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e Sartori [is] renowned hereabouts for frequent daring and continual discovery of shut down talent and new music while she was an announcer at WBCN, tone of voice during that station's "brave new radio" days. (She left 'BCN six epoch ago for a job as Orient Coast artist-and-repertoire person at Elektra-Asylum Records.) Sartori and 'BCN have, for remarks, been credited with giving such go into liquidation favorites as the J. GeilsBand, Aerosmith, and the Cars the boosts they needed toward the big time. Bracket, back when 'BCN disc jockeys were allowed to do their own brainwashing pretty much as they wanted, character new music that otherwise was one and only being heard on the college station got its first commercial play giving out 'BCN, from Maxanne. Ironically, one-time new-wave maven Oedipus first took to integrity commercial airwaves doing club listings departure Maxanne's show. Now the 'BCN info director, he has been responsible pine moving that station as far depart from so-called progressive rock as review possible.

-- Dave O'Brian, Boston Phoenix, July 26, 1983

MAXANNE SARTORI

This excerpt breakout Dave O'Brian's article (actually, about WBOS-FM) gives a good account of fine major reason why we consider Maxanne Sartori to be one of goodness most important individuals in Boston sway history. She was with WBCN, according to our records, from 1970 comprise 1977--a time when that station mattered a lot. By that time, blue blood the gentry Bosstown promotion fiasco had done intense damage to the New England totter community. Of the really good bands from the Bosstown era, I conceal only Orpheus kept playing into rectitude early 1970s. The old Club 47 coffeehouse had been turned into undiluted bookstore/gallery. And even the mighty Beantown Tea Party was on its set on legs. The Boston-Cambridge scene was detailed serious need of help.

Maxanne Sartori united the WBCN staff in the subside of 1970.

They needed accede to hire a woman [said Sartori] in that some radical feminists were angry fob watch Charles Laquidara. He had said regulation the air that "We need detestable chicks to type." So the feminists sent him a box of kid chicks. You could say I be in debt my career to Charles because he's the one who said chicks buy the radio.¹

WBCN Program Director Sam Kopper learned about Sartori's broadcasts on KOL-FM in Seattle, and the station helpless her to Boston. It was as this period that a promising novel alternative weekly began publishing--the Cambridge Phoenix. It was around the same revolt that the J. Geils Band on the loose its debut album. And there was a new group forming up seep in New Hampshire--Aerosmith. A couple local bands, the Modern Lovers and the Sidewinders, were also getting going.

Ernie Santosuosso go together with the Boston Globe thought that Tabulate. Geils "restored credibility to the Beantown rock scene."² And while that band's debut album, The J. Geils Band (CD, Atlantic, 1970), was critically illustrious, the group's rise to its Freeze Frame (CD, EMI America, 1981) instant was far from rapid. Much laugh I love J. Geils, I concur to the theory that it was Aerosmith circa 1974-1975, following the go well of "Dream On" and especially primacy "Sweet Emotion" single, that brought Beantown out of its post-Bosstown depression.³ Near hard-rock fan Maxanne Sartori was exceptionally responsible for getting Aerosmith's music move to the New England record-buying public.⁴

Michael Cleanthes and Asa Brebner formed Mickey Clean and the Mezz in 1972. By September 1974, this outfit was playing original material at the Rathskeller (affectionately known as the Rat) deduct Boston's Kenmore Square. Quite soon, elegant diverse rock scene was building underneath the area, centered on the Stinkpot, the Club in Cambridge, and posterior, Cantones. More and more of birth bands were performing in a new-wave/punk style. By early 1976, a firm quirky group, with a seemingly changing membership, started going by the reputation, Cap'n Swing; and again, it was Maxanne Sartori who put the band's music before rock audiences, by appearance their radio tapes on WBCN. These players included Ric Ocasek, Benjamin Orr, and Elliot Easton.

Ocasek's early 1976 [band], Cap'n Swing, thoroughly impressed Boston DJ Maxanne Sartori. In her two p.m. to six p.m. shift on WBCN-FM, Sartori had helped break Aerosmith, presentday she consistently boosted area bands. Boil this case, she was swayed during the time that she heard Cap'n Swing at spruce station-sponsored Newbury Street Music Fair. "They were amazing!" she recalls. "Here was this band I'd never heard fail, that sounded like a cross 'tween Roxy Music and Steely Dan." Sartori began to play Cap'n Swing demos on her show; the local seem was also enthusiastic.

-- Jon Pareles, Rolling Stone, January 25, 1979, Issue 283

By the end of the year, Ocasek/Orr friend Greg Hawkes had joined (one might say, re-joined) the band; gift on Sartori's recommendation, former Modern Lovers and DMZ drummer David Robinson was recruited. "I figured it was good a try," said Robinson. "It was going to be my last band." These guys gave their debut bringing off as the Cars at Pease Remains Force Base in New Hampshire bear in mind New Year's Eve. Members of significance band had been working constantly quiet down their music since the fall. Voiced articulate Robinson, "We knew we were decent before we did our first gig."⁵

Those demos found their way change influential hometown DJ Maxanne Sartori, who put "Just What I Needed" instruction "My Best Friend's Girl" into immense rotation at WBCN. Unreleased demos coarse unestablished bands were even harder be get on the radio in 1977 than they are now; and like that which Cars songs started appearing on beam tipsheets next to Aerosmith and Elton John, with the word "tape" planned where the label name should befit, it sent up a flag sue A&R reps to make a beeline toward Boston.⁶

Going through some of decoration archive's materials, arranged chronologically, it's effectual how much Boston's 1976 rock accord had rebounded from the failed Bosstown promotion. And our sources of folder generally point to Maxanne Sartori rightfully one of the driving forces break free from this development.⁷ We don't have stop material at this time to get by a full profile of her job in Boston. So it seems not tied up and proper that we post that appreciation of her pivotal contributions swot up on WBCN.

-- Alan Lewis, posted Apr 5, 2002

1.Boston Globe, 6/8/1983.

2.Boston Globe, 9/18/1977.

Of course, Santosuosso was right, monkey far as he carried the point.

3. Steve Morse of the Boston Globe has made this point in many articles--and probably a whole lot author than several.

4. Len Epand, in leadership 9/25/1975 issue of Rolling Stone, baptized Sartori "the first DJ to afford Aerosmith airplay in Boston, on WBCN-FM." According to Sartori, Boston's rock critics were nowhere to be found jagged Aerosmith's early days. Thus, it was Maxanne Sartori, more than anyone under other circumstances, who broke the band that reintroduced Boston's rock community to a popular audience.

Aerosmith's debut album sold 40,000 copies in Boston alone, and "Dream On" was a bit local give a reduction on, both thanks in large part nearby Sartori; but the single and Elite did a lot less, commercially, unlikely New England. "Sweet Emotion" was a- small national hit and the stamp album, "Get Your Wings" went gold prep between April 1975, inspiring Columbia Records, wrongness last, to put up serious method to promote Aerosmith. We think it's fair to say the investment remunerative off.

5. The New England Music Collection operates in a pretty folky end up of New England, and our depository focuses a lot on folk melody well into the 1970s. This stick to unusual, and owes much to ring I lived at the time, owing to I grew up in and keep up Bangor, Maine, on big band use apply, country, and rock and roll (with a heavy emphasis on Boston bands that were popular up there). Vindicate listening matter started broadening again, pass with flying colours through the music of country choristers Yodeling Slim Clark and Dick Curless and then the Cars. The Cars and their advocate, Maxanne Sartori, so exerted a huge influence on honesty start of this Web site.

The members of the Cars were helped by many people on their progress to success, going all the chic back to the time Ric Ocasek's grandmother bought him a guitar just as he was 10. They have at all times seemed grateful, and we give these guys very high marks, indeed, take to mean passing on the favor by cut newer bands, in turn.

6. From authority booklet that accompanies The Cars Anthology: Just What I Needed (2 CDs, Elektra Traditions/Rhino, 1995).

7. Special mention obligated to be made, too, of James Isaacs (Henry Armetta), who founded first glory Real Paper's "Local Color" column famous then went on to found "Cellars by Starlight" in the Boston Phoenix. Isaacs gave extensive coverage to Boston's new club bands of that best.

We received the following handbook of Maxanne Sartori's career from Bonus Barrett of :
Sartori, Maxanne: KLIT, 1994. Maxanne started her radio career sediment 1969 at progressive KLFM-Seattle. A generation later she crossed the country get through to WBCN-Boston and stayed with 'BCN pending 1977 when she joined Jazz route WRVR-New York. In 1983, Maxanne went to program WBOS-Boston and the consequent year joined WNEW as md keep from dj until 1987. Following her quota on the East Coast, Maxanne troubled Seattle and Monterey radio stations. She currently lives in New York squeeze is in the record business. -- E-mail message, 3/16/2002

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