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History of The Night Train Show
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It was a Monday evening,
February 5, 2001, when The Night Train Show embarked on its inaugaural journey through The History of Rock &
Roll on WBOR. Over the years since then, The Night Train has been time-warping back to the first 25 years of the Rock
& Roll era on a weekly basis, allowing its listeners to experience the Golden Age of Top 40 AM radio - but,
on the better-sounding, stereo FM radio dial!
Remember - back in the 50's
& 60's, Rock & Roll, as a music-genre, was still revolutionary. Rock & Roll music was still in its
formative years, and it was struggling for adult acceptance. Top 40 radio was a new art-form. A Dj's on-air
personality & presentation were both integral parts of what you heard on your favorite AM radio station; and, more
often than not, it all came together in a hyped-up package - known today as The Golden Age of Top 40 radio. Before
Rock & Roll began to take over the brand-new, "underground" FM radio dial toward the end of the sixties,
AM radio was the only real radio show in town!
Your Boss-Jock, Bill Audette, conducts The Night Train as if it were one of those big-city, 50,000-watt, clear-channel AM
radio stations. You know the ones:
Back in the 1960's,
a hyped-up Boss-Jock's platter-chatter, along with the 45-RPM records he would spin, captured the musical minds and imaginations
of teenagers all over the USA - just as they did with a young and very impressionable Bill Audette.
Bill
was one of those mythical teenagers who hid his "hi-tech" transistor radio under his pillow at night so that he could tune
in and listen to all those distant, clear-channel mega-stations after dark. This nightly listening experience provided
the material and backdrop for Bill's idea of what The Night Train Show could, should and would
eventually be. In fact, the name of Bill's show actually hails from Boston's Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsberg; his nightly
radio show was called "The Night Train Show." It aired for many years, back in the sixties, on WMEX - 1510 on your
nineteen-sixties AM radio dial.
And what about Bill? He's your one and only Old Time Rock & Roll Rebel - the only hyped-up
Boss-Jock you'll ever need to relive the golden era of Top 40 radio! Remember, if it goes round to make a Rock &
Roll sound, and was played on the radio, Bill's got it. And you'll hear 'em all by jumping
on board The Night Train on a weekly basis, becoming one of Bill's weekly Night Train passengers.
Your ears and your psyche will thank you.
By jumping on board
The Night Train Show, you can relive (or experience for the first time) the atmosphere generated by one of those hyped-up
Boss-Jocks from one of those big-city AM radio stations from the early and mid sixties. Every Tuesday evening
from 5 to 8 PM (WRBC, 91.5 FM - Lewiston, Maine, USA) and every Saturday afternoon from 1:30 to 3 PM (WMPG,
90.9 FM & 104.1 FM - Portland, Maine, USA), your hyped-up Boss-Jock, Bill Audette,
delivers to his Night Train passengers all the golden gassers, all those platters-that-used-to-matter, and all those platters-that-never-quite-mattered in
a manner similar to which they were originally delivered - back in their hey-day. To experience all the vintage radio
jingles, the vintage station Ids, the vintage sound-bites, the hyped-up Boss-Jock platter-chatter, and, the best in vintage
Rock & Roll music, you'll need to tune in The Night Train Show - live, as it happens - every Saturday afternoon on WMPG
from 1:30 to 3 PM (NYC time) and every Tuesday evening on WRBC from 5 to 8 PM (NYC time).
When you jump on board
The Night Train Show, you'll get a musical theme from The History of Rock & Roll featuring all those famous, familiar,
and forgotten golden goodies from Rock & Roll's first 25 years. As the hardest working man in show business, the
late James Brown, said way back in 1962, "All aboard - Night Train!"
Are you traveling
through greater Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, USA? Tune in The Night Train Show - as it happens, every Tuesday evening from
5 to 8 PM (NYC time) - on WRBC, 91.5 FM, whose radio
signal eminates from the campus of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, USA. Not local? Tune in The Night Train Show
from anywhere in the world; we're on-line. Use your computer and a high-speed internet connection. Whether by radio or by internet, jump on board
The Night Train and WRBC. You'll be glad you did.
Are you
traveling through Greater Portland or Southern Maine, USA? Tune in The Night Train Show - as it happens, every
Saturday afternoon from 1:30 to 3 PM (NYC time) - on WMPG, 90.9 FM and 104.1 FM, whose radio signal eminates
from the campus of The University of Southern Maine (USM) in Porltand, Maine, USA. Not local? Tune in The Night
Train Show from anywhere in the world; we're on-line. Use your computer and a high-speed internet connection. Whether by radio or by internet, jump on board
The Night Train and WMPG. You'll be glad you did.
To get in touch with The Night Train
Show's famous on-air crew, call The Night Train's vintage WRBC Boss Hitline
at (207) 777-7915 between 5 and 8
PM any Tuesday evening, or the WMPG Boss Hitline at
(207) 780-4909 between 1:30 PM and 3 PM any Saturday afternoon.
You can also make a vintage music request at any time using e-mail.
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