,
back to the far to before we bad, before that,
two people do that too, before.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
That, two people before we have a b.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
It's the local show on the river ninety seven three.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
All you questioning the principle when you're.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
Living always sands against the scattered or pictures.
Speaker 10 (06:23):
The one the two that's behind speaking those pictures think
I'm miss you better. The things that I've been doing
has been.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
Proving that stuck between the.
Speaker 9 (06:49):
Security bard and things are sounds criche butts phobias go
in and stuck between wet, how hard and pass carry
for the things. Ian's question that it's probably it's falling
off if it is like get down mad and now
(07:12):
go away a pin. It don't feel like I'm up
too much. I'm doing everything.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
That How long was this selling? Are you telling it.
Speaker 11 (07:37):
Now?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Then?
Speaker 9 (07:38):
I'm like, Betty gets upset.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
And you see.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What I said.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
John's been throwing to do this for years.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
It's not the guy for accomplishing. So that's his problems.
No job, no women, all the right guys. What are
we supposed to tell him?
Speaker 1 (08:15):
How much there is for him to live?
Speaker 5 (08:16):
For much?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
I lie.
Speaker 12 (08:47):
Says this ship that's for me. It's going Betweens and
my pa call for the thing any he says.
Speaker 13 (08:57):
This ship that's for me.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
It sounds so good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Winter Parks on the local show on the River ninety
seven to three, but you might know him as his
real that's his stage name.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
That's right, Winter Parks.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
But James Clippel, such an amazing talented musician here in
Central PA. Keyboard player, but great songwriter. He could play
anything pretty much.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Yeah, I would say he's a multi instrument menalist and
I believe he does all the music for his tracks
there for the Winter Parks project as well. That's stuck
between one of his newest as well, so you can
check that out on streaming services as well.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And before that, Darcy Minor my good friend, our good
friend and back to before. That's her latest song. And
the video for Darcy song is incredible. Just YouTube, Just
go to YouTube and search Darcy Minor back to Before. Yeah,
she's incredible, such a great voice, such a great songwriter.
And the sentiment in that song as well, you know,
(09:54):
being eighteen with an open heart, it's very nice to
listen to for sure, really is.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
And so well produced.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
All right, So yeah, I don't know if you know
what's the date today. It's the tenth, right, It's the
tenth day of Christmas. That's what Bill and I have
been saying on the Morning show, because you know, after
Halloween it's it's all systems go for Christmas fair.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
And you know, as listeners here on the local show
and here at the River ninety seven to three, we
partnered with the Joy to the Burg Christmas Project, which
is a Christmas compilation album Holiday compilation album. And this
is the sixth year, the sixth year of Jordan the
Burg as well as the sixth year of the cpmas
isn't that something both born the same time?
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I guess.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
But if you haven't seen, the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall
of Fame has had a youth All Star band. You
can check it out on all digital streaming services as
well as YouTube. Last year, the Youth All Star Band
came out with a cover of Baba O'Reilly. That's right,
so amazing, highly acclaimed. You know, I think there's I
don't even know, fifty thousand views on YouTube or something.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
At this point, there ought tobate.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It won a CPMA and at that point it was
all kids through the age of thirteen and eighteen. And
we've added some talent to make a video and release
a song. This year, partnered with Jordan the Burg to
do a Christmas song and what other better you know,
it's almost got that we are the world vibe same
thing for benefit of West Africa. There the nineteen eighty
(11:23):
four cover of Do They Know It's Christmas? By band
Aid band Aid right right? They featured everybody in that thing.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, everybody from boy George to Bono and everybody in
between was on the original.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
So this is so great.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
We've teased it as a world premiere and the kids
themselves have not heard the finished product on this, so
this will be the first time there I'll listening to it.
So if you're out there and you're part of this project,
film one of these reaction videos with it as well,
because we'd love to share it on our social media.
So this is twelve individuals from Central Pennsylvania who are
(11:56):
between the ages of fourteen and eighteen twelve different names
rattle them off afterwards here, but you know who you
are out there here. It is the world premiere of
the Central Pennsylvania Youth All Star band version.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Of Do They Know It's Christmas? On the local show
in the River ninety seven three.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's Christmas time.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
There's no need to be afraid at Christmas time.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Ween in liight and we vanishing it.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
And then ol.
Speaker 14 (12:49):
Of Flancy, we can spread a smile of joy through.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Your arms around the world. Christmas side, the say you
if they thought the.
Speaker 15 (13:09):
Other lines.
Speaker 16 (13:12):
At Christmas time, it's hard be while we're having fun.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
The world outside your window and this world.
Speaker 17 (13:27):
Of dready.
Speaker 5 (13:30):
With a kissl love can kill you. And misterthan have
reached you.
Speaker 13 (13:38):
And the Christmas bells start ring there, all the cleaning
chimes of well tonight we're reaching down inside.
Speaker 16 (13:52):
Shani brings peace, enjoy this Christmas to Western Africa, the
song of.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Hope, and there's no hope tonight. N is concert everything
my to touch? To be scared? How can I know?
Speaker 8 (14:24):
It's Christmas? Ship all.
Speaker 14 (14:33):
Last and no days to concent know it's Christmas time?
Speaker 8 (15:07):
Christmas, It's Christmas time?
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Wow? How epic is that? I have goose bumps, as
do I and I was there for the recording.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
That's the Central Pennsylvania Youth All Star Band and their
cover of band aids.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Do they know it's Christmas? For joy to the berg?
Who all is on there? There's a lot of people involved.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yes, First shout out to Derek Houston recorded that at
the Green Room Studios in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and on that track,
Virginia Grace Franks of Burned the juke Box Addalie Park,
Addie Grace, Juliette Ava, Carlita of Copper and Cash, Julia Denny,
Noah Gibney, my son Ethan Valentine on the drums, cz
(16:27):
Mo Ismael Levi Dickinson on bass, Alex Lee Warner on guitar.
Also Noah Gibney played keys there, and all twelve of
those teenagers also sung on the track, So everybody who
played an instrument sang, and those who did not play
an instrument saying such an impressive.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
It really is, right, And there's a video for it
as well. That's right. It'll be out tomorrow eight am, all.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Right, but the song hits streaming at midnight tonight, so
that's just less than four hours.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Away, and you'll be listening to it all season long.
I'm sure. Yeah, it's great speaking of Joy to the Berg,
that's right.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Last year, one of the most infamous songs from the
album Joy of the Berg was Shae Quinn and uh
and I believe you right, Glenn Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I think I was on that on that I think
it won an Award for Best Holiday Cover too.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I did the being Crosbie part, Shay Quinn did the
the the David Bowie part and GK Visuals did the video.
We had so much fun with it so and it's
a great transition too because Winter Parks James played, uh.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
He played on the piano.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, Scott friends who we're going to be talking to
here in a second with the yep flapping the bass
and Logan Bdard on drums.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
I mean it was an all star band that we
put together for this.
Speaker 4 (17:37):
So here it is.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
This is a peace on earth, Little drummer boy on
the local show on the River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 17 (17:56):
Come, They told me pauluper pump pum a new born
king to see Pa rump.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
A pump pound, How fine it gifts. We bring par
rumper pump pom to lay before the king.
Speaker 17 (18:19):
Pa rubber pump pom, rubber pump pum rub a pump pump.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Comes over me power and yells from now perhaps.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Our fire ring.
Speaker 9 (18:43):
Pop to see the king.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Rub again.
Speaker 13 (18:57):
So rub a bum.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Jaunty.
Speaker 12 (19:08):
Every must be relayed whatever, every time must be bad.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Cow forrest man to hear all all God Ris rumble
(19:42):
boll com true.
Speaker 10 (19:45):
I am my child to niort.
Speaker 5 (19:52):
I see my twenty four him, I see him.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
N that's shay Quin and Glenn Hamilton Peace on Earth,
(20:34):
Little Drummer Boy on the local show that was from
last year's.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Joy to the berg Roger.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
We had so much fun doing that and uh James
Clappel on the piano, and uh we had Logan Bodard
on the drums and Scott Frange on the base and
we're gonna have Scott. Scott's actually in the green room
waiting to come in with Charlie Middleton to talk about
their newfound freedom reunion. We're going to hear a couple
of songs that they've reworked in and hear about the
(21:00):
history of that incredible band. Coming up on the local
show on the River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
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Speaker 3 (22:09):
We're back on the local show on the River ninety
seven to three. I'm Brandon Valentine my co host Glenn Hamilton.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Here, we have some very.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Special guests in the studio. In fact, we have Central
Pennsylvania Rock Royalty with us in the studio, Scott Frane,
who is not only a local musician, he also owns
the Players Exchange in Lemoinne there and as part of
Shay Quinn's band who sold the world. We also have
Charlie Middleton in here, who is for years and years
(22:36):
a part of the Middleton Brothers, absolutely legendary and will
one day be in the Central Pennsylvania Music Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
They should be.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
But Charlie Middleton is also here. Charlie, Scott, how are
you guys doing right? We're doing Well's so the reason
you guys are in here today is because a few
months ago, you guys, you guys had been together back
in the early seventies when you were just kids in
(23:05):
a band called Newfound Freedom Right, and you had written
some songs. We're out playing some shows and you guys
kind of got some tell us how this project came about.
Why you guys decided to come back and re record
these songs. His memory is much better than mine, so
I'll let him talk, all right, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
About a year ago I decided to and I call
him godly notions. I get him during my life, and
somebody nudged me and said, you know, you need to
contact Charlie. It's been fifty years bam broke up when
we're going to be signed by Electure and offer the tour,
and he said, you got to get together. So I
called Charlie and he came in my store and I
(23:46):
hadn't seen him for a long time. And we played
a lot of major concerts back then, tens of thousands
of people. Yeah, and that was like a collapse of
both of us. A lot of emotion, a lot of crying, tears,
joy hug we do every time. And one thing led
to another. I have an annual Christmas party, a lot
of friends coming. We had Charlie up at Christmas and
(24:09):
they're all talking to us and was there. One was away,
but they came up and Charlie said, I think we
should do the records over. Well, the history on that
is when we were sixteen seventeen, Electra Records and Entertainment,
who booked the Outlaws, sent us up the Shaggy Dog
Studios in Stockers, Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Wow, to talk about the history of that place.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Well, that was Shaggy Dog. We didn't know that. We
were naive. We were naive at the who was there?
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Kids?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
We're walking in the door and James Taylor's house was
to their left and all the Guthries was to the right,
and John Lennon spent weekends there, unreal and Hendrix. There's
a picture of Hendrix on the wall. We both never
forgot that. There's a picture of a guy with four
Brinskies carrying tapes out and Hendrix is in the middle. Wow,
and Stan, I understand, goes so, and then lou Ree.
(25:02):
John Lennon spent weekends there and Alice Cooper's came there
the night that we were there he goes as Alice
comes manager. People were people were hot on us in
the industry as an Electra was following us around a lot,
and they just signed a bad company queen and there
was nobody.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Nobody had heard of him. So you guys are right
in the mix with those guys. Well, we were kids,
I'm telling you. I just turned seventeen, Charlie was seventeen,
Stand was probably nineteen, and Paul Meyer's a guitarist, does
fabulous guitar work. And we spent what five days they
were recording singles and came back in the world changed.
We were on Starview all the time. The records which
(25:44):
you'll hear then now have been redombe, but the originals
are on the CD. And we came back and forty
five's were done and the band uh got legs big time.
And then we changed the guitar player that was with
the original and then out of Bob Barry on piano,
who was probably the finest pianist in the region, and
(26:04):
that band became over the top. We moved freedom that
we opened up for major people. Excuse me, it really
is that time, Yeah, yeah, but that's what we did.
We Cindy did, and uh, we got really then the
Outlaws agency got involved and we're really getting doing big
openers a lot of major bands. And then they offered
(26:26):
us a sixteen week tour some in this up and
an album. The Electra did and the band broke up.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Glenn Brandon I said before that's what happened, massive exactly.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's what I couldn't leave personal reasons. My mom my
pop up had a stroke, and I was in love
and Bob Barry was getting married and he goes, uh,
we had no idea.
Speaker 20 (26:49):
It was that close, and we had an opportunity. We
had to jump at it. We had to jump at
the opportunity brand in England, we had to jump at it.
So that's why we had this get together. And like
I said, everything fell the part that night and not
expect we had we had. We replaced you guys in
a heartbeat, but it wasn't the same. We were talking
about that on the way over. His chemistry is you
(27:10):
got and timing, so you know, if.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's like lightning in a bottle. They say that when
you get the right exact people together beatles stuff.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
We have played together together. We have played together as
kids and we were young, and Charlie wrote the great songs.
I wrote great basslines. It was it was a thing,
and Stan was phenomenal. The harmonies on the early.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Cuts with Stan were Charlie singing together those brotherly gospel.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Music and that always makes it.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Yeah, they had a Milton to sing harmony and real singing,
really sing it.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
So I guess Electris heard them, like, these guys are
doing Eagles before the Eagles and Poco for Poco, and
they were so that's on the original recordings, and they
were like, that's what probably happened. These guys got a lot,
so it just they offered a sixteen week tour. I'm
playing the Cleveland Colleseme with average wife and a bors
call and all this stuff, and we said, can't do it.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Yeah, Griefs walked away.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Well, it was summer seventy five, after playing thirty thousand
people with Sugar Love three days in a row.
Speaker 20 (28:15):
We were kids, so we didn't realize we were believe
we did not realize how good we were, well, how
good other people thought we got an electoral thought we were.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
So they were already from college educations. Hey, we can
make some jack with these guys.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well, we're going to jump into this first track that
you guys re recorded. This was your big hit, the
first thing that you really wrote together and went up
and re recorded it. Where did you re record it?
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Drop a Danzas studio right up with a Solemn.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Records, and this is you've got obviously Stanley, your brother,
Stanley Middleton passed away eleven years ago.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
I can't believe it's been that year, Charlie.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
This is all dedicated to stan right, just your memory.
He was the greatest drammer I've ever worked with. I
work with all the top.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Ones, so it's hard to fill Stanley's shoes. But Logan
Bedard is on the drums on this track he started.
And your niece, Meghan Fenton Charlie plays the violin on this.
Speaker 20 (29:12):
There's a neat connection with that. She's actually still in
high school and I said, why don't we let her
play the violin because she's a good violin.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
She's like the same age you guys will when you
recorded these originals exactly. Well, let's hear this is fifty
years later, the re recording of look Away. It's newfound freedom.
Charlie Middleton and Scott Frange on the River Local Show
on the River ninety seven three in iHeartRadio.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
When I knew that this would funly come in last.
Speaker 11 (30:01):
Now had time together, It's all passed, loving you, what's
all I've tried to do?
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Now you say you found somebody.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I'm suber.
Speaker 16 (30:17):
Since you let me down, looking for some answers out
of the fuming and this time so I'm.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
Gone mad all behind, look away, look away. Hey, Hey,
(31:01):
you don't care. You've broken other height, but hurting is
the worst part. So don't you come and running back
to me. You are going now, I am.
Speaker 15 (31:16):
Set free the rooming wil waver I'm mentis.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
I guess I'll take the highway.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
It's nothing lord news and I'm gone online, look.
Speaker 5 (31:32):
Away, look Away.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
The River ninety seven to three.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This is the local show with the Central Pennsylvania Music
Hall of Fame and talk about some Hall of famers
from right here in Central PA. Scott Frane and Charlie Middleton.
This is the re recordings of the band Newfound Freedom
from the early seventies here with at the time with
Charlie's brother Stan Middleton was in the band.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
But I love that you guys.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Went back up there and recorded that revisited all of
this incredible history that you had together and you hadn't
really played or done anything together for fifty years.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
It still sounds good.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
That amazing, It really does, because you know, a great
song is a great song timeless. We'll talk about some
of the pressures there were on you guys when you
were in high school, playing all these big shows and
having record companies sniffing around your door.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
We used to hold each other up, like together going
in front of Sugarlow from twenty thousand or whatever. The concerts,
we would just stand there and everybody good. I remember
opening up for James Cotton that was our first big concert,
was like five thousand and then everybody was either standing, Bob, Barry,
Mike smoking cigarettes. I think Charlie was on the pot.
(33:17):
My hands were ice cold. But like we're kids, we're
eighteen walking out. But when we do it, when we
get on cored, the place is going nuts and standing.
We know we're getting you know, I don't remember thinking
about this. People say you guys like say let's make
a million dollar hit. We never thought about that. We
just played our We rehearsed and played our asses, and
there were no like friends say to me, well, a practice.
(33:39):
So you guys who brought the beer and who brought
the nothing?
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:43):
No, nothing, we work, okay, nothing. Ever, I never saw
a beer can in four and a half years or
a joiner.
Speaker 18 (33:49):
It was work.
Speaker 13 (33:50):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
And don't forget you had the originals and all of
a sudden the covers we did. How about Steely Dan
and Zappa and Renaissance and Gary Wright?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Really difficult stuff.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You never ahead of our time. I believe we were
definitely now when I look back in retros.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
And really for your age even how what the kind
of stuff you were playing back then? The shops that
you had back then. I'm believe it was seventeen and
there was no easy songs on that set. Well, speaking
of that, let's let's play this one because this has
very psychedelic. It's got some definitely some Zappa vibe to it,
some Steely Dan to it. This is Leave the Bad
for Good.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Written by Charlie. He was like fifteen or fourteen.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
This is written when you wrote this, Charlie the Bad
for I don't remember when I wrote that.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Well that was before I came, Yeah, it was I
wrote the bass for it. All right.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Well, here it is. This is re recorded just a
few months ago. This is Leave the Bad for Good.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
It's Newfound Freedom reunited on the local show on the
River ninety seven three and iHeartRadio.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
There is also the start of Little Party.
Speaker 15 (36:00):
I'm looking at the world today, I usually the same.
What I say when I look is usually bad. So
I stay here in mama and live my song. The
song is Sleeve the band the Dude, and it's.
Speaker 5 (36:22):
Turning along for me to change the world. I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (36:33):
I'm saying.
Speaker 13 (36:37):
That.
Speaker 5 (36:37):
Say my name.
Speaker 15 (37:11):
When I'm looking at the world today a hugely facade.
What else see when I look as usually back?
Speaker 11 (37:25):
So I stay here in my and live myself. The
sonestly hit the Bad Coude and it's time Alone.
Speaker 5 (37:38):
You're in.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
The River ninety seven to three. This is the local
show that was Newfound Freedom and Leave the Bad for
Good re recorded for posterity because Charlie Middleton and Scott
Frange lifetime buddies, got together as of about a year
ago and decided they wanted to re record all this
magic that they had put together with Charlie's brother Stanley,
(38:23):
and you guys came up with a couple of great
songs you have some other players to.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
Play with you.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
But also on the CD are four other songs from
the original recordings.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
With you guys exactly, and they were actually recorded on
vine ol. So it's not a trend.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
It's not something that's so groovy right now.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
We had that was the only outlet you had, right,
they came out on records exactly, but you recorded them
in the.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Studio with like you know, on Tate.
Speaker 4 (38:51):
June June in high school.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
Well, there's there's also a great article in PA Musician magazine,
which month issue was that? May I believe that was
back in the summer. All right, so but the PA Musician, Yeah,
that's on the back of the poster. Oh, that's on
the back of the poster that there's a poster included.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Every Oh, so you can get the start. So the
article is on the back of the poster.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
So find out the history of Newfound Freedom and how
this all came together.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
And uh, just unbelievable to have you guys in here.
It really is.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Scotch Absah and Charlie Middleton.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
How can people pick up a copy of the CD?
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Come by players exchange? I just give copies out to
have somebody to give out and I stop buying. Everybody
knows the story, and there's a story. There have a
lot of cool stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:40):
And oh you've got an awesome store, dude, there's no
doubt about it. I could spend hours in there.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Uh And and the other thing is Brandon is going
to help you guys get these songs up into the
digital realm so people can listen to these anytime anywhere,
because they should be out there forever.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
They should hit on there for sure. Oh, no doubt.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
That's that's that's just my no doubt.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
And even if somebody here's it and say, hey, I
want to record that myself exactly, I need to talk
to you, Scott, Frane, Charlie Middleton, an absolute aut of
known you guys forever. It's an honor to have you
guys in here, and it's so cool to see you
guys and hear you guys making music again.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
It's been a pleasure being here. Glenn. Thank you so
much for all you do, and thank you for all
the history and all that you've done around the area.
And thank you Brandon for what you did putting this
Hall of Fan together. Quite a triumph. Outstanding, body, outstanding,
very proud of what you've done.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
You're welcome, Scott, glad to have you in.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
So cool having those guys then, all right, Brandon, how
can people get their music submitted for consideration?
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Yes, check out the website cpmhof dot com. If you
go to the link at cpmahof dot com slash radio,
there's a form there where you can actually submit your
music for consideration for airplay right here on the local
show in the River ninety seven three, and.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Also nominate the artists and bands that you want to
win Central Pennsylvania Music Awards next year. Those tickets go
on sale December first for the big Awards ceremony March
fifth at American Music Theater in Lancaster. For Brandon Valentine,
I'm Glenn Hamilton. We appreciate you listening every week to
the local show. We're on every Sunday night at eight
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around lunchtime. But the best way you can support these
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