Radio 42 North, Waterloo, ON (2025)

01/25/2025

Live acoustic tunes at Banded Goose Brewing Company tomorrow. *time correction 7-11pm.

01/24/2025

Tune in to Radio42North every Saturday at 10AM (EST) and every Wednesday at 10PM (EST) as we present, Dr. Don and his Radio Nowhere show!!
Sit back and enjoy 'Episode 98 Dylan' part 1 of a 2 part special. Part 2 will air next week.
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01/24/2025

TONIGHT! The Painted October with special guests Harbouring Illusions at Meteor!

01/22/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN - JAN. 22, 2025 EDITION

As for Flashback Radio, one of the most popular groups to dominate the Top 40 charts in North America from 1966 through 1968 were the Rascals led by Felix Cavaliere. Although he was originally a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters, and known for their hit “Peppermint Twist”, he is best known for his association with the Young Rascals.

Born to an Italian-American family in Pelham, New York on November 29, 1942, Cavaliere enrolled in music at an early age at the Allaire School of Music. At his mother’s insistence, he took lessons there from the age of 6 until she passed away when he was 14. He enrolled at Syracuse University in the early 1960’s.

Between 1965 and 1972, Cavaliere played keyboards, starting out briefly with the Escorts before joining “The Young Rascals” later in 1965. “Good Lovin’” reached #1 in the Spring of 1966 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart. That song spent a total of 14 weeks on the charts and is in the R&R Hall of Fame. Other members of the Rascals included Eddie Brigati, Dino Danelli and Gene Cornish.

Cavaliere sang vocals on six of the next 7 songs. Reaching #1 in June of 1967 was “Groovin’” which spent four weeks at the top of the charts in the late spring of 1967. It was followed that summer and fall by two more top 10 hits, “A Girl Like You” and “How Can I Be Sure”.

In 1968, under the revised name of “The Rascals”, “A Beautiful Morning” spent a few weeks in the third spot of Billboard’s 100 in the late spring. However, their biggest hit ever, “People Got To Be Free” spent five weeks at the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 in the late summer and early fall. Although they released 8 more songs, only one reached the top 24.

Following a pair of solo efforts by Cavaliere, that included “Only A Lonely Heart Sees” that reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #2 on the Adult Contemporary Chart, Felix sort of backed off and took it easy. In 1994, Cavaliere recorded “Dreams in Motion” that was produced by Don Was.

In 1995, Cavaliere was a touring member of Ringo Starr’s third All-Starr Band. He also played keyboard in the official video for “Hey Girl” recorded by Billy Joel. It was a cover version of the Carole King song that was added to Joel’s Greatest Hits Volume III compilation.

01/16/2025

Looking forward to my first show of the year tomorrow night in Tecumseh! Catch me at Carrots n' Dates - Tecumseh from 5-8pm (it says 6-9pm on the poster, but it’ll actually be 5-8pm).

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01/15/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN - JAN. 15, 2025 EDITION

So sad to hear that Richard Perry passed away of cardiac arrest on Christmas Eve, December 24 at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 82 years old and was respected and loved by many artists and recording stars from all over the world.

Born on June 18, from an early age Perry loved listening to music, especially rock and roll. In 1955, at the age of 12, he attended the first live rock show staged at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre by disc jockey and concert producer Alan Freed. It wasn’t long after that Perry formed his first band and, later, his own doo-wop vocal group known as the Escorts.

After graduating from prep school in Brooklyn in 1960, Perry attended school only 43 miles away from Windsor where he got his degree at The University of Michigan (B of Mus ’64), then shifted briefly into song writing and acting while working in its marketing division. Perry first began collaborating with Kenny Vance.

In 1967, Richard moved to Los Angeles and joined Warner Bros. Records where he launched into his career as a producer, with early projects including Captain Beef Heart’s debut “Domino’s Fats Is Back”. In 1968, Perry produced “God Bless Tiny Tim”, the debut album of Reprise Records artist Tiny Tim. The album was Perry's first, reaching No. 7 on Billboard magazine’s Hot 100 chart.
After graduating from College, Perry rose through the ranks through the late 1960’s and early 1970’s to become a very successful and popular record producer. In 1971 he worked with Barbra Streisand on her albums “Stoney End”, “Barbra Joan Streisand” and “Live Concert at the Forum". Other artists he produced included Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon and Diana Ross. By 1982, Richard had more than 12 gold records to his credit.

From 1978 to 1983, he ran his own record label, Planet Records, and scored a string of hits with the popular R&B group The Pointer Sisters. After Planet’s sale to RCA Records, Perry continued working in the Music
Industry as an independent producer.

With hit records running from the late 1960’s through the 2000’s, Richard continued to be successful with modern releases that included albums by Rod Steward and Carly Simon. I also remember many of the hits that were produced by Richard Perry. He was very well liked, respected and admired by many musicians, artists and people in the broadcasting industry.

“You’re So Vain”, was by far Carly Simon’s biggest hit and while she wrote it, producer Richard Perry brought it to life. In fact, Perry’s production gave it an edge. Also, Perry worked as a producer on Ringo Starr’s “I Am the Greatest” Album helping make it his biggest album success ever.

And, yes, it was also the only album that all four of the Beatles performed on it in some way since they parted ways back in 1970. Paul and Linda McCartney wrote and help performed “Six O’clock in the Morning”. It was released on November 2, 1973. Thank you for your help Ringo and Richard Perry. And a tip of the hat to Richard Perry who is now in the Rock and Roll Heaven where they have “one helluva band”.

01/10/2025

Tune in to Radio42North every Saturday at 10AM (EST) and every Wednesday at 10PM (EST) as we present, Dr. Don and his Radio Nowhere show!!
Sit back and enjoy 'Episode 97' as Dr. Don shares some of his favourite tunes from the 60's and 70's.
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01/08/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN - JAN. 8, 2025 EDITION

As for Flashback Radio, I’ve also had several readers respond to last week’s write-up about Ringo Starr’s very sickly childhood. Some were surprised that he is still alive. Some wondered how his health is today. It’s incredible! That’s the best way to describe it.

How does he do it? Genetics, first of all. After he was hospitalized again in 1964 (whether it was after the first in June or the second time in December), Ringo said “I’ll live to be at least 87”. I imagine he’s basing that off the average longevity somewhere in his maternal or paternal family.

Secondly, he became a vegetarian in 1965 after watching a bullfight in Spain that left him deeply disturbed and angry. Over the years, he’s gone off his diet a few times but after rehab, he has gone back with a vengeance and now completely abstains from alcohol and smoking as does his second wife Barbara Bach, too.

One might say that after dropping the alcohol and to***co habits, Ringo and Barbara put themselves in a much better situation. Ringo says “that prior to being 48 years old, he was in the worst shape of his life". When he was in rehab, he learned that his liver “was severely damaged from alcohol and his heart was enlarged due to co***ne use”.

Thankfully, with the right care, lifestyle changes and carefully curated exercise, both of his organs fully recovered. This is certainly when Ringo went “all in on good health, good nutrition and complete abstinence from the bad things”.

01/01/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN - JAN. 1, 2025 EDITION

As most of us will be celebrating New Year’s Eve today on December 31st, I thought of us taking a moment in remembering a youngster who didn’t have the same childhood as most of us did. As a small child, born on July 7, in 1940, his parents later divorced while this youngster was spending a whole year in hospital with complications from a burst appendix when he was only six years old.

If that wasn’t enough, during his childhood, little Richie spent another two years in a sanatorium after he acquired pleurisy at the age of 13. During those two periods of time, he also missed being at school completely.

Fortunately, during this same period of time, a health worker who gave musical instruments to children, generously gave this boy, now a young teenager, a set of drums to amuse himself. When Richie left the sanatorium, he found work at various jobs before becoming an apprenticed joiner for an engineering company. In his spare time, he and some other employees formed a skiffle band.

In 1959, at 19 years of age, Richie became a drummer for another well-known skiffle band called “Rory Storm and the Hurricanes”. It was here that he soon adopted his stage name “Ringo Starr” as he had several rings on his fingers.

The band was quite popular and it was during a shared 1960 engagement in Hamburg, West Germany, that Starr first became acquainted with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Pete Best. They were another up-and-coming group known as the Beatles from Liverpool.

Ritchie continued playing with “Rory Storm and the Hurricanes”, but by 1962, Ringo Starr had replaced Pete Best of the Beatles and fortunately became their drummer from that day on. And we all know what happened after that.

12/31/2024

We wish you all the best in 2025!🏴‍☠️🎶🎧

12/26/2024

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN - DEC 25, 2024 EDITION

“Merry Christmas!” While we look at five of the most favourite Christmas songs of all time. It is also in no particular order, that the Guinness Book of Records has named “White Christmas” as the best-selling Christmas song of all time and also the best-selling single with an estimated 50 million copies sold. Pick your favourite singer!

“The Christmas Song”, that was made the most popular by Nat King Cole may now seem a bit outdated. The “roasting of chestnuts” is indeed a tradition of the past and doesn’t taste very good anyway. However, listening to it sung by Cole’s warm “chesty” vocals, paired with the romantic string accompaniment, makes for as sweet a combo as Santa’s cookies and milk.

David Bowie and Bing Crosby came out with the combo of “Little Drummer Boy”/ “Peace on Earth” in 1977. It was not only one of Bowie’s most popular and successful songs in his incredible career, but the duet marked one of the last vocal recordings that Crosby ever made – having it recorded just a month before his death. That being said, having Bowie as co-singer with Bing was quite a surprise. A pleasant one at that.

Now, going even further into the past, let’s add this to our real Christmas classics - “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” by Judy Garland. It goes way back to her movie, “Meet Me in St. Louis” and stands above all the other versions.

Complete with its Spanish bilingual lyrics and its truly universal charm, Jose Feliciano’s version of “Feliz Navidad” has certainly become a favourite holiday pop song over the years.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

12/24/2024

COMING UP AT 6PM tonight and 6PM on Christmas Day!
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Tune in to Radio42North every Saturday at 10AM (EST) and every Wednesday at 10PM (EST) as we present, Dr. Don and his Radio Nowhere show!!
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12/24/2024

Merry Christmas from Radio42°North!
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12/24/2024

The Fireside Christmas Radio Hour with Allison Brown returns to Radio42North this year!

Christmas Eve at 12:00 noon (EST)
Christmas Day at 12:00 midnight (EST)
Christmas Day at 12:00 noon (EST)

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12/18/2024

COMING UP AT 10PM tonight!
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Tune in to Radio42North every Saturday at 10AM (EST) and every Wednesday at 10PM (EST) as we present, Dr. Don and his Radio Nowhere show!!
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12/18/2024

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN - DEC 18, 2024 EDITION

With Christmas just a week away, a few of the contemporary radio stations have long since been kicking into high gear with their most popular Christmas songs flooding their airwaves.

Then they’ll be others that hardly play anything at all and a few that play nothing but Christmas oriented songs up to and including Christmas Day.

Back in the good old days of the 70’s and 80’s, at CHYR, in the first week of December, we’d play a Christmas song every half hour. In the second week, we would play two songs every half hour and increase it again in the third week and so on. And

Getting on with the most popular songs to keep things consistent, as everything today is generally measured by Digital downloads. Then, looking at Christmas sales, we’ll compare all the major Christmas song sales and airplay in that manner.

Looking at the Best-selling Christmas and Holiday singles in North America, the biggest selling Christmas song is “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey. Originally released in 1994, on the Columbia label, to date it has had some 3,200,000 Digital downloads.

The next closest song to that is “Do You Want to Build a Snowman?” This song, on the Walt Disney label, features Kristie Bell, Agatha Lee Monn & Katie Lopez and has Digital downloads of 1,600,000. It was originally released in 2013. The third highest played song is by the thunderous rock group, Trans-Siberian Orchestra. It’s called “Christmas Eve/Sarajevo”.

The Number 4 entry is much softer and was originally released thirteen years ago, by Justin Bieber. Having some 1,100,000 digital downloads, “Mistletoe”, was released on the Island music label in 2011.

The 5th highest song of all time is a perennial favourite from 1958 that continues to get plenty of play every year at Christmas time and still has a million digital downloads. From the ever sweet and raspy singer, Brenda Lee, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” still manages to get lots of plays a year.

Other Christmas Hits in the top 10 includes Faith Hill’s “Where Are You Christmas?” which still is a yuletide favourite with its 977,000 downloads. Not to be out done, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra came out in 1998 with “Christmas Canon”. With 918,000 digital downloads, it became a radio favourite in the many years to follow.

In 1970, Jose Feliciano came out with a great Spanish Christmas song called “Feliz Navidad” featuring himself which sold over 808,000 copies. Sadly, he passed away on April 17, 2014. But his song still lights up the Season.

Another great Christmas hit was Bobby Helms’ “Jingle Bell Rock” which became a favourite on radio stations all across North America in 1957 and has continued to be a favourite for parties and parades. Unfortunately, Bobby Helms also passed away on June 19, 1997 at the age of 63 years.

Naturally, the last song to reach the top ten Christmas Hits was “Last Christmas” by Wham! That was the English group of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in 1984. Unfortunately, Michael passed away (ironically) on Christmas Day in 2016 from Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis.

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