Brass Tacks: Radio oldies ... but goodies?Clint Thomas
The "station image songs" really "grow on you" (or me, in this case), but I realize that contemporary hip-hop slopheads won't get it. Who needs them, anyway? They'll be in jail soon enough when they trip over their pants. But, there are some nice things here for those of us...
For all the sense it’s making, it might as well be Mars in 2856, or maybe 7680. But we’re in New York City, in 1982. It’s four in the morning; we’re tuned to radio station WNEW, and the piano, the voice, and the way-out word jazz belong to Al “Jazzbo” Collins (or...
but very tame. Ken talked about the sale of KABC from CapCities to Disney as the beginning of the end. "Beginning of the end as we knew it," said Ken. "I’ll tell you when it really hit everybody was whenGeorge Green, who had been with that station for 38 years, was met by ...
If that’s you, RadiOM is a must stop. Many of these recordings hail from the days when Amirkhanian served as music director at listener supported station KPFA-FM in the 1970s. Consider these goodies at your disposal (all free, by the way): ...
I also understand that Bacolod speaks Cebuano. But the station mixes in Tagalog on their adlibs occasionally. Overall, the station is typical of a masa format, but they do play a good variety of music. From oldies, recurrents to new ones. Listen live at http://107campusradiobacolod....
I don't know why but they do. There's an oldies station that just plays Janet Jackson songs from the 80s and Manfred Mann's Earth Band's version (the single edit w/out the guitar solo) of "Blinded by the Light" EVERY DAY...in the morning and then again in the evening. This lea...
Stage some atrocity theater— Students rotting in the classrooms— Importing corruption— Our Great Cultural Revolution— A week of anniversaries: (1) To the Finland Station— A week of anniversaries: (2) Wilson's War— Miscellany: The ChiComs come calling; Five years on, we're bigger ...
I don't know why but they do. There's an oldies station that just plays Janet Jackson songs from the 80s and Manfred Mann's Earth Band's version (the single edit w/out the guitar solo) of "Blinded by the Light" EVERY DAY...in the morning and then again in the evening. This lea...
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