I fell in love with Radio at nine years old, first listening to the last of the early radio dramas, and then suddenly it was 10-10 WINS/New York’s Rock n Roll and screamin’ DJs.!

Since 1964, I’ve been a D.J. of the old school, a musical tour guide turning you on to the great music you already know and exciting you with great new music you’ll soon love. I prefer to let my music do the talking, but in addition to music commentary, an effective air personality’s duty includes occasional brief life 'n times tangents; hopefully engaging, amusing, angering, but definitely moving you. My new show, "Sam's Jams" is all 52 years of Rock, all its siblings, and cousins. It’s a message of love. You can agree or vehemently disagree with anything I play or say, but hopefully you and I will to inspire each other, while we dance!

On that nightmare day, when United 93 passenger and ultimately brave patriot Todd Beamer said “Let’s roll,” he brought together, in one two-word phrase, Rock n Roll and millions of  men’s and women’s total commitment to our Nation. If Rock n Roll had never existed either as a term, or as a genre, he would have used some other phrase, but he could never have said, “Let’s waltz.”

Rock n Roll and its Country, Jazz, R&B, Reggae, other siblings and cousins, have been and still are America’s folk music, with both the lightest and the heaviest of messages, passionate love, God Love, triumph, tragedy, joy, anger, and hundreds more human thoughts, emotions, and stories.

My family, all the way back to the first settlers of Virginia and Maryland, signers of The Declaration, forward to my Greatest Generation parents, aunts, and uncles, set me up to be a political being. Some of the family was and is on the right and some on the left, but common to all of them was passing on to my generation the belief and commitment that a citizen of the U.S. has a duty to stay informed, involved, and vigilant to protect and promote the nation’s highest ideals. Our freedoms demand we shoulder certain responsibilities. BTW: I’m a passionate centrist, a social Libertarian, fairly fiscally conservative, but Liberal in my belief that “Those to which much is given, much is expected." I believe that America is rapidly becoming a feudal society with a royalty of the top ½% net worth families controlling our government. The vassal-class of the 90% to 99.5% income earners serve their royal overlords and are pretty-to-very well compensated for that. Then, there’s the rest of us, who make under $130,000.00/year (that’s right, depending on where you live and work in America, $130,000.00/year does not make you rich, secure, and able to care for your kids and your own retirement. We, especially those in the $40K +$20K range, are hurting more and more every year. We are indentured servants to the vassals and royalty, with little we can say or do to change things. Hopefully not for long.

My life’s work and my passion is radio and music. I have always loved the release and the positive energy that straight-out fun songs give people, but also, there’s message music and spoken content that informs, enlightens, and moves people to positive action. “Come on, get up, you got to feel it!” (Thank you Wilson Picket).

Pure entertainment, for me, does not mean entertainment for nothing but entertaining purposes. The “pure” means perfect entertainment, entertainment that combines every kind of message to excite and uplift humankind. It can be the innocent joy of a 1950s Frankie Lyman or early 60s Beatles teenage love song. It can be the social commentary implicit in a Robert Johnson blues tune, a Dylan message song, Sheryl Crow commenting on her pseudo-commie friend with the fancy car, or the Black Eyed Peas asking “Where Is The Love”?

My most treasured and proudest career memory (so far) was providing the production facilities and crew for the production of the worldwide radio feed of Live Aid. Other similar moments happened at The No Nukes Concert-Rally, and The Concert for Hope/Amnesty International Benefit. Great Pure entertainment, music and message in a love embrace!

"Sam's Jams" is my new radio program that ties together all 52 years of Rock, its siblings, its funkiest and its most laudable messages. If you love America’s most energized music, I think you’ll love this show. Check out a sample song list.

For an even more in depth discussion of music, politics, and the sorry state of modern corporate radio click this.

Listen to my new show, "Sam's Jams", Sundays at Noon Eastern on WATD 95.9 Marshfield, MA or at www.959watd.com. Oh, and tell a friend in Southeastern MA or at the South Pole!

Summary of "Sam's Jams" Foundation and My Radio Commitment

• The greatest Rock n Roll is about high energy fun and an ever changing world.

• Music, Politics, Jefferson, Marley, Mayer!

• The status quo bores the hell out of me, no, it scares me!  Adapt, change, or die.

• In the mid 1980s the radio programmers began to be infected by their bean counters’  utterly risk averse approach to this art-business. Not surprisingly…

• In the last ten or fifteen years, commercial music radio has seen it’s listenership decline and decline while, with very few exceptions, radio business people (which now means the programmers as well) chase their tales doing garbage in/garbage out research.

• Thomas Jefferson Rocked! (link to Jefferson paragraphs in "Sam's Jams" – Music In Action) Today’s leaders in government and industry, particularly the media industries, are anti-patriot reactionaries. They bore us; much worse, they actually threaten us and our futures!

• The Natural Law -  ROCK the boat, ROLL away the stone!