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Name of Jazz Artist on WRVR Radio Station NYC 1970?
There used to be a radio station in NYC in the early 70s, WRVR (100 or so on the FM dial), that was broadcast from the Riverside Church uptown. Van Jay hosted the midnight show and he opened every night with a theme song....an instrumental... and it was a tenor sax. I think it was on the Prestige label. I know it's a long shot but I've been trying to find out the name of it and the artist all these years! Any help would be really appreciated!
P.S. I also asked this question in the "jazz" category.... sorry, but I think it belongs here.
Oh Yeah! You remember! "Van Jay's Midnight Hour." I was also listening that night and couldn't figure it out... my dad called me and asked me if I was hearing country, too. LOL! WOW....
No, sorry, it wasn't Herbie Hancock but nice try. For some reason I remember Prestige 7193 (don't ask me why I remember a number!) and I bought it but it's Red Garland Trio's Rojo. There were some tunes on there that I remember from the show like, You Better Go Now and We Kiss in a Shadow but neither of those is it either. Oh well, the hunt goes on.....
Thanks for giving me a rush though!
Actually, it was "Van Jay in the Midnight Hour." Hadda correct :-)
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- OhYeah?!Lv 51 decade agoFavorite Answer
Hey, I remember WRVR!
I liked Van Jay, the overnight guy... also Max Cole and Ed Beech. I was listening the night it changed to country music... Was driving home from a gig, and I thought the radio station had drifted. It took me a while to figure it out.
Anyway, I'm not sure if I remember exactly what Van used as a theme, but I kinda remember Herbie Hancock's "Dolphin Dance"... or maybe they just used it as a bed under their announcements.
Let me know if that's correct.
peace
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- 6 years ago
Wow! Those really were the good ol' days. I was a B-school grad student at Columbia U back then. Van Jay's show was called "Jazz by Request" that came in around midnite!
By break from studying was to call in my request to hear Dakota Staton sing "Congratulations to Someone" or "Deep in a Dream" in anticipation of going to the Village to see her sing it at a little club called "The Needle's Eye"!
Years later I visited NYC only to find WRVR was playing country/western!
