June 9, 2011 Thanks to all Facebook listeners including Joyce Cooke, Terri Hogan, Carol Bombard, Vicki Rogers and others, I was able to gather lots of info about the city of Watervliet. And perhaps the best sport of all - Mayor Mike Manning also contributed alot. So here's the final product:
June 8, 2011 There are some subjects that are just slightly uncomfortable to write about. But then again, it's my responsibility to cover what everyone's discussing at the water cooler. Hey. Just doin' my job here! So I will now debut a song for summer: Weiner Wonderland!
May 20, 2011 Well, if you believe that these folks are right, this could very well be the last Sean and Richie Show, the last blog, and something very near and dear to my heart - the last dumb song parody. I wanted go out with at least an upbeat song, so I chose a Zac Brown toe-tapper, "Knee Deep".
May 18, 2011 After finishing my last movie review, I reviewed the Water For Elephants trailer that I included in the blog, and all of a sudden, a flood of rhymes came into my head. I was rhyming as I was watching it! (don't be too impressed. It usually doesn't happen THAT quickly!) So I literally scrambled to find pen and paper, and waited until the next morning's show before fleshing it out on the piano
May 17, 2011 I always like to get the Reading, Writing and Rhyming progam out there toward the end of the school year to see if we can capture (in song) the excitement of moving up to the next grade level. Remember those days? Well, these kids are ready! They'll tell you about it in song.
May 12, 2011 Ladies and Gentlemen, we at the Sean and Richie Show feel that small town America has been grossly overlooked. We want to give publicity to your little corner of the world. What makes your town unique? What funny quirks does it possess (like the broken traffic light that hasn't been fixed?-The potholes bigger than the Grand Canyon?) Well, here's your chance!
May 3, 2011 Who says morning radio doesn't have it's pressures? I get in this morning, bleary eyed from a long weekend in Florida, and my morning show cohorts challenged me to take the theme song "Welcome Back, Kotter" and make the subject matter about the recent demise of Osama Bin Laden. Well guys-BRING IT ON!
April 28, 2011 We have been on the lookout for the most awesome, "over the top" school playground in the Capital Region. And we found one that was so cool that I packed up the keyboard, drove out there and wrote a song with the kids that explains just how amazing it is!
April 15, 2011 This has been another insane ride this week. Trump was "on the stump"--the first male of the season was bounced off of American Idol-- planes bouncing off each other in the JFK parking lot. But the big question is "will it rhyme?" Lord knows I tried!
April 7, 2011 This is always a difficult bit for me to put together. It takes discipline to write a News of the Week song every week, but it was my New Year's resolution to try to do this on a more regular basis.
March 21, 2011 If you are coming to this blog looking for a review of basketball (or baseball, soccer,football or any sport for that matter), I would like to refer you to someone with actual knowledge, like Sean or Levack. But if you're looking for a submission for a theme song for a new local hero, I MIGHT be able to help
March 10, 2011 I've been lucky enough to have been at WGNA for--can it really be?- 23 years now. And I can remember distinctly being told not to talk too much about technology on our show because "country people don't have computers". Holy Crapola, Batman!
