Music Director Brian Peroff celebrates the happy teenage years of the rock’n'roll generation in the 1950s and 60s…with Elvis, Buddy, Fats and Jerry Lee…The Beatles and Beach Boys…Roy Orbison, Ricky Nelson and Brenda Lee.
A top 5 countdown every week, a featured artist and a half-hour of Elvis Presley at 9:00pm.
May 25th, 2012
This week’s Friday Night Bandstand will feature Johnny Rivers and the Top Five Countdown will go back to 1962..
About This Post
Friday Night Bandstand
This entry was posted on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 11:33 am and is filed under Weekdays. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Loading ...
I enjoy your radio station
The Moonglows-Please Send Me Someone To Love
Icky Renrut – Jack Rabbit
Gene Vincent – Dance in the street
The Beavers – Rocking at the drive-in
Dion & The Belmonts – Every litle thing I do
Brendan Solomon
I really enjoy Friday Night Bandstand and it is truly a great show for all and a new generation of R&R fans. Many thanks to you and your staff for always putting together a great show and for bringing back all of the ’50s & ’60s music of the rock & roll era now and forever, VJM
Mr.Peroff You have the greatest show going.Im retired now so I don’t miss much of your friday night program. THANK YOU for takeing me back to the good times in life,when the music was GREAT. Joe Neb
Hi OMB–great show–really scarrrry. I saw you mixed some 70’s in. Things to come????. Still alive and kicking . will be in touch
Your fan–JM
Listened to your show tonight & about suggesting themes for future shows. How about playing songs with the “catchy” intros to the songs or those that have them throughout the song. Examples would be early R&B by Louie Lyman/Frankie Lyman “Oooly pa pa gow gow” “Iddle iddle it, yeah”, Or Dion’s “I Wonder Why”….Roy Orbison’s “Only The Lonely” that starts with…”Dum dum dumdee wha”. Don’t know if I’m explaining what I’m thinking but I think someone put out an entire recording of all those Doo-wop sounds from years ago.
Hi brian, discovered your show several years back and have been a faithfull listener since, have not missed very many.
I love the 50;s and early 60;s the best times ever as far as im concerned, i love the fact you play the songs we hardly ever hear on other oldie stations, they play the same songs over and over, also a big elvis fan.
Keep playin those tunes, if you can find the buddy knox song ling ting tong would be great to hear it.
John Castonguay Missisauga
Brian,
Love, love the Friday night show!! My husband and I clear the room, and jive to our hearts content!! The 50’s were our favourite tunes, and still are. I could listen for hours to Bobby Darin, and Buddy Holly! They were the BEST…God Rest Their Souls.
A question, Brian? In the summer of 1958, I heard a rock and roll tune titled, “Roberta.” Yes, not a popular name, but it’s mine. Never found out who sang it, only heard it once. Do you know anything about this song, or where I could find some information?
Keep up the wonderful TUNES..you have the best job in Toronto!!!
Regards, Roberta
great show every friday night i love the 50’s especially the late 50’s but the early are certainly ok too
great show,however it gets nauseating when u play same tunes every week;how about som good ol rhytm&blues,like ‘up on the mountain’ by the magnificents! tanx!!!
Hello there…Just a note to say hello and let you know how much I have enjoyed the Friday Night Bandstand….just a booming signal to Albany NY in the evenings. Keep up the great sounds, Howie
we’d sure like to hear FEVER by Little Caesar and the Romans. lots of people say it doesn’t exist. the Ghost of Alan Freed says otherwise!! we can pick u up after 8p in sunny Lockwood, New York. best wishes from melloweed and bruce.
Hi OMB–hoped you liked being a conspiracy—how about another fantastic group “The Spinners”; that Mo-Town let rot , until I belive Aretha Franklin ??had them come on her record company. I saw them in the 60″s and they were great.Glad they finally made it.
your (all though you may be an alien)–JM
Hi Brian
Greeting from Cottage Grove, Wisconsin which is near Madison.
I have been a long time listner to all the night time shows and enjoy them all.
Last Friday the 5 of November I was suprised and very happy you played a great Ricky Nelson tune”My Bucket Has a Hole in It”.
You followed with a description of the song and it brought back many memories as I am a Ricky Nelson fan. I am also 65 years old, still working as an electrical engineer but listen many a late night to all the shows.
Keep up the great work.
Jim
Cottage Grove, WI
Hi Brian just wanted to tell you how much
I enjoy your bandstand show, it so good to
hear mainly music of the 50′es and early
60′es. Most shows I hear want to play music
up to the 70′es and 80′es, just keep friday
night bandstand as it is and I’ll be happy.
Gerald Damron
Greensboro, N. C.
Hi Brian, I really enjoy fri.nite bandstand, especially Elvis 1/2 hr,
this is just A SUGGESTON, would u consider playing some country music?
like, Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Roy clark,some of the few.
I know some of your listeners will like that too.
think about it. You,re the boss!!!
THE BEST OF THE BEST
A fr,Miss.
Hi Brian,
It’s been awhile since I last requested a song. I’ve been hospitalized for a few months but I’m now on the mend. I was wondering if on the Friday Night Bandstand you could play the 1967 hit by Gary Lewis and the Playboys “Where Will The Words Come From”?????? I realize it wasn’t a top 10 song but it’s a song that stations do not play at all. It was played all the time upon it’s release in late December ‘66, peaking atb #21 in ‘67. If not this one, how about The Lettermen’s 1962 recording of “Come Back Silly Girl”???? And if possible, could either one of these be played before 8PM tonight 4/2/10?
Thank you in PA.
Jeff
Thanks for so many fine songs. If I could wish for anything it would be more variety. I listen less often due to the “favorites” that get played so often. We in the Chicago area do get you after sunset and love the old radio shows as much. A request? How about more instrumentals and more mid-50s tunes we rarely hear anymore? In sum, we love the station. Yours from Downers Grove, Illinois. Ron
I really love your programme but not always able to hear it when it is on air – does AM740 have the ability for us to listen to shows whenever we feel like – as BBC Radio does?