Chaz talks to Bruce Barber, half of the legendary Smith and Barber Morning Show which was heard on WPLR from 1985 until January of 2003 (minus one year for a job at a station in Tampa). Bruce takes us through everything from his start in radio, what caused the show to come apart and what…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! That year PLR presented RUSH at New Haven Coliseum. Joining them in New Haven were fellow rockers Blue Oyster Cult. Rush hit the road in 1978 to support their fifth studio album “A Farewell To Kings,” which featured…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! Remember the old Shaboo Inn in Willimantic? The venue lasted a little over a decade and it closed its doors forever in May 1982. Before its closing, The Shaboo Inn was one of the premier concert venues in…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! That year PLR presented Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at New Haven Coliseum. Springsteen hit the road in 1978 to support the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” album, which featured such hits as Prove It…
Every Friday at 1pm Mike Lapitino plays 4 songs off a classic album from the past 50 years. This week we’re celebrating 1978 and we want you to pick the album! This week’s picks are: Van Halen – Van Halen The Cars – The Cars Rolling Stones – Some Girls Vote on Twitter at 991PLRFM Visit…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed the Steve Miller Band to New Haven Coliseum. This was Steve Miller’s first time playing at the Coliseum and his first time playing a show in New Haven since 1968’s performance at Yale’s Woolsey…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed RUSH with special guest Primus to New Haven Coliseum. RUSH hit the road in ’92 to support their fourteenth studio album “Roll The Bones,” which featured such singles as Dreamline, Ghost of a Chance,…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed Weird Al Yankovic to Toad’s Place. Weird Al hit the road in 1992 to support his seventh studio album, “Off The Deep End,” which featured such singles as Smells Like Nirvana and You Don’t…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1981! That year PLR welcomed U2 to Toad’s Place. In the spring of 1981, an up-and-coming band named U2 rolled into New Haven and played a club show at Toad’s Place on York Street. This actually wasn’t their first…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1981! That year PLR welcomed Van Halen to New Haven Coliseum. Eddie and the boys hit the road in 1981 to support their fourth studio album, “Fair Warning,” which featured such hits as So This Is Love?, Mean Street…