Radio 42 North, Waterloo, ON (2025)

04/29/2025

From Environment Canada!⚡️☔️

1:35 PM EDT Tuesday 29 April 2025

Conditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing damaging wind gusts and large hail.

What:
Damaging wind gusts to 110 km/h.
Large hail up 4 cm.
Risk of a tornado.

When:
Early this afternoon into early evening.

Additional information:
A cold front moving through the area is expected to trigger severe thunderstorms this afternoon.

Large hail can damage property and cause injury. Very strong wind gusts can damage buildings, down trees and blow large vehicles off the road.

Be prepared for severe weather. Take cover immediately, if threatening weather approaches. Stay indoors when a thunderstorm strikes. There isn't a place outside that is safe during a thunderstorm.

Emergency Management Ontario recommends that you take cover immediately if threatening weather approaches.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or post reports on X using .

04/26/2025

Coming up this morning!
10:00AM Radio Nowhere with Dr. Don Janzen, Episode 111.
11:00AM Cruisin The Decades with Brad Savage. Episode 145.
12:00 Noon Top 40 Timeline with Big Daddy Russ Horton.
You can listen using the following links.
www.radio42north.com

04/23/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN – APRIL 23, 2025, EDITION

As April is quickly slipping away, I still fondly remember way back when, in the early 1970’s, when one of the ‘new’ well-known English bands called “Wings” was travelling all over Great Britain and Europe. Most of the reviews were positive and how could they not be - knowing that their leader was a former Beatle?

After the Beatles broke up in 1970, it’s former co-leader Sir Paul McCartney suffered many bouts of depression knowing that he missed his former partners John, George and Ringo in many ways. However, travelling and playing at venues all over Great Britain and Europe for the next few years was truly exhilarating, Paul and his group surely knew bigger and better things were on their way.

Like maybe a major North American Tour? For those who have forgotten, the last time Paul McCartney and his fellow Beatle mates had played together in a concert tour in North America was August 29, 1966, at Candlestick Park, California. However, he is now leader of a new band with new members and hundreds of thousands of new listeners. Several of which hardly know who the Beatles are or were.

With his previous band, The Beatles, having mostly dissolved in 1969, ex-Beatle Paul took some time off over the next few years creating new music before beginning a new tour with new musicians. McCartney had travelled over parts of Great Britain and Europe in the early 70’s with his new band called Wings gathering more confidence each year.

“Wings” finally flew to America in 1976 and for the first time in 10 years, Paul McCartney appeared in concert on U.S. soil. The “Wings Over America” tour began the very same week that “Silly Love Songs” burst into the top 10 on ‘Billboard’s Hot 100” chart. In a few weeks, it became the #1 song in North America and eventually was #1 for 5 weeks. When the year ended, it was Billboard’s number one single of the year.

While they were preparing to begin its first spectacular North America tour that began in 1976, Paul McCartney was still fondly known as part of the Beatles but, amazingly the “Wings” group picked up many newer and younger fans who really didn’t know the Beatles that well – if you can imagine that.

After the Beatles disbanded, he debuted as a solo artist with the 1970 album McCartney and went on to form the Wings with his wife Linda, Denny Laine, Joe English and Jimmy McCulloch. Under McCartney's leadership, Wings became one of the most successful bands of the 1970s. McCartney also wrote or co-wrote their US or UK number-one hits, such as “My Love", “Band On The Run", “Listen To What The Man Said", “Silly Love Songs", and “Mull of Kintyre”.

It’s incredible but McCartney has written or co-written a record 32 songs that have topped the Hot 100 and, as of 2009, he had sales of 25.5 million RIAA-Ceritified units in the US. His honours include two inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of the Beatles in 1988 and as a solo artist in 1999), an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, 19 Grammy Awards, an appointment as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1965, and an appointment as a Knight Bachelor in 1997 for services to music.

To top it off, as of 2024, Paul is one of the wealthiest musicians in the world with an estimated fortune of £1 billion (pounds).

04/21/2025

From Environment Canada.

12:47 PM EDT Monday 21 April 2025

Special Weather Statement in effect for:
Windsor - Leamington - Essex County
Strong southwesterly wind gusts this afternoon.

What:
Southwesterly wind gusts near 80 km/h.

When:
This afternoon.

Addition information:
Strong southwesterly winds are expected as a low pressure system tracks north of the area. Winds are expected to gust near 80 km/h at times early this afternoon before gradually weakening later this afternoon.

Loose objects may be tossed by the wind.

04/19/2025

Coming up this morning!
10:00AM Radio Nowhere with Dr. Don Janzen, Episode 110..
11:00AM Cruisin The Decades with Brad Savage.
12:00 Noon Top 40 Timeline with Big Daddy Russ Horton.
You can listen using the following links.
www.radio42north.com

04/17/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS – SOUTHPOINT SUN – APRIL 16, 2025 EDITION

Happy Birthday to singer/songwriter and record producer Jeff Barry who is one of the great songwriters of our time and is also in the Hall of Fame. Born in Brooklyn, New York - Jeff just celebrated his 87th birthday a couple of weeks ago on April 3rd.

In May of 1991, Barry and writing partner Ellie Greenwich were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Barry and Greenwich were among the 2010 recipients of the Ahmet Ertegun Award from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It all started back in 1964 when famous pop writers Leiber and Stoller brought Barry and Ellie Greenwich on board with their new label, Red Bird Records, as songwriter-producers.

Amazingly, of Red Bird’s first 20 releases, 15 hit the charts.
All were written and/or produced by the Barry-Greenwich team. They included “Chapel of Love”, “People Say”, and “Iko Iko” by the Dixie Cups and “Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand)” and “Leader of the Pack” by the Shangri-Las.

In late 1966, Barry was asked to produce tracks for The Monkees. Drafted by the show’s musical supervisor, Don Kirshner, Barry brought with him a few songs written by Neil Diamond for the group to record. One of them, called “I’m A Believer”. Under Barry’s production skills, it sailed up the U.S. Charts to No. 1 and became one of the biggest-selling records of all time.

The group also had a hit with another song composed by Diamond and produced by Barry called “A Little Bit Me, a Little Bit You”. Having then been taken off of the Monkees project, Kirshner then became music supervisor for a new Saturday morning cartoon, “The Archie Show” in 1968. Here, he enlisted Barry as the producer and main songwriter.

For the next three years, Barry composed dozens of songs for the fictional Archies group, including the show’s theme, “Everything’s Archie”, and the “Dances of the Week”. Barry had also started his own label, Steel Records, and hired one of the most successful recording artists in Montreal known as Andy Kim.
Andy and Barry made hits with remakes of Barry’s Ronettes tunes, “Be My Baby” and “Baby, I Love You”.

Barry and Kim also collaborated on several tunes for The Archies to record, including their best-known single, “Sugar, Sugar”. It went on to be a No. 1 hit and became the RIAA Record of the Year for 1969. That truly defines success and also earns the group a precious gold record award.

04/10/2025

Get out of the cold and come warm up with us TONIGHT at the Watermark Bar and Grille 8-11!

04/10/2025

Our Cosmos May Date was moved to June 7th

04/09/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN – APRIL 9, 2025, EDITION

One of our regular readers of our Flashback Radio column wondered if we could go back in time and pay tribute in remembering one of the greatest record executives in the business of music. His name was Mo Ostin. He was born as Morris Meyer Ostrofsky on March 27, 1927, in New York, NY.

Ostin began his career in the mid-1950s as comptroller at Clef Records - a record company started by Norman Granz. He was a brother of friend and neighbor, Irving Granz. The company was soon renamed 'Verve', where he was involved with “Jazz at The Philharmonic”. It was a worldwide concert promotion operation that provided a live performance platform for the label's touring stars.

Frank Sinatra tried and failed to buy Verve, which was eventually sold to MGM Records. Sinatra was reportedly so impressed by the company's artists and the management's style that he formed his own Reprise Records in 1960 and hired Ostin to head it. Three years later, Reprise joined forces with Warner Bros.

The first rock act Ostin signed to Reprise was the Kinks. He signed Jimi Hendrix in the spring of 1967 based on hearing "Hey Joe". Then was amazed after seeing him perform it at the Monterey Pop Festival. Ostin ultimately spent 31 years at Warner/Reprise from 1963 to 1994, serving as its chairman and CEO from 1972 onwards.

Ostin oversaw the signing of Prince, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Fleetwood Mac, R.E.M., Madonna, Paul Simon, Talking Heads, the Grateful Dead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Van Halen, the Who, and Randy Newman. He was noted for giving artists creative freedom and creating a company geared towards artists, attributing this outlook to his time with Frank Sinatra.

Mo was also instrumental in the acquisition of the independent Elektra label by Warner Communications, as well as the subsequent formation of WEA Corporation and WEA International. After departing Warner Bros., Ostin went on to join the music division of the entertainment conglomerate DreamWorks SKG in October 1995.

In 2003, Ostin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Paul Simon, Neil Young, and Lorne Michaels. Three years later, he received The Recording Academy President's Merit Award at the 2006 Grammy Salute to Industry Icons.

Mo Ostin lived a long life passing away on July 31, 2022, at the age of 95.

04/09/2025

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04/02/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN – APRIL 2, 2025, EDITION

Back in the day, when the “Boss”, Bruce Springsteen was kicking up noise throughout the U.S. and Canada, little did he know there was a very talented teenager growing up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. This teenager who looked up at his idol in the 80’s as his inspiration to become a rock star was born John Francis Bongiovi Jr. on March 2, 1962.

Raised by his parents, Carol and John Bongiovi, who was a hairdresser, Jon Bon Jovi knew in his early teens that he wanted to be a rock star. By the time he was 16, he was hanging out and playing at local clubs. He met keyboardist David Bryan in high school and the two of them formed a ten-piece rhythm and blues band called the “Atlantic City Expressway”.

In 1980, Jon recorded his very first single, “Runaway”, at his cousin’s studio with back-up with its studio musicians that included a guitarist. A local radio station included the song on a compilation tape, and it began to get frequent airplay. This success gave Tico Torres and guitarist Richie Sambora played at its show in New York and signed them to PolyGram. It was here that record executive Derek Shulman “anglicized” John Bongiovi’s name to Bon Jovi.

Bon Jovi’s self-titled debut came out on January 21, 1984. It was quite the production filled with their now signature power ballads that were now underscored by soaring guitar riffs and well-crafted melodies. It helped lead the album to gold status. In April 1985, Bon Jovi released the follow-up album, 7800 degrees Fahrenheit, which was popular with fans but not so much with critics, who were turned off by the hard-band’s manicured image and formulaic style.

By opening for the Scorpions, Kiss and Judas Priest on tour truly helped Bon Jovi build up a considerable fan base that really appreciated the group’s rugged, soulful collection of songs about how tough it was to be a teenager.

Bon Jovi responded to weak critical praise with the arrival of its third album, “Slippery When Wet”, which went gold and platinum simultaneously within six weeks of its release. Powered by songs like “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “Wanted Dead or Alive”, the album sold more than 14 million copies, putting it in the same league as Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.

After the band went into temporary retirement in 1989, Bon Jovi married his high school sweetheart Dorothea Hurley who was a karate instructor. They now have four children, Stephanie, Jesse, Jacob and Romeo Jon.

Jon stretched his own talents by having an acting career with starring roles in the films “Moonlight and Valentino” and “The Leading Man”. He also appeared in several independent films that included “Pay It Forward” and “U-571”. On TV, he was a regular guest on “Ally McBeal” until the series finale in 2002.

Bon Jovi also made headlines in 2004 when he became a co-founder and a majority owner of the Arena Football league’s Philadelphia Soul. He later parted ways with the team. His band and him donated $1 million to Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network.

03/30/2025

Severe Thunderstorm Watch
For Windsor, Essex.
Source: Environment Canada
Start
7:00 PM
Sunday, Sun, Mar 30
End
10:00 PM
Sunday, Sun, Mar 30

severe thunderstorm watch in effect
Conditions are favourable for the development of severe thunderstorms that may be capable of producing strong wind gusts.

Hazards:
Wind gusts up to 100 km/h.
Risk of a tornado.

Timing:
This evening. Likely in the 7 to 10 P.M. EDT time window.

Additional information:
A line of thunderstorms is expected to move through the region with strong wind gusts being the primary threat. There is also a risk of a tornado, however confidence remains fairly low.

03/29/2025

FLASHBACK RADIO with CHUCK REYNOLDS - SOUTHPOINT SUN – MARCH 26, 2025, EDITION

Wow! “Any Man of Mine” was quite a start for Shania Twain back in 1995. I was still doing the morning show at CHYR Radio in Leamington and our station was more “contemporary country” than top forty music. Then something came out of the woods that was a cross between Contemporary Country and Top 40 music.

Shania Twain was her name, and contemporary country was her aim. Born In Windsor on August 28, 1965, under the name of Eilleen Regina Edwards and raised in Timmins, Ontario, she began singing at the age of 3. By the age of eight she started playing guitar and by 10, she started writing her own songs.

At the age of eighteen Twain, moved to Toronto to pursue a career in music. However, in 1987, tragedy struck hard as both her parents Sharon and Jerry were killed in an automobile accident. Twain moved back home to take care of her two younger brothers. At this time, Twain found work at the Deer Hurst Resort, singing in a Las Vegas style show.

By 1991, Twain was invited to Nashville, by music attorney Dick Frank. Twain signed with Mercury Records. At the same time, she legally took on the first name of Shania which was an Ojibway name meaning “I’m on my way.”

Twain’s debut release, “Shania Twain” (in 1993) was received with moderate success, and contained only one co-written song by Twain. However, the album did catch the attention of rock producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange. He has worked with AC/DC, Def Leppard, Bryan Adams and many others. However, Lange soon developed a friendship with Twain and six months later the two married on December 28, 1993, at the Deer Hurst Resort.

In 1995, Shania’s second album, “The Women in Me” was co-produced with Lange and received much greater acclaim than her first album. This album crossed different genres and was a mixture of country, pop and rock.

Her first single, “Whose Bed Have You Been Sleeping Under?” reached No. 11. Then, it was her second “rock infused” single, “Any Man of Mine”, that reached No. 1 on the country charts and was also a top 40 hit.

After getting married, Twain and Lange moved to Switzerland, where in 2001 Twain gave birth to her son Eja D’Angelo Lange. In 2008, Twain and Lange separated and were divorced two years later. Around the same time, Twain also developed dysphonia which made it difficult for her to sing.

On January 1, 2011, Shania and Frederick Thiebaud announced their marriage which took place in Puerto Rico.
Although, her last farewell tour took place in 2015, this is not the end. Shania continues to create and record music.

However, in an entirely different direction, Shania Twain has joined Howie Mandel and other celebrities including Kardinal Offishall, Katherine Ryan and Lindsay Ell this Spring on a CITY TV show hunting for the Top Talent. It’s called “Canada’s Got Talent” and it just started last Tuesday on March 18th at 8 pm.

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