Good Vibrations Music Radio Program

12/30/2025

The Good Vibrations Radio program is now ON THE AIR

12/30/2025

MUSIC ARTIST MEMORIAL - 2025
A number of significant music artists have passed on this year. I will not list every one of them but I have created a list of artists that I am more familiar with and have some knowledge of, in chronological order, here is my list (name-age-instrument-band):

Wayne Osmond - 78 - Guitar, drums - The Osmond Brothers
Peter Yarrow - 86 - Voice, acoustic guitar - Peter, Paul & Mary (If I Had a Hammer, Lemon Tree)
Sam Moore - 89 - Voice - Sam & Dave (Soul Man, Hold On I'm Coming)
Toby Myers - 75 - Bass guitar - John Mellencamp
Mike Miller - 71 - Bass guitar - Boz Scaggs, Gino Vanelli
**Garth Hudson - 87 - Keyboards, Sax - Ronnie Hawkins, Levon & The Hawks, The Band - Born London, Ont.
Marianne Faithful - 78 - Voice - Solo (As Tears Go By)
Colin Earl - 82 - Piano - Mungo Jerry (In the Summertime)
Tommy Hunt - 91 - Voice - The Flamingoes (I Only Have Eyes For You)
Roberta Flack - 88 - Voice - Solo (Killing Me Softly)
David Johansen - 75 - Voice - The New York Dolls/Buster Poindexter
Joey Molland - 77 - Guitar - Badfinger/John Lennon
Jesse Colin Young - 83 - Voice, Bass guitar - Youngbloods (Get Together)
Dave Arbus - 83 - Violin - The Who (Baba O'Reilly)
Roy Thomas Baker - 78 - Producer - Queen, The Cars
David Briggs - 82 - Keyboards, Producer, Studio Owner - Elvis Presley and hundreds of others
Rick Derringer - 77 - Guitar - Johnny Winter/Solo (R&R Hoochie Koo)
Al Foster - 82 - Drums - Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock
Sly Stone - 82 - Voice - Sly & The Family Stone
**Brian Wilson - 82 - Singer-Songwriter, Keyboards - The Beach Boys
**Mick Ralphs - 81 - Lead electric guitar - Mott the Hoople/Bad Co.
Bobby Sherman - 81 - Voice - Solo
Connie Francis - 87 - Voice - Solo
Ozzie Osbourne - 76 - Voice - Black Sabbath/Solo
George Kooymans - 77 - Guitar, Voice - Golden Earring (Radar Love)
**Chuck Mangione - 84 - Trumpet, Composer - Solo with band
Cleo Laine - 97 - Voice - Solo
Tom Lehrer - 97 - Singer-Songwriter, Piano - Solo/Political satire
Bobby Whitlock - 77 - Singer, Keyboards - Derek & The Dominoes (Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs)
Roy Estrada - 82 - Bass guitar - Frank Zappa, Little Feat
Tom Shipley - 84 - Singer-Songwriter, acoustic guitar - Brewer & Shipley (One T**e Over the Line)
Marjorie Latzko - 96 - Voice - The Chordettes (Mr. Sandman - 1954)
Mark Volman - 78 - Guitar, Voice - The Turtles, Flo & Eddie
**Rick Davies - 81 - Keyboards, Singer-Songwriter - Supertramp
Bobby Hart - 86 - Singer-Songwriter - with Tommy Boyce for The Monkees
Sonny Curtis - 88 - Singer-Songwriter, Guitar - Buddy Holly (I Fought the Law)
**John Lodge - 80 - Bass guitar - The Moody Blues
Ace Frehley - 74 - Guitar - Kiss
Dave Burgess - 90 - Guitar - The Champs (Tequila)
**Jack DeJohnette - 83 - Drums, Piano, Composer - Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock
Jimmy Cliff - 81 - Voice - Solo (Reggae)
**Steve Cropper - 84 - Guitar, Songwriter, Producer - Booker T & The MG's, The Blues Brothers
Raul Malo - 60 - Singer-Songwriter, guitar - The Mavericks
**Chris Rea - 74 - Singer-Songwriter, guitar - Solo (Fool If You Think It's Over)
Robbie Kondor - 70 - Piano - Carole King, Eric Clapton, Billy Joel, Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Whitney Houston

12/29/2025

🚨Now Announcing🚨

Trent McClellan's Be Nice Tour is coming to Harbourfront Theatre on Saturday, March 21st!

Trent McClellan has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s elite comedic talents of both stage and screen. A veteran standup, Trent has appeared on festivals across the country including Just For Laughs and Winnipeg Comedy Festival, and is the host of CBC’s Halifax Comedy Festival.

He is also a lead member of the recent Canadian Screen Award winning cast of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, and has appeared on numerous other programs including CBC’s The Debaters. Trent effortlessly pulls audiences in with his charm and positive attitude, and his quick wit and hilarious delivery leave them in stitches.

🎟Tickets: https://harbourfronttheatre.com/shows/trent-mcclellan-the-be-nice-tour/

12/29/2025

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12/23/2025

Today's program theme is once again Christmas songs, but this is not your parents Christmas music! Many new Christmas songs and classic songs by contemporary artists. Heard around the world on the internet at CoveFM dot com from 12-3 Atl. time (11-2 EST)

12/16/2025

The Good Vibrations Music Radio Program is now ON THE AIR!

12/16/2025

My internet-radio music program airs today from 12-3 Atl. time (11-2 Eastern). THEME: CHRISTMAS SONGS #1.

This is not your parents Christmas music!

Each hour is a different, though not saturated, flavour:

Hour #1: Soul;
Hour #2: Blues;
Hour #3: Jazzy.

Heard on the internet around the world (wherever there is internet) at CoveFM dot com and also locally in the near Hubbards, Nova Scotia vicinity on radio at 88.7

12/09/2025

The Good Vibrations Music Radio Program is ON THE AIR!

12/09/2025

Today's show theme is songs of WINTER or DECEMBER. Airing from 12-3 Atl. time around the world at CoveFM dot com. It's a great time to listen to music and bake or cook those tasty holiday treats.

12/06/2025

On a rainy, grey night in 1977, Mark Knopfler stepped into a nearly deserted pub in Deptford, South London.
He wasn’t looking for inspiration.
He just wanted a drink.

In the corner, a small Dixieland jazz band was playing — older men with older instruments, dressed in worn jackets, performing like they were in front of a full house.

But they weren’t.

Three or four people were inside the pub.
A couple of boys playing pool.
Nobody paying attention.

Except Knopfler.

He stayed.
He listened.
He called out songs — “Creole Love Call,” “Muskrat Ramble.”
The band looked stunned that anyone in the room even recognized their music.

For two hours, they played their hearts out to a room that didn’t care.

Then the bandleader stepped to the mic, smiled, and said:

“Goodnight and thank you…
We are the Sultans of Swing.”

Knopfler almost laughed.
There was nothing glamorous about that pub, that crowd, or that band — that’s precisely why the name struck him like lightning.

He went back to the council flat he shared with his brother David and bassist John Illsley. Money was tight, the gas meter kept running out, and the name “Dire Straits” wasn’t just a joke — it was their reality.

Knopfler picked up his National Steel guitar and wrote a song about those musicians —
about Harry who worked a day job,
about Guitar George who knew all the chords,
about the quiet dignity of people who play simply for the love of music.

The song was good, but something was missing.

Then he somehow scraped together enough money to buy a used 1961 Fender Stratocaster.

The moment he plugged it in, everything snapped into place.
The chords flowed.
The melody came alive.
“Sultans of Swing” was born.

They recorded a demo. BBC Radio 1 rejected it — too long, too wordy, not commercial.

But a Dutch DJ played it.
Then a German station.
Then, suddenly, American radio couldn’t get enough.

“Sultans of Swing” hit #4 on the Billboard charts.

And the BBC that once dismissed it?
They finally played it — only because it had become a hit in the United States.
A perfect, poetic twist.

Dire Straits went on to sell over 120 million records, fill stadiums, and define an era of rock.

When Mark Knopfler auctioned off his guitar collection in 2024 — some selling for millions — he kept one instrument:

The 1961 Stratocaster that brought “Sultans of Swing” to life.

“It’s family,” he said. “You don’t let that go.”

As for the real Sultans of Swing?
Nobody ever found them.
They never knew their name became one of the greatest rock songs ever written.

But on that quiet night in a forgotten pub, they played with soul, joy, and pride.

And that was enough to inspire a classic.

12/05/2025