Ray Rossi

I still miss the Beatles.

If for no other reason than in the 6 years they were together, they recorded some of the most memorable music ever made.

And because in the years since, I don’t think there has been as creative a force in popular music as the period in which they recorded

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Thankfully stories like this aren't all that uncommon.

But living in the times we are makes us skeptical nonetheless.

You may remember the story a few weeks back of the homeless person begging for spare change found an engagement ring in his cup, apparently dropped in there by a woman who’s only intent was to drop some change in his cup

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A few years back, I used to play country music on the radio.
And I enjoyed it very much.

Ironically, at the same time, I was also playing dance, house and hip hop on another radio station.

It was like going back and forth between 2 different worlds

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Here’s what’s coming up tonight at 11, on New Jersey’s only ALL LIVE, ALL LOCAL, ALL NIGHT SHOW …with me, Ray Rossi, just a guy with a microphone, a transmitter; and an internet connection.

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I don’t get to watch “Mike and Molly”, so I never got to see how “insane in the membrane” Melissa McCarthy is until my wife got me to see “Bridesmaids.”

She steals the movie.

So it comes as no surprise how she steals the show with what I think to be one of the funnies SNL bits of all time

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You might think that what we have here is a “fish that stinks from the head down!”

In the sordid tale of the firing of Rutgers head basketball coach Mike Rice, to the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti; fingers are being pointed in every which direction

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Here’s what’s coming up tonight at 11, on New Jersey’s only ALL LIVE, ALL LOCAL, ALL NIGHT SHOW …with me, Ray Rossi, just a guy with a microphone, a transmitter; and an internet connection.

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When you want to know one of the reasons why pension funds are going broke, consider the case of the 80 retired state troopers who were allowed to collect their pensions while being allowed to be back on the state payroll in a variety positions

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Growing up, we had plenty of characters in the neighborhood with nicknames.
Names that were derived from some physical characteristic or maybe a derivation of their real name.

A guy we knew as “Brillo” was dubbed that, because of his kinky hair

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