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Jim interviews radio icon Scott Shannon. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simone Show continues on seven to ten wooor
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  Speaker 1: in for Mark Today he is Jim Kerr.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Stephen Colbear Late Show ends. It's run tonight.
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  Speaker 2: It's rumored that Paul McCartney and Billy Joel will be there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it's been confirmed or not. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't confirmed when I came to work this morning, but
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  Speaker 2: I came to work at four thirty this morning, so
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  Speaker 2: who knows what might have happened between then and now.
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  Speaker 2: But we have with us someone who knows a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot about music, and that is Scott Shannon, legendary morning
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  Speaker 2: personality of New York's ZEE one hundred, WPLJ and WCBSFM.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: And good morning to you, and what an excellent job
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  Speaker 1: you are doing today. I was rather just amazed how
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  Speaker 1: easily it is for you, how easy it is for
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  Speaker 1: you to move from one chair rock and road chair
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  Speaker 1: right into talk radio.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Scott. But you know, like you, I
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  Speaker 2: just love the radio. The radio has always been my yeah,
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  Speaker 2: my friend and my companion since I was a little kid.
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  Speaker 2: I listened to it then and loved it. I listened
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  Speaker 2: to it now and love it. And and you, of course,
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  Speaker 2: with your legendary career, you were not only involved in radio,
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  Speaker 2: but you were also involved in the actual music industry
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  Speaker 2: for a while. And yeah, can you come up with radio?
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  Speaker 1: Radio is my first love. It's been that way since
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  Speaker 1: I was a kid. And that's all I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to be a GM I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do Bob Pittman's job. I just wanted to be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a job. I wanted to be on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: And and I love music, It's part of my blood.
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  Speaker 1: But it's just you got to be on the radio
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  Speaker 1: to play it so right.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just wondering how you felt about the
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  Speaker 2: fact that the New York Times published their list of
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  Speaker 2: the thirty greatest living American songwriters and they left Billy
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  Speaker 2: Joel off that list.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've said it quite a few times on my show.
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  Speaker 1: It's just it's stupid. I mean, whoever put it together
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  Speaker 1: should be ashamed. I mean, Billy Joel is an American treasure. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: God he didn't. He didn't need three or four different
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  Speaker 1: people to help him write those songs. What are the
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  Speaker 1: few artists who does everything himself? And Bruce is the
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  Speaker 1: same way, but you never you never see you know,
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  Speaker 1: underneath the title of the song Billy Joel and in
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  Speaker 1: three other names like Britney, Britney Spears or whoever. Even
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  Speaker 1: even some of the big pop stars today still go
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  Speaker 1: to you know, Sweden or Norway to get help on
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  Speaker 1: writing the hits. But not Billy. He didn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: and he's going on for years. You know. They also
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  Speaker 1: left off Neil Diamond. Oh Diamond, he got the same yeah,
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  Speaker 1: same thing, right, yeah, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a podcast with the New York Times music
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  Speaker 2: critics and the editor and all it did was make
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  Speaker 2: me mad. They were so condescending, you know, so I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Kim, how did they define that?
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  Speaker 2: Well? One guy said, well, Billy Joel's good at writing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm paraphrasing now, Billy Joel's good at writing a certain
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  Speaker 2: kind of song. And then another one of the critics
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  Speaker 2: just admitted he doesn't like.
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  Speaker 1: Billy Joel, but certain kind of song. A certain kind
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  Speaker 1: of song, you mean, like a popular a popular hit song, right.
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  Speaker 2: Right, a popular hit song that people like.
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  Speaker 1: Tell the truth. Did you see any names in there
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  Speaker 1: that you weren't familiar with?
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  Speaker 2: A few that I that I you know, hadn't heard
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  Speaker 2: of before. But you know there are others, like, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: Lucinda Williams is on the list. I have nothing against
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  Speaker 2: Lucinda Williams. She writes nice songs. She wrote a song,
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  Speaker 2: this Kiss, which Mary Chape and Carpenter had a hit
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  Speaker 2: with and I think nineteen ninety or nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good song. But she's on the list
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  Speaker 2: and Billy Joel isn't. That's the part that makes me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: I was sad. And you know what, Mariah Carey is
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  Speaker 1: a fine artist, but she didn't or write all those
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  Speaker 1: songs she might have written. She might have helped out.
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  Speaker 1: And I like her. I think she's fine. But before
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  Speaker 1: Billy Joel, that makes no sense. You can go through
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  Speaker 1: there and take five, six, seven, maybe eight people who
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  Speaker 1: should Billy Joel should have been in before they were in.
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  Speaker 2: Oh and by and by the way, Scott, since we're
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  Speaker 2: under these time constraints, I just wanted to mention that
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  Speaker 2: one of our iHeartRadio on Air colleagues, Helen Little, will
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  Speaker 2: be inducted as a member of the Class of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six into the Radio Hall of Fame. You have
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  Speaker 2: often been the master of ceremonies for that event. You're
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  Speaker 2: an important part of it, and you know that that's
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  Speaker 2: a really big deal for Helen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, she's a superstar in Philly and she's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 1: She's also going to be good. And I got to
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  Speaker 1: say boomersiasin.
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  Speaker 2: Also Boomer he's a sports legend. On w fa N.
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  Speaker 1: Before we run out of time, tell me what you
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  Speaker 1: thought about McCartney on Saturday Night Live.
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  Speaker 2: I think that it would be acceptable to people, because
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  Speaker 2: they love Paul McCartney so much, if he were to
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  Speaker 2: have a bunch of background singers who could hit the
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  Speaker 2: notes that he can't hit anymore. They would just be
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  Speaker 2: happy to see him on the stage, love the songs
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  Speaker 2: that he has created that are so wonderful and such
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  Speaker 2: an important part of people's lives, and let some background
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  Speaker 2: singers hit the high notes. How's that well?
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  Speaker 1: I saw I saw him in one of the places
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  Speaker 1: in New Jersey where they have you know, the concerts
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  Speaker 1: now and I noticed that he wasn't hitting all the notes.
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  Speaker 1: There wasn't much different I think he was. I think
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  Speaker 1: he's better in person with his band on stage than
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  Speaker 1: he is on the stage of Saturday Night Live, right
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  Speaker 1: because and he doesn't hit all the notes. But I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you something. I walked out of there
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  Speaker 1: happy to see Paul McCartney. You know, here's the guy
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  Speaker 1: that's been singing sixty five in years right and hitting
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  Speaker 1: all the nose. But he's still Paul McCartney. He's a beatle.
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  Speaker 1: Look what he gave us, Look what he did for music.
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  Speaker 2: And Scott, I would be Scott, I would be happy
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  Speaker 2: if Paul McCartney stood on the stage and he had
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  Speaker 2: to just recite the lyrics rather than sing them. He's
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  Speaker 2: that important, he really is. Time it's time for us
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  Speaker 2: to go, Scott. It's been fun talking with you.
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  Speaker 1: Great talking to you and my favorite radio producer, Trevor
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  Speaker 1: probably overseeing things today. He's a great guy. You're lucky
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  Speaker 1: to have him on the air, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much. Yeah, he just got promoted
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  Speaker 2: here at I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, I know all about it. He's working with you now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks a lot, Scott, appreciate your taking the team
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  Speaker 2: to speak with us this morning here on the Mark
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