FORGOTTEN MUSIC: TOM DOYLE

Loren Owens and Wally Brine are radio personalities in Boston.  The Loren and Wally Morning Show has been a top-rated show on WROR for many years and along they way they've had a host of interesting "regulars."  One of the most popular has been Tom Doyle, whose song parodies -- "Townie Tunes" -- can make you choke while the milk comes spurting out of your nostrils.

     It's been sixteen years since I moved away from the Boston area so I wasn't familiar with Tom Doyle.  That changed when I got a CD of his songs for Christmas.  Here are a few of the songs.  Of course, most of these tunes are about Boston and its environs, but there's also a visit with the Men from Maine with their unique take on "animal husbandry" and the not-so-true story "behind" Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rXaIQZU9bI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVjLmrd8c60&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB3118B4A3E9EFC5D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGbua9TV18c&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB1B7B1072AE93B0C

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6LVLQ3Mkro&feature=BFa&list=PLB1B7B1072AE93B0C&lf=results_video&index=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZo-ybCVwqI&feature=BFa&list=PL07BF9B6ACE23512D&lf=results_main

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDQ0ZID0toE&feature=BFa&list=PL07BF9B6ACE23512D&lf=results_main

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV0QntbnEF8&feature=BFa&list=PL56CF34258C570FB5&lf=results_main

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4kQaOUb7Jw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcHO2ABjyvo