The WTTS Morning Show

Join Paul Mendenhall weekday mornings for the WTTS Morning Show. Start your morning with lots of TTS style music including an hour long music block at 8:30, Paul style info breaks at 6:15, 6:45 and 7:15. and at 7:30am, the Morning Music Mindbender, a music trivia question often revealing an interesting if not amazing background fact about a song or artist.


 

Week of August 3rd

Win Holiday World tickets,  and a copy of the Ray laMontagne album “Monovision”

 

Past Mindbender music trivia questions:

Monday July 27th

This week in 1991 a song by a british alterntive band became a much biger hit in the States than it ever was in the UK. An uplifting anthem about the fall of the Berlin Wall and other events in Europe in the late 80s and recorded by a band whose name came from a vacation to a beach in Spain.

What basically one hit wonder song was all over the radio this week in’91?

Jesus Jones “Right here Right Now”

 

Tuesday July 28th

There was no social distancing at an event held this day in 1973, although most attnedeees were at such a great distance to the stage they couldn’t even see it.

 

 
Many historians claimed it was the largest gathering of people in the history of the United States., 600,000 people. Considering that most of those who attended the event hailed from the northeast, and that the average age of those present was approximately seventeen to twenty-four, close to one out of every three young people from Boston to New York was at the festival.
 
What race track hosted this legendary event?
 
 

Watkins Glen

 

 
 
Wednesday July 29th
 

Happy birthday to a man who has won 5 grammy awards and been nominated for several others. He is best known by his pseudonym. His namesake is a secret agent who  can shatter metal with his voice, speak 34 languages fluently including some extra terretrial ones and do military push ups with his index finger. 

What producer and performer is celebrating his 43rd today?

 
Danger Mouse

Thursday July 30th

Steve Winwood
 
 
Friday July 31st
 

In one of the greatest examples of band discord in history this is the 40th anniversary of one of the worst. A concert which was peppered with threats band members made to each other between songs including 3 more songs til I kick your ass Pal. And the dissonance didn’t stop there. The next album the band released was mixec by both gentlemne, bu ton opposite coasts. And this was no punk band!

What multi million selling goup from california had a meltodown this day in 1980?

The Eagles