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Film Classics with Jack Goggin

Film Classics with Jack Goggin

Sundays | 6 – 7 pm

What is Film Classics?
By Jack Goggin

Briefly, it’s a weekly hour-long radio program devoted to music written for motion pictures. I began doing it back in the late 70’s at the old WQRS when we had scheduled a syndicated movie music show hosted by the composer David Raksin (“Laura” among other scores) which management decided not to run when it turned out the program was not free. Jerry Dellinger, our Music Director at the time, remembered that I was a fan of cinematic music, and asked me if I had enough material in my collection to do a month’s worth of programs so our Program Guide would be more or less accurate. I said “I think so,” and wound up doing the show for about 18 years until 1997.

Later, when WRCJ came into being, Dave Wagner asked me to come on board and mentioned that if things worked out, we might be able to bring the show back here on 90.9 FM- and sure enough, that’s what happened in April of 2007. It is truly a dream come true to be able to do the program again- to be honest, I doubted that I would ever get another opportunity.

The music we play on the show consists mostly of orchestral scores from the early 30’s (the beginning of talking pictures and of background scoring) up to the present (as recently as last week’s new releases), and as I like to point out to people, Film Classics is the only program on WRCJ exclusively devoted to music from the 20th and 21st centuries literally, there’s new material coming out all the time, as well as new recordings of classic scores by the old masters of the genre like Steiner, Korngold, and Herrmann.

Sometimes the show will be devoted to a single score, like “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir”, or sometimes it will follow a theme, like “Submarine Movies.” Generally speaking, we don’t do pop soundtrack compilations or very many musicals.

The theme music for the show, heard at the beginning and end of each program, is the main title sequence from “Since You Went Away” by Max Steiner, which won Steiner his third Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1944.

Thanks for Listening!

Comments

  1. David Erickson says

    February 19, 2021 at 2:21 am

    Jack I found you again! I used to listen to your religiously on WQRS Detroit Classical Radio in the 1980’s Still have tapes of a lot of your shows, So much has changed since I left the state in the early 90’s. I’m so glad to see you are around.

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      February 19, 2021 at 12:37 pm

      Yay, welcome back! We borrowed some of the other WQRS folks too.

      Reply
  2. Jim Anderson says

    January 24, 2021 at 6:31 pm

    Enjoying the program, tonight. By the way, Frank Mankiewicz was also President of National Public Radio (NPR) in the 70’s and 80’s.

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      January 25, 2021 at 10:45 am

      Thank you Jim, glad you tuned in!

      Reply
  3. Jim kramer says

    December 21, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    Great program last week I watched Scrooge (1951) the night before the music is excellent from that movie hope one day you do twilight zone jerry goldsmith and Bernard Herman did music for that show

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      December 22, 2020 at 12:00 am

      Thanks Jim! If Jack owns that album then it’s a possibility. We’ll ask him.

      Reply
  4. KEITH DAMRON says

    October 11, 2020 at 5:15 pm

    I’m curious, Jack, what WAS the MUSIC STORE you walked into when you bought your of RCA Korngold LP so long ago?

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      October 12, 2020 at 5:52 pm

      Hi Keith, Jack said he thought it was called Discount Music located in Northwest St. Louis. They had a Knight chess piece in their logo. This was around 1973 when he purchased it. Part II of his RCA series is coming up this Sunday…

      Reply
  5. Thomas Baker says

    July 9, 2020 at 3:21 pm

    I’m glad to see that you’re doing an entire program on the music of Ennio Morricone who recently passed away. I heard some music from the film “Bugsy” called Love Affair recently. The version I most liked was with a violin solo by Zia Hyunsu Shin with a string orchestra. It’s quite beautiful. Thanks for the weekly program.

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      July 9, 2020 at 9:27 pm

      Thank you Thomas, Jack had to do a Morricone tribute show. We hope you enjoy it.

      Reply
  6. Mary Mazure says

    May 1, 2020 at 9:38 am

    Looking forward to Sunday’s Force Spectacular. Jack is always so on target as today’s “Lusty Month of May” start.

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      May 1, 2020 at 3:48 pm

      Oh you caught that one, yes he tries to find fun little things like that to program. If you enjoy the Star Wars show, there will also be a few selections on Monday too.

      Reply
  7. CAS says

    November 24, 2019 at 7:47 pm

    Love the John Barry music featured this evening. What movie was it written for? I cannot seem to find the playlist.

    Thank you,
    CAS

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      November 25, 2019 at 6:15 pm

      Hello listener, that was music from The Scarlet Letter (1995) by John Barry, an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel.

      Reply
  8. Karen Lynne Schmidt says

    October 20, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    where might i find the Oct 20 2019 playlist? i don’t easily see a tab for playlist on the website but am sure i am just missing it

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      October 21, 2019 at 6:40 pm

      Hello Karen, Jack played:
      The Longest Day Main Title
      Lawrence Of Arabia Main Title
      Dr. Zhivago Suite
      A Passage To India: Adela’s Theme
      Witness: Building The Barn
      Is Paris Burning? Main Title
      Ryan’s Daughter: Concert Suite
      Topaz Main Title
      Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: Fanfare & Thunderdome
      Ghost: Unchained Melody
      And Jack thanks you for listening!

      Reply
  9. Tim Billo says

    February 4, 2019 at 11:16 am

    Just thought I would drop a note My wife and I have been a fan of yours since WQRS days. I am a movie fan and enjoy “seeing” the movie again through your program Keep on doing what you’re doing We will be listening

    Reply
    • WorkerB says

      February 4, 2019 at 4:05 pm

      Thanks listeners! We will send this along to Jack. He appreciates your loyalty!

      Reply

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