This weekend is the 30th anniversary of WCDB and the 45th anniversary of WSUA (WCDB's AM predecessor). The whole weekend is set to be filled with alumni-focused events, including a panel discussion by WCDB alumni who have gone on to achieve in the music industry, live broadcast of the homecoming SUNY Albany football game against Sacred Heart, a formal dinner also to be broadcast on the station, and a Sunday morning broadcast from the birthplace of SUNY Albany student radio: Brubacher Hall on (currently) Saint Rose campus.
I'll update this blog post as the weekend progresses! For right now (Friday night) all that's happened so far was my alumni-inspired edition of the Kitchen. Check the playlist, it's way proper:
(I would asterisk the requests but I'd probably wear out the key)
| THE BEAT | DIFFERENT KIND OF GIRL |
| THE BEVIS FROND | LIGHTS ARE CHANGING |
| DURAN DURAN | RIO |
| DEL FUEGOS | NERVOUS AND SHAKEY |
| GREEN ON RED | THIS I KNOW |
| ELVIS COSTELLO | ALISON |
| THE SPECIALS | MESSAGE TO YOU RUDY |
| SPARKS | MOUSTACHE |
| YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA | RYDEEN |
| HALL AND OATES | RICH GIRL |
| THE DB'S | BLACK AND WHITE |
| THE JAGS | BACK OF MY HAND |
| IAN DURY | WAKE UP AND MAKE LOVE WITH ME |
| CHESTERFIELD KINGS | COME WITH ME |
| GO-BETWEENS | BYE BYE PRIDE |
| APB | DANCEABILITY |
| AVENGERS | WE ARE THE ONE |
| HUMAN SWITCHBOARD | (SAY NO TO) SATURDAY'S GIRL |
| THE INDIVIDUALS | YOUNG AND DANCING |
| HUMAN SEXUAL RESPONSE | JACKIE ONASSIS |
| THE DREAM SYNDICATE | STILL HOLDING ON TO YOU |
| KID CREOLE AND THE COCONUTS | ANIMAL CRACKERS |
| ROBERT GORDON | RED HOT |
| IAN HUNTER | CLEVELAND ROCKS |
| THE CURE | MAN IN MY MOUTH |
| THE FLESHTONES | LEGEND OF A WHEELMAN |
| THE MOTELS | DAYS ARE O.K. |
| CUTTING CREW | ANY COLOUR |
| FLOWERPOT MEN | BEAT CITY |
| THE GO-GO'S | HEAD OVER HEELS |
Photos from Saturday can be found here.
-LEON
1 comment:
I live nearby and I frequently listened to WCDB beginning in 1982. I remember when I first turned on the station that year, the summer I graduated from high school. I heard "See No Evil" by Television, "Open Your Eyes" by Stiv Bators, and some others with names that I do not remember by Gang Green, Flux of Pink Indians and Mission Of Burma that evening. The music I heard in 1984 and 1985 is certainly some of the best rock'n roll I have ever heard in my life. It spoiled me for everything else that has come since! Of course there has always been that other world, jazz, and I have been listening to those shows too for some time. Keep up that cool music! I especially liked hearing "Jackie Onassis." Tony
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