Category: Red’s Mail
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Freedom To Play
Hi Red, I live in the East Kootenay. I was in the Lower Mainland today and caught your show. I am now in my hotel and have it on again. Anyway I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed it and how it brought back many memories of growing up in Victoria…
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Christmas Music Is Here!
Hi,Red! Well, what else can I say but “thank you for” kicking off hour 6 of today’s show with Deck The Halls with Mannheim Steamroller from 1984. Once again it was such a joy to hear that chorus of French horns and electronic synthesizer. It brings back memories of childhood Christmases out in the rural…
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Dodie Stevens, Pink Shoelaces
Hi Red, we listen to your show on to and from church on Sundays. The other weekend you played Pink Shoelaces by Dodie Stevens. We were boppin’ in the car and really enjoyed Dodie’s clear crisp voice. Since then my eight year old daughter can’t get the tune or lyrics out of her head. Of…
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By Request… The Swingin’ Medallions!
Red, I let you wake me up every Sunday morning and this morning I flashed back to my youth and a job I had at the Birch Bay Amusement Park. There was a dance hall nearby called Village West where I remember seeing a group called the Swingin’ Medallions. They had a hit called Double…
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50 Years of Memories
Red, I just wanted to express my thanks to you for all you’ve done over the years. I’m sure you remember back in the 50’s and even into the 60’s so many people slammed rock’n’roll. R and R was essentially good time music and it was so full of energy. I grew up in Seattle.…
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A Great Song That Keeps Getting Requests
Hi Red, I live on Vancouver Island and love listening to your show. I heard a song today and am hoping to get the name. I looked at the playlist but I can’t seem to locate it. It is an older song about a rich girl and a poor boy meeting on the road to…
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Swamp Water Memories
So you want the exact concoction of the swamp water… of course, swamp water was the famous A & W root beer mixed with (what else??) orange pop! After all, aren’t those the A & Dub colours? Brown and orange. When the A&W opened on East Trans Canada Highway in Kamloops several years ago, my…
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Mail: Hi-Los, Marvin Gaye, C-FUN on FM
Red, I am delighted you continue to entertain Vancouver and surrounding areas, now on your Sunday morning show. Why should you be surprised – you are a music icon, you have met everybody worth meeting in the music world, imagine – Elvis and the Beatles! I know you started when you were just a kid.…
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Remember Ian Whitcomb?
Dear Red, I’ve been wanting to get the song (and I’m not sure of the title) called ‘That’s My Song’ perhaps. It’s from the 60s (British Invasion?). It says…” come on now baby, you know you really turn me on…and when and when you do, {passionate pants} heh, heh, heh that’s my song.” Jianni Fletcher…
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Radio’s Future… on the Internet?
Red, first off may I say that I started listening to you before I knew how to operate a radio and you may very well have been my first favourite DJ, and have gone on to become a radio host and DJ myself, so you deserve a bit of credit there. The reason for my…