It’s Local 518 Thursday on WEXT! December 9th

It’s Local 518 Thursday! Click on the artist/band and song featured on the WEXT Radio Local 518 Show to find out more about them, and support by listening to & purchasing the songs. Miss the show? Listen to it and previous ones at the WEXT Radio Local 518 Show webpage. Have music you want us to hear? Submission guidelines can be found at the webpage link too. Send us stuff! A version of the following is posted on the Local 518 Facebook page.

Tonight at 11:00 pm on WEXT Radio, the Local 518 Show playlist features…

Citrus Maxima – “1970“
Annie Scherer – “After Rain“
Canella – “Quiet Love“
Kimberly Hawkey – “One of These Days (I’ll Be Gone)“
Pryce & Perone – “The Sun Will Never Rise in June“
Dylan Perrillo Orchestra – “Dinah”

The Attic Classic: Longtime Capital Region radio and TV personality David Allan is perhaps best known by the local baby boomer generation for the song “Let’s Have a Party, Albany.” That was an extension of years writing radio commercial jingles for local businesses and his earlier songwriting and recording career. Among his records is the 1971 album ‘Until We Meet Again.’ The 11 songs on it were mainly country and pop tunes, some folk, with flashes of early rock n roll.

One track on the album is an ode to the intersection of NY Routes 9 and 2, a traffic flow oddity first built in the 1930’s, then reconfigured in the late 1950’s so that 9 would pass straight through under 2. There was even a shopping mall named after it.

I’m sure you’ve figured out that the title of the Attic Classic is “Latham Circle.”

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David Allan was the popular host of WRGB’s “Pick-A-Show” airing weekday mornings beginning in 1965. For one hour, live and in color, the local TV viewing audience could participate to win cash and valuable merchandise while learning of the day’s programming. Audio clips from “The Best of Pick-a-Show – A Side” record, which came out in 1972, provided from the miSci, The Museum of Innovation and Science (formerly Schenectady Museum) YouTube.