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Neil Sedaka gets the first real turn. Glenn is poking around a book, trying to find Sedaka by name, and keeps landing on songs he wrote for somebody else. That catches him off guard. There are dozens and dozens of credits, old songwriting history, Carole King sitting nearby in the same world, and the old-school pop machine suddenly feels visible. Barry Gibb becomes the comparison. Glenn reaches for Gibb because he wrote for himself and plenty of other people too, which makes Sedaka feel less like a nostalgia name and more like one of the engines behind the hits. Then the news turns sad. Ken Martin says Sedaka's grandson is carrying the torch, and Glenn likes hearing that, but the conversation still slides toward all the familiar names that keep disappearing. They sound worn down by it. The line about entertainers born in the thirties and forties gives the segment its weight, because they are not talking about one death so much as a wave they have been watching for years. Eighty-six sounds pretty good from that angle. Then Glenn and Ken drift toward shorter lives, with George Michael and Michael Jackson named as examples where fame, health, and bad circumstance made the ending feel especially harsh. Nobody tries to tidy it up. There is some searching for names, some blanking out, and then that familiar radio feeling where the absent person would have known exactly what to say. Where's Oz when you need him. That is the diner-counter charm of the hour. The conversation runs on shared names more than background, and nobody stops to explain the whole map. The ending gets loose. With less than a minute left, Glenn checks whether Ken liked the music, grumbles about ads getting in the way, and reaches for Air Supply before the clock cuts him off. He knows the bit may not last. The Friday music idea ends with a shrug, partly pleased he got to do it and partly aware that making it regular might bore listeners who already have music stations.

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A loose Friday AM hour that moves from headlines into music memories.

AM 1240 starts with national headlines, then drifts into a Friday stretch of banter about Neil Sedaka, celebrity deaths, and music tributes. Its appeal is in the looseness: the hour moves from news to memories and name drops, then back to Watertown and the station's own chatter…

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A Friday AM-radio segment on AM 1240 WATN in Watertown that starts with CBS News headlines and drifts into a music-heavy tribute and listener banter.

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