September 24, 2025 • 30 mins
Music and emotions: Music can be healing, fun and gut-wrenching too. “Music Man” John Saville talks about his favorites and they both share behind the scenes knowledge of certain artists and songs.
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Oh, gosh.
Steph just says we're on. Right or wrong.
Hey, welcome toWhat's Good with John and Joyce.
And, what's good is we're hanging out together.
You and I, this time.
You know, I'm laughingbecause we feel like we did
a such a great showbefore this. Just talking.
Right?
You know, about music,and they're the behind the scenes
stuff that, And we're thinking we have a show here.
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We have a couple of shows of the behindthe scenes.
But Joy, something nearand dear to our heart.
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when you listen to it and gets you awayfrom the news and all that stuff.
So that's why we call it what's good,because we only talk about what's good.
That's right.
We are here to talk about something nearand dear to our heart today.
Music, music, music choice.
Any music just soothes the soul.
It's therapy.
It is therapy.
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Imagine a world without music.
No healing.
There was always a world with,I think they were always like making music
and banging rocks.
Making music reminds me of an old songcalled troglodyte
that was a big hit in the 70s.
How good they came, man. Cave woman
look it up.
Okay, 1971 RCA song, thankfully,
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by the Jimmy Castor Bunch.
Check it out, because some of your folksare saying, this guy's nuts.
Watch this. Okay, but go look it up.
The Jimmy Jimmy Castor Bunch troglodytedid Jimmy Castor Bunch, right?
Do other things, too?
Yeah,they had a song called Ape Man. Okay.
Yeah, you'll hear it every now and then.
But, you know, if you're under 50 yearsold, that was his niche.
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Yeah. Like, hey, it was all troglodyte.
Did he do a Halloween song or, mole ape man?
I guess they could both be considered.Yeah.
Halloween. Yeah.
Well, we'll talk about thatand our Halloween show next month.
No more.
They didn't have the catalog,of course, the Fab Four,
but they did have a coupleof those Beatles.
Well, I'm wearing the Beatle shirtbecause this is the first album
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that I ever bought.
To say I
love theBeatles would be a grand understatement.
Yes, as my mother saidone day she walked into my room
and she said, first,I'll tell you what she said.
She said, Joyce,can't you do anything in moderation?
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Or why are you such an extremist?
And I said, what?She took a picture of me.
I have that picture someplace,and I'm standing
a mist on my walls.
I mean, it wasn'tjust a poster of the Beatles.
It was the length of the the wall, right?
All all four of them.
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And this one and that one.
And I had a shirt onand I have pins on, and it's like, what?
What are you talking about?
You know, but I loved what was itabout them that really got your attention?
You know, something?
It was like an awakening within me.
And some people thoughtthat I love the Beatles
like I wanted to marry a Beatle.
I wanted to be a Beatle.
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I even got a guitar.
And I would sit listening to them andI would try to play I, I have no talent.
No talentwhere you have a lot of other areas.
Yeah, but playing musicor singing is not one of them,
but I was, I got immersed into itprior to that,
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because I was the youngest of three,I, I listened to what they were playing.
So I was always playing in the house.
Bob Dylanor Joan Baez or something like that.
But when the Beatles hit, I can't explain
that phenomenon that happenedbecause it happened world wide.
I got an explosion.
Yeah, that really resonated within me.
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So much so that
when I was 12 years old,I walked to the big library
in New Haven, Connecticut,and I had the idea
that I bet one of their phone
numbers is listed in an old directorythat I could find.
So I went and asked the librarian,could I see
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some old phone books from England?
She said, sure, we have them.
That's just that was genius.
I, I was just like in Liverpool, right?
Specifically.
So I found George Harrison'smother's name
in Liverpool, a market lane.
And guess what I did called, I called,and at that time you had a pay.
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Right. So I just a lot of money.
I just prayed my motherand father wouldn't see the bill,
but I called in his sisterLouise answered, and I told them hello.
I was, yeah, and then I'm a huge fan.
I live in the United States,blah blah blah.
And she said, give me your address.
So I gave her my addressand they sent me paraphernalia.
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You know, a sketch of George.
And then I'm so sorry, we'regoing to talk music, but that's fine.
This music. Yeah.
So the next thing I did is I wrote her,and I asked if she would send me
a list of, girls my age
in the neighborhood who lives on Mac Lane.
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If they want to become pen palswith American girls.
Now, in this day and age,it would be emails.
But I asked for addresses she sent me.
So she sent me about 30 addresses and.
And I called ABC and New Haven 13 waves.
That was my first job in radio.
Let's listen to wavesin case you want to win it. Yep.
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And I
asked if they would like to do a contest,
and the winners of contestswould get the names of a person
that lived on market slang for GeorgeHarrison's, you know, connection.
And they did.
And then I did another onethrough George Harrison's
sister called rings for Ringo.
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And so then but waves called me.
It was like, I think there was Tracy,who was a deejay at the time,
and asked me if I'd like to come inand discuss the Beatles.
No, I was 12 years old. They had no idea.
So when they saw me, it was like, oh,it was like this.
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You thought you were maybe 18, 19, 20?
Yeah, yeah.
So they did let me like, I don't know,
like pull new storiesand things like that.
Well, what a great program and just,
just how benevolent she was to set you upwith all those pen pals.
Oh, she's wonderful.
But in the 80s,when I had a party at my house
and I probably was silly enoughto show all my paraphernalia
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and signed albumsand everything, they were there were gone.
Taken.
Really? Yeah.
Don't know who to this daydon't even want to know.
But, it's like,oh gosh, it's just not all of that good.
But that was my, you know, beginnings
of musicand being so happy listening to it.
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It really was. Yeah.
And my parents couldn'tunderstand it at all.
I got thrown out of elementary schoolclass because I came
in one day with my pinsall over my jacket, and I cut my hair
like the Beatles had the bangs.
I did the I did the whole thing.
And, the, the sister, because it wasa Catholic school, wouldn't let me in.
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And I was sent home.
And then my mother was just like,
so I just fixed my hair, so, you know,
it didn't look like a Beatles cutand took all the pins off me.
Well, seems like every generationgoes through that because, you know, when
when Sinatra came out, you, though,the Bobby Sox was all went crazy.
And a lot of thethe Navy men didn't like him
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because they were a little bitjealous of him or whatever.
And then, of course, when Elvis came out,you know, it was Elvis
mania and, and,he was banned by all the churches.
He was the devil. Yeah. And all that.
And you look at the stuff that he did nowand the Beatles and it's tame, right?
Compared to a lot of stuffyou, you see nowadays.
So what was your first album?
Oh mama or CD?
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I mean,because you were always working in radio.
I know, I know, I mean, prior to that,usually they say when you when you're like
11, 12, 13 years old, that'swhen your music taste is kind of formed.
That'swhen you start really acknowledging music.
So you know, late 60s, early
70s really was like my my jam for a while.
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But I really, I really can't rememberbecause music
was always playing in our houseall genres.
My mom and dad loved everything.
Yeah, that had the old 78 were playingjazz.
We're playing gospel, blues,rock and roll, rhythm, all blues.
Oh yeah, yeah,it was like a melting pot in my house.
So we heard it all and I loved it all.
And I was never a musical snob.
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I loved it all.
Whether it be watching Soul Trainor The Lawrence Welk Show
or Brian Campbell, Johnny Cash, you know,it didn't make any difference.
I loved it all, whether it was rock,pop, country, rhythm and blues.
So I grew up that way.
And still to this day, I never wantto lose that childlike innocence, right?
And I still listen to a lot of new music,
and I probably know the new musicas well as any 18, 19, 20 year old.
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And it's great.
The top 40 music of today, because I haveto play with my deejay business. Yes.
Yeah.
You know, and I and I played on the radioand I top 40 and whatever
you keep hearing over and over,sometimes it does grow on you.
It does. Yeah.
There's a lot of good new music outwhen people have a tendency.
So when they get older they think, oh,nothing like the old right?
Right. I don't buy that.I don't buy that. I buy it at all.
And we can continue to grow and evolvebecause I don't want to be that person.
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Oh, the old days were the best daysand well, no, these are the good old days.
As Carly Simon said in her song.
Yes, yes, I think right, right. Yes. Yeah.
These are the good old days.
So I was thinking of like songsthat made me happy.
Right. So what? Like what songs would.
Well, what I don't know,like what would uplift you?
Maybe you didn't go through.
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Did you go throughthe angst of a teenage girl?
Oh, I remember back in the daywhen your, your biggest challenge was who
you going to go out with over the weekendor are you what's your what?
Your mom was going to pack for lunchthe next.
Right, right.
It seemed so trivial compared.
But when I when I remember growing uphearing songs like Build Me Up Buttercup,
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foundations,that's a song Your Mama Don't
Dance, rocking pneumonia and the boogieWoogie flu in the early 70s, mid 70s.
Crocodile rock.
Yeah, you know, a bad, bad Leroy Brown,all the fun stuff.
And I loved a lot of the R&B disco stuff.
Yeah, of the 70s. I loved rock n roll.
I love the country, I, you love I mean, Elvis met Elvis.
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Really? Yeah.
Wait, Elvis really cross country.
Also, Elvis was the gospel.
Elvis is the only artist who's in 5or 6 different halls of fame.
She's in the Rock Hall of Fame,the blues, the country gospel.
I think he's in some of the rockabilly.
He's he's in themall. Have you gone to Graceland?
I have, you have.
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I have no reason why.
It was a lot smaller than I thought.
It was pretty gaudy, really.
But what blew my mind
was the big giant museumwith all the gold and platinum records
from all over the worldand like, keys to the city.
So any time he go to a city,mayors would meet with him, governors
and presidents would go to his moviesets and meet with him.
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Yeah.I mean, the guy was like, incredible.
I mean, how how super, super popularhe was and still is in 2025 and still is.
I don't think there's been anyonelike him.
Nope.
As far as solo artist,no, nobody Comes close.
And the Beatles.
So Elvisand the Beatles are probably the two
the biggest icons of all time in music,right?
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Bar none.
If you want to go. My record salesto both of them.
The Beatles really opened the doorsfor the ink for the England.
I mean, the Mersey Beat came over here,
Dave part five and yeah, Peter and Gordonand all those great bands.
Yeah, we started to hear about themand yeah, that that's where my mind was.
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Right? You know, I wanted to be there.
I wanted to live in Liverpool and,and just be part of that scene.
And, and you and I metwhen I was working at peel.
Both working at peel are in the 80s.
And we just connected right away,which led to the podcast
now that we're doing together,
which is wonderful, which we were doing,I think promotions and things that,
PR when we were in, in New Haven, NewHaven, Connecticut,
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up on the second floor,they had the studio
and they had the couch,and they had a pool table table,
and we'd have to close the doorsometimes because we'd be going on
the radio talking. Right.
I did on Rock with Van Halen in the pools,you hear the sound of the
the balls, you know, in the backgroundclacking and scratching.
Exactly. It's like, guys, can you hearwe're on the air here, you know?
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And yeah, great.
But it was just so much funbecause it was so loose
and it was a community appeal at the time.
It was a real community.
I used to love staying there after hourswhen I could because, you know,
I was that teenage mom.
So I had little kids at home.
But, the lich.
Oh, no suchluck ever happened to the Lich.
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Lich,if you listen to this, contact us please.
We love the Lich working with him.
Loved himgreat man and had a passion for music.
Second to none, second to none.
He was a music encyclopedia. This guy.
Oh, yeah, he was.
He, he did a show with Jimmy Cop,like I know on PBS.
Love, Jimmy conflict from Live Nation.
Thank you, Jimmy, for everythingyou contributed to our state and beyond.
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You know, Shelly Finkel, Jim coppockyeah, his fabulous
but lich I would go into the studio,
you know, after 5:00
and he would crank journey.
Oh, I mean, he loveddrank it and I loved it.
Yeah.
And he would be
playing drums on the counter, you know,because he, he was a drummer, I think.
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Yeah. Yeah, he always had the bandana on.
He always had the bandana on. Yeah, yeah.
And and, like this.
Not suspenders. What do you call it? The,
Like the denim jump thing.
Yeah.
Like a, like a farmer style.
Yeah. Almost like the farmers,but you know.
Yeah, yeah,but he was a very unique style.
Really unique.
But just think of the great peoplewe worked with over the years in radio.
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Yeah, I mean, there's too many to mention,but we work with some of the greats,
you know, herein the Connecticut marketplace and beyond.
Well, that's whatlaunched my business for over 20 years,
working with Michael Boltonand Mariah Carey
and everything, John Mellencamp,Carly Simon, Billy Squier, right.
Worked with that one? No,no, I wanted to work. Do you see these?
Do you notice that I've got Billy SquirePinson never work with Billy Squire.
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No really I thought you knowhe's the one I wanted to love.
Billy Squire.
We're supposed to meet with him.
It was me Michael.
And we were at Sherman's
Tavern,which is now the Union, restaurant.
We're talkingto some local Connecticut, so.
Yeah, but it's.
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Well, Billy Squire was,playing with rat round and round.
Round around the New Haven Coliseum.
So, he was invited to join Michael
at Sherman's Tavern on the green,
and I was so excited.
I was like, oh, this is it.
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I'm finally going to get to meet him.
I love his music.
I love the fact that he wrote his musiclike he produced his videos at all.
He really did.
And that's what I respect abouta lot of musicians when they can do that.
And I think,
his keyboard player at the timeprobably did more to Allen.
Saint John showed upand but Billy wasn't showing up,
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but there was no cell phone then to call.
Coliseum was already closed. Right.
What are we going to call?
So we waited.
They left and they left with,you know, I had a bottle of.
They had a bottle of champagneon the table.
So I said, I'mjust going to sit here and wait.
So I just kept sippin it, sipping away.
And then I realized like an hour later,okay, this is not going to happen.
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And when I went toget up, John, I was so drunk,
I didn't even
realize it until I thought,oh my God, I can't walk, right?
So I had to hold on to table,
get myself out, gingerlywalk, gingerly walk to my car.
Sorry to say.
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Yeah. Jerome.
Oh, I didn't know how else to get home.
Yeah, I drove really slowly andI was thanking God that he made it home.
I didn't get arrested. That's grace.
But yeah, but.
So that was my almost meetingwith Billy Squier.
But he's one of the ones that he eluded.
He eluded me.
But when he played in concertand open up for Queen to.
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Yes, that's the concertI saw with my husband to be,
Wayne Wayne and rest his soul.
Love you Wayne. Yes, yes.
And I loved him so much that night
because we took my son's,we took a friend of theirs,
and he said to me, come up to the stage,go up to the stage.
And I thought, I love this guy.
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He gets this.
He's not jealous that I love Billy Squier.
And he was comfortable enough in himself,so he was comfortable in his own skin.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. So he's got a great photo.
We'll probably put upof Billy on stage and.
Yeah, it's a really
it's a really good photoand some of Queen as well, but I didn't.
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I loved Queen, but I love Billy. Right.
You love that.
Oh yeah.
So dance around and, you know, it was fun.
It was just such a fun night.Good memories.
Radio is meantnot to work with Billy Squier.
Because you know what?
Sometimesyou don't want to meet your heroes.
You don't want to meet your heroes.
But here's what happened.
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What happened with me, anyway? Working.
I was always backstage.
Whether it's Oakdale Theater backstage,Palace Theater, backstage,
opening my own business, workingwith artists backstage and stuff happens.
Like who didn't get their backstagepasses, joist or some.
I was always called,I was there, I was meeting with,
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the radio people or whatever.
There would be someone on a microphonesaying, Joe Joyce,
can you please come to this room andplease come to the green room or whatever?
I'm sure you put out a lot of fires, too.
Yes, a lot of fires.
So then I started to not enjoygoing to concerts
because it brought back memories of work.
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Yeah, instead of enjoying it.
So the one concertI did not want to meet my the guy
that I also really look because I justlove music was Johnny Mathis.
So I asked Wayne to cover that show for me
because usually,you know, he would take pictures, but
then you'd have to make sure that their,their writer was met and all that.
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And Wayne could do thatand he knew, you know the
talk about the writersI mean what they are kind of demanding of.
Yeah.
Like like what's on their listto make sure they got the right water or
like the green Eminem's or something,that that was always the story, right?
Yeah, I meant so I went and coveredanother show that night.
It was Jay Leno thatwhat they were also doing in Hartford.
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So I went to the Jay Leno Show.
I left Wayne with Johnny Mathis.
Oh, geez.
And I came homeand I said, so how did it go?
And we just said to me, oh, Joyce.
He said, this is this showyou shouldn't have missed.
He said, Johnny Mathis cooked for us all.
Oh, no, that's right.
He was quite the chef from what Iand he all just sat around talking to him.
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And in memoryI could hear my heart breaking again.
And the thing is,he was a big track star too.
Yes, I do remember.
Yes, I saw a documentary on him,you know, super sweet.
Yeah. Johnny Mathis. Yeah.
So it was Johnny Mathis.
I didn't get to me, but I just.
So you know, and I.
And also Julie Andrews,I had Wayne cover Julie Andrews
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because she's just so, you know,I think she played
in the original production of My FairLady in the 50s.
My, my wife and I went to see itlocally here in Connecticut at the Ivy.
That's why not when we talk about movies.
That's one of my favorite musicals.
My Fair Lady could have danced.We have her.
But she was such a ladythat when Audrey Hepburn met her.
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And Audrey Hepburn even said,you should have had that role.
She said, my dear,it was meant for you. Yes.
You know, it was very gracious.
Thank you all that if it was meant to be,it would have been her role.
Yes, but but, you know,Julia wasn't hurting too much, you know.
So Wayne covered that show for me becauseI thought, I don't want to find out.
She's a prima donna or a diva again,
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not only the best, but his pictures of her
that she's in her bathrobe with herglasses on and she didn't care.
She was just sitting comfortablein her own skin.
Yeah, yeah.
That's fantastic. Yeah.
And we've been very fortunate, Joyce,between the two of us, to meet
so many great entertainers over the years,all different genres.
I know you've worked with a lot ofcomedians too, that you've really enjoyed.
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I really love the you know, there's notone comedian that I didn't have.
And of course, one of my favorites, RegisRegis was love, Regis Philbin.
Wonderful. Love them. Yeah.
So down to earth. Yes.
What he was on TV was exactly how he was.
You know, off TV.
Well, I used to love,you know, with him and Kathie Lee,
but also when his wife came on. Joy. Joy.
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She was great. Yeah,they were great together, as is.
Like Kelly now with Mark,there's just no synergy between them.
Great combo too.
Yes. Yeah.
So speaking about music, I just okay.
You know,
so Michael because I spoke about Michaelbecause Michael Bolton, I met him
well I met him at Toad's place,you know, really going to his real name.
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Yeah, it was Michael below.And he was with blackjack.
They were great.
We were playing them the two of themhad kind of a harder rock sound.
Well, that's the Michael Boltonthat I knew best.
Leather pants. Yes, yes.
You know, bandana around his neckand yeah, he was rock and roll.
He was rock and roll.
But he wrote musicand he wrote Laura Branigan's.
How am I supposed to live withthat? Do it.
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You know, so many,so many great, heartfelt songs
and, behind the scenes, they,you know, decided
with the record companythat that's the way he should go.
But he was always a rocker.
Yeah, you know, at heart.
And but he had a big female following,especially with his huge, big,
big, big following.
So when he was at Toad's place,I would see the,
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the women they see of womensinging along to his first untitled
album,Michael Bolton, that came out in 1983
and it was hardly out,but they were singing along to every song.
Must have shocked him.
Looking out, oh, I didn't know my song,so let me tell you, I said that to him.
I said, did you see them?
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And he said, Joyce, I wear glasses.
I didn't have my contacts.
Oh no, he said, it's all a blur.
I said, keep doing thatbecause you have this dreamy
look in your eyelooking out at the audience,
and maybe if you could see themreally clearly, you know,
you might not have that, that look,I mean, I think he's put contacts.
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Of course,you know, and probably had laser.
Maybe he doesn't even need glasses.
But it was in that moment,you know, that I thought,
Holy moly, this guy's got that
charisma, you know, has got that,
you got the it factor,which, you know, the great ones have.
So when they came up to applyto do an interview.
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Yeah, I think he did it with BrianSmith, Brad, Brian Smith and Barbra.
They were a great team.I think Brian works.
I don't even think Barbara was there yet.
I think it was just Brian de radiodoing something at the station.
Oh, wow. Radio.
Yes, yes, I'm it's a car dealershipand it's an a car dealership.
So is it really. Yeah. Okay.
So Jeff, see, you know that guyon the tree plug for Brian?
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Call us. Yeah. Yes, Brian. Great.
Great guy, great talent.
Yeah. Yeah, really great guy.
But I remember he he was speaking to
Michael and I had this idea of
like what to do,like how to bring the fans together
because working at NPR,that's where the calls would come through.
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And I think I may have mentioned thisto you before, where people
would call and say,you know, my, my daughter's dying.
I mean, really sad stories
and like the Starlight Foundation or,you know, what other foundation?
There's so many peoplethey deal with nationwide
and they just wanted to meet like
Michaelor Kelly Lewis with the news or whatever.
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Did you work with you?
I know,but when you came up to the station,
yeah,we had great conversations afterwards.
I remember being on the air when he wasthere with 38 special, the New Year. Yes.
That wasthat was the show. Wow. That was the show.
So let me go back to like manifestationfor a second.
Where we first beganour show was talking about this.
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So it was when MTV
first really hit the airwaves.
The journey had a, a video out,
and in the backgroundwas a woman with a clipboard.
And I said to myself, I want that job.
I want to be that personbehind the scenes, working this somehow.
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And it was at, that show
with Huey Lewis and 38 special,
I have my clipboardbecause we had contest winners from polar,
and I was part of,like, organizing things.
And I looked at myself, looked down.
I said, oh my God,I am this woman with the clipboard.
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This is what I invested.
Yeah.
So that was really an eye opener for mebecause I'm laser focused on things like,
I love hard, the Beatles, right,Billy Squier yes.
I mean, I didn't manifest him,but that's okay.
You still have time. He still looks good.
Yeah, sure.
I hear you sing in a way, yes.
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But, Yeah.
But music has always been so healing,so healing for me.
I remember on Michael'sfirst and, you know, his first album
was, Fool's Game.
Now, I loved Fool's Game.
That was really uplifting.It was like intense.
I mean, the one that really gotmy attention was that's
What Love Is all About.I remember that being his first mega hit.
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Yeah, that was the first, like,ballad power ballad that he wrote.
Yes. And soul providerslike one of my favorite soul profile
all time, like, steel bars.
City bars? Yes. With Bob Dylan. Yes.
But the one that I wore.
Oh, yes.
And I had a vinyl CD playing this,and I wore it out
because it was a bad timeromantically in my life with someone way.
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Eventually more than a few of thoseI eventually married.
No. Oh, really?
Yes, I did, so, But it was.
I almost believed you.
I almost believe, but it wasit was therapeutic for me
because it cut out all the sorrow,
and it made me feel like I wasn't alonebecause Michael wrote that, you know?
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So it really was healing.What do they say?
Sad songs say so much.
Oh, like the Elton John's song.
Oh yeah. Yeah, it really does.
You know.
Or no, nobody likes sad songs,but they do, you know, Ronnie Milsap or
so many of those songs.
I love speaking to you about music becauseit's sort of like the Bible in a way.
You remember who sang it.
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I remember the name in the BibleI can remember, like what?
What resonated with me.
You can give me the passage where it okay,well, you've got a great memory.
Well, the thing is, likeat the radio station, we geek out a lot.
We'll have conversations, fellow deejays,and we'll talk in song titles about it.
I mean, and it's really geeky,but we have so much fun with it,
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no matter what genre.
So as we wrap up,I just want to give a special
not because it's of The Beatles,Michael Bolton, Billy Squire,
got emotions in motion.
How I love that song.
I love Everybody Wants You to find it.
You know it's you in the dark.
Yeah, my gosh.
Yeah. Also Barry Manilow.
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Yeah. Great. Great entertainer.
Everything that he did,Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston,
Tina Turner,I mean, I'm a big fan of all of them.
Music that really shapes our lives.
And each and every day in our house.
Joyce music is playing.
Yeah.
And we've had, you know, we have itgoing on in the morning all throughout
the day, you know, whether it be,you know, rock, you know, soul,
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rhythm and blues, Christian musicwe like as well, smooth jazz.
It's all going on a classical musicclassic.
Love it.You ask me mostly just soothes us. Right.
But we're doing some work in the morning,right around the house.
So why don't you tell uswhat your favorite songs are?
You can leave us a message in our bio.
We've got a link,but you can message us on Facebook
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Absolutely.
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There's a song in our hearts, right?Keep on singing.
Love that. Bye for now.
Oh, gosh.
Steph just says we're on. Right or wrong.
Hey, welcome toWhat's Good with John and Joyce.
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You know, I'm laughingbecause we feel like we did
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Right?
You know, about music,and they're the behind the scenes
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when you listen to it and gets you awayfrom the news and all that stuff.
So that's why we call it what's good,because we only talk about what's good.
That's right.
We are here to talk about something nearand dear to our heart today.
Music, music, music choice.
Any music just soothes the soul.
It's therapy.
It is therapy.
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Imagine a world without music.
No healing.
There was always a world with,I think they were always like making music
and banging rocks.
Making music reminds me of an old songcalled troglodyte
that was a big hit in the 70s.
How good they came, man. Cave woman
look it up.
Okay, 1971 RCA song, thankfully,
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by the Jimmy Castor Bunch.
Check it out, because some of your folksare saying, this guy's nuts.
Watch this. Okay, but go look it up.
The Jimmy Jimmy Castor Bunch troglodytedid Jimmy Castor Bunch, right?
Do other things, too?
Yeah,they had a song called Ape Man. Okay.
Yeah, you'll hear it every now and then.
But, you know, if you're under 50 yearsold, that was his niche.
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Yeah. Like, hey, it was all troglodyte.
Did he do a Halloween song or, mole ape man?
I guess they could both be considered.Yeah.
Halloween. Yeah.
Well, we'll talk about thatand our Halloween show next month.
No more.
They didn't have the catalog,of course, the Fab Four,
but they did have a coupleof those Beatles.
Well, I'm wearing the Beatle shirtbecause this is the first album
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that I ever bought.
To say I
love theBeatles would be a grand understatement.
Yes, as my mother saidone day she walked into my room
and she said, first,I'll tell you what she said.
She said, Joyce,can't you do anything in moderation?
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Or why are you such an extremist?
And I said, what?She took a picture of me.
I have that picture someplace,and I'm standing
a mist on my walls.
I mean, it wasn'tjust a poster of the Beatles.
It was the length of the the wall, right?
All all four of them.
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And this one and that one.
And I had a shirt onand I have pins on, and it's like, what?
What are you talking about?
You know, but I loved what was itabout them that really got your attention?
You know, something?
It was like an awakening within me.
And some people thoughtthat I love the Beatles
like I wanted to marry a Beatle.
I wanted to be a Beatle.
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I even got a guitar.
And I would sit listening to them andI would try to play I, I have no talent.
No talentwhere you have a lot of other areas.
Yeah, but playing musicor singing is not one of them,
but I was, I got immersed into itprior to that,
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because I was the youngest of three,I, I listened to what they were playing.
So I was always playing in the house.
Bob Dylanor Joan Baez or something like that.
But when the Beatles hit, I can't explain
that phenomenon that happenedbecause it happened world wide.
I got an explosion.
Yeah, that really resonated within me.
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So much so that
when I was 12 years old,I walked to the big library
in New Haven, Connecticut,and I had the idea
that I bet one of their phone
numbers is listed in an old directorythat I could find.
So I went and asked the librarian,could I see
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some old phone books from England?
She said, sure, we have them.
That's just that was genius.
I, I was just like in Liverpool, right?
Specifically.
So I found George Harrison'smother's name
in Liverpool, a market lane.
And guess what I did called, I called,and at that time you had a pay.
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Right. So I just a lot of money.
I just prayed my motherand father wouldn't see the bill,
but I called in his sisterLouise answered, and I told them hello.
I was, yeah, and then I'm a huge fan.
I live in the United States,blah blah blah.
And she said, give me your address.
So I gave her my addressand they sent me paraphernalia.
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You know, a sketch of George.
And then I'm so sorry, we'regoing to talk music, but that's fine.
This music. Yeah.
So the next thing I did is I wrote her,and I asked if she would send me
a list of, girls my age
in the neighborhood who lives on Mac Lane.
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If they want to become pen palswith American girls.
Now, in this day and age,it would be emails.
But I asked for addresses she sent me.
So she sent me about 30 addresses and.
And I called ABC and New Haven 13 waves.
That was my first job in radio.
Let's listen to wavesin case you want to win it. Yep.
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And I
asked if they would like to do a contest,
and the winners of contestswould get the names of a person
that lived on market slang for GeorgeHarrison's, you know, connection.
And they did.
And then I did another onethrough George Harrison's
sister called rings for Ringo.
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And so then but waves called me.
It was like, I think there was Tracy,who was a deejay at the time,
and asked me if I'd like to come inand discuss the Beatles.
No, I was 12 years old. They had no idea.
So when they saw me, it was like, oh,it was like this.
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You thought you were maybe 18, 19, 20?
Yeah, yeah.
So they did let me like, I don't know,
like pull new storiesand things like that.
Well, what a great program and just,
just how benevolent she was to set you upwith all those pen pals.
Oh, she's wonderful.
But in the 80s,when I had a party at my house
and I probably was silly enoughto show all my paraphernalia
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and signed albumsand everything, they were there were gone.
Taken.
Really? Yeah.
Don't know who to this daydon't even want to know.
But, it's like,oh gosh, it's just not all of that good.
But that was my, you know, beginnings
of musicand being so happy listening to it.
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It really was. Yeah.
And my parents couldn'tunderstand it at all.
I got thrown out of elementary schoolclass because I came
in one day with my pinsall over my jacket, and I cut my hair
like the Beatles had the bangs.
I did the I did the whole thing.
And, the, the sister, because it wasa Catholic school, wouldn't let me in.
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And I was sent home.
And then my mother was just like,
so I just fixed my hair, so, you know,
it didn't look like a Beatles cutand took all the pins off me.
Well, seems like every generationgoes through that because, you know, when
when Sinatra came out, you, though,the Bobby Sox was all went crazy.
And a lot of thethe Navy men didn't like him
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because they were a little bitjealous of him or whatever.
And then, of course, when Elvis came out,you know, it was Elvis
mania and, and,he was banned by all the churches.
He was the devil. Yeah. And all that.
And you look at the stuff that he did nowand the Beatles and it's tame, right?
Compared to a lot of stuffyou, you see nowadays.
So what was your first album?
Oh mama or CD?
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I mean,because you were always working in radio.
I know, I know, I mean, prior to that,usually they say when you when you're like
11, 12, 13 years old, that'swhen your music taste is kind of formed.
That'swhen you start really acknowledging music.
So you know, late 60s, early
70s really was like my my jam for a while.
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But I really, I really can't rememberbecause music
was always playing in our houseall genres.
My mom and dad loved everything.
Yeah, that had the old 78 were playingjazz.
We're playing gospel, blues,rock and roll, rhythm, all blues.
Oh yeah, yeah,it was like a melting pot in my house.
So we heard it all and I loved it all.
And I was never a musical snob.
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I loved it all.
Whether it be watching Soul Trainor The Lawrence Welk Show
or Brian Campbell, Johnny Cash, you know,it didn't make any difference.
I loved it all, whether it was rock,pop, country, rhythm and blues.
So I grew up that way.
And still to this day, I never wantto lose that childlike innocence, right?
And I still listen to a lot of new music,
and I probably know the new musicas well as any 18, 19, 20 year old.
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And it's great.
The top 40 music of today, because I haveto play with my deejay business. Yes.
Yeah.
You know, and I and I played on the radioand I top 40 and whatever
you keep hearing over and over,sometimes it does grow on you.
It does. Yeah.
There's a lot of good new music outwhen people have a tendency.
So when they get older they think, oh,nothing like the old right?
Right. I don't buy that.I don't buy that. I buy it at all.
And we can continue to grow and evolvebecause I don't want to be that person.
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Oh, the old days were the best daysand well, no, these are the good old days.
As Carly Simon said in her song.
Yes, yes, I think right, right. Yes. Yeah.
These are the good old days.
So I was thinking of like songsthat made me happy.
Right. So what? Like what songs would.
Well, what I don't know,like what would uplift you?
Maybe you didn't go through.
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Did you go throughthe angst of a teenage girl?
Oh, I remember back in the daywhen your, your biggest challenge was who
you going to go out with over the weekendor are you what's your what?
Your mom was going to pack for lunchthe next.
Right, right.
It seemed so trivial compared.
But when I when I remember growing uphearing songs like Build Me Up Buttercup,
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foundations,that's a song Your Mama Don't
Dance, rocking pneumonia and the boogieWoogie flu in the early 70s, mid 70s.
Crocodile rock.
Yeah, you know, a bad, bad Leroy Brown,all the fun stuff.
And I loved a lot of the R&B disco stuff.
Yeah, of the 70s. I loved rock n roll.
I love the country, I, you love I mean, Elvis met Elvis.
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Really? Yeah.
Wait, Elvis really cross country.
Also, Elvis was the gospel.
Elvis is the only artist who's in 5or 6 different halls of fame.
She's in the Rock Hall of Fame,the blues, the country gospel.
I think he's in some of the rockabilly.
He's he's in themall. Have you gone to Graceland?
I have, you have.
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I have no reason why.
It was a lot smaller than I thought.
It was pretty gaudy, really.
But what blew my mind
was the big giant museumwith all the gold and platinum records
from all over the worldand like, keys to the city.
So any time he go to a city,mayors would meet with him, governors
and presidents would go to his moviesets and meet with him.
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Yeah.I mean, the guy was like, incredible.
I mean, how how super, super popularhe was and still is in 2025 and still is.
I don't think there's been anyonelike him.
Nope.
As far as solo artist,no, nobody Comes close.
And the Beatles.
So Elvisand the Beatles are probably the two
the biggest icons of all time in music,right?
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Bar none.
If you want to go. My record salesto both of them.
The Beatles really opened the doorsfor the ink for the England.
I mean, the Mersey Beat came over here,
Dave part five and yeah, Peter and Gordonand all those great bands.
Yeah, we started to hear about themand yeah, that that's where my mind was.
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Right? You know, I wanted to be there.
I wanted to live in Liverpool and,and just be part of that scene.
And, and you and I metwhen I was working at peel.
Both working at peel are in the 80s.
And we just connected right away,which led to the podcast
now that we're doing together,
which is wonderful, which we were doing,I think promotions and things that,
PR when we were in, in New Haven, NewHaven, Connecticut,
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up on the second floor,they had the studio
and they had the couch,and they had a pool table table,
and we'd have to close the doorsometimes because we'd be going on
the radio talking. Right.
I did on Rock with Van Halen in the pools,you hear the sound of the
the balls, you know, in the backgroundclacking and scratching.
Exactly. It's like, guys, can you hearwe're on the air here, you know?
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And yeah, great.
But it was just so much funbecause it was so loose
and it was a community appeal at the time.
It was a real community.
I used to love staying there after hourswhen I could because, you know,
I was that teenage mom.
So I had little kids at home.
But, the lich.
Oh, no suchluck ever happened to the Lich.
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Lich,if you listen to this, contact us please.
We love the Lich working with him.
Loved himgreat man and had a passion for music.
Second to none, second to none.
He was a music encyclopedia. This guy.
Oh, yeah, he was.
He, he did a show with Jimmy Cop,like I know on PBS.
Love, Jimmy conflict from Live Nation.
Thank you, Jimmy, for everythingyou contributed to our state and beyond.
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You know, Shelly Finkel, Jim coppockyeah, his fabulous
but lich I would go into the studio,
you know, after 5:00
and he would crank journey.
Oh, I mean, he loveddrank it and I loved it.
Yeah.
And he would be
playing drums on the counter, you know,because he, he was a drummer, I think.
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Yeah. Yeah, he always had the bandana on.
He always had the bandana on. Yeah, yeah.
And and, like this.
Not suspenders. What do you call it? The,
Like the denim jump thing.
Yeah.
Like a, like a farmer style.
Yeah. Almost like the farmers,but you know.
Yeah, yeah,but he was a very unique style.
Really unique.
But just think of the great peoplewe worked with over the years in radio.
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Yeah, I mean, there's too many to mention,but we work with some of the greats,
you know, herein the Connecticut marketplace and beyond.
Well, that's whatlaunched my business for over 20 years,
working with Michael Boltonand Mariah Carey
and everything, John Mellencamp,Carly Simon, Billy Squier, right.
Worked with that one? No,no, I wanted to work. Do you see these?
Do you notice that I've got Billy SquirePinson never work with Billy Squire.
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No really I thought you knowhe's the one I wanted to love.
Billy Squire.
We're supposed to meet with him.
It was me Michael.
And we were at Sherman's
Tavern,which is now the Union, restaurant.
We're talkingto some local Connecticut, so.
Yeah, but it's.
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Well, Billy Squire was,playing with rat round and round.
Round around the New Haven Coliseum.
So, he was invited to join Michael
at Sherman's Tavern on the green,
and I was so excited.
I was like, oh, this is it.
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I'm finally going to get to meet him.
I love his music.
I love the fact that he wrote his musiclike he produced his videos at all.
He really did.
And that's what I respect abouta lot of musicians when they can do that.
And I think,
his keyboard player at the timeprobably did more to Allen.
Saint John showed upand but Billy wasn't showing up,
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but there was no cell phone then to call.
Coliseum was already closed. Right.
What are we going to call?
So we waited.
They left and they left with,you know, I had a bottle of.
They had a bottle of champagneon the table.
So I said, I'mjust going to sit here and wait.
So I just kept sippin it, sipping away.
And then I realized like an hour later,okay, this is not going to happen.
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And when I went toget up, John, I was so drunk,
I didn't even
realize it until I thought,oh my God, I can't walk, right?
So I had to hold on to table,
get myself out, gingerlywalk, gingerly walk to my car.
Sorry to say.
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Yeah. Jerome.
Oh, I didn't know how else to get home.
Yeah, I drove really slowly andI was thanking God that he made it home.
I didn't get arrested. That's grace.
But yeah, but.
So that was my almost meetingwith Billy Squier.
But he's one of the ones that he eluded.
He eluded me.
But when he played in concertand open up for Queen to.
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Yes, that's the concertI saw with my husband to be,
Wayne Wayne and rest his soul.
Love you Wayne. Yes, yes.
And I loved him so much that night
because we took my son's,we took a friend of theirs,
and he said to me, come up to the stage,go up to the stage.
And I thought, I love this guy.
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He gets this.
He's not jealous that I love Billy Squier.
And he was comfortable enough in himself,so he was comfortable in his own skin.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. So he's got a great photo.
We'll probably put upof Billy on stage and.
Yeah, it's a really
it's a really good photoand some of Queen as well, but I didn't.
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I loved Queen, but I love Billy. Right.
You love that.
Oh yeah.
So dance around and, you know, it was fun.
It was just such a fun night.Good memories.
Radio is meantnot to work with Billy Squier.
Because you know what?
Sometimesyou don't want to meet your heroes.
You don't want to meet your heroes.
But here's what happened.
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What happened with me, anyway? Working.
I was always backstage.
Whether it's Oakdale Theater backstage,Palace Theater, backstage,
opening my own business, workingwith artists backstage and stuff happens.
Like who didn't get their backstagepasses, joist or some.
I was always called,I was there, I was meeting with,
(18:31):
the radio people or whatever.
There would be someone on a microphonesaying, Joe Joyce,
can you please come to this room andplease come to the green room or whatever?
I'm sure you put out a lot of fires, too.
Yes, a lot of fires.
So then I started to not enjoygoing to concerts
because it brought back memories of work.
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Yeah, instead of enjoying it.
So the one concertI did not want to meet my the guy
that I also really look because I justlove music was Johnny Mathis.
So I asked Wayne to cover that show for me
because usually,you know, he would take pictures, but
then you'd have to make sure that their,their writer was met and all that.
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And Wayne could do thatand he knew, you know the
talk about the writersI mean what they are kind of demanding of.
Yeah.
Like like what's on their listto make sure they got the right water or
like the green Eminem's or something,that that was always the story, right?
Yeah, I meant so I went and coveredanother show that night.
It was Jay Leno thatwhat they were also doing in Hartford.
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So I went to the Jay Leno Show.
I left Wayne with Johnny Mathis.
Oh, geez.
And I came homeand I said, so how did it go?
And we just said to me, oh, Joyce.
He said, this is this showyou shouldn't have missed.
He said, Johnny Mathis cooked for us all.
Oh, no, that's right.
He was quite the chef from what Iand he all just sat around talking to him.
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And in memoryI could hear my heart breaking again.
And the thing is,he was a big track star too.
Yes, I do remember.
Yes, I saw a documentary on him,you know, super sweet.
Yeah. Johnny Mathis. Yeah.
So it was Johnny Mathis.
I didn't get to me, but I just.
So you know, and I.
And also Julie Andrews,I had Wayne cover Julie Andrews
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because she's just so, you know,I think she played
in the original production of My FairLady in the 50s.
My, my wife and I went to see itlocally here in Connecticut at the Ivy.
That's why not when we talk about movies.
That's one of my favorite musicals.
My Fair Lady could have danced.We have her.
But she was such a ladythat when Audrey Hepburn met her.
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And Audrey Hepburn even said,you should have had that role.
She said, my dear,it was meant for you. Yes.
You know, it was very gracious.
Thank you all that if it was meant to be,it would have been her role.
Yes, but but, you know,Julia wasn't hurting too much, you know.
So Wayne covered that show for me becauseI thought, I don't want to find out.
She's a prima donna or a diva again,
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not only the best, but his pictures of her
that she's in her bathrobe with herglasses on and she didn't care.
She was just sitting comfortablein her own skin.
Yeah, yeah.
That's fantastic. Yeah.
And we've been very fortunate, Joyce,between the two of us, to meet
so many great entertainers over the years,all different genres.
I know you've worked with a lot ofcomedians too, that you've really enjoyed.
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I really love the you know, there's notone comedian that I didn't have.
And of course, one of my favorites, RegisRegis was love, Regis Philbin.
Wonderful. Love them. Yeah.
So down to earth. Yes.
What he was on TV was exactly how he was.
You know, off TV.
Well, I used to love,you know, with him and Kathie Lee,
but also when his wife came on. Joy. Joy.
(21:51):
She was great. Yeah,they were great together, as is.
Like Kelly now with Mark,there's just no synergy between them.
Great combo too.
Yes. Yeah.
So speaking about music, I just okay.
You know,
so Michael because I spoke about Michaelbecause Michael Bolton, I met him
well I met him at Toad's place,you know, really going to his real name.
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Yeah, it was Michael below.And he was with blackjack.
They were great.
We were playing them the two of themhad kind of a harder rock sound.
Well, that's the Michael Boltonthat I knew best.
Leather pants. Yes, yes.
You know, bandana around his neckand yeah, he was rock and roll.
He was rock and roll.
But he wrote musicand he wrote Laura Branigan's.
How am I supposed to live withthat? Do it.
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You know, so many,so many great, heartfelt songs
and, behind the scenes, they,you know, decided
with the record companythat that's the way he should go.
But he was always a rocker.
Yeah, you know, at heart.
And but he had a big female following,especially with his huge, big,
big, big following.
So when he was at Toad's place,I would see the,
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the women they see of womensinging along to his first untitled
album,Michael Bolton, that came out in 1983
and it was hardly out,but they were singing along to every song.
Must have shocked him.
Looking out, oh, I didn't know my song,so let me tell you, I said that to him.
I said, did you see them?
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And he said, Joyce, I wear glasses.
I didn't have my contacts.
Oh no, he said, it's all a blur.
I said, keep doing thatbecause you have this dreamy
look in your eyelooking out at the audience,
and maybe if you could see themreally clearly, you know,
you might not have that, that look,I mean, I think he's put contacts.
(23:42):
Of course,you know, and probably had laser.
Maybe he doesn't even need glasses.
But it was in that moment,you know, that I thought,
Holy moly, this guy's got that
charisma, you know, has got that,
you got the it factor,which, you know, the great ones have.
So when they came up to applyto do an interview.
(24:04):
Yeah, I think he did it with BrianSmith, Brad, Brian Smith and Barbra.
They were a great team.I think Brian works.
I don't even think Barbara was there yet.
I think it was just Brian de radiodoing something at the station.
Oh, wow. Radio.
Yes, yes, I'm it's a car dealershipand it's an a car dealership.
So is it really. Yeah. Okay.
So Jeff, see, you know that guyon the tree plug for Brian?
(24:26):
Call us. Yeah. Yes, Brian. Great.
Great guy, great talent.
Yeah. Yeah, really great guy.
But I remember he he was speaking to
Michael and I had this idea of
like what to do,like how to bring the fans together
because working at NPR,that's where the calls would come through.
(24:46):
And I think I may have mentioned thisto you before, where people
would call and say,you know, my, my daughter's dying.
I mean, really sad stories
and like the Starlight Foundation or,you know, what other foundation?
There's so many peoplethey deal with nationwide
and they just wanted to meet like
Michaelor Kelly Lewis with the news or whatever.
(25:08):
Did you work with you?
I know,but when you came up to the station,
yeah,we had great conversations afterwards.
I remember being on the air when he wasthere with 38 special, the New Year. Yes.
That wasthat was the show. Wow. That was the show.
So let me go back to like manifestationfor a second.
Where we first beganour show was talking about this.
(25:30):
So it was when MTV
first really hit the airwaves.
The journey had a, a video out,
and in the backgroundwas a woman with a clipboard.
And I said to myself, I want that job.
I want to be that personbehind the scenes, working this somehow.
(25:53):
And it was at, that show
with Huey Lewis and 38 special,
I have my clipboardbecause we had contest winners from polar,
and I was part of,like, organizing things.
And I looked at myself, looked down.
I said, oh my God,I am this woman with the clipboard.
(26:14):
This is what I invested.
Yeah.
So that was really an eye opener for mebecause I'm laser focused on things like,
I love hard, the Beatles, right,Billy Squier yes.
I mean, I didn't manifest him,but that's okay.
You still have time. He still looks good.
Yeah, sure.
I hear you sing in a way, yes.
(26:35):
But, Yeah.
But music has always been so healing,so healing for me.
I remember on Michael'sfirst and, you know, his first album
was, Fool's Game.
Now, I loved Fool's Game.
That was really uplifting.It was like intense.
I mean, the one that really gotmy attention was that's
What Love Is all About.I remember that being his first mega hit.
(26:57):
Yeah, that was the first, like,ballad power ballad that he wrote.
Yes. And soul providerslike one of my favorite soul profile
all time, like, steel bars.
City bars? Yes. With Bob Dylan. Yes.
But the one that I wore.
Oh, yes.
And I had a vinyl CD playing this,and I wore it out
because it was a bad timeromantically in my life with someone way.
(27:21):
Eventually more than a few of thoseI eventually married.
No. Oh, really?
Yes, I did, so, But it was.
I almost believed you.
I almost believe, but it wasit was therapeutic for me
because it cut out all the sorrow,
and it made me feel like I wasn't alonebecause Michael wrote that, you know?
(27:44):
So it really was healing.What do they say?
Sad songs say so much.
Oh, like the Elton John's song.
Oh yeah. Yeah, it really does.
You know.
Or no, nobody likes sad songs,but they do, you know, Ronnie Milsap or
so many of those songs.
I love speaking to you about music becauseit's sort of like the Bible in a way.
You remember who sang it.
(28:05):
I remember the name in the BibleI can remember, like what?
What resonated with me.
You can give me the passage where it okay,well, you've got a great memory.
Well, the thing is, likeat the radio station, we geek out a lot.
We'll have conversations, fellow deejays,and we'll talk in song titles about it.
I mean, and it's really geeky,but we have so much fun with it,
(28:26):
no matter what genre.
So as we wrap up,I just want to give a special
not because it's of The Beatles,Michael Bolton, Billy Squire,
got emotions in motion.
How I love that song.
I love Everybody Wants You to find it.
You know it's you in the dark.
Yeah, my gosh.
Yeah. Also Barry Manilow.
(28:46):
Yeah. Great. Great entertainer.
Everything that he did,Bon Jovi, Whitney Houston,
Tina Turner,I mean, I'm a big fan of all of them.
Music that really shapes our lives.
And each and every day in our house.
Joyce music is playing.
Yeah.
And we've had, you know, we have itgoing on in the morning all throughout
the day, you know, whether it be,you know, rock, you know, soul,
(29:08):
rhythm and blues, Christian musicwe like as well, smooth jazz.
It's all going on a classical musicclassic.
Love it.You ask me mostly just soothes us. Right.
But we're doing some work in the morning,right around the house.
So why don't you tell uswhat your favorite songs are?
You can leave us a message in our bio.
We've got a link,but you can message us on Facebook
(29:29):
BR on there and give us ideas for showsyou would like.
Absolutely.
Talk to us, talk to us wherethis is interactive and we appreciate you
because without you there's no showand maybe we'll have you on the show.
That'd be great.
Yes, yes, that'swhat's good with John and Joyce.
Right.
So thank you so much. And, check us out.
Subscribe to us on YouTube.
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Share it with everybody.
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Or you can, you know, check outa whole bunch of other platforms. You can.
Yeah, subscribe as well. Till next time.
There's a song in our hearts, right?Keep on singing.
Love that. Bye for now.
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