“The Friday Night All-Request Party,” hosted by Mike Saffran, on “99 BBF”/WBBF-FM (98.9), Rochester, N.Y. Originally aired 7 p.m.–Midnight May 7, 1999. (Bonus podcast episode)
Special note: Filling in for Chuck McCoy on the “Friday Night All-Request Party” (thus, technically this isn’t a “Jukebox”; but the only differences were the use of an alternate background bed and no coin-into-slot sound effects before requests).
Callers aired and other show highlights:
00:23 Jerry/Clarkson (“The Rapper”)
01:36 Becky/Roberts Wesleyan College (“I Got You Babe” — dedication to college-roommate Cory)
01:57 “I didn’t know girls were named Cory — I just learned something!” ;-)
02:50 Frankie/Macedon (“My True Story”)
03:31 “Beatle Brunch” with Joe Johnson, Road Runner Online from Time Warner Communications and Hawley Motors (Batavia) (sponsors) references
04:10 Eileen/Ogden (“Happy Birthday, Sweet Sixteen”)
04:40 Bobby (with Peter) (“Twistin’ The Night Away”)
06:01 Mary/Rochester (“I Got You [I Feel Good]”)
06:36 Unidentified male/Buffalo (“Five O’Clock World”)
07:23 Monica/Penfield (“I Feel The Earth Move”)
07:32 “There’s only one person who can get away with saying ‘This is Monica’ … and we would assume which Monica it is, right?” ;-) (And that Monica — Monica Lewinsky — will be on SNL tomorrow night! ;-)
07:57 Doug (“Itchycoo Park”)
08:15 Working some extra hours for Bloody Mary money! :-)
09:08 Suggestion: Would Buffalo Bills training camp be better suited for RIT than St. John Fisher College? (Note: This was before training camp’s official move, about a year later, in 2000, from SUNY Fredonia to St. John Fisher; RIT had been another campus under consideration for training camp. My mea culpa, 25 years later: Training camp at Fisher turned out to be a huge success!)
10:03 Nancy/Gates (“Just One Look”)
10:38 Bill/Rochester (“Who Put The Bomp [In The Bomp-Sha-Bomp]”)
11:04 Churchville-Chili High School Spring Chorus Concert (featuring tribute to doo-wop) reference
11:35 Janet/Driving home to Bloomfield from Victor (“Mule Skinner Blues”)
12:06 Ray/Mendon (“Venus”)
12:32 Jamie/Henrietta (“Sugar, Sugar”)
13:26 Bob/Driving on I-390 (“Sea Cruise”)
14:01 “Enough about [President Bill] Clinton!” (after “Liar, Liar” ;-)
14:08 Kathy/Driving, with a friend, to The Brickyard Pub (Rochester) (“Different Drum”)
14:26 A real “full-service radio station”: Giving turn-by-turn driving directions to The Brickyard Pub (beware of all the potholes on Clinton Avenue that Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson won’t fix … then turn left at Geva Theatre and all the colorful signs! ;-)
16:00 Dave/LeRoy (“Needles And Pins”)
17:03 Kim (with Liz)/Driving home to Geneseo (“If You Wanna Be Happy”)
17:36 Tracy/Webster (“Ain’t Too Proud To Beg”)
18:55 Walt/Port Gibson (“Be-Bop-A-Lula”)
19:15 Laura/Fairport (“Long Cool Woman [In A Black Dress]”)
19:39 Diane/Greece (“Summer Rain”)
20:27 Bill/Marion (“Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On”)
All content (radio aircheck, audio podcast – all components, and show notes): © Michael J. Saffran
