Wednesday 6/1/22 10pm ET: Feature LP: Night Ranger – Greatest Hits (1989)

Greatest Hits is a compilation album released May 26, 1989 by Night Ranger. It included tracks from each of the band’s first five studio albums. In 1994, the album was certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of half a million copies to U.S. retailers.

1. “(You Can Still) Rock in America” 4:14
2. “Sing Me Away” 4:08
3. “Goodbye” 4:18
4. “When You Close Your Eyes” 4:17
5. “Sister Christian” 5:01
6. “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” 4:20
7. “Sentimental Street” 4:10
8. “The Secret of My Success” 4:26
9. “Restless Kind” 4:39
10. “Four in the Morning” 3:51
11. “Eddie’s Comin’ Out Tonight” 4:24
12. “Rumours in the Air” 4:32

Jack Blades – bass guitar, vocals
Alan Fitzgerald – keyboards, vocals (except on Restless Kind)
Brad Gillis – guitar, vocals
Kelly Keagy – drums, vocals
Jeff Watson – guitar
Jesse Bradman – keyboards (on Restless Kind)
Joyce Imbesi – keyboards (on Restless Kind)

Wednesday 4/6/22 9pm ET: Feature LP: Night Ranger – Dawn Patrol (1982)

Dawn Patrol is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Night Ranger, released on November 1, 1982, by Neil Bogart’s The Boardwalk Entertainment Co.

During the recording of the album, the band was known as just Ranger. The first issues of the album were printed and ready to be shipped when a country band from California was found to have the same name. The band decided to name themselves Night Ranger after the song that Blades had written for the album, and Boardwalk proceeded to destroy every copy that had “Ranger” on it.

1. “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me” 4:19
2. “Sing Me Away” 4:09
3. “At Night She Sleeps” 4:08
4. “Call My Name” 3:42
5. “Eddie’s Comin’ Out Tonight” 4:26
6. “Can’t Find Me a Thrill” 3:19
7. “Young Girl In Love” 3:32
8. “Play Rough” 4:14
9. “Penny” 3:47
10. “Night Ranger” 4:22

Jack Blades – bass, lead vocals
Jeff Watson – guitars
Brad Gillis – guitars
Alan Fitzgerald – keyboards
Kelly Keagy – drums, lead vocals

Friday 12/31/21 12am ET: Feature LP: Night Ranger – 7 Wishes (1985)

7 Wishes is the third studio album by the American hard rock band Night Ranger, released May 20, 1985 and produced by Pat Glasser. The album features three Billboard Hot 100 chart hits: “Sentimental Street” reached No. 8, “Four in the Morning” No. 19 and “Goodbye” No. 17.

The title of “Four in the Morning (I Can’t Take Anymore)” describes the time of day Jack Blades wrote the song. In an interview with the Songfacts website, he explained, “Literally, I wrote that song at 4 in the morning. I mean, I woke up, and I had an idea, (singing) ‘I can’t take anymore, I can’t fake anymore, it’s such a hard time loving you.”

1. “Seven Wishes” 4:53
2. “Faces” 4:12
3. “Four in the Morning” 3:54
4. “I Need a Woman” 4:40
5. “Sentimental Street” 4:13
6. “This Boy Needs to Rock” 3:59
7. “I Will Follow You” 4:15
8. “Interstate Love Affair” 3:15
9. “Night Machine” 4:35
10. “Goodbye” 4:19

Jack Blades – bass, lead vocals
Jeff Watson – lead and rhythm guitars
Brad Gillis – lead and rhythm guitars
Alan Fitzgerald – keyboards, synthesizers, piano, vocals
Kelly Keagy – drums, percussion, lead vocals
Vince Neil, Tommy Lee, Kevin Charles, David Sykes, Fishdog – backing vocals on “Night Machine”

Tuesday 9/14/21 1pm ET: Feature Artist: Night Ranger

Night Ranger is an American hard rock band from San Francisco formed in 1979 that gained popularity during the 1980s with a series of albums and singles. The band’s first five albums sold more than 10 million copies worldwide and have sold 17 million albums total. The quintet is perhaps best known for the power ballad “Sister Christian,” which peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 in June 1984, along with several other top 40 hit singles in the 1980s, including “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me,” “When You Close Your Eyes,” “Sentimental Street,” “Four in the Morning (I Can’t Take Any More),” and “Goodbye.”

After their success waned in the late 1980s, the band split up in 1989, and its members pursued other musical endeavors, including group and solo efforts. Brad Gillis and Kelly Keagy teamed up with bassist Gary Moon, and released an album without the other original band members in 1995, but the band soon reunited to release two new albums in the latter half of the decade.

Tuesday 6/1/21 2pm ET: Sounds of The 80’s

Featuring tunes from David Lee Roth, Southern Pacific, Ray Parker Junior, Kathy Mattea, Whitney Houston, Queen, Paula Abdul, Carlene Carter, Police, Ramones, Oak Ridge Boys, Honeymoon Suite, Alabama, Genesis and more. . . 2pm – 6pm ET

Tuesday 5/25/21 2pm ET: Sounds of The 80’s

Featuring tunes from Pointer Sisters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Police, Eddy Grant, Pat Benatar, INXS, Kenny Loggins, Def Leppard, Whispers, Pam Tillis, Dan Hartman, Night Ranger, Go Go’s and more . . .

Saturday 12pm / Sunday 6am: Brit Rock with Dominic Forbes

This week on Brit Rock – Michael Schenker Group, Scorpions, Focus, Concrete Kingdoms, Meme Detroit, Survival Code, Green Day, Guns ‘N’ Roses, Foo Fighters, Styx, Procol Harem, Marillion, Dio, Motorhead, Don Henley, Foreigner, Chicago, Queen, Deep Purple, Genesis, Night Ranger, Allman Bros Band, Fleetwood Mac, REM, Joe Cocker, Rolling Stones, Who, Ozzy Osbourne, Mountain, Rembrandts, C.C.S., Rod Stewart, Aerosmith.  Join Dominic Forbes 12pm or the encore Sunday 6am on RadioMaxMusic.

Friday 10pm: Feature LP: Night Ranger – Hole In The Sun (2008)

Hole in the Sun is the ninth studio album by Night Ranger, released internationally on April 23, 2007 with Frontiers Records. The album was released in the U.S. on July 1, 2008.

The album features Great White keyboardist Michael Lardie as a replacement for Alan Fitzgerald, who left the band several years prior. Hole in the Sun would also be the last (to date) to feature guitarist Jeff Watson who parted ways with the band before the album was released.

Click here for album contents from Wikipedia

Thursday 11pm: Feature LP: Night Ranger – Feeding Off The Mojo (1995)

Feeding Off The Mojo is the sixth studio album by Night Ranger, released on October 17, 1995 on Drive Entertainment Records. It is the only album with bassist/vocalist Gary Moon.

“Music Box” was written by Moon before he joined the group.

The beginning intro music on the track “Mojo” was actually played while the Jack Blades-led Night Ranger took the stage during their 1996 reunion tour.

“Your Eyes Are the Window”, “Wrong Again”, “Alligator”, and “Heart of Stone” are tracks that were submitted for the album, but were not used.

The album was produced by David Prater, who had also produced Dream Theater, FireHouse, and Arcade. The album was recorded from July 15, 1994 to August 31, 1995.

David Zajicek played additional guitars on the album and toured with the band as an additional guitarist and keyboardist.

Night Ranger opened the first half of the tour with the song “Mojo” and the second half with the song “Longest Days”.

Click here for album contents from Wikipedia

Feature LP: Night Ranger – High Road (2014) 10pm ET

Amazon Review By Cory T. Shaeffer on June 10, 2014

Night Ranger made a comeback of sorts in 2011 with the release of “Somewhere in California,” which actually charted briefly on the Billboard 200. Perhaps the reason for that is the fact that “California” was easily the strongest album by the band on over 2 decades. Like it, “High Road” takes the high road by offering the best of both worlds: it’s the rare album that has some great standout songs that could be great singles, but it also plays through the whole way in a very solid, cohesive manner. That’s what makes “High Road” and “California” such huge successes. It is exactly what is missing from rock today – a solid rock album from start to finish, as opposed to one or two songs being good.

“High Road” kicks off with a bunch of great tracks. The fifth track in particular, “I’m Coming Home,” is as good or better than any rock ballad on mainstream (or even country) radio today. “Knock Knock Never Stop” is a party-themed rocker in the vein of “Rock in America,” the trademark Night Ranger sound. Things do drop off a bit after the first five tracks, however the song “Brother” is an exceptional track near the end of the record. They say that rock albums and bands who produce them are a dying breed, but Night Ranger shows no signs of slowing down. As a matter of fact, they look like they had fun making this record. Best Buy version includes 2 extra tracks. 4.5 stars.

1	High Road	3:54
2	Knock Knock Never Stop	3:41
3	Rollin’ On	4:44
4	Don’t Live Here Anymore	5:39
5	I’m Coming Home	4:50
6	X Generation	4:56
7	Only for You Only	4:38
8	Hang On	5:38
9	St. Bartholomew	4:26
10	Brothers	4:30
11	L.A. No Name	4:26