WFDU Christmas special - this Sunday, 2001

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 06:55 PM

That is actually the playlists archived at the site. I will have the playlists at www.wfdu.fm in a few days. The actual shows are archived here at Mudcat.

Ron

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 05:35 PM

Thanks, Ron. I saw the archived ones up to Dec. 2nd on the WFDU site, so thought you might have it there. Appreciate your prompt reply.

kat

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 04:00 PM

Unfortunately the WFDU-FM servers can't handle archiving shows at this time.

I hope to have the shows archived here at Mudcat with our other programs as soon as Max is able to do so.

Ron

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Dec 01 - 03:28 PM

Ron, any idea of when the show will be archived, either here or at WFDU's site?

Thanks!

kat

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 06:20 PM

kytrad, it will be archived, here, at the Mudcat - you sounded wonderful!

Ron and Bill, thanks so much for doing this. It was just grand, the whole show. I love the way you formatted it and the way you included our greetings.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Amergin
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 05:35 PM

I was in portland taking my sister shopping....missed the whole thing...that is the last time I set a teenager loose in a mall...with no time limit...

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 24 Dec 01 - 05:34 PM

Ron- I'm devastated! Lots of company "dropped in" at the wrong times on Sunday, and I couldn't hear anything...I managed to catch the last half-hour, but missed the Mudcatters' part. Hope there's some way I can still get to hear it. Happy Christmas, All! Jean

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 11:25 PM

My thanks to everyone who contributed to today's show. My thanks also for the nice comments and for the great community here on Mudcat. I hope that our audience who may not have heard of Mudcat will be aware of it now and check out this great website and wonderful folks who contribute to it. Your comments and support have meant a lot to us throughout the year.

Happy holidays to all!

Ron Olesko

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 06:30 PM

I enjoyed the last part of the show, Ron. I am disappointed, though, that I didn't get back to the house in time to catch the Mudcat section. I guess I'll have to wait for the archive.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: nutty
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 06:09 PM

What a wonderful show ..... Thanks Ron and all the Mudcatters that contributed . It was great to put some voices to the names although some were already familiar through Paltalk
This is the start fo Christmas for me and has made for me missing the "carol sing" at the folk club last night (too much snow)
Thanks again
Hazel

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Hollowfox
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 06:07 PM

Wow, that was great, thanks! It took me more time then I'd planned to download the program so I could listen, so I got on *just* in time to hear the Mudcat segment. Awll Right!! It was the perfect thing to have on while we baked the cookies to put on the tree. Thanks again, Ron.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Allan C.
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 05:13 PM

I am a bit late arriving but am enjoying what I am hearing now. Thanks, Ron! Thanks also to everyone who participated.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 05:08 PM

Ron, great show!! I LOVE the origins which you include. Just wonderful. Everyone sounds so great!! Thanks for doing this!

kat

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Morticia
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 03:42 PM

and a partridge in a pear tree..........listening in, perfect reception.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: CapriUni
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 03:12 PM

Just listening now to "All hail the days" I found this on digitrad yesterday, and couldn't figure out how it sounded, from the midi, when it was sung -- what luck (Big Grin)!

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 03:00 PM

Great reception. Not always the case. Time to start wrapping gifts.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 02:32 PM

Coming in really well, pre-show. It does take a few clicks to get to the live audio. If you click on the ON AIR button, that takes you to a site where you have to put in WFDU and hit the search button, then click on the live feed. You'll hear an ad for ITT and THEN the DJ will come on with the current show.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 02:24 PM

Almost time!!

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 11:32 AM

Cannot wait to hear this!!

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 11:08 AM

HO HO HO... wrapping gifts here too.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 10:15 AM

Today is the day! Thanks again for everyone who submitted a greeting, poem, story, or song. Happy holidays!!!

Ron

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Amergin
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 12:10 AM

i will be taking my sister into town to get some shopping done....

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Dec 01 - 12:05 AM

I will be listening and wrapping gifts. Ho ho Ho.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 03:39 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 11:30 AM

WFDU-FM's studios are located in Teaneck, NJ - about 8 miles from New York City. (If you stand on our roof you can see the NYC skyline!). We broadcast to the NYC metro area from a tower in Alpine, NJ. A history note - our tower is known as the Armstrong Tower, it is the tower where Edwin Howard Armstrong had a lab where he worked on developing FM radio, and the tower is where the first FM broadcast and radio station was launched. We are very proud to be continuing the broadcast tradition from that site.

After Sept.11 the tower was in the news again when television stations WNBC, WABC, WPIX, and WNET had to re-locate their transmitters to the site after their transmitters were destroyed with the World Trade Center.

If you go to our webpage, click on the link at the bottom of the homepage you can read more about this.

Ron Olesko

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Cappuccino
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 04:15 AM

For those of us a few thousand miles away, where exactly are you, Ron?

- Ian B

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 02:40 AM

I just got that CD, today, Ron, and was all ready to fill in the blanks! Wonderful music!!

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 02:27 AM

Sandy just gave me the info. (The man is quick!!) It was Dave Para on the 2nd guitar and Dave, Cathy Barton and Caroline Paton joined in on the refrains. Sandy of course sang the lead, and a brilliant recording I might add! Thanks Sandy!!

Ron

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Dec 01 - 01:29 AM

Help!

Does anyone have the credits for the Folk Legacy recording of "Twas On A Night Like This"? I am going to play "Mary Had A Baby" on the program and I can't find the booklet that came with the CD. I'd like to give everyone who played on that cut a credit.

I've sent a note to Sandy Paton but I'm not sure if he is going to be checking his mail before my show airs. If anyone has the credits and could post it hear it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Ron

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 10:21 PM

Jerry, just in case you missed it, no need to fire up the old Atwater Kent (green with envy here**BG**), you can also tune in via their website. Ron put the link in up there.

kat

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 10:11 PM

Yeah, it's been too long, Ron.. The concert I was plugging was at the West End Bar in New York City, across from Columbia University. It was a strange experience for me going back there, because I used to eat there when I had any money, when I was supposedly going to Columbia University, but spending most of my time and the little money I had listening to folk music in Greenwich Village.

I will keep in touch... my e-mail address is [e-mail]. The name of my gospel quartet.We do old black gospel.. the kind that Dicho is always posting..

Jerry

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 08:21 PM

Jerry-

It was wonderful to have you as a guest on my show. I may have a tape of it somewhere. Time has really flown! I still play your LP's!! I hope we can get together in the near future!

Let's keep in touch, I can be reached at [e-mail].

Thanks for posting, it was good to hear from you!

Ron Olesko

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 08:08 PM

WFDU, Jean and George: Good memories, and a wonderful Christmas to all! I'll see if I can get you on my Atwater Kent. Many years ago, I ventured down to WFDU to do a live spot, plugging a concert I was doing in New York City... a beautiful campus and well worth the trip. I listened to the station as a regular, but since moving up here to Derby, CT, I don't think I can get it... but I'll try. And hello, Jean and George... I remember booking Jean for a wonderful concert at the Stamford Museum many years ago. A very special treat for me, as I've always loved her music. It's a special treat to re-connect, even through the ehter zone, with people you haven't seen or talked to in years..

Jerry

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 07:24 PM

We'll be here and glued in! Jean & George

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Amergin
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 06:20 PM

welli will try to make it...as sunday is my last chance to go shopping I am not sure I will be able to.

Subject: RE: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 05:43 PM

Wonderful, Ron! Can't wait to hear it! Thanks!!

Subject: WFDU CHRISTMAS SPECIAL - THIS SUNDAY
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 21 Dec 01 - 05:02 PM

Just a reminder -

The 21st Annual TRADITIONS Christmas Special will air this Sunday December 23 from 3pm to 6pm Eastern Time. In the Northern New Jersey/New York City area you can set your radio dial to 89.1FM. On the internet will be streaming audio through our website at www.wfdu.fm.

The program will feature traditional (and contemporary folk) holiday fare featuring artists like the Weavers, Pete Seeger, Odetta, Nowell Sing We Clear, Jean Ritchie, Artisan, Bridget Ball & Christopher Shaw, Telynor, the Christmas Revels, and many others. You will hear some really beautiful holiday music, plus we will talk about the stories and folklore behind the songs and celebration.

As a special treat, a number of Mudcatter's will be heard and I will be passing on holiday greetings. I want to thank everyone who participated - it is really nice!! A number of folks took the time to record greetings, songs, stories, and poems. A few people sent me CD's.

While I hope that everyone will tune in for the full three hours, the Mudcatter section will air sometime between 4 and 5pm.

I had hoped to have the entire three hours pre-recorded and available on Mudcat by now, but some production and personal issues have delayed it. Rest assured the program will air this Sunday - and I will record it for posterity.

Happy holidays everyone. I hope you will join in. Bring your own egg nog!!!

best,

Ron Olesko Producer/Host WFDU-FM's TRADITIONS