July 4, 2025 • 39 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Al, thank you very much. Our number two with Bill
and Bow Winnaker. We had a drop off over the news.
So if you want to call in, this room for
you six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight eight, nine, two, nine,
ten thirty will get you through too. I would love
for people to call in who have met the Winnakers,
(00:31):
have experience a Winnakers show. I have. I've seen them
on a couple of occasions, and it would seem all
the calls we had during the first hour had a
glowing review of what Bill and Bow did for them
at their function. So if you've had a similar experience,
(00:55):
here's your chance to thank the gentlemen. And after this
next call, I'm going to let them tell their backstory.
Who was a Josephine who called in and was talking
about a young Bow in elementary school doing that legendary
(01:17):
song Midnight in Moscow. Not an easy song to play
on a trumpet or any instrument for an eight year
old kid, but he did it, talented young man that
he was, and when he was eight, which was just
what ten or fifteen years ago, more or less all right,
(01:39):
that'll work. Let's take a call from Brighton Glenn. Hello again, Hi.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I had to call it the Winnakers because I owe em.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I know, I know, I'm not chastising you. Go ahead, No,
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
On Sunday, April twenty seventh, when uh Dan Ray had
that lunch in New Orleans and Westwood, I asked him
to tell the public that I am looking for a
Republican girlfriend, and he did it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
H must we always refer to your love life up
and downs? Yes, okay, now that you Republican girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I don't have one. I'm looking for one. He gave you,
he said that Gwenn's looking. He plugged me. He put
a plug in for me. I haven't.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well there look at all the Republican women who voted
for the current president. So they are out there.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well yeah, they called Nightside during the week. But I'm just.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I know they do.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
There's a woman from Midfred that likes my calls.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But we're talking about the workers, not bright I know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Not the filled panel to his love life, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
No, the winner.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Because they played a couple of songs for me. They
played going to the Chapel, they played the What's that
that thing the medang the Memories, it's uh, the local.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bob Hope song, Thanks for the Memories.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
No, it's the Maroon five.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh okay, guys, you remember the song you played for Glenn?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Sure do?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yeah, it was a Maroon five songs. That's one of
Gunn's favorites. We always play it for him whenever he
comes to one of our shows.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yes, they do. And I want to play it at
my funeral, which.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Is I'm my lip right now.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I know that's all right, Glenn.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
You're going to be around for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I know because I don't want to die because they
want me to. They win if I die.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Who's they?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The Democrats?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh god? Can we sign another? I couldn't receive format
for your phone call.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's what Jordan Richie used to say, nepecial format for
Glenn's calls.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, So what else do you want to say to
Bill and Bot? Why are you here?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I just want to say, is it did you say
that August twentieth? It should have been the twenty third.
If it's a Thursday, August begins on a Friday, So.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I think that I think our next day is the
twenty fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You know what I mean, the one in August.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
The August is the twenty eighth, all the end.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
All okay, you're going all the way to the end,
just before laybor Day weekend, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, now that we've got that straightened out, all right,
I'm sorry, what else would you like to do? Glenn?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I just want to say, these guys are groovy, dynamite.
I used to be a hippie. I could talk that way.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And I understand the meaning of the word groovy.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I know, all right, I still say passcord. Everybody says cable,
but that's just I'm dating.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
All right. Before we hang up, let me just put
in one more plug. If anybody out there needs their
piano tunes. Glenn is a really great piano tuner, So
we'll leave it at that. But Glenn, I hope you
get some calls for tuning.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well I do too, because I may have to go bankrupt.
I don't want to get into it, but yes, I
got to get some work.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, hopefully that will get a few people calling for
your services. And on that note, it's time to say good.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Night, thank you very much, bye bye for.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Now, bye for now. Okay, t tfns Steve Allen used
to say, but just top of now, and before we
take Marjorie in New York and Marjorie, you're right at
the point where I take a break at quartera past
the hour, half past the hour, quarter of the hour
of Night Side, and it's nine thirteen, So I want
(06:17):
to give you enough time to speak with Bill and Bow,
So be patient. I'm going to be taking a break
before you call, but you'll get your chance to speak
to them, and it won't be an abbreviated chance because
I'm not going to take you now. I'll wait. And guys,
other events coming up this summer beyond the rollies.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, most of them are just private events. Okay, weddings
in different type of corporate events and such. But do
you have time for a quick song.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've got one minute. Can you fit it in?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yep, let's try it.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
If you've never had a flugget worn player on your
show before, here he is.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Shape.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
See how I waited to the end to sing anything.
Let's take our break. The winners will be back right
after these. Mess is here on night very much here
on Nightside. Dan is off. He'll be back on the
fourteenth of July. I'm here, I'm Morgan. Let's hit the
brake time at temperature nine fifteen seventy two degrees.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Night side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The Winnikers are here, Bill and Bow. They've been here
since eight They're going to be here until ten, and
then at ten o'clock Jack Hart will be here. And
you know he is my history buff. He drives one
of those tour bus trolleys during the day all around
(08:42):
Boston showing all the tourists where this happened and that happened.
And he's got some facts about July fourth that he
will tantalize you with. I am on tomorrow on my show,
The Morgan Show, and tomorrow is the last night I
will have three hours. I'm going to be going to
(09:04):
two hours the following week. So tomorrow night I've got
a gentleman coming on talking about the comedian, the comedian
accordionist of the seventies and eighties, Judy Tanuta. He's got
a book out about her, and I think there's a
(09:24):
documentary about her as well. And then I'll be doing trivia.
Havn't done it for a while. And I'll be focusing
on special days of the year. You want to play,
You're welcome to come along. That'll be the last two
hours of the Morgan Show and one more thing. Tuesdays,
I appear at the Midway Restaurant from six to seven
(09:46):
point thirty, playing trivia with people who seem to enjoy it. Periodically,
mel Simon's shows up. Some of the people that call
when I'm on the air here on BZ, they show up.
You can show up too, and are you guys okay
over there?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Okay, let's go to New York City and speak to Marjorie. Marjorie,
you're next here on night Side.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Hi, Oh great, Hello, I'm working a Hello bo and Bill.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Hello Marjorie.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Oh this is such a pleasure. Yeah. So I am
in New York City. Although I am a native Bustonian,
I grew up in Brookline, and I have to say
that the Winnaker Brothers music is unfailingly comfort food for
the soul that it is just you cannot go to
(10:37):
one of their concerts without knowing that this is going
to be just magnificent and you're going to come out stealing, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Marjorie hold On, I have one question. Then I'm going
to step out and let you just speak to Bill
and Bow. Oh you lived in Brookline. Did you go
to Brookline High?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I most certainly did.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And what year did you graduate from Brookline High?
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Well, that's a funny question because I actually didn't technically graduate.
I would I should have graduated in nineteen seventy. I
was in the class of nineteen seventy, but I skipped
my senior year. So I actually left the high school
in sixty nine and eventually got a diploma. I went
to college a year early.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
In other words, conceivably, then we knew each other because
I was there from sixty seven to seventy one.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Definitely cross We definitely cross paths some of the same teachers.
Where did you live in Brookline?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I did live in Brookline. I was a medical transfer student.
My homeroom was three sixty three. Missus Nardone was my
homeroom teacher.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Oh was that? My homeroom was two twenty six, right,
and my, oh my goodness. Bertrand Hollam was the present
was the principal?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yes, right?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
And then he was replaced by Well. I was there
during the days of britt Holland.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes, and I was. I was there for two of
his years, the last two of his years.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
So I think MECO started like when I around the
time that I was at the high school.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They started, They started the sixty six sixty seven school year,
and I came in the sixty seven sixty eight school year.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Okay, so I sixty seven sixty eight was my freshman Yeah,
with my freshman year in high school.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, so we probably know each other. Yeah, Okay, Now
I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Did you get the brownies at the high school in
the cafeteria and Ethan in the quadrangle?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh? Partially yes, sometimes.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yes, And I'm going to I'm going to lunch four years.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm going to step out the conversation and let you
just talk to Bill and bow. Okay, Madorie.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Well, nice to talk to you, Nice to talk to me.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Bill, Just for you go ahead and talk.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Hi Yah, great to hear from you. We've had such
wonderful times with your family.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
I know, I know such such wonderful times. And as
you know, my mother may she rest in peace, was
one of your biggest chans and just was always so
happy to see you and happy to hear you and
such a booster, and she and we always commented on
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what kind and respectful and talented, gracious, modest brothers you were,
and it gave her a lot of comfort. And I
don't know if you recall this, but when she turned
ninety nine, we went to Brothers where you were then
playing in Brookline for her ninety ninth birthday, and then
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the following you when she turned out and she said,
then well, I have to have my hundredth birthday, and
then COVID hit, and if you recall, asked you to
do a recording session for her in one of your
studios during COVID, which we then gave to her on
her one hundredth birthday. Do you remember that, Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
We remember very well. We made a great video for
her of all her favorite songs, and that was special.
That was a great project. We love doing it in It.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Was a great project before. I mean, I it's it's
funny that, like all those years in Brookline and Newton
and you know, all those places where we all were circulating,
that that we came to really know you much later
in the game. I mean, you guys were well into
your careers when we well into your careers when we really.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Got to know.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
I mean, we knew we had the CD with the
Stellcats that I did always have as a child, but
that beyond that, we really didn't really have you in
our consciousness.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Until we did. And then.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well it sure is blazoned.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well, you're so nice to take the time to call
us tonight. Well, you just appreciate it so much.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Oh, I'm I'm so happy to be doing it. And
I it's funny because I am such a techno folk
so I had to practice today how to how to
get myself into w b z H so that I
could actually figure out how to call you, But I
did it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Well, we're so appreciative of that. You know. The one
of the most special times of our career was playing
that memorial concert for your brother not too long ago.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
It was a great day, it was It was such
a high for us and would have been such a
high for her. It was beautiful. And I'm actually so
glad to be speaking to you on July fourth, because
I know how patriotic we all are. And I'm glad
actually that I happened to call in right before you
played bo Yeah, yeah, I needed I needed my share
(15:59):
of like something paideeotic tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well we'll play one more patriotic song before the end
of the night.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Oh that's good to know. Okay, Okay, I'll stick it out.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
The funny thing about calling into the WBZ, it's so
odd for me because I don't know if you remember,
but as children from wm ex is on for several
years at seven o'clock in the morning, they had this
thing where you called in and you could sing along
with Chubby. You could sing Hooker took on my soda
cracker with Chubby Checker and it was like, I think
(16:32):
it was wu Wuginsburg, but I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Not at seven o'clock in the morning. It might have
been Emperor.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Now this was seven in the morning because I called
religiously every morning, okay, and one day.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I got onnest.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
It was very exciting. And then and then when I
heard it, of course, the whole thing had like a
seven minute, you know, seven second delay. I was just
so impressed that I actually was able to get onto
a Boston talk show radio show.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I could sing the whole thing, but I won't.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You know, what the what does that song even mean?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Absolutely nothing. Was just another record by Chubby Checker, hoping
the novelty of it would sell oodles and oodles.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Of records, which apparently it did.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Apparently it did. Yeah, all right, Majorie, I'm almost up
to a break time, but thank you for calling.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Oh again, well, and thank you by the way. I
just I heard more ads about Boston than I've heard
in decades. So k I live in New York, and
as you know, there's no lack of music in New York.
But there is nothing with the character, nothing of the
character of the Winnaker brothers here, nothing that is so
both intimate and can be small, can be large, can
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be relied on to always be down to earth and
wonderful to big part of so anyhow, congratulations to Bill
and Bow and many many, many more years I hope,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
For your call. Thank you enjoy the rest of your
holiday weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Bye bye too bye.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm going to take my break. We've got two people online,
Nick and Debbie, and we've got another patriotic song. And
I promised you guys would give you a backstory. So
we have a lot of things to do over the
next thirty minutes. Time and temperature nine thirty seventy two degrees.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You're on night Side with Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I missed Belle Bivdevo tonight. Darn. They only had two
major hits. They had the song do Me and they
had the song oh oh, what was the other one?
Bill Bow? Do you know my other bell Bivdevo song? Poisons?
(19:11):
They did the song poison as well. That girl was poison.
I'm not going to go any further. You guys ready
to go back to the phones? Yes, sir, and let
me tell you something. He standard at eight o'clock. We
had full lines before I even said the first word
(19:32):
into the microphone. We've had full lines for the past
ninety plus minutes. So now who do I go to next?
Nick and Stoughton? Nick, you're online one. Happy fourth of
July to you.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
So thank you very much. Happy fourth of July to you.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
I've been following the winners for a few years now,
and uh, I just want to say that these guys
can play anything. I mean, you know we're talking about
you know, it sounds like you're talking about old, old
kind of music. It's not true. These guys can play anything.
They go their top hits of the day, and they
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play out at public places and stuff, and they do
a lot of private work. But they're probably about the
best wedding band you can find, man, if you're a
young couple getting married. I mean, these guys really put
on a show. They just don't get up and play music.
They really entertained. They put on they they can do
any size. They can do any size. I mean they
(20:39):
can put a sixteen to twenty piece band together, you know.
I mean anything you need, from a trio to.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
A quartet to a you know, bull size orchestra.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
And one thing I wanted to mention was I heard
Bow and Bill Winter. Now are you going to be
playing on Columbus Day at a place called the Wellington
in Belmont?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's right, Yeah, we have a bunch coming up there
for sure, yep.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And that's for the public.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
That's a beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That is for the public.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Beautiful place that's for the public. Yeah, well it's beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Tell us the days and the day, the date, the time,
everything we need to know, even though it's not till October.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah, but I think it's the twentieth of October if
I've got it correct.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
It's not the twelfth.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Maybe it is, of course it's the twelfth. Yeah, it's
the twelve. Okay, it's from twelve to twelve to two.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
One the Wellington, Wellington, seventy five.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Leonard Street in Belmont.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Great, thanks Nick for you Do you get that?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, we got it, and so did thirty eight states
in Canada.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Okay, great, well, thanks very much.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
It's goad to talk to you guys, and Morgan, thank
you for having these guys on. And we should have
the one a little more.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I have them on about every two or three months, nicked,
and they can't and you want to know what they've been.
Many times they politely have had to tell me no
because of a prior engagement.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Yeah, well they're busy, busy, busy, and.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Here it is the fourth of July. I had to
ask them to come on on their vacation. They're up
in Maine on vacation.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, well that's great. Well, I wish
you all very happy for us.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Take care. Nick. Thank you for calling. Good evening. All right, now, guys,
while we see if somebody else wants to take that line.
They've got two ladies. One is in Beverly named Andrea,
and one is in Needham named Debbie. But why don't
you give.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Me Let's go to the call and then we'll do
the backstory.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Okay, fair enough. Then let's first go to Debbie and
Needham Line three. Hello, Hello, Debbie.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Hi, how are you tonight? Happy four?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Happy fourth to you too?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Which w this is this Debbie Block?
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It is? It's Debbie Block. And I have Aton sitting
beside me.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Well, oh too.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
These are two great people. Aton plays drums and Debbie
puts on wonderful shows, uh, themanic shows about Broadway, some
of the great Broadway shows. She entertains at all the
senior communities, and she's dynamic, and she's been good to us.
She's recommended us to a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And Debbie, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you. I'm I'm
gonna tell you my favorite love song.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Okay, I'm Broadway.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's just.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
This.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm gonna see if forget it with this clue, the
man singing the song is singing it to himself in
the mirror.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I got that one, but it's all yours.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
No wait a minute, no, no, I'm no tells to
what it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Is go ahead and tell her.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
You have to give me.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's a.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Mirror without really trying.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh that, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I like it. Ay, Robert Morse, not Matthew Brederick.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Ah, okay, because Robert Morris.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Could sing Matthew Broderick. It was okay, I'll leave it
at that. Leave it at that. But he's singing. He's
singing it to himself in a mirror. You've got the cool,
clear eyes of a secret of wisdom and truth, And
he's singing to himself.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Can you sing it to me?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Me saying did you hear that? Guys? She requested me
to sing. She requested me to sing, You've got the cool,
clear eyes of a secret of wisdom and truth. Get
this that up, turn grin the smile of impetuous youth.
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I believe in you, Yes, I believe in you. Does
that ring a bell?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Beautiful? No, I'm not really up on that show, to
be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Okay, Well that's a good.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Business, but I'll have to check it out.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
A lot of great songs came out of that musical,
The Secret Again, Your Secretary is not a toy. The
Brotherhood of Man. Yeah, great songs from that musical. Now
you called.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
The fireworks go off?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Okay, Well you called to speak to Bill and Bow,
so I'm backing out and leting the three of you
just talk. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Okay, Well, actually I just wanted to I do have
a little wedding story that I wanted to bring up
to reminisce about or tell you about, or hello, Bo
and Bill, how are you for it?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Thank you for calling, You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
And my sister. About thirty five years ago, my sister,
my young youngest sister, Julie, got married and where was
the Chelmsford in that area? And Bill, Bill and Bo
and their band then I think they had how many
pieces around that time, eight pieces? But they married, they
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were they were the wedding band. So whenever I ran
into them, I always say, oh, this this, these are
the guys that married my sister. That's the best way.
Speaker 10 (27:02):
To put it.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I've gotten in a lot of trouble by saying that,
But that's my little backstory, my story about Bill and Ba.
They're incredible performers as the guy, as Nick said before me,
so that I think it was in Boston.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You know, Dev has been very supportive of us at
the role she's been out there three or four times.
You might tell the crowd what it's like out there.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
It's great. I mean, there's always a big group of
people there. It's always full house. Everybody has a lot
of energy, a lot of musical performing artists go in there,
and and it's just a great crowd of people who
really love music or are in music, or somehow related
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to music. So it's a wonderful time, isn't that either?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Thank you for saying that.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
How could it be bad?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
How could it be bad? Debbie? Thank you for your call.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, thank you for talking to me, and thank you
for having the Winnipards there.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, and time is up, so I gotta let you go.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, okay, but thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Weekend by. Whoever takes Debbie's line will probably be the
last person to speak with Bill and Bow. I've got
Ruth and brook Line and Andrea in Beverly, so that line.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yes, let's take Andrea in Beverly because she's been waiting
a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well she's been waiting about eleven minutes, but I got
to take a break, So unfortunately she's got another two
or three minutes to be patient and hold. But she
will be the next call that we take and time
and temperature here on night Side nine forty four seventy
two degrees.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Easy, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Dan is off for the next five night sides, not
coming this week. I will be here next Thursday and Friday.
I'm Morgan White Junior. Bradley Jay will be filling in Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, and Dan should be back on the
fourteenth of July. Andrea, who's online two, is called in
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from Beverly and she wants to speak to Bill and
Bow Winnaker. Andrea, welcome aboard.
Speaker 9 (29:34):
Thank you, Hi everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Happy for name to you.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Great to hear your voice.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
It's me. I told you I'm here. Yay, okay. First
of all, I want to say you know I grew
thank you. I love these guys. I just want to
say something quick before I say anything about billan Bow,
which is important. I grew up with a mom who
was into Broadway, and we had how to succeed in
business without really trying, playing in the house all the time,
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as well as Bye Bye Birdie and you know, hundreds
of brothers. So I mean, I listened to those songs
growing up all the time in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Did you agree with me when I said, probably the
greatest love song on Broadway is a guy singing it
to himself because he's trying to boost himself up.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Well, I think the theory is nice. I think it's
a little more I think it's a little more romantic
when he's looking at someone else. But I suppose the
fact that he's looking at himself is a nice thought. Well,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Think he loved his girlfriend Rosemary Jay.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Is Yeah, like Morris Day with the mirror, But that's okay. Yeah,
so Bill and Bow I love these guys. I actually
we had them perform for us a couple of times
for a wonderful charity north of Boston called Grateful Friends,
and they came in and what I really love about them,
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aside from their their obvious talent, is the fact that
they are there's they're wonderful humans. They're just so kind,
They're always they have this beautiful aura about them, positivity.
There's just there's a there's a warmth that is consistent
in the family. And I think that's really what what
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is sort of the cherry on top. I guess as
they say.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Right, Okay, I agree. I said that during the first
hour that once you've become friendly with them and they've
become friendly with you, it's a lifelong friendship. I really
not seeing them unable to remember appearing at an event.
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We've had what twenty something calls tonight up to now,
and every person says, I love what you guys did
you did this with my mother. We we had you
at this event, this wedding, and they recall every incident.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
That's because they're humble and they don't forget anything or anyone,
and that's very special. They don't take anything for granted.
I'm just telling you that's how I mean. I think
everyone would agree with that. But I mean even when
they when they meet so we know they're loyal, but
when they first meet people, even there's an instant, there's
an instant warmth and connection with pretty much everybody connects
(32:24):
with the Winnakers because there's we all need people like
this right now these days.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And that sentence you just said, everybody connects with the Winnakers.
Home run statement, home run hands, thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
I slid into home base. Okay, okay, hey, let me
let me just say something yeah, sure, I.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Just want to tell you something, Morgan. Yes, Morgan, Andy
is a fantastic singer. She's got a duo and she
sings the classics of the seventies. I grew up with
the sixties and seventies music, and Morgan, you love sevenies
these music. Yes, she's she's got such a great voice
and she just gives get goose bumps from the memory
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see Delivery.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Thank you. Yeah you remember when like when that girl
broke up with you in high school, or we sing
all these everybody's like, oh no, I remember that song
as though I was feeling when I heard that one.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
Yeah, we have a lot of fun. We have a
du well, we have a good time and you know
we're we we enjoy It's joyful, right, isn't music joyful?
That's what it's about. It's joyful, right, Yeah, it's joyful.
And I want to say too about Bell BIV Devout.
Don't understate those guys, remember so I think a couple
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of them came from New Edition.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They're all from New.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Edition, right, So I mean we've got to be proud
of our Dorchester boys. And yeah, they're wonderful. Yeah, I
actually thought they it was terrific that they went off
and they they kind of did a separate project and
was so successful. I heard that song poison in the
stop the shop all the time. That girl is yeah right,
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nothing like dancing through the check outline here on that one.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So dub yes, go ahead, Morgan.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Andy's a Brookline High graduate too.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
And what year seventy nine?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Oh? Then I was long gone by then?
Speaker 9 (34:28):
What how what house were you in which I was shaler?
Now that one, I don't know. There was Acres Lincoln, Lincoln, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Rob they had fire and packered. They had five houses, right,
they retired one for four years as they went around.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
So maybe maybe it was that was when I was there,
because we yeah, I must have been in yeah, retired.
So you have mister langy in for typing.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I didn't have typing.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
We had miss miss Langin for our typing teacher. Of course,
now everybody's texting and typing. But at the time that
one finger type this thing was was a big deal, right, yeah,
But now everybody's everybody's the one finger type is now if.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
This time, because we have another call and I want
them to tell their backstory, I'll tell you my typing
story when I entered junior college. But we don't have
time now, and Andrew got to say good night to you.
But I've enjoyed your call.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
Thank you so much. Hey, Bill and Bo. Happy for
love you guys. We'll love you more.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
All right, Okay, you're welcome, take care, thank you, thank you,
Margin You're welcome here.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Speaking of Brookline, Ruth is in Brookline, probably the last
call of the evening, good evening, Ruth.
Speaker 10 (35:52):
Hi, can't hear man loud.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
And clear, Ruth, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Great?
Speaker 10 (35:56):
Okay, so this is this was meant to be because
I was in Shalor House.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh okay, what years?
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Yeah, but way before you, Morgan. I graduated in nineteen
sixty six, all right, it was Yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Wasn't way before me, because you graduated in sixty six
and I entered school Brooklyn High in sixty seven.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Okay, so we.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
Were strangers passing through the night.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Again, Thank you, Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 10 (36:28):
Yes we could sing the Brookline High School Alma mata.
But let's talk about the winners for a minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
The floor is yours, the floor is all.
Speaker 10 (36:38):
Right, you are you already heard from my sister Margie.
In New York, so I couldn't let her one up me.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, I understand, and I didn't know.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
I didn't hear everything she said, so she probably talked
about how incredible the Winnkers have been with our late mother,
who just absolutely adored them, and it was was a
lover of music and was the lover of the Winnekers.
So I won't go over all that untase she already
talked about that. I wanted to just add a couple
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of points that maybe other people didn't say tonight. I
don't know, first of all, what a pleasure it was
and hopefully will continue to be to have the Winnakers
actually perform in my home and Brookline for a big
birthday a few years ago, and also last summer to
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other members of their group performed from my husband for
a big birthday in our home. And having the Winnakers
perform in your home is it's indescribable.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Really, yeah, I imagine.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:47):
And the other thing I wanted to say is I
particularly appreciate how much I have actually learned from Bill Winnaker,
in particular, who, as you know, in concerts, add lots
of commentary and historical background to every single song they performed.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I know that.
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Yeah, and so it's not it's more than just a
wonderful listening experience. It's also an educational experience.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Ruth, thank you for the call. I'm glad you get
your comments in because I'm almost out of time. But
for a fellow Shalor House member will show the world
we will.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Ruth.
Speaker 10 (38:32):
Hey, so if we were a bus in Salor House,
did you have Missus Ogden and mister.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Wall No, but they were in. They were there teaching.
Speaker 10 (38:42):
They were my deans and sailor House of Blessed Memory.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, I did not have one of them.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
Yes, I'm going to send love to Bill and Bow
in the background there, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Well we're sending it right back to you.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Too, Ruth.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
Good okay, so much good night and Bill and Bow.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I saved like ten seconds for you. Thank you, especially
giving up part of your vacation evening on the fourth
of July. You see how many people love you, loved
what you did for them, and will never stop loving you.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Perfect and on that note, I gotta say good night
to you guys. News is next, and then well I'll
have Jack right. You take care now, Brye bye. Time
and temperature nine fifty eight seventy two degrees
It's Night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Al, thank you very much. Our number two with Bill
and Bow Winnaker. We had a drop off over the news.
So if you want to call in, this room for
you six one, seven, two, five, four, ten thirty eight eight, nine, two, nine,
ten thirty will get you through too. I would love
for people to call in who have met the Winnakers,
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have experience a Winnakers show. I have. I've seen them
on a couple of occasions, and it would seem all
the calls we had during the first hour had a
glowing review of what Bill and Bow did for them
at their function. So if you've had a similar experience,
(00:55):
here's your chance to thank the gentlemen. And after this
next call, I'm going to let them tell their backstory.
Who was a Josephine who called in and was talking
about a young Bow in elementary school doing that legendary
(01:17):
song Midnight in Moscow. Not an easy song to play
on a trumpet or any instrument for an eight year
old kid, but he did it, talented young man that
he was, and when he was eight, which was just
what ten or fifteen years ago, more or less all right,
(01:39):
that'll work. Let's take a call from Brighton Glenn. Hello again, Hi.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
I had to call it the Winnakers because I owe em.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I know, I know, I'm not chastising you. Go ahead, No,
I know.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
On Sunday, April twenty seventh, when uh Dan Ray had
that lunch in New Orleans and Westwood, I asked him
to tell the public that I am looking for a
Republican girlfriend, and he did it.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
H must we always refer to your love life up
and downs? Yes, okay, now that you Republican girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
I don't have one. I'm looking for one. He gave you,
he said that Gwenn's looking. He plugged me. He put
a plug in for me. I haven't.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Well there look at all the Republican women who voted
for the current president. So they are out there.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well yeah, they called Nightside during the week. But I'm just.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I know they do.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
There's a woman from Midfred that likes my calls.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
But we're talking about the workers, not bright I know.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Not the filled panel to his love life, I know, but.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
No, the winner.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Because they played a couple of songs for me. They
played going to the Chapel, they played the What's that
that thing the medang the Memories, it's uh, the local.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Bob Hope song, Thanks for the Memories.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
No, it's the Maroon five.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Oh okay, guys, you remember the song you played for Glenn?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Sure do?
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Yeah, it was a Maroon five songs. That's one of
Gunn's favorites. We always play it for him whenever he
comes to one of our shows.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yes, they do. And I want to play it at
my funeral, which.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Is I'm my lip right now.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I know that's all right, Glenn.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
You're going to be around for a long time.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I know that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I know because I don't want to die because they
want me to. They win if I die.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Who's they?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
The Democrats?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh god? Can we sign another? I couldn't receive format
for your phone call.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's what Jordan Richie used to say, nepecial format for
Glenn's calls.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Okay, So what else do you want to say to
Bill and Bot? Why are you here?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I just want to say, is it did you say
that August twentieth? It should have been the twenty third.
If it's a Thursday, August begins on a Friday, So.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
I think that I think our next day is the
twenty fourth of July.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
You know what I mean, the one in August.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
The August is the twenty eighth, all the end.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
All okay, you're going all the way to the end,
just before laybor Day weekend, right exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Okay, now that we've got that straightened out, all right,
I'm sorry, what else would you like to do? Glenn?
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I just want to say, these guys are groovy, dynamite.
I used to be a hippie. I could talk that way.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
And I understand the meaning of the word groovy.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I know, all right, I still say passcord. Everybody says cable,
but that's just I'm dating.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
All right. Before we hang up, let me just put
in one more plug. If anybody out there needs their
piano tunes. Glenn is a really great piano tuner, So
we'll leave it at that. But Glenn, I hope you
get some calls for tuning.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Well I do too, because I may have to go bankrupt.
I don't want to get into it, but yes, I
got to get some work.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Well, hopefully that will get a few people calling for
your services. And on that note, it's time to say good.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Night, thank you very much, bye bye for.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Now, bye for now. Okay, t tfns Steve Allen used
to say, but just top of now, and before we
take Marjorie in New York and Marjorie, you're right at
the point where I take a break at quartera past
the hour, half past the hour, quarter of the hour
of Night Side, and it's nine thirteen, So I want
(06:17):
to give you enough time to speak with Bill and Bow,
So be patient. I'm going to be taking a break
before you call, but you'll get your chance to speak
to them, and it won't be an abbreviated chance because
I'm not going to take you now. I'll wait. And guys,
other events coming up this summer beyond the rollies.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
Yeah, most of them are just private events. Okay, weddings
in different type of corporate events and such. But do
you have time for a quick song.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I've got one minute. Can you fit it in?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Yep, let's try it.
Speaker 5 (06:59):
If you've never had a flugget worn player on your
show before, here he is.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Shape.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
See how I waited to the end to sing anything.
Let's take our break. The winners will be back right
after these. Mess is here on night very much here
on Nightside. Dan is off. He'll be back on the
fourteenth of July. I'm here, I'm Morgan. Let's hit the
brake time at temperature nine fifteen seventy two degrees.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Night side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
The Winnikers are here, Bill and Bow. They've been here
since eight They're going to be here until ten, and
then at ten o'clock Jack Hart will be here. And
you know he is my history buff. He drives one
of those tour bus trolleys during the day all around
(08:42):
Boston showing all the tourists where this happened and that happened.
And he's got some facts about July fourth that he
will tantalize you with. I am on tomorrow on my show,
The Morgan Show, and tomorrow is the last night I
will have three hours. I'm going to be going to
(09:04):
two hours the following week. So tomorrow night I've got
a gentleman coming on talking about the comedian, the comedian
accordionist of the seventies and eighties, Judy Tanuta. He's got
a book out about her, and I think there's a
(09:24):
documentary about her as well. And then I'll be doing trivia.
Havn't done it for a while. And I'll be focusing
on special days of the year. You want to play,
You're welcome to come along. That'll be the last two
hours of the Morgan Show and one more thing. Tuesdays,
I appear at the Midway Restaurant from six to seven
(09:46):
point thirty, playing trivia with people who seem to enjoy it. Periodically,
mel Simon's shows up. Some of the people that call
when I'm on the air here on BZ, they show up.
You can show up too, and are you guys okay
over there?
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Okay, let's go to New York City and speak to Marjorie. Marjorie,
you're next here on night Side.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
Hi, Oh great, Hello, I'm working a Hello bo and Bill.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Hello Marjorie.
Speaker 7 (10:17):
Oh this is such a pleasure. Yeah. So I am
in New York City. Although I am a native Bustonian,
I grew up in Brookline, and I have to say
that the Winnaker Brothers music is unfailingly comfort food for
the soul that it is just you cannot go to
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one of their concerts without knowing that this is going
to be just magnificent and you're going to come out stealing, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Marjorie hold On, I have one question. Then I'm going
to step out and let you just speak to Bill
and Bow. Oh you lived in Brookline. Did you go
to Brookline High?
Speaker 7 (10:55):
I most certainly did.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
And what year did you graduate from Brookline High?
Speaker 7 (10:59):
Well, that's a funny question because I actually didn't technically graduate.
I would I should have graduated in nineteen seventy. I
was in the class of nineteen seventy, but I skipped
my senior year. So I actually left the high school
in sixty nine and eventually got a diploma. I went
to college a year early.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
In other words, conceivably, then we knew each other because
I was there from sixty seven to seventy one.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
Definitely cross We definitely cross paths some of the same teachers.
Where did you live in Brookline?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Well?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
I did live in Brookline. I was a medical transfer student.
My homeroom was three sixty three. Missus Nardone was my
homeroom teacher.
Speaker 7 (11:43):
Oh was that? My homeroom was two twenty six, right,
and my, oh my goodness. Bertrand Hollam was the present
was the principal?
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yes, right?
Speaker 7 (11:57):
And then he was replaced by Well. I was there
during the days of britt Holland.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Yes, and I was. I was there for two of
his years, the last two of his years.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
So I think MECO started like when I around the
time that I was at the high school.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
They started, They started the sixty six sixty seven school year,
and I came in the sixty seven sixty eight school year.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
Okay, so I sixty seven sixty eight was my freshman Yeah,
with my freshman year in high school.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Okay, so we probably know each other. Yeah, Okay, Now
I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
Did you get the brownies at the high school in
the cafeteria and Ethan in the quadrangle?
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Oh? Partially yes, sometimes.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
Yes, And I'm going to I'm going to lunch four years.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I'm going to step out the conversation and let you
just talk to Bill and bow. Okay, Madorie.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
Well, nice to talk to you, Nice to talk to me.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Bill, Just for you go ahead and talk.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Hi Yah, great to hear from you. We've had such
wonderful times with your family.
Speaker 7 (13:12):
I know, I know such such wonderful times. And as
you know, my mother may she rest in peace, was
one of your biggest chans and just was always so
happy to see you and happy to hear you and
such a booster, and she and we always commented on
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what kind and respectful and talented, gracious, modest brothers you were,
and it gave her a lot of comfort. And I
don't know if you recall this, but when she turned
ninety nine, we went to Brothers where you were then
playing in Brookline for her ninety ninth birthday, and then
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the following you when she turned out and she said,
then well, I have to have my hundredth birthday, and
then COVID hit, and if you recall, asked you to
do a recording session for her in one of your
studios during COVID, which we then gave to her on
her one hundredth birthday. Do you remember that, Oh.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
We remember very well. We made a great video for
her of all her favorite songs, and that was special.
That was a great project. We love doing it in It.
Speaker 7 (14:22):
Was a great project before. I mean, I it's it's
funny that, like all those years in Brookline and Newton
and you know, all those places where we all were circulating,
that that we came to really know you much later
in the game. I mean, you guys were well into
your careers when we well into your careers when we really.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Got to know.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
I mean, we knew we had the CD with the
Stellcats that I did always have as a child, but
that beyond that, we really didn't really have you in
our consciousness.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Until we did. And then.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Well it sure is blazoned.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Well, you're so nice to take the time to call
us tonight. Well, you just appreciate it so much.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
Oh, I'm I'm so happy to be doing it. And
I it's funny because I am such a techno folk
so I had to practice today how to how to
get myself into w b z H so that I
could actually figure out how to call you, But I
did it.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Well, we're so appreciative of that. You know. The one
of the most special times of our career was playing
that memorial concert for your brother not too long ago.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
It was a great day, it was It was such
a high for us and would have been such a
high for her. It was beautiful. And I'm actually so
glad to be speaking to you on July fourth, because
I know how patriotic we all are. And I'm glad
actually that I happened to call in right before you
played bo Yeah, yeah, I needed I needed my share
(15:59):
of like something paideeotic tonight.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Well we'll play one more patriotic song before the end
of the night.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
Oh that's good to know. Okay, Okay, I'll stick it out.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
You know.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
The funny thing about calling into the WBZ, it's so
odd for me because I don't know if you remember,
but as children from wm ex is on for several
years at seven o'clock in the morning, they had this
thing where you called in and you could sing along
with Chubby. You could sing Hooker took on my soda
cracker with Chubby Checker and it was like, I think
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it was wu Wuginsburg, but I'm not sure about that.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Not at seven o'clock in the morning. It might have
been Emperor.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Now this was seven in the morning because I called
religiously every morning, okay, and one day.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I got onnest.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
It was very exciting. And then and then when I
heard it, of course, the whole thing had like a
seven minute, you know, seven second delay. I was just
so impressed that I actually was able to get onto
a Boston talk show radio show.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I could sing the whole thing, but I won't.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
You know, what the what does that song even mean?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Absolutely nothing. Was just another record by Chubby Checker, hoping
the novelty of it would sell oodles and oodles.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Of records, which apparently it did.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Apparently it did. Yeah, all right, Majorie, I'm almost up
to a break time, but thank you for calling.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Oh again, well, and thank you by the way. I
just I heard more ads about Boston than I've heard
in decades. So k I live in New York, and
as you know, there's no lack of music in New York.
But there is nothing with the character, nothing of the
character of the Winnaker brothers here, nothing that is so
both intimate and can be small, can be large, can
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be relied on to always be down to earth and
wonderful to big part of so anyhow, congratulations to Bill
and Bow and many many, many more years I hope,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
For your call. Thank you enjoy the rest of your
holiday weekend.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Bye bye too bye.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I'm going to take my break. We've got two people online,
Nick and Debbie, and we've got another patriotic song. And
I promised you guys would give you a backstory. So
we have a lot of things to do over the
next thirty minutes. Time and temperature nine thirty seventy two degrees.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
You're on night Side with Ray on wb Boston's news radio.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
I missed Belle Bivdevo tonight. Darn. They only had two
major hits. They had the song do Me and they
had the song oh oh, what was the other one?
Bill Bow? Do you know my other bell Bivdevo song? Poisons?
(19:11):
They did the song poison as well. That girl was poison.
I'm not going to go any further. You guys ready
to go back to the phones? Yes, sir, and let
me tell you something. He standard at eight o'clock. We
had full lines before I even said the first word
(19:32):
into the microphone. We've had full lines for the past
ninety plus minutes. So now who do I go to next?
Nick and Stoughton? Nick, you're online one. Happy fourth of
July to you.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
So thank you very much. Happy fourth of July to you.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (19:53):
I've been following the winners for a few years now,
and uh, I just want to say that these guys
can play anything. I mean, you know we're talking about
you know, it sounds like you're talking about old, old
kind of music. It's not true. These guys can play anything.
They go their top hits of the day, and they
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play out at public places and stuff, and they do
a lot of private work. But they're probably about the
best wedding band you can find, man, if you're a
young couple getting married. I mean, these guys really put
on a show. They just don't get up and play music.
They really entertained. They put on they they can do
any size. They can do any size. I mean they
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can put a sixteen to twenty piece band together, you know.
I mean anything you need, from a trio to.
Speaker 4 (20:47):
A quartet to a you know, bull size orchestra.
Speaker 8 (20:52):
And one thing I wanted to mention was I heard
Bow and Bill Winter. Now are you going to be
playing on Columbus Day at a place called the Wellington
in Belmont?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
That's right, Yeah, we have a bunch coming up there
for sure, yep.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
And that's for the public.
Speaker 8 (21:09):
That's a beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
That is for the public.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Beautiful place that's for the public. Yeah, well it's beautiful place.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Tell us the days and the day, the date, the time,
everything we need to know, even though it's not till October.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
Yeah, but I think it's the twentieth of October if
I've got it correct.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
It's not the twelfth.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Maybe it is, of course it's the twelfth. Yeah, it's
the twelve. Okay, it's from twelve to twelve to two.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
One the Wellington, Wellington, seventy five.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Leonard Street in Belmont.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
Great, thanks Nick for you Do you get that?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, we got it, and so did thirty eight states
in Canada.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
Okay, great, well, thanks very much.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
It's goad to talk to you guys, and Morgan, thank
you for having these guys on. And we should have
the one a little more.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I have them on about every two or three months, nicked,
and they can't and you want to know what they've been.
Many times they politely have had to tell me no
because of a prior engagement.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (22:21):
Yeah, well they're busy, busy, busy, and.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Here it is the fourth of July. I had to
ask them to come on on their vacation. They're up
in Maine on vacation.
Speaker 8 (22:31):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, well that's great. Well, I wish
you all very happy for us.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
And.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Take care. Nick. Thank you for calling. Good evening. All right, now, guys,
while we see if somebody else wants to take that line.
They've got two ladies. One is in Beverly named Andrea,
and one is in Needham named Debbie. But why don't
you give.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Me Let's go to the call and then we'll do
the backstory.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Okay, fair enough. Then let's first go to Debbie and
Needham Line three. Hello, Hello, Debbie.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
Hi, how are you tonight? Happy four?
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Happy fourth to you too?
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Which w this is this Debbie Block?
Speaker 6 (23:19):
It is? It's Debbie Block. And I have Aton sitting
beside me.
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Well, oh too.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
These are two great people. Aton plays drums and Debbie
puts on wonderful shows, uh, themanic shows about Broadway, some
of the great Broadway shows. She entertains at all the
senior communities, and she's dynamic, and she's been good to us.
She's recommended us to a lot of places.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
And Debbie, I'm gonna I'm gonna ask you. I'm I'm
gonna tell you my favorite love song.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Okay, I'm Broadway.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
It's just.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
This.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm gonna see if forget it with this clue, the
man singing the song is singing it to himself in
the mirror.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I got that one, but it's all yours.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
No wait a minute, no, no, I'm no tells to
what it.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Is go ahead and tell her.
Speaker 6 (24:20):
You have to give me.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
It's a.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Mirror without really trying.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
Oh that, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I like it. Ay, Robert Morse, not Matthew Brederick.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Ah, okay, because Robert Morris.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Could sing Matthew Broderick. It was okay, I'll leave it
at that. Leave it at that. But he's singing. He's
singing it to himself in a mirror. You've got the cool,
clear eyes of a secret of wisdom and truth, And
he's singing to himself.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
Can you sing it to me?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Me saying did you hear that? Guys? She requested me
to sing. She requested me to sing, You've got the cool,
clear eyes of a secret of wisdom and truth. Get
this that up, turn grin the smile of impetuous youth.
(25:20):
I believe in you, Yes, I believe in you. Does
that ring a bell?
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Beautiful? No, I'm not really up on that show, to
be honest with you.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Okay, Well that's a good.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Business, but I'll have to check it out.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
A lot of great songs came out of that musical,
The Secret Again, Your Secretary is not a toy. The
Brotherhood of Man. Yeah, great songs from that musical. Now
you called.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
The fireworks go off?
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Okay, Well you called to speak to Bill and Bow,
so I'm backing out and leting the three of you
just talk. Go ahead.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
Okay, Well, actually I just wanted to I do have
a little wedding story that I wanted to bring up
to reminisce about or tell you about, or hello, Bo
and Bill, how are you for it?
Speaker 5 (26:17):
Thank you for calling, You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
And my sister. About thirty five years ago, my sister,
my young youngest sister, Julie, got married and where was
the Chelmsford in that area? And Bill, Bill and Bo
and their band then I think they had how many
pieces around that time, eight pieces? But they married, they
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were they were the wedding band. So whenever I ran
into them, I always say, oh, this this, these are
the guys that married my sister. That's the best way.
Speaker 10 (27:02):
To put it.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
I've gotten in a lot of trouble by saying that,
But that's my little backstory, my story about Bill and Ba.
They're incredible performers as the guy, as Nick said before me,
so that I think it was in Boston.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
You know, Dev has been very supportive of us at
the role she's been out there three or four times.
You might tell the crowd what it's like out there.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
It's great. I mean, there's always a big group of
people there. It's always full house. Everybody has a lot
of energy, a lot of musical performing artists go in there,
and and it's just a great crowd of people who
really love music or are in music, or somehow related
(27:51):
to music. So it's a wonderful time, isn't that either?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Thank you for saying that.
Speaker 7 (28:02):
How could it be bad?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
How could it be bad? Debbie? Thank you for your call.
Speaker 6 (28:07):
Well, thank you for talking to me, and thank you
for having the Winnipards there.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Okay, and time is up, so I gotta let you go.
Speaker 6 (28:18):
Yeah, okay, but thank you.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Weekend by. Whoever takes Debbie's line will probably be the
last person to speak with Bill and Bow. I've got
Ruth and brook Line and Andrea in Beverly, so that line.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yes, let's take Andrea in Beverly because she's been waiting
a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Well she's been waiting about eleven minutes, but I got
to take a break, So unfortunately she's got another two
or three minutes to be patient and hold. But she
will be the next call that we take and time
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two degrees.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
It's night Side with Dan Ray on WBS Easy, Boston's
news radio.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
Dan is off for the next five night sides, not
coming this week. I will be here next Thursday and Friday.
I'm Morgan White Junior. Bradley Jay will be filling in Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday, and Dan should be back on the
fourteenth of July. Andrea, who's online two, is called in
(29:27):
from Beverly and she wants to speak to Bill and
Bow Winnaker. Andrea, welcome aboard.
Speaker 9 (29:34):
Thank you, Hi everybody.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Happy for name to you.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
Great to hear your voice.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
It's me. I told you I'm here. Yay, okay. First
of all, I want to say you know I grew
thank you. I love these guys. I just want to
say something quick before I say anything about billan Bow,
which is important. I grew up with a mom who
was into Broadway, and we had how to succeed in
business without really trying, playing in the house all the time,
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as well as Bye Bye Birdie and you know, hundreds
of brothers. So I mean, I listened to those songs
growing up all the time in the seventies.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Did you agree with me when I said, probably the
greatest love song on Broadway is a guy singing it
to himself because he's trying to boost himself up.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Well, I think the theory is nice. I think it's
a little more I think it's a little more romantic
when he's looking at someone else. But I suppose the
fact that he's looking at himself is a nice thought. Well,
you know, I.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Think he loved his girlfriend Rosemary Jay.
Speaker 9 (30:36):
Is Yeah, like Morris Day with the mirror, But that's okay. Yeah,
so Bill and Bow I love these guys. I actually
we had them perform for us a couple of times
for a wonderful charity north of Boston called Grateful Friends,
and they came in and what I really love about them,
(30:57):
aside from their their obvious talent, is the fact that
they are there's they're wonderful humans. They're just so kind,
They're always they have this beautiful aura about them, positivity.
There's just there's a there's a warmth that is consistent
in the family. And I think that's really what what
(31:19):
is sort of the cherry on top. I guess as
they say.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Right, Okay, I agree. I said that during the first
hour that once you've become friendly with them and they've
become friendly with you, it's a lifelong friendship. I really
not seeing them unable to remember appearing at an event.
(31:43):
We've had what twenty something calls tonight up to now,
and every person says, I love what you guys did
you did this with my mother. We we had you
at this event, this wedding, and they recall every incident.
Speaker 9 (32:02):
That's because they're humble and they don't forget anything or anyone,
and that's very special. They don't take anything for granted.
I'm just telling you that's how I mean. I think
everyone would agree with that. But I mean even when
they when they meet so we know they're loyal, but
when they first meet people, even there's an instant, there's
an instant warmth and connection with pretty much everybody connects
(32:24):
with the Winnakers because there's we all need people like
this right now these days.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
And that sentence you just said, everybody connects with the Winnakers.
Home run statement, home run hands, thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:38):
I slid into home base. Okay, okay, hey, let me
let me just say something yeah, sure, I.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Just want to tell you something, Morgan. Yes, Morgan, Andy
is a fantastic singer. She's got a duo and she
sings the classics of the seventies. I grew up with
the sixties and seventies music, and Morgan, you love sevenies
these music. Yes, she's she's got such a great voice
and she just gives get goose bumps from the memory
(33:09):
see Delivery.
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Thank you. Yeah you remember when like when that girl
broke up with you in high school, or we sing
all these everybody's like, oh no, I remember that song
as though I was feeling when I heard that one.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (33:23):
Yeah, we have a lot of fun. We have a
du well, we have a good time and you know
we're we we enjoy It's joyful, right, isn't music joyful?
That's what it's about. It's joyful, right, Yeah, it's joyful.
And I want to say too about Bell BIV Devout.
Don't understate those guys, remember so I think a couple
(33:43):
of them came from New Edition.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
They're all from New.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Edition, right, So I mean we've got to be proud
of our Dorchester boys. And yeah, they're wonderful. Yeah, I
actually thought they it was terrific that they went off
and they they kind of did a separate project and
was so successful. I heard that song poison in the
stop the shop all the time. That girl is yeah right,
(34:09):
nothing like dancing through the check outline here on that one.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
So dub yes, go ahead, Morgan.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Andy's a Brookline High graduate too.
Speaker 9 (34:21):
And what year seventy nine?
Speaker 2 (34:25):
Oh? Then I was long gone by then?
Speaker 9 (34:28):
What how what house were you in which I was shaler?
Now that one, I don't know. There was Acres Lincoln, Lincoln, okay.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Rob they had fire and packered. They had five houses, right,
they retired one for four years as they went around.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
So maybe maybe it was that was when I was there,
because we yeah, I must have been in yeah, retired.
So you have mister langy in for typing.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I didn't have typing.
Speaker 9 (35:04):
We had miss miss Langin for our typing teacher. Of course,
now everybody's texting and typing. But at the time that
one finger type this thing was was a big deal, right, yeah,
But now everybody's everybody's the one finger type is now if.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
This time, because we have another call and I want
them to tell their backstory, I'll tell you my typing
story when I entered junior college. But we don't have
time now, and Andrew got to say good night to you.
But I've enjoyed your call.
Speaker 9 (35:33):
Thank you so much. Hey, Bill and Bo. Happy for
love you guys. We'll love you more.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Thank you so much for calling.
Speaker 9 (35:40):
All right, Okay, you're welcome, take care, thank you, thank you,
Margin You're welcome here.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Speaking of Brookline, Ruth is in Brookline, probably the last
call of the evening, good evening, Ruth.
Speaker 10 (35:52):
Hi, can't hear man loud.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
And clear, Ruth, Ruth.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Great?
Speaker 10 (35:56):
Okay, so this is this was meant to be because
I was in Shalor House.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh okay, what years?
Speaker 10 (36:04):
Yeah, but way before you, Morgan. I graduated in nineteen
sixty six, all right, it was Yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Wasn't way before me, because you graduated in sixty six
and I entered school Brooklyn High in sixty seven.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
Okay, so we.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
Were strangers passing through the night.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Again, Thank you, Frank Sinatra.
Speaker 10 (36:28):
Yes we could sing the Brookline High School Alma mata.
But let's talk about the winners for a minutes.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
The floor is yours, the floor is all.
Speaker 10 (36:38):
Right, you are you already heard from my sister Margie.
In New York, so I couldn't let her one up me.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
You know, I understand, and I didn't know.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
I didn't hear everything she said, so she probably talked
about how incredible the Winnkers have been with our late mother,
who just absolutely adored them, and it was was a
lover of music and was the lover of the Winnekers.
So I won't go over all that untase she already
talked about that. I wanted to just add a couple
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of points that maybe other people didn't say tonight. I
don't know, first of all, what a pleasure it was
and hopefully will continue to be to have the Winnakers
actually perform in my home and Brookline for a big
birthday a few years ago, and also last summer to
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other members of their group performed from my husband for
a big birthday in our home. And having the Winnakers
perform in your home is it's indescribable.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Really, yeah, I imagine.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (37:47):
And the other thing I wanted to say is I
particularly appreciate how much I have actually learned from Bill Winnaker,
in particular, who, as you know, in concerts, add lots
of commentary and historical background to every single song they performed.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I know that.
Speaker 10 (38:10):
Yeah, and so it's not it's more than just a
wonderful listening experience. It's also an educational experience.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Ruth, thank you for the call. I'm glad you get
your comments in because I'm almost out of time. But
for a fellow Shalor House member will show the world
we will.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
Ruth.
Speaker 10 (38:32):
Hey, so if we were a bus in Salor House,
did you have Missus Ogden and mister.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
Wall No, but they were in. They were there teaching.
Speaker 10 (38:42):
They were my deans and sailor House of Blessed Memory.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Yeah, I did not have one of them.
Speaker 10 (38:49):
Yes, I'm going to send love to Bill and Bow
in the background there, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (38:54):
Well we're sending it right back to you.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Too, Ruth.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 10 (38:58):
Good okay, so much good night and Bill and Bow.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
I saved like ten seconds for you. Thank you, especially
giving up part of your vacation evening on the fourth
of July. You see how many people love you, loved
what you did for them, and will never stop loving you.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Listen to this.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Perfect and on that note, I gotta say good night
to you guys. News is next, and then well I'll
have Jack right. You take care now, Brye bye. Time
and temperature nine fifty eight seventy two degrees
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