I’ve been on the radio in New Jersey since I was 18 years old, and since 1999 at New Jersey 101.5. On weekends, when the music comes out to play, I’m happy to be here! During the week, I’m an engineer with Townsquare Media keeping everything running in Atlantic City and around the state on the radio and online. I’ve been intrigued with electronic things since I was 4 years old when I went behind the TV and adjusted everything and made Captain Kangaroo very short and squat. Mom wasn’t happy. I fixed it though!
Tom McNally
New Jersey Chime Time …
Today, we rarely have to set our clocks. We wake up on Sunday morning twice a year when time changes from Daylight Saving Time to Eastern Standard and back, and the clock may have set itself forward or backward an hour. The time on your cell phone, computer and other devices comes from the network...
Townsquare Media’s Cat Raises $101,043.75 for St. Jude Hospital
A big congratulations to our sister station, Cat Country 107.3, WPUR Atlantic City, for raising $101,043.75 on Thursday and Friday, February 23rd and 24th for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital to help in their quest to eradicate childhood cancer and other life threatening diseases...
Brandy … Is This Really You?
One of Jersey's Favorite "Favorite Hits" heard on New Jersey 101.5 on weekends is "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl) by Looking Glass, a band formed in New Brunswick, NJ while band members were attending Rutgers.
The lyrics of the song are the story of a girl who's love has gone off to sea, never to return
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My Sharona is Still Looking Good After All These Years
One of the best one-hit-wonder songs of all time has to be The Knack "My Sharona" from 1979. The picture sleeve featured a nice shot of lead singer Doug Fieger's 17 year old girlfriend Sharona Alperin. The song became a million seller faster than any debut song since the Beatles in 1964...
Still Shining After All These Years …
With all of the high rise buildings and casino towers now surrounding it — including the new 710 foot-tall Revel — it’s easy to overlook the Absecon Lighthouse in Atlantic City, which turned 155 years old last week.
The story of the Absecon Lighthouse began back in 1854 when the United States government purchased the land where the lighthouse sits for a mere $520...
Standin’ on the corner …
Well, I'm a standing on a corner
in Winslow, Arizona
and such a fine sight to see
It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed
Ford slowin' down to take a look at me ...
(lyrics by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey)
We've all heard the Eagles "Take it Easy" or Jackson Browe's version since the early 70s...
Happy 2012
Happy 2012 !
This is the (hopefully lucky) thirteenth time I've had the pleasure of wishing New Jersey 101.5 listeners a Happy New Year. Forget all the bogus New Year's resolutions, they never work. Wishing you and your family health and happiness...
The 2011 Christmas Goat
A few weeks ago I talked about the 42 foot straw Christmas Goat in Gävle, Sweden that has gotten torched by arsonists almost every year since 1966.
Unfortunately for the goat, 2011 was no different.
Check out the time lapse photos from the webcam...
Ca$h for Chri$tma$?
I have a big family, I have five sisters and a brother. We had a dozen or so kids, and a couple of the kids have kids, so the Christmas list is long. Like many guys, I'm not into shopping. I don't shop, I pick things up. Online shopping is no easier, I search, I don't browse...
The Christmas Goat
Here in New Jersey we have Dominick the Christmas Donkey, but every year since 1966 in Gävle, Sweden, they erect a 42 foot Christmas Goat in the center of town. The goat is made of straw and takes about two days to put the straw on the frame...