Matt Monro on AM740 Toronto

paul jh · Post by **paul jh** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:53 am

At 3:00 am on Saturday morning I heard My Kind Of Girl played on AM740 radio station from Toronto, Ontario. This is cause for celebration because it's the first time I've heard Matt Monro played on radio in North America in many years. He may be played on satellite radio, but I don't subscribe to that.

AM740 Prime Time Radio plays great music; it's as if Lena and Harry programmed it! On clear evenings, I can hear it in Washington. I went to their website (am740.ca) and they are compiling a top 100 listeners favourite song list. So I submitted five of Matt Monro most famous songs. Take a moment to submit five Matt Monro songs. Thanks!

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:29 pm

Paul, its pretty disappointing you cant listen to this station online. Sounds like it shud be good, I Visited the website but see no listen live feature?

paul jh · Post by **paul jh** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:52 pm

Yes, I noticed there was no on-line listening option. It's a shame because the evening programmes are quite nice. The other evening they devoted a hour to Benny Goodman's recordings from the 1960s and featured many different female vocalists---some not available on commercial recordings.

I have heard them play Portrait Of My Love by Steve Lawrence twice. My apologies to the Steve Lawrence fans, but the only person who should sing Portrait Of My Love is Matt Monro. Fortunately during one of the plays, the signal for the station faded out, so I couldn't hear Steve Lawrence singing this beautiful song with no emotion.

The station is sponsoring two October concerts (in Toronto and Hamilton) with one of Lena and Harry's favourites, Al Martino. It's great to hear he's still performing.

mariana44 · Post by **mariana44** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:17 pm

Hi all--well that's a relief--I thought it was me doing something wrong to make me not able to tune in.

So how can we submit our 5 Matt tracks without knowing the password?

Any ideas Paul??

Marian

paul jh · Post by **paul jh** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 10:24 pm

I didn't encounter a password, Marian. I clicked on Your All Time Favourite 100 and then typed in 5 Matt Monro songs and filled in my name, etc. I did it twice. Actually I did enter my favourite song of the 1900s, Wishin' And Hopin' by Dusty Springfield, but the other 9 songs were by Matt Monro!

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 12:26 am

Looks like some great music on this station Paul, and yes Al Martino is appearing for four days in Ontario, from the 2nd to the fourth of Oct:
He will be 79 on the 7th of Oct:

paul jh · Post by **paul jh** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:24 pm

Just wanted to let you know that you can know now listen to AM 740 Toronto online 24 hours a day. So if you want an alternative to GMMY radio or Radio 2 or your ipod shuffle or your favourite CDs, you might want to try AM 740. They play a bit too much 1950s rockabilly and Buble for my tastes, but I do get to hear many Anne Murray songs. They need to play more Matt Monro! The specialty programmes in the evenings are quite nice. But those would occur in the middle of the night for you, so it might be difficult to listen to them.

Here's the link: http://am740.ca/main.htm#

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:54 pm

Thanks for the link Paul, have just taken a look and added it to our favourites. The more stations that play this kind of music the happier we are.

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:34 pm

But no Matt in their top 40 favourite artists list, and Al Martino just in at # 40

no wonder Matt is hardly played

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:42 pm

I took a look at their top forty too, and was disappointed to see no Matt on the list. (No JJ either)

Marian

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:53 pm

They can't have much taste in music then Marian

at least two Canadians Anne Murray and Gordon Lightfoot, surprise surprise are on the top 40 list. But I was shocked to see no Frances Langford either

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Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:14 pm

There is good music to be heard on there, particularly from 7-midnight tonight but as Paul said. It's the time difference.

Marian · Post by **Marian** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:29 pm

You'll not be hearing too much then Lena and Harry, with your early bedtime!!!

Marian

ROBERT M. · Post by **ROBERT M.** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:01 pm

They must have gone already, Marian

Lena & Harry Smith · Post by **Lena & Harry Smith** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:20 pm

No, not yet Robert..Harry's nodded off after dinner, nothing on tele yet so I'm listening to GMMY Radio.... Jonny Mathis singing "I Concentrate On You"

Our friends Dicck( had to spell it like that

) and Shirley from America are doing their show right now. Great stuff

it's dedicated to us two.