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The Pete Sayek Show comes to you LIVE every Wednesday Night at 9PM ET via the The Hank and Jim Radio Network. Stop by for some great music and fun chat!
Another BIG edition of the program for you this week, as we bring you four full hours of music and mayhem (heavy on the music and thankfully, light on the mayhem). A few cat fights are broken up along the way (actual cats, folks) but that does not in any way impede of the infotainment! We've got the usual fun 'n games, a brand new Top 5 at 10 (think: summer of love), your great requests and a whole lot more, including (in addition to another live BBC appearance), the 60th Anniversary of the release of The Beatles' "She Loves You" single in our Spotlight this week (and a special Fab Four surprise). It's bursting at the seams with great stuff so please, get yer Yeah Yeah Yeahs out and enjoy!
It's the middle of August - still plenty of time to hit the beach and get your summer on - so why not take along this week's show for maximum summertime enjoyment! We've got our regular Wednesday night extravaganza for you this week, with plenty of great requests, a brand new Top 5 at 10, another fine LIVE BBC appearance in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight and more fun 'n sun than you can fathom in just four hours! The fun lasts and lasts on the Big Show - hope you'll feel that way too. Enjoy!
Well, the Big Show got bumped to Saturday this week (due to circumstances beyond our control) but that didn't stop us from swinging the night away (thankfully, we got done right BEFORE storms knocked out power here at the studio!). Despite the shift to the weekend, we have all the same fun and stuff you normally get in the middle of the week, a brand new Top 5 at 10, another great Beatles Anniversary Spotlight / live BBC performance, a bunch of great requests and a whole lot more. We also remember Robbie Robertson throughout the program and have some legendary birthdays, too. Party like it's the weekend and crank up the scintillating stereo sounds. Enjoy!
This week we kick off a new month with a big, BIG edition of the Program! The joint was rockin' this week, and the show reflected that atmosphere as we had a plethora of great music, a bunch of great requests, a brand new Top 5 at 10, another live BBC appearance in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight and so much more fun and games that I'm not sure how we crammed it ALL into just four hours - but somehow, we did, all in glorious 2.0 HiFi stereo! It's another grand shew for all your summertime listening needs! Enjoy!
We've got a jam-packed edition of the Program this week for you, featuring much musical goodness for your listening pleasure. There's all the regular bits of fun, including a brand new Top 5 at 10, a slew of great requests, another live BBC appearance in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight this week, and a whole lot more. The birthday list was full of great choices this week, including Mick Jagger's 80th (which gets some special acknowledgement). We also remember the legendary Tony Bennet throughout the show with some fine selections. All presented in delightful stereo HiFi. Enjoy!
Another BIG show for you this week (lotsa listeners, lotsa fun), where I was having so much fun I went the full four hours (I'd only planned on doing three!). Gloriously devoid of any technical problems AGAIN, I think I got my extra energy from the good karma floating around the program itself. Anyway, we have some fantastic tuneage for you this week, including some great golden gassers, YOUR great requests, a brand-new Top 5 at 10, Two (count 'em, two) live BBC appearances in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight and a whole lot more. The perfect excuse for getting on your dancing shoes and all that goes with that - enjoy!
A jam-packed edition of The Big Show for you this week. Not only do we have the usual fun 'n stuff, but we are (belatedly) celebrating the 83rd birthday of the one and only Sir Richard Starkey, M.B.E. - you know him as Ringo Starr, the man that put the BEAT in The Beatles! We've got plenty of fine Ringo tunes, both solo and with the other lads, as well as another LIVE BBC appearance in the Beatles Anniversary Spotlight, a delightfully new Top 5 at 10, YOUR great requests and all the things you know and love, as Ringo might say! We've also got an update on the WHOT podcast restorations in progress even as we speak. So gather up behind the drum kit and settle in for four hours of glorious stereophonic sounds. Enjoy!
With the sounds of fireworks still sizzling in the air, we return with another fine (abridged) edition of the Pete Sayek Program this week, kicking off the month of July (and the first delightful heatwave of the summer) with some great tunes and just enough silliness. We've got (of course) YOUR great requests, a swingin' Top 5 at 10, another live BBC performance in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight and a whole lot more. It's also Huey Lewis' 73rd birthday, so we gotta just get too darn loud and bring you some News, too. Full service entertainment from your friends at The Big Show. Enjoy!
Hey kids, it's our BIG Independence Day show, not posted in convenient podcast form for your downloading and listening convenience! We've got a plentiful selection of patriotic favorites throughout the show, and we look back at songs that were at Number One on July 4ths in the past! There's also a brand new Top 5 at 10, YOUR great requests, TWO fantastic live Beatles BBC appearances in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight and a whole lot more crammed into four hours of star-spangled fun! It's the perfect accompaniment for your holiday festivities - take us along to the pool, the BBQ, the backyard or the beach - wherever you find yourself this weekend. It's an audio freedom-fest to enhance your holiday celebrations so take us along wherever you go. Enjoy!
It's Flag Day on the Pete Sayek Program and we've got a fine program for you after a two-week hiatus! In addition to the usual fun and games we have a great selection of tunes for you, including YOUR great requests, a brand spanking new edition of the Top 5 at 10 and another rockin' 60th Anniversary BBC performance in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight. Of course, there's a little flag-waving for the old Stars and Stripes mixed in there too! It's an early pre-summer swing session from your host, Mr. Sayek - enjoy!
A rather fun week of music and merriment from The Big Show as we had a rather full (listener) house, cookies and a LOT of coffee. There's some fine tunes, YOUR great requests, a brand new Top 5 at 10, even another hurricane and a snowstorm lurking and a whole lot more. We also mark the 40th Anniversary of George Harrison's 'Gone Troppo' album in out Beatles Anniversary Spotlight with selections dispersed throughout the program. Basically, it's a night of fun on a bun. Let the good times roll - enjoy!
Well, it just about that time to pull the lever once again, or push the button as the case may be these days (hey, maybe THIS time we can actually have results before Thanksgiving!). Our pre-election day show (at least) makes choosing something to listen to EASY! We've got the usual fun and games, plus some more Halloween musings, a brand new Top 5 at 10, a bunch of YOUR great requests and a slew of Beatles Anniversary Spotlights to get caught up on (including a rare BBC performance)! It's too bad they can't combine Election Day AND Halloween on the same day - then you could vote in costume and get candy. I'm always thinking about making things better. Anyway, get out there and VOTE and take us along to keep you company in line. Enjoy!
Yes boys and ghouls, it's our annual Halloween Spooktacular, presented in full-fidelity 360 scare-io! It's a night full of frightening favorites that go bump in the night, so you may need to listen with the lights on! Even the studio equipment seemed to be haunted (leading to a later-than-usual sign-on), but we pushed through the fog and fear (despite more issues than you can shake a skeleton at) like a good ghost-host should! Aided and abetted by the resident Halloween cats, it's all good, scary fun! It's a monstrously good time, so feel free to take us along while trick or treating, or just sitting at home eating all the leftover candy. Enjoy...if you dare!
An abridged edition of The Big Show for you this week (a very tiring week led to your host needing to get what most people call, "normal sleep") but that doesn't mean we're not big on the music! In addition to YOUR great requests (of course) we have a new edition of the Top 5 at 10, the usual fun and nonsense and we mark the 96th birthday of the Godfather of Rock and Roll, Chuck Berry. It's like everything else we do but in special compacted form. Enjoy!
This week we celebrate the life of John Lennon by marking his 82nd birthday on October 9th with a healthy helping of Beatles and solo music throughout the evening, including some fine requests. Of course there's the usual bits of business, including a new Top 5 at 10, more of YOUR great requests, plus some belated Columbus Day selections for all the pisans and pisanas out there. It's a fine four hours presented in spectra-sonic stereo for your listening pleasure.
Another month, another swell Spectra-Sonic stereo edition of The Program for you this week, another jam-packed show filled with fine music and more! We've got a new edition of the Top 5 an 10, a bunch or YOUR great requests and whole lot more. Included in tonight's happenings we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Beatles' first single, "Love Me Do" in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight, celebrate the birthdays of some rock and roll legends and remember the Queen of Country music, Loretta Lynn. It's a big night on The Big Show. Enjoy!
This week we start the Labor Day Weekend a little early as another month draws to a close here on The Big Show! Your humble host finds himself still a tad under the weather, but he doesn't let that stop him from playing the hits for all you swingin' kids in fabulous, full-fidelity 360 HiFi stereo. We have a bunch of YOUR great requests, explore my annual irrational Labor Day angst, present another edition of the Top 5 at 10, and oh so much more. We even take a little trip in the Wayback machine to see what yours truly was up to 34 years ago this week (hint: it's not too much different than what I am doing now!). Plus we look back at the 50th (eek) Anniversary of John Lennon's performance at the One to One Concert in our Beatles Spotlight. It's the perfect accompaniment for your extended three-day celebration of summer. Fire up the ol' grill and enjoy!
Another grand week here on The Big Show as summer winds down and the kiddies prepare to go back to school...but the music is still rockin' and rollin' here as we play some swingin' tunes plus YOUR great requests! We also debut a new feature here on The Program, "The Top 5 at 10" where we kick off the 10PM hour by looking back at the Top 5 songs on this date in the past! In addition, we have another HUGE Beatles Anniversary Spotlight as we look back at the 60th Anniversary of the group's first filmed TV performance at The Cavern. It's all fabulous fun lovingly programmed just for you! Enjoy!
The Pete Sayek Program returns after a one-week hiatus with a show so big we needed four-and-a-half hours to squeeze it all in! This week, we remember the great Olivia Newton-John throughout the program, as well as Judith Durham of The Seekers and legendary Motown writer and producer Lamont Dozier. Of course we have the usual stuff you've come to know and expect from The Big Show - a smattering of technical problems, YOUR great request and a VERY MOMENTOUS Beatles Anniversary Spotlight from 60 years ago, plus all the great music one can cram into one tiny (four-plus-hour) program. Oh, and we also remember The King on the 45th anniversary of his departure and of so much more. It's a jam-packed evening of music, memories and mayhem. Enjoy!
Well, it's August and that means the Dog Days of Summer are officially here! As we sit in the middle of another hazy, hot, humid week, the Pete Sayek Program continues to bring you the coolest sounds to fan your feverish face in 360 air-conditioned stereo! It's our first show under the heading of the new Hank, Jim and PETE network (who?) and there's an obvious learning curve that needs to be mastered here (we'll work on it)! In addition to YOUR great requests and some of the usual antics from your humble host, we've got some sensational summertime songs of the season and a whole lot more, including a tip of the carrot to that master thespian turning 82 years young, Bugs Bunny! It's a jam-packed Program for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
As the east coast bakes in a heat wave of hellish proportional, The Pete Sayek Program does what it can to keep you COOL with some chillin' tunes to fan your ears! We've got an ice truck full of tunes that are perfect for playing by the pool, in the park or wherever you are trying to avoid the heat and humid-itity! We'll look back at final broadcast of Radio New York International, 35 years ago this very night, as well as the usual fun and games. Find yourself a bit of shade, a cool beverage and crank up the music. Enjoy!
Back with a regular edition of the Program this week, we have a full four hours of music in glorious 360 stereo! In addition to the full allotment of swingin' tunes and YOUR great requests, we'll talk about the upcoming 35th anniversary of Radio New York International, as well as some "live" Beatles Anniversary Spotlights and talk about some great summer of the past. It's a whole lotta good sounds and great fun - enjoy!
Since we did not have a regular show this week, we decided to post a special 3-hour WEB EXCLUSIVE program for everyone the listens via the podcast! So if your week was incomplete without The Big Show, now you can still satiate your need for music and silliness! This week we celebrate the life of the legendary Larry Storch, continue celebrating the 82nd birthday of Sir Ringo Starr and we even have a Monkees anniversary spotlight, in addition to the usual nonsense we bring you every week. Enjoy the special sounds and selections assembled for your listening pleasurement. Enjoy!
Another hot-fun-in-the-summertime edition of The Pete Sayek Program brought to you AGAIN in problem-atic stereo (another week, another ulcer) but complete with all the fun intact! Along with the usual bits of silliness, we have some excellent musical birthdays to commemorate, including the 82nd birthday of the man that put the BEAT into The Beatles, Ringo Starr (with plenty of tunes from Sir Richard Starkey throughout the program)! We also mark the day John met Paul 65 years ago. It's fine listening by the pool or on the go - enjoy!
This week we celebrate America's 246th birthday with our annual Independence Day spectacular! Despite some technical snafus, we've got plenty of patriotic favorites for your listening enjoyment, as well as the usual bits of business, YOUR great requests, a backlog of Beatles Anniversary Spotlights and we're also featuring songs that topped the charts on July 4th in the past. It's like a bouquet of audio fireworks you can take along by the BBQ or the pool as you celebrate. Happy Birthday, America - enjoy!
Good heavens...this week we have a show SO big we needed FIVE HOURS to squeeze it all in! That's right, it's our super-sized BIRTHDAY EXTRAVAGANZA where yours truly celebrated another trip around the Sun by spinning the hits for you crazy kids, while at the same time we kicked off the Summer season with a superb sampling of smashing seasonal sounds to warm you up for the surf and sand! We ALSO spotlight the 80th birthdays of Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson with a hefty sampling of songs from both (I have a few years to go to catch up)! Of course we have YOUR great summertime requests, we reminisce about summertime in Brooklyn (back in my yoot) and a whole lot more fun! So grab a cool drink, a bottle of sunscreen and settle in my the pool with this week's offering. There's even some birthday cake for later. Enjoy!
It's another fine week of fun here on the big show as we roll out some great music and silliness to lift your spirits! We have a whole bunch of Beatles Anniversary Spotlights for you this week, looking back at events of 20, 30, 50 and 60 years ago, including their second appearance on BBC Radio! We also have a salute to Old Glory in honor of Flag Day and a whole lot more - so have a grand old time and enjoy the sounds!
We've got a bunch of great stuff for you on this week's show - in addition to the usual nonsense, there's a bunch of YOUR great requests, some timely musical birthdays, more great tunes than you can shake a stick at (if stick-shaking is your thing) and we mark the 60th Anniversary of The Beatles' audition for Parlophone (and spin the two surviving songs) in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight, plus a whole lot more fun 'n nonsense for your listening amusement. Enjoy!
No June Swoon here on the Big Show as we kick off a new month of fine programming (and your host's birthday month) with another evening of fantabulous fun and swingin' toons to infotain you! Once again we have the usual silliness, plus a whole mess of YOUR great requests and a whole lot more. Mother Nature makes a special appearance, and we look back at the 40th Anniversary of the Beatles at the Beeb radio special from 1982. It's a grand night of listening enjoyment, all in glorious 360 HiFi stereo. Enjoy!
This week on the Program we close out the merry, merry month of May in merry fashion with a delightful mix of marvelous music, a whole slew of YOUR great requests, a flashback to my high school days, and so much stuff that only sleep could stop it from going on indefinitely! We also mark the 30th Anniversary of Ringo Starr's "Time Takes Time" album in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight (has it REALLY been 30 years?) and look ahead to the Memorial Day weekend. It a jam-packed edition of The Big Show - oh, and do not adjust your set: this week's show is in glorious 1.0 mono due to a wiring faux pas by yours truly (whoops)! A show even Van Gogh will like. Enjoy!
Another grand week here on the Big Show as we present a swell selection of great music and merriment for your listening enjoyment, in glorious 360 HiFi stereo. In addition to the usual fun and games, we have a very Paul-centric Beatles Anniversary Spotlight for you, plus some songs saluting the past week's lunar eclipse, YOU great requests and a grand group of Bobby Darin tunes (one of my personal favorites). A fine musical mélange lovingly assembled just for you. Enjoy!
Another cracking edition of the program on file for you this week with four delightful hours of great music and a hint of humor - all arranged lovingly for your listening pleasure! This week we tip the spotlight to Billy Joel in honor of his 73rd (!) birthday, as well as the usual fun 'n games, including a bunch of YOUR great requests and a whole lot more. It's MAY MAYHEM, all presented in gorgeous 2.0 stereo. Grab yourself a root beer, crank up the sounds and enjoy!
So much happening in this week's Program - not only is it our first show of May but we've got some Cinco de Mayo celebrations, channel The Force on this "May the Fourth", tip our caps to all the Moms out there for Mother's Day, YOUR great requests and have a Ringo-centric Beatles Anniversary Spotlight in a show so big we needed a little MORE than four hours to squeeze it all in! It's a veritable cornucopia of music and merriment, all presented in fabulous 360 HiFi stereo. Tell Mom you love her and enjoy!
A very fun night on the big show (despite fighting issues with our music computer AND my own special brand of brain fog) with great music and requests (even if we didn't have all of 'em) plus the usual shenanigans and nonsense. We also mark the 40th Anniversary of Paul McCartney's "Tug Of War" album in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlight plus a whole lot more fun and games. Join us as we close out the month of April in style (although what kind of style that is remains to be understood!). Enjoy!
This week we present our yearly ode to Tax Day (boo) with monetary music that is sure to brighten the occasion (even if you owe sumpin') plus a bevvy of fine requests, some momentous musical birthdays and even a bit of silliness or two! It's like getting a large refund but in 360 HiFi Stereo. Grab your calculators and pencils and enjoy (don't forget to take a deduction for each smile)!
It's our big pre-Easter show and we have a basket full of musical goodies on tap for you this week! We'll have the usual fun 'n games, YOUR great requests and a whole lot more! It's the perfect accompaniment for your Easter Egg hunting or jelly bean eating. We also have am update on how the latest archiving project is going and a whole lot more. So grab the nearest bunny and a box of Peeps, crank up the sounds and enjoy! Hop hop!
A bit of a late start this week, but that just meant we had to squeeze in more music! We kick off the month of April with a good 'un for you - a plethora of fine tuneage, some great requests and the usual bits of fun and games you've come to know and tolerate. We also look back at the amazing Top 5 songs of April 4, 1964 in our Beatles Spotlight this week and remember the great Bobby Rydell throughout the program. It's like an April Shower of entertainment, presented if full 360 HiFi stereo. Enjoy!
March may have com in like a lion, but here at The Big Show it sort of goes out like a confused possum. The program starts off with the cats knocking the board over and things just get more spacey from there. For whatever reason, I was just kind of "out of it". Despite (or perhaps 'because of') that, we have a fun night here for you, filled with plenty of YOUR requests, several big musical birthdays and even a Beatles Anniversary spotlight thrown in for good measure. It's definitely a hippy-drippy affair this week, all for your listening benefit. Enjoy!
Hope springs eternal this week on The Big Shoe as we present out first show of the Spring season (naturally, it was cold and raining)! The musical sunshine spreads throughout the program to melt the winter's chill away with lots of YOUR great requests, a look back at songs that topped the Big Sound Survey back in the day on The Brooklyn Station, spin a little Nat King Cole (for his 103rd birthday), and bring you a little Ringo and 'Reel Music' in our Beatles Anniversary Spotlights. Great sounds bloom abound, all in fabulous 360 HiFi stereophonic sound. It's the perfect accompaniment for your gardening or hammock-napping. Enjoy!
The St. Patrick's Day celebration continues with a special impromptu Friday Night show from Pete and Hank! That's right, we decided to extend the shenanigans through the weekend and pop on for some reminiscing, laughs and general insanity! You'll hear a little about everything - from the earliest days of Hank and Jim's radio career to the upcoming 35th Anniversary of RNI (and everything in between)! The laughs come fast and furious - and BTW this show isn't necessarily safe for work! It's a special edition of "The Pete Sayek Program After Hours" in all it's unbleeped glory. Grab yourself a drop of the hard stuff and fasten your seatbelt!
This week we celebrate St. Patrick's Day with several selections themed for the wearing o' the green throughout the program! In addition to the festive fare there is the usual fun and games, YOUR great requests and overcome some unexpected technical difficulties. We also look back at the 60th Anniversary of The Beatles' first-ever appearance on the BBC (yes, it exists!) and a whole lot more. We're half an hour light this week so we had to work hard to squeeze in even MORE infotainment - enjoy!
March comes in like a lion with slightly over four hours of music and merriment! This week we of course celebrate Mardi Gras with some high-steppin' sounds of New Orleans, plus we have quite the assemblage of fine requests and more silliness than you can shake your beads at. It's a jam-packed edition of The Big Show coming to you in full-fidelity 2.0 stereophonic sound. Grab yourself a slice of King Cake and enjoy!
Back with a full four-hour program (recorded on a FRIDAY this week, no less) and it's a good thing, too as we have a jam-packed edition of The Big Show for you, as we celebrate George Harrison's birthday throughout he evening with a fine selection of his solo and Beatles sounds. There's also a slew of great requests, some nostalgic waxing and even a Paul-centric Beatles Anniversary Spotlight thrown in for good measure, It's guaranteed to please, all in glorious 360 HiFi stereo. Enjoy!
You can feel the love on our (abbreviated) post-Valentine's Day show, with a selection of songs to warm the heart. Just call me Cupid! We've also got the usual bits of fun and some momentous Beatles Anniversary Spotlights, all crammed into three glorious hours in full-fidelity stereo for your romantic listening enjoyment. Grab a blanket and snuggle up with someone you love (even your cat) and enjoy!
Another fine week of programming here on the big show - this week, in addition to the usual silliness and great sounds, we have a SLEW of YOUR great requests plus a very special Beatles Anniversary Spotlight marking the 58th Anniversary of The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, a moment that changed pop culture forever. It's a marvelous night of music an memories here on the Pete Sayek Program, presented as always in full 360 stereophonic Hi-Fi sound for your listening enhancement. Enjoy!
Yes friends, this week it's Groundhog Day on the Pete Sayek Program - thankfully Pennsylvania Pete saw his shadow so that means another week of great music and occasional merriment! In additional to the usual bits of fun we salute the Groundhog in all his glory, plus we review the happenings of the week that was, play some of YOUR great requests and even have a Ringo-riffic Beatles anniversary spotlight for you. Of course, we also remember the great Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper. It's a jam-packed, four-hour-plus edition of The Big Show - crank it up and enjoy!
It's another sleepy-eyed winter edition of The Pete Sayek Program this week. Woke up just in time to do the show - but that just means we're a little sillier than usual (if that's possible!). We've got some fine music and a bunch of YOUR great requests and the usual fun and games, all presented in glorious 360 HiFi stereo. So grab a coffee and stay awake with us...enjoy!
This week on the program we celebrate the life and music of the legendary Ronnie Spector, spotlighting the fine music of Ronnie and the Ronettes throughout the entire evening. We've also got the usual business, a bunch of great requests - plus a belated birthday tip of the hat to The King, who would have been 87 this past week. There's even a Beatles Anniversary spotlight thrown in for good measure. A full night of fine listening that we hope you'll enjoy, all in super-elastic HiFi stereo.
We kick of a brand new year of webcasting here at the Big Show with four hours of fine music and merriment to start things off right! In addition to the usual fun 'n games, we have a bunch of YOUR great requests, plus we commemorate the 60th Anniversary of The Beatles' audition for Decca Records throughout the program in our Beatles spotlight! We make flipping the calendar fun (even in the middle of madness). Toss your resolution list on the fire to get warm and join the fun with us. Enjoy!
This week we wrap up the year that was 2021 with our big New Year's extravaganza! This was another week of big fun here on the program, with a ton of YOUR requests, a look back at the events of the year gone by plus we have a generous sampling of songs that were topping the charts on New Year's Eves of years gone by. We also get you caught up on Beatles Anniversary Spotlights and check in with the crowd at Times Square. Ring out the old and ring in the new with us - raise a glass and crank up the sounds. Enjoy!