{"id":467,"date":"2010-04-01T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=467"},"modified":"2010-04-01T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T14:08:10","slug":"matt-the-cat-mention-in-ny-daily-news-3-31-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2010\/04\/01\/matt-the-cat-mention-in-ny-daily-news-3-31-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt The Cat Mention In NY Daily News 3-31-10"},"content":{"rendered":"
Some artists simply resonate with radio listeners, and the multiple tributes to Johnny Maestro since his death last week say he was one.<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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New York Daily News <\/em><\/div>\n
March 31, 2010<\/em><\/div>\n
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\u00c2\u00a0By DAVID HINCKLEY<\/div>\n
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\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Saturday at midnight on WFUV (90.7 FM), Dan Romanello will salute Maestro on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Group Harmony Review\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which grew out of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Time Capsule Show,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d which launched in March 1963 and whose first-ever voice was Johnny Maestro, leading the Crests on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sweetest One.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Maestro, a quiet New York kid who became riveting when he took the stage, cut more than a dozen great records with the Crests \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a seriously underappreciated vocal group \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and then scored again with the Brooklyn Bridge. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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His work was saluted on WCBS-FM, WFDU, WBZO, WMTR, WVOX, WRSU, WLNG and on Sirius XM \u00e2\u20ac\u201c though radio rarely does extended tributes any more unless the artist is on the level of Michael Jackson. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Twenty years ago WCBS-FM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Bobby Jay would have done at least an hour in the Hall of Fame the night Maestro died. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen now, though WCBS-FM (101.1) program director Brian Thomas says listeners still do \u00e2\u20ac\u0153appreciate our remembering.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sirius XM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Norm N. Nite did a half hour on Maestro, talking with contemporaries like Jay Black, Lou Christie and Dion, and that was good. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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But since Sirius XM first sold itself as alternative radio, it was frustrating that it no longer has a live weeknight host like Matt the Cat who could have done a longer, more music-based retrospective on an important life and career. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Memo to Sirius XM: Bring back MTC. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bobby Jay, meanwhile, says he misses Maestro not only as an artist, but as a friend with whom he often recorded.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Johnny not only had that distinctive voice, he was a brilliant musician,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Jay. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He understood vocal harmony. He did all his arrangements and he had a great ear. If 20 people were singing and one was a little sharp or flat, he heard it. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was a singer. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what he was about. He wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t interested in the show biz life. He got off on a major ninth chord. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was rock \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 roll\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bel canto singer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>AROUND THE DIAL: The Catholic Channel on Sirius XM (Sirius 159, XM 117) features extensive Holy Week programming that includes Easter Mass celebrated on Sunday by Pope Benedict XVI. Hear that live at 4:10 a.m. And rebroadcast at 4 p.m. . . . Donny Osmond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new syndicated nightly show can be heard starting tomorrow, 7 p.m.-midnight, on WBZO (103.1 FM). . . . Friday night, midnight, will Joey Reynolds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last broadcast on WOR (710 AM). Starting next Monday, George Noory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Coast to Coast\u00e2\u20ac\u009d moves into that slot. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some artists simply resonate with radio listeners, and the multiple tributes to Johnny Maestro since his death last week say he was one. \u00c2\u00a0 New York Daily News March 31, 2010 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0By DAVID HINCKLEY \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Saturday at midnight on WFUV (90.7 FM), Dan Romanello will salute Maestro on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Group Harmony Review\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which grew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-night-prowl-show","category-uncategorized","category-xm-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}