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Welcome to RewindRadioNow.com, home of The Rewind radio show with host /producer Les”LRob”Robinson who will bring you the best in 70’s and 80’s music. Pop, R&B, adult contemporary, disco, yacht rock, old school rap, all the music that you loved to listen to back in the day.
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LRob will take you on a time traveling journey of the mind as you relive all of those hit songs you knew and loved. From now on if you want to experience the greatest music of the past,all you have to do is …REWIND …NOW!!!!
On Tonight’s edition of TheREWIND, we continue with our 2nd Battle of The ALBUMS and THIS one should be one for the ages! In one corner we have Michael Jackson’s record selling album THRILLER released on November 30th 1982. This album had 7 Top Ten singles, 6 of them going at least platinum(selling well over 1,000,000 units) and up until 2018 was the biggest selling album of all time!(Eagles Greatest Hits Vol.1 took over the top spot selling 34 million units in the USA and Thriller selling 33.4 million) Thriller would also be the only album in history to win the Billboard Album of the Year two years in a row 1983 AND 1984!! With superstar producer Quincy Jones producing this epic album and legendary studio musicians such as David Foster,Rod Temperton,James Ingram,Janet Jackson,Steve Lukather,David Paich,Jeffand Steve Pocaro,Eddie Van Halen,Paul McCartney,Louis Johnson Thriller was one of pop music’s most stylized projects.
In the other corner we have Prince’s sixth album and his first movie soundtrack and on of the biggest selling,PURPLE RAIN released on June 25th 1984,two days before his film debut as the star of the picture with the same name! This masterpiece had 5 singles released,4 of them Top Ten,2 of them #1 hit singles and one of them,When Doves Cry becoming the Billboard Song of Year 1984! The album stayed #1 on the Billboard Album Charts for 24 straight weeks!! Prince would go on to win an Oscar for Best Original Sound Score for producing,writing and composing the Purple Rain soundtrack!
So there you have the two combatants,now here’s how we’ll to this, we’ll play each album in it’s entirety,one song from one LP,then the other LP then YOU will cast your vote via our Facebook page during the show and at the end,Holly and I will tally the votes and YOU’LL pick a winner! And after we play the albums,it’s ALL REQUESTS on your favorite Michael Jackson or Prince songs! So remember,your vote counts! Let’s get ready to BATTLE!!
~DJ L ROB!!!!!!!!
The O’Jays,The Spinners,Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes(feat. Teddy Pendergrass),The Stylistics!!! All coming your way Tonight from 8-10pm ET! We’ll hear all of their classic hits from these great vocal groups that dominated the 1970’s musically!! And in our weekly Hall & Oates segment we’ll listen to a couple of their early recordings as members of The Temptones (Daryl) and The Masters (John)! If you’re a fan of classic soul vocals from the 70’s,be here tonight starting at 8!
~DJ L ROB!!!!
Greetings REWINDNation,
Here’s our broadcasting schedule for this week:
Wednesday July 17th 8-10pm ET:TheREWIND’s Rock-N-Soul Cafe
Our latest edition of our new show should be a great one if your a fan of Ol’ School 70’s Philly Soul as we feature classic R&B music from legendary singing groups either based out of Philadelphia or were produced by Philly producers! Featured artists include The O’Jays,The Spinners,Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes(featuring Teddy Pendergrass) and The Stylistics. And in our weekly Hall & Oates segment we’ll play songs from their early days with their 60’s bands The Temptones(Daryl) and The Masters(John) along with a couple of songs from their very first album Whole Oates!
Thursday July 18th 2-5pm ET- THE BEST OF TheREWIND YachtRock(1974-1985)
Encore presentation of last Sunday nights show featuring the music from the great genre known today as Yacht Rock starting from it’s genesis in 1973 well into the 80’s! The third hour the listeners request THEIR favorite Yacht Rock tunes which makes for a great show!
5-8pm ET- FROM THE VAULT of RewindRadioNow!
We go into “The Vault” in the studio from our past show’s and this show we’ll play tunes from The Beach Boys,Seals and Crofts,The Isley Brothers from our first Endless Summer Nights Series:Summer Breeze which original aired June 3rd 2018!
This Sunday July 21st 7-10pm ET-TheREWIND
On our NEXT all new edition of TheREWIND we’ll have our 2nd Battle of The ALBUMS! And this one will be a EPIC battle! As with our first battle,we’ll play both albums one song from one album followed by a song from the other album,hit after hit and we’ll let the listeners vote for their favorite via Facebook. In one corner we have up until recently was crowned the biggest selling album of all time Michael Jackson’s 1982 classic THRILLER! In the other corner we have an album/soundtrack that has become the third biggest selling movie soundtrack of all time Prince’s(and The Revolution) 1984 masterpiece PURPLE RAIN!! PURPLE RAIN vs THRILLER!! You decide this Sunday!! Remember we’ll post on Facebook and you can cast your vote there!!
Well,there you have it! This week’s programming! Special thanks to our own Holly Frye Orman for the show posts!!
Hope to SEE you all there!
~DJ L ROB!!!!!
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