Wink,

I can't tell you how much my wife and I enjoy your program. It provides a 3 hour delightful stroll down memory lane and the audio commentary is most insightful. If you find time it would be nice to hear Clyde McCoy's "Sugar Blues" or some Eddie Howard classics. I believe "Linda" was one of them.

Thanks much for being there.

Warmest Regards,
Bob Harrington

Hi Wink,

How I love listening to you and your fellow announcers, from the time I get up until dinner. Your selections bring back memories of my bother (7 years older than I) playing his "records" upstairs while I did my homework or helped our Mom preparing dinner. Then of course after dinner we would sing along with all these wonderful singers until we were horse!

Music was an important part of our lives. I went on to sing in many amateur groups, (even joined The Conn. Opera, which most decidedly was not amateur. ) I still sing and play the piano most evenings or whenever friends ask me to perform.

I can't say in words how much it means to have your company all day while I buzz around the house with one project after the other...you are there! It's fun to hear "Looking Back"...yes, I remember it well, having been born in 1938, it really is a lost era, but the MUSIC lives on with all of you!!! Thanks so much for keeping me company with great music, not noise.

I would love to hear you play more John Gary's songs...what a GREAT voice he had, and I understand a terrific person. How I wish I could have seen him perform before her died. I have his "Very Best of John Gary" on a C.D. and love his rendition of "The Nearness of You", "I Wish You Well" and the haunting (but sad) "What Now My Love." Would you please include these in your recordings some day, and thanks for being there for all of us who remember when music was!

Most Sincerely,

Mimi Sacks
Rockville, Md.

P.S. Former listener of Music Or Your Life on WGAY in Silver Spring, Md, before it went out of business a couple years ago. I'm so glad you are here!

Wink,

Grew up in L.A.. Use to listen to your shows all the time. Moved to Monterey in 1983. Listen to Magic 63 all the time.

Thanks,

David Spiegelman

Hi Wink,

I am enjoying your station so much! It is so good to hear all the old favorites and I don't mean just the music! What a treat to hear the voice of Wink Martindale, Gary Owens, and all of the others. You all have such good things to say. I used to listen to the Legends Station from Lake Havas City but it went off of the air a couple of years ago and it has been so lonely not to hear good words from the DJ's and all of the wonderful artists from the 30's, 40's, 50's - I grew up with it and love it so much - I listen to you all day while I am at work and I have you on in the car too. Thank you so much you wonderful guys - please don't ever go away!

Love,

Lillian Parra
Havasu Lake, California
Chemehuevi Indian Reservation.

P.S. I met you a long time ago at Pacific Ocean Park, Santa Monica, when I was a teenager. I had a big crush on you!

Dear Wink,

Greetings from Tennessee, I hope things are well with you from one Tennessean to another. I am a long time fan of your work, particularly as a game show host in the 80's and early 90's. I am writing you today because I have recently come to the conclusion that you have been one of the reasons that success has come my way and I wanted to say a few words of sincere thanks.

As a child growing up, I was fascinated by television and the entertainment industry, especially game shows. My parents, both teachers, didn't find too much fault in this due to the fact that at least I was learning odd bits of trivia while watching television. But my favorite show was, and is, Tic-Tac-Dough and the way that you conducted that show in the 1980's. I learned from a very early age about how to control one's voice to project the right emotion on a particular set of circumstances. I also learned the style and wit of a game show host, looking for the moment to punctuate a contestant's correct answer or action. One small set of words rings true for me in what I believe was a signature phrase for you in, "You got it!" as used on Tic-Tac-Dough.

Through high school and college, I endeavored to become a history teacher. This pursuit was cut short in my junior year of college when I became the Sports Director of the campus radio station. From that point on, I have used my skills in broadcasting to try and emulate the voice patterns that I learned from you at a very early age. In 1999, I was hired by a small radio station here in Tennessee as the Sports Director, Production Director and as an afternoon drive air talent. I then got a chance to use my own "game show" talents in running contests on the air, mimicking your own style when I had nothing to fall back on. Though I have no schooling in communications or sports broadcasting other than what I have learned on my own, I can tell you that in 2002 and 2003, our station won a combined 5 Tennessee Associated Press Broadcast Association awards, one for best overall sports coverage in the state. There are many factors that I can point to as important to those successes, but none more important than my exposure to your voice and style as I watched you as a child.

Now at 29 and finding it very hard to move up in the sports broadcasting business, I am looking to start my own business here in Tennessee and forego my broadcasting career. Though I will try to remain in media production, it is with a heavy heart that I give up the microphones, excitement and drama of those situations that I am used to - situations that you handled so well as a game show host for me.

There are many hosts that I have great respect for - Pat Sajak, Peter Tomarken, Chuck Woolery, Bob Barker and Jim Perry (those from my youth), but none of them could match your style and flare. Those characteristics had a tremendous effect on me and I will never forget them. I sincerely appreciate your efforts in creating and instilling in me the ability to reach another person, or an audience, hold them for a moment and then deliver the outcome of the situation as you did behind the podiums of some of America's great game show sets.

I wish all the best for you and your family, and I would be honored if you might reply to this message. Thanks again for everything that you have done for me and best wishes in getting one more TV game show, you'll definitely have one devoted viewer from Tennessee.

Sincerely,

Bill Priestley
Manchester, TN

Hi Wink!

Enjoy your daily show and enjoy your information and stories about the stars of the program. I worked my way through college in a music store from the late 40s to the mid-fifties....Talk about memories!! Keep up the great work....

Sincerely,

Barbara Miller
Placerville, California (near Lake Tahoe)

Hello Wink;

Last week, you played Josh Grobin's new song and after it was over, you commented about his "classy" pregame show and how the halftime show should have taken a lesson in class. My thoughts exactly, and in fact, I wrote a letter to the NFL and said the exact thing to them. Jackson was bad but the whole halftime "show" was a disgrace. I told them not to blame MTV or CBS as this was the NFL'S baby and they should have been in control of all phases of the presentation.

Thank goodness we have M.O.Y.L to listen to and we can be sure it will be in good taste. Maybe today's music "stars" should listen and hear what real music is.

Thanks for being out there for us.

Maury Luckett
Roseville Ca.

Wink:

On today's program you played a clip of Vic Damone responding to your question about the music of today and will it ever be as good as it used to be. I agree with Vic that it just doesn't seem that will ever happen. Even the music scores from today's movies rely heavily on the older music. It is rare to hear a newly composed piece for a movie that catches on and can be replayed over and over by many artists -- it just doesn't happen.

I know that there is much controversy right now about the Super Bowl 'strip tease', but the bigger issue is the AWFUL display of what they considered to be entertainment. How on earth the producers thought any of that was MUSIC or ENTERTAINING is totally beyond my comprehension. Give me a song that I can understand the lyrics to and that I can tap my foot and sing to.

Thank goodness we have THE MUSIC OF YOUR LIFE.

Pam Wilson

Dear Mr. Martindale:

I just listened to "the First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" sung by Roberta Flack. Thank you so much for playing that song. It was the song that my husband & I danced to as out first dance at our wedding 30 years ago. It brought tears to my eyes to hear it today. If possible, can you please you tell me on which CD I could find it? I listen to the MOYL on AM 1450, WMAS-Springfield MA.

Thanks again,
Leslie LaBranche

Hi Wink,

I'm so glad I found a real music station again. It's nice to hear a good melody that stays in your mind throughout the day and brings joy to your soul. I hear you over WMLB in East Point, GA.

I'd like to suggest a few songs you might like to play. Dungaree Doll and My Friend by Eddie Fisher. When I married in 1955 the soloist sang With These Hands at my wedding. How many of today's songs could be used at a wedding?

I love piano music and Emile Pandolfi is one of my favorite performers. One of his delightful renditions is Baby It's Cold Outside (from his Sleigh Ride CD). It would be neat if you played a duet vocal version and then played Emile's piano version. Try it on one of your twin spins.

Keep playing the good music. It brightens my day. I announced your station to my Sunday School class. I hope they all listen.

Thanks to everyone who brings good music to us.

Nora Moon
Marietta, GA

Dear Wink,

I can't tell you how happy your show and the others on Music of Your Life make me. Your music selections are right on the money.

Wink Martindale played a medley of Karen Carpenter songs yesterday. They were selections we don't usually hear on the radio, and I was so pleased. Karen's voice is pleasing to all ages, and hers and Richard's music is so uplifting. Could you please pass on to Wink that I really enjoyed his show yesterday.

And to the others: Gary Owens, Peter Marshall, Patti Page, Pat Boone, I love all of you, and keep up the good work!! I hear you on KBFL-FM, Buffalo/Springfield. I've told my friends about you, too.

Toby Morris
Springfield, Missouri

Hi Wink,

My wife brought up your Web Site so that I could leave you a message. I listen to your Radio Show on WNAM Radio here in Neenah-Menasha, Wisconsin. I also have your original record "Deck Of Cards". I have a collection of twelve thousand records of almost all types of music. When not listening to that music - which I often do - I tune into you fellows on the Oldies Station. I have one request or comment about all of your shows; could you sometime have a show that would feature original hits, and then the copy cat songs by another artist right after. Another idea would Be a song like "He'll Have To Go" followed by "He'll Have To Stay".  I am not good with a Computer, that's why my wife got me here on your site.  I am 58 years old, retired, and volunteering my time away at the Menasha Senior Center where I play my records for various Parties, and our local Hospital as a door escort.   I'll leave you now.  Good luck in 2004, and Happy Trails.

Roy Rogers (my real name.)