holiday songs that are torture

[Kevin Vahey]

Jeff Spencer searched all over the city to find a copy. Nobody
believed him when he said the song existed. This has to be around
1991.

On 11/28/08, Eli Polonsky <elipolo@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> From: "Kevin Vahey" <kvahey@comcast.net>
>> Thursday, November 27, 2008 12:31 PM
>> To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
>> Re: holiday songs that are torture
>>
>> Last time I heard it was when WMBR played it on
>> Lost and Found.
>
> Must've been a few years ago. "Lost & Found" will not
> play it anymore due to the amount of other stations
> playing it. I can't speak for any other shows on WMBR,
> but I know that the station didn't play it yesterday.
>
> Kind of ironic, since WMBR (as WTBS) was one of the
> first, if not THE first, Boston area station to play
> it in its entirety when it came out in late 1967, a
> few months before WBCN began playing rock music.
>
> WBRS Brandeis (then 91.7) also played it back then,
> and I wonder if maybe Dick Summer played it late at
> night on his WBZ show ??
>
> Spinning the dial quickly from Newton, MA at noontime
> on Thanksgiving yesterday, I heard "Alice's Restaurant"
> being played on the following ten stations:
>
> 980 WCAP Lowell
> 88.9 WERS Boston
> 91.9 WUMB Boston
> 92.5 WXRV Andover (playing newer 1990s version)
> 94.1 WHJY Providence, RI
> 100.3 WHEB Portsmouth, NH
> 100.7 WZLX Boston
> 101.1 WGIR Manchester, NH
> 104.1 WBCN Boston
> 105.7 WROR Boston
>
> Probably could've found even more if I had more time...
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