scott muni & wnew history documentary short clip

short audio clip of scott muni & the history of wnew fm radio station

[@TheIronSheikSociety]

Scott Muni and WNEW-FM were a combination with priceless memories!! Only if WNEW-FM did not change their call letters, format, and talent in the late 1990s. That was a very big mistake. Scott Muni was a father figure to many people and is missed very much!!

[@brendanreilly5412]

Thank you for this. It brought me back to a happier time in my life.

[@papageorge9950]

I was there with WNEW NY from the start to the end. How I miss this great radio station ! Commercial radio in NYC is now corporate SHIT !

[@alinla1]

GREATEST RADIO STATION EVER!

[@justingermaine9863]

Indeed

[@1kinut800]

This was my radio station from '69-'80 when I fled the city looking for--something I still haven't found. NYC by then had lost all it's heart and soul and compassion and sense of fun, every single person I knew was regularly getting mugged, the heat would always break down on the coldest days of winter, there was no a/c in our building and a lot of our windows wouldn't open, yeah, even though we kept our place scrupulously clean and tidy we had millions of cockroaches, the pipes in the walls leaked so much people's ceilings and walls started crumbling and/or falling down. Oh, but I have missed NYC since and I have especially missed WNEW-FM. The djs felt like familiar friends you could go to at 3am when no one else wanted to see you. Ah, and the music! Jez the music. They'd play a whole album all at once, perhaps but not always breaking for a short commercial or two or the news but nothing else. They'd play classical music interspersed with rock and reggae and anything else that appealed to the dj. The djs were far more than record spinners, they had to think about continuity of the sounds, had to consider what they themselves were feeling and thinking and translate it into coherent segments of music. You'd sometimes tune in to find that a band, or at least members of some band that was playing the city had dropped in and were having a blasted being temporary djs and carrying on on the air. some of the djs would start talking about social issues or religious theories or some other esoteric idea that made the listeners examine their own beliefs and thoughts. I know I grew inside from having subjects I'd never before considered come into my head over the radio waves. It wasn't just rock. It was history too since some djs showed how one song lead to another to another. Some would talk politics, or politix. When there's be some management change or administrative directive that went against the grain or would potentially change the format of the station, some of the djs would let us in on what they were just told so we'd know what was going on. They didn't treat us like mindless idiots. I refused to find out what the djs looked like because I preferred to build my own mental images of them based purely on the music they chose, what they decided to talk about, how they said things, and their voices. There has never been and never will be another radio station anywhere near WNEW-FM and I am so grateful to all the djs, many who have left this reality for whatever is next, and for helping me grow in all ways. The 60s and 70s were extraordinary times all of themselves but WNEW-FM made is sparkle and shine.

[@KMoran-cw2fd]

Excellent comments.

[@leesantos2733]

No doubt about it!! I miss Scott..

[@tyronealleyne402]

that was my station, I never had a station untill I came home from the army in thanks Scott muni and crew, the q fills in but I missed those days. they made me laugh ,listen smile think and cry when Marty break the news about the shuttle

[@1030joe]

I remember Scott Muni (R.I.P. Scott) playing poker on-air with Jerry Garcia and Bob Wier, just BSing and playing their requests...Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko. Or chatting with Peter Wolf; John Fogerty; and many more. He stayed on air for hours playing requests for the bank robbers holed up in that failed Brooklyn bank robbery (the movie "Dog Day Afternoon" was based on). Also, Vin Scelsa and Allison Steele ("The Night Bird") playing obscure, lesser-known tracks from albums.

[@obfuscated3090]

Radio then meant as much to youth as the internet does today, and quality rock stations were few and far between. Thank WNEW and other seminal rock stations for their vital role in exposing new audiences to music they might otherwise never have heard.

[@daviddranginis5940]

Listened at night to Alison Steel. First time I heard Gil Scott Heron's "the revolution will not be televised".

[@MisterLumpkin]

I grew up in the wilds of the New Jersey suburbs back in the 60s and 70s. Back then, nothing was happening out there. As a 70s teenager WNEW-FM was my connection to what was happening in the world of real music. My cheap Radio Shack stereo was locked on 102.7 except for an occasional switch to WOR-AM at 10 pm to listen to Jean Shepherd. I'd like to thank Scott, Allison, Dennis and the rest of the DJs, wherever they may be in this world or beyond for keeping me sane during those years. I'd like nothing more than to take one more flight with the Night Bird.

[@kennethkobylakiewicz3157]

It's as if I could have written your post.I can identify and relate to it all.I was lucky enough to provide medical care for Scott while he hospitalized in 1996 in N.J.I continued a correspondence with him until his death.He was a gem of a man.

[@jgboys1]

I remember when 20 years seemed like a lifetime.

[@MisterLumpkin]

Now the "long time ago" was a long time ago.

[@victorturturici4446]

I miss wnew fm . It was great radio station. I miss all the great dee Jays on that station. I wish they were still around.

[@helenmurphy3143]

LOVED THIS

[@mshell1959]

They provided the sound track to my teen years growing up on Long Island.

[@Sleepy_Alligator]

Me too except I was in northern Jersey. The Nightbird at 3am was magical. Just an amazing light feeling associated with memories of the station, names of the DJs.

[@ferrark1]

Scott was my favorite back in the early 80’s always could count on a John Lennon song @ 2pm

[@rockvilleraven]

Sad that CBS couldn't care less about what call letters belong to a city. WNEW is now a Washington/Baltimore all news station and WHFS is a sports station in Florida.

[@papageorge9950]

Thanks corporate America. You SUCK !

[@flychomperfly]

i hear the song used on this documentary @ 7:27, and cannot believe that Wind by Circus Maximus/Robert Bruno has not been more prominent and recognized. lots of songs have, in retrospect, been acknowledged for their brilliance in spite of not being a 'hit record.' i don't understand how this one never did receive wide recognition. anyone i've met who knows of the record has loved it. if you do too, i hope you will try to turn on others to it so it will get the credit it deserves.

[@KMoran-cw2fd]

Wow, what a trip down memory lane. WNEW FM was the beginning of the world opening up to me.

[@helenmurphy3143]

HISTORY I LIVED IN THE ERA

[@rudbeckia885]

My connection to what could have been...peace world wide.

[@davidaliberti5742]

WBCN Boston re-aired a scott muni interview mixed with songs with Jimmy Page. I taped it on my boom box 90 min Maxell. I still have it. I can’t find any documentation of it anywhere but yet I have it!!!

[@4asolomon]

The young woman on the end is Alison's daughter, Heather.

[@FreeTheMusic100]

Much of the narration in this clip is by WNEW disc jockey Dave Herman.

[@Every-picture-tells-a-story]

I wish this sound would return, true genuine content. Not this cookie cutter safe corporate ridiculous mind numbing top 40 auto tune sampled computer generated excuse of music, that the sad truth about today’s generation they have no creativity or imagination. Sad but true..