Tuesday, November 24, 2009

thanks kjwan

hey kjwan, thanks for logging in. you must know it by now that you are the very first visitor to my blog that registered. it was when i saw you that i was compelled to begin my story. i hope you spread the word about my blog. thanks again

the beginning

i told myself i was gonna start this before xmas so here goes........i'm really not very sure whether it was in '81 or '82 when i joined dwxb 102.7. it was headed by my ninong, Jessie Gonzales, and the format was disco. during one of my on-air shifts, i saw this cassette lying around the booth and there was a song there called "pale shelter" by tears for PEARS. that's right, it was spelled with a P and not with an F. i listened to it and i liked it. can you imagine how stupid i sounded when i announced the artists as TEARS FOR PEARS? of course back then nobody had heard of them so i didn't sound THAT stupid! anyways, after a couple of days of playing it, people started calling and asking about the song. i told them its pale shelter by tears for pears; up until a good samaritan told me that the artist is TEARS FOR FEARS and not PEARS. after having gotten over the embarrassment of having to sound all-knowing but getting the name wrong anyway, i proceeded to play that song everyday. much to my surprise, more people called. and called. and called........