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The Mark Simone Show

Mark Interviews Legendary DJ Scott Shannon

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Scott discussed Mayor Adams's problems. They also hit on the passing of Kris Kristofferson passing away at 88 years old.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mark Simone. Can't deny it, he is Mr. New York.

0:04.0

I'm 710 W.O.R.

0:07.4

Well, ladies and gentlemen, the greatest living DJ in the world, Scott Shannon, radio legend.

0:13.2

Of course, you know the True Oldies channel. You can listen to that.

0:16.9

And also the great Z-100 documentary. You can see that online, and he's with us right now.

0:22.0

Scott Shannon, how you doing?

0:24.4

I got to tell you what, I'm on top of the world.

0:26.7

I'm feeling fine and right on time.

0:28.9

Happy to be with you today, Mark.

0:30.9

There you go.

0:32.1

What's the best way to listen to the True Oldies Channel?

0:35.3

You know what?

0:36.3

I'm back on the air in New york now and it's it's a

0:40.0

thrill to be here i'm over on the same frequency as winds 92 3 fm i'm on their hd3 it's a new

0:50.4

home of the true oldies channel we go back to the 60s and 70s and feature and talk about the songs and the music and the stars of that era.

1:00.3

That's where you and I excel.

1:02.9

We grew up in that era, so we know the music pretty well.

1:06.9

And there's a lot of great songs that don't get played anymore.

1:09.9

Hey, but you call it the true oldies channel, which is great. but you're supposed to say yacht rock. What the hell is this yacht rock? How did that tell? I'm not. I don't do the yacht rock. Well, we play the yacht rock. I mean, some of it, you know, like little river band's pretty good, you know, and some of those, some of those folks. But, you know, it's just a style.

1:48.2

You know, you can put Chicago in there if you want, you know, when they mellowed out for some of those love songs. Yeah, but if you went to, if you went on any yacht in the world, they're not sitting there playing Gilbert O'Sullivan Records. It's not yacht, right? Moses. If you're on a yacht, I think a lot of them have Jimmy Buffett on.

1:57.0

You know, Mark, I got a, I was thinking about this yesterday. People who listen to you understand that you are a busy man around town. You got your ear to the ground. You know what's

2:02.0

hip and hot. You know what's happening all the time. So you've got to tell me because I'm curious,

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