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Radio, Radio... Mar 27, 2016 14:18:29 GMT -5

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Post by berkley on Mar 27, 2016 14:18:29 GMT -5

Speaking of radio on vinyl, I had the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show on a double album (I think it was, haven't seen it for years). I also used to borrow vinyl pressings of The Goon Show from our library back home, that was a great discovery.

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Radio, Radio... Mar 27, 2016 15:25:26 GMT -5

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Mar 27, 2016 8:29:12 GMT -5 Red Oak Kid said:

In the late 60s I found out about OTR and I went to some record stores looking for old shows on record. I found an LP titled Great Moments in Radio(I think) It had some short clips from shows like The Shadow, Gangbusters and it had the recording of the the Hindenburg going down in flames. It had a photo of a cathedral style radio receiver on the album cover.

I also had that album. Many good memories of that record.

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Radio, Radio... Mar 28, 2016 16:59:49 GMT -5

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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 28, 2016 16:59:49 GMT -5

I started to write a new thread about radio a year and a half ago. Here's most of what I wrote, updated as necessary:

I didn't start out as a radio listener. My parents grew up in the Golden Age of Radio, while I grew up with TV. I didn't even start listening to Top 40 music until I was 15. Now my mother watches Encore Western all day and I haven't had a TV at home for four years. I'm lucky enough to live in a city that has a good NPR affiliate, a free-form community station, 24-hour jazz and classical stations, and lots more.

On weekdays, my alarm clock starts my day with Morning Edition from NPR and our local affilate Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), although I really don't listen to much of it.

In the car on the way to work, I first check out Democracy Now! on the free-form station KBOO. That's often too depressing, so I switch to the jazz station, KMHD, or the morning show on the local sports station that has the Trail Blazers games, KPOJ.

At work I have a radio tuned to the jazz station at my desk. But my wife has OPB radio on at home, and hardly a week goes by without her calling to ask me to print out a transcript of some story she heard on Morning Edition, or The Takeaway, or Here & Now, or BBC Newshour, or Q, or The World, or OPB's local daily show, Think Out Loud.

On the way home, it's either jazz, All Things Considered, oldies, classic rock, a "we play everything" station, or the Trail Blazers pre-game show.

More to come, in less than a year I hope...

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Radio, Radio... Mar 28, 2016 20:02:11 GMT -5 Red Oak Kid likes this

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Post by The Captain on Mar 28, 2016 20:02:11 GMT -5

As a kid who had just gotten his first transistor radio, I would hide under the covers and listen to legendary local radio host "Uncle Dougie" (Doug) Hoerth at 9:00 every night on 1020 KDKA AM in Pittsburgh, PA. It was talk radio and I really didn't know what he was talking about (I was probably 8 or 9), but I knew that I liked his theme song, which was by Sopwith Camel, IIRC. It would be a while until I actually found the FM side of the dial, but Monday through Friday, except during baseball season, I would be tuned into his show.

I also remember turning the dial ever-so-carefully on Sunday nights to try to pick up the Doctor Demento weekly show, which was not broadcast locally in Pittsburgh, but if I held the radio just right toward the window and at the right height, I could get it from a station in Ohio.

I would also try throughout the 1980s to see where I could pick up hockey games from. I remember getting local broadcasts from Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis, as well as getting French-language broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens' games on occasion.

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Radio, Radio... Mar 29, 2016 9:02:11 GMT -5

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Mar 25, 2016 21:04:45 GMT -5 Slam_Bradley said:

Other than occasionally NPR, I'm not sure you could pay me to listen to the radio now. However, I couldn't live without my satellite radio.

Most of my radio memories revolve around travel. Whether it be listening to old-time country music while riding in my Dad's truck or flipping through channels and finding Doctor Demento while my Mom and I were driving back home from visiting my Grandparents late at night.

Oddly, I love old radios themselves. I have a half dozen Bakelite radios in various states of repair that I've picked up at estate sales.

I have a two CD set of favorite novelty songs from Dr. Demento. Great fun to listen to nowadays. Classics like "King Tut", "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park", and "Der Fuehrer's Face".

Many of those old radios are true works of art, especially the Art Nouveau inspired ones.

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Radio, Radio... Mar 29, 2016 9:06:38 GMT -5 Red Oak Kid likes this

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Mar 27, 2016 14:18:29 GMT -5 berkley said:

Speaking of radio on vinyl, I had the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio show on a double album (I think it was, haven't seen it for years). I also used to borrow vinyl pressings of The Goon Show from our library back home, that was a great discovery.

Oddly enough, I think my first encounter with the original Star Wars movie was through the radio play version done by the BBC. I remember my oldest brother had it recorded on an 8-Track tape that I listened to over and over. He also took us to see it in the theater and I recall that by the time we arrived all that was left was the front row, looking almost straight up at the screen. It seemed like Leia had 6 foot nostrils that we were constantly looking up, but it was a great time anyway.

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Radio, Radio... Mar 29, 2016 19:54:20 GMT -5

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Post by dupersuper on Mar 29, 2016 19:54:20 GMT -5

On a note slightly related to old time radio shows: I finally finished binging all of Thrilling Adventure Hour.

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Radio, Radio... Apr 2, 2016 20:13:45 GMT -5 via mobile

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Mar 29, 2016 9:06:38 GMT -5 DE Sinclair said:

Oddly enough, I think my first encounter with the original Star Wars movie was through the radio play version done by the BBC.

That was by NPR in America actually, not the BBC. They also did an adaptation of The Empire Strikes Back a year or two later, and much, much later an adaptation of ROTJ as well.

The SW radio plays were written by Brian Daley who also penned the Han Solo trilogy of books in the late '70s. I loved all the extra scenes and stuff that we got in those radio plays; the start of the first film, with Leia's ship being attacked, doesn't happen until episode 2 of the radio play. Prior to that there's tons of stuff set on Tatooine following Luke Skywalker racing his Skyhopper and also some stuff concerning how Leia got hold of the Death Star plans. Great stuff!

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Radio, Radio... Apr 2, 2016 20:37:06 GMT -5

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Post by Hoosier X on Apr 2, 2016 20:37:06 GMT -5

There was a radio station in Los Angeles that played an hour of old-time radio every night and I used to listen to it a lot. Some of the shows would rotate and you'd hear Burns and Allen for a while, and then it would be replaced by Bob Hope. But the two shows they played forever were Jack Benny and Gunsmoke.

At one time or another they had Tales of the Texas Rangers, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Great Gildersleeve, The Six-Shooter, Philip Marlowe, Box 13, Like with Luigi (which I hated) and so on.

The Whistler and Nightbeat were a couple of my favorites.

There's an old-time radio Internet archive that has bunches and bunches of old shows and I used to listen to all kind of random radio shows.

There was one called Frontier Gentleman that was pretty awesome, but I only heard it two or three times.

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Radio, Radio... Apr 5, 2016 14:11:52 GMT -5

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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 5, 2016 14:11:52 GMT -5

I have a question for our UK members. My local public radio station plays BBC Newshour on weekday afternoons and BBC World Service late at night (11pm - 4am). Between those two, I've become quite familiar with the voices of Lawrence Pollard, Julian Warricker, Owen Bennett-Jones, Nikki Bedi, Bridget Kendall, and others. Are they well-known in Britain, or is the World Service separate from the domestic BBC?

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Radio, Radio... Apr 5, 2016 16:11:04 GMT -5

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The Captain said:

I also remember turning the dial ever-so-carefully on Sunday nights to try to pick up the Doctor Demento weekly show, which was not broadcast locally in Pittsburgh, but if I held the radio just right toward the window and at the right height, I could get it from a station in Ohio.

I would also try throughout the 1980s to see where I could pick up hockey games from. I remember getting local broadcasts from Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington, New York, Detroit, Chicago, and St. Louis, as well as getting French-language broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens' games on occasion.

I have so many memories of similar nights as a kid in New Jersey with my six-transistor radio glued to my ear under the covers listening to the mets games. It was on that little radio that I heard the game on August 26, 1965 when rookie pitcher Tug McGraw hung a loss on Sandy Koufax, the first of just two he suffered at the hands of the Mets. (He beat them another 17 times, with 14 CG and 5 SO.)

I also remember being up late at night and twirling the dial to find other teams' games and other cities' sports shows. Often listened on Sunday nights (an easier night to pick up faraway stations) to "Calling All Sports," the prototypical Boston sports show, litttle dreaming that I'd be making Massachusetts my home just a decade later or that all three of my kids would be living there.

Rob wrote:

I didn't start out as a radio listener. My parents grew up in the Golden Age of Radio, while I grew up with TV. I didn't even start listening to Top 40 music until I was 15.

As a former Jerseyan, Rob, I was just wondering if the Top 40 stations you listened to were WABC and WMCA out of New York, at least in the pre-FM days. They were the ones we grew up on until FM in the late 60s/early 70s. High-energy, relentless playing of the "hits," contests all the time, and bouncy jingles every thirty seconds. Cousin Brucie, Dan Ingram, Dandy Dan Daniel, Frankie Crocker. Nothing like that any more.

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Radio, Radio... Apr 5, 2016 17:03:21 GMT -5 Prince Hal likes this

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Apr 5, 2016 16:11:04 GMT -5 Prince Hal said:

As a former Jerseyan, Rob, I was just wondering if the Top 40 stations you listened to were WABC and WMCA out of New York, at least in the pre-FM days. They were the ones we grew up on until FM in the late 60s/early 70s. High-energy, relentless playing of the "hits," contests all the time, and bouncy jingles every thirty seconds. Cousin Brucie, Dan Ingram, Dandy Dan Daniel, Frankie Crocker. Nothing like that any more.

We had teenage neighbors who listened to Cousin Brucie in the 60s, but I didn't start paying attention until later. When FM radio started getting good, I was just starting to listen to AM radio. The station I remember best is WNBC, with Imus in the Morning and Wolfman Jack.

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Radio, Radio... Apr 5, 2016 17:17:49 GMT -5 Prince Hal likes this

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Apr 5, 2016 16:11:04 GMT -5 Prince Hal said:

The Captain said:

As a former Jerseyan, Rob, I was just wondering if the Top 40 stations you listened to were WABC and WMCA out of New York, at least in the pre-FM days. They were the ones we grew up on until FM in the late 60s/early 70s. High-energy, relentless playing of the "hits," contests all the time, and bouncy jingles every thirty seconds. Cousin Brucie, Dan Ingram, Dandy Dan Daniel, Frankie Crocker. Nothing like that any more.

Living in NYC back in those days so indeed I have so many radio memories before FM radio evolved.
Late night WABC with commercials every 20 minutes or so for Denizens Men's Clothier on Rte something or other in NJ ("Is this the place? It gotta be the place. Cuz there's no other place, like this place") Robert Hall department stores, Palisades Amusement Park and (Ahh, Ho Ho Ho Ho Raceway Park)

And getting excited, for some reason, the week between Xmas and New Years when WABC did the top 100 countdown of the songs that came out that year. Even sent away to the radio station to get the list mailed to my house

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Radio, Radio... Apr 5, 2016 17:26:07 GMT -5

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Apr 5, 2016 17:17:49 GMT -5 Ish Kabbible said:

Living in NYC back in those days so indeed I have so many radio memories before FM radio evolved.
Late night WABC with commercials every 20 minutes or so for Denizens Men's Clothier on Rte something or other in NJ ("Is this the place? It gotta be the place. Cuz there's no other place, like this place") Robert Hall department stores, Palisades Amusement Park and (Ahh, Ho Ho Ho Ho Raceway Park)

And getting excited, for some reason, the week between Xmas and New Years when WABC did the top 100 countdown of the songs that came out that year. Even sent away to the radio station to get the list mailed to my house

Was there, did that!

It was "Denison's," I think.

Of course, Palisades... "swings all day and after dark!"

I loved the countdown, which reulted in such upsets as "Hello, Dolly" besting the Beatles in 1964, even though they called themselves
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The Musicradio WABC Top 100 of 1965

Courtesy of the WABC Musicradio 77 Internet Web Site

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1 "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"......................The Rolling Stones

2 "Help"...............................................The Beatles

3 "I Can't Help Myself"................................The Four Tops

4 "Downtown"...........................................Petula Clark

5 "1-2-3"..............................................Len Barry

6 "Lover's Concerto"...................................The Toys

7 "Let's Hang On"......................................The Four Seasons

8 "I Got You Babe".....................................Sonny and Cher

9 "Come See About Me"..................................The Supremes

10 "Stop! In the Name of Love".........................The Supremes

11 "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling"...................The Righteous Brothers

12 "Wooly Bully".......................................Sam the Sham and The Pharaohs

13 "Love Potion No. 9".................................The Searchers

14 "I Hear a Symphony".................................The Supremes

15 "Help Me Rhonda"....................................The Beach Boys

16 "I Feel Fine".......................................The Beatles

17 "Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter"...........Herman's Hermits

18 "This Diamond Ring".................................Gary Lewis and the Playboys

19 "The Name Game".....................................Shirley Ellis

20 "Hang On Sloopy"....................................The McCoys

21 "Mr. Tambourine Man"................................The Byrds

22 "Yesterday".........................................The Beatles

23 "Get Off of My Cloud"...............................The Rolling Stones

24 "Eight Days a Week".................................The Beatles

25 "Ticket to Ride"....................................The Beatles

26 "I'm Henry VII, I Am"...............................Herman's Hermits

27 "Eve of Destruction"................................Barry McGuire

28 "I'm Telling You Now"...............................Freddie and the Dreamers

29 "Mr. Lonely"........................................Bobby Vinton

30 "Cara, Mia".........................................Jay and the Americans

31 "Taste of Honey"....................................Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

32 "Go Now!"...........................................The Moody Blues

33 "Unchanined Melody".................................The Righteous Brothers

34 "Like a Rolling Stone"..............................Bob Dylan

35 "Game of Love"......................................Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders

36 "Goldfinger"........................................Shirley Bassey

37 "The "In" Crowd"....................................The Ramsey Lewis Trio

38 "What's New Pussycat"...............................Tom Jones

39 "Back in My Arms Again".............................The Supremes

40 "My Girl"...........................................The Temptations

41 "Keep On Dancing"...................................The Gentry's

42 "She's Not There"...................................The Zombies

43 "I'm A Happy Man"...................................The Jive Five

44 "California Girls"..................................The Beach Boys

45 "You Were On My Mind"...............................The We Five

46 "Rescue Me".........................................Fontella Bass

47 "Goin' Out Of My Head"..............................Little Anthony

48 "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat".......................Herman's Hermits

49 "Bye Bye Baby"......................................The Four Seasons

50 "I'll Never Find Another You".......................The Seekers

51 "It's The Same Old Song"............................The Four Tops

52 "She's A Woman".....................................The Beatles

53 "King of the Road"..................................Roger Miller

54 "Count Me In".......................................Gary Lewis and the Playboys

55 "I Know A Place"....................................Petula Clark

56 "Turn Turn Turn"....................................The Byrds

57 "Save Your Heart For Me"............................Gary Lewis and the Playboys

58 "Darling Take Me Back"..............................Lenny Welch

59 "Yes, I'm Ready"....................................Barbara Mason

60 "The Mouse".........................................Soupy Sales

61 "Silhouettes".......................................Herman's Hermits

62 "Shotgun"...........................................Jr. Walker and the All Stars

63 "My Love Forgive Me"................................Robert Goulet

64 "The Birds and the Bees"............................Jewel Akens

65 "I Got You".........................................James Brown

66 "Catch Us If You Can"...............................The Dave Clark Five

67 "Keep Searchin' "...................................Del Shannon

68 "Tired Of Waiting For You"..........................The Kinks

69 "Wonderful World"...................................Herman's Hermits

70 "Time Is On My Side"................................The Rolling Stones

71 "Land Of 1000 Dances"...............................Cannibal and the Headhunters

72 "Nothing But Heartaches"............................The Supremes

73 "The Boy From New York City"........................The Ad Libs

74 "Tell Her No".......................................The Zombies

75 "You Really Got Me".................................The Kinks

76 "You're The One"....................................The Vogues

77 "Shake".............................................Sam Cooke

78 "Crying In The Chapel"..............................Elvis Presley

79 "For Your Love".....................................The Yardbirds

80 "Red Roses For A Blue Lady".........................Bert Kaempfert

81 "Don't Think Twice".................................The Wonder Who

82 "Ringo".............................................Lorne Greene

83 "Concrete and Clay".................................Unit Four Plus Two

84 "Everyone's Gone To The Moon".......................Jonathan King

85 "Let's Lock The Door"...............................Jay and the Americans

86 "Over and Over".....................................The Dave Clark Five

87 "I Can Never Go Home Anymore".......................The Shangri-Las

88 "Walking In The Rain"...............................The Ronettes

89 "Hurt So Bad".......................................Little Anthony

90 "I Do"..............................................The Marvelows

91 "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"........................James Brown

92 "Ferry Cross the Mersey"............................Garry and the Pacemakers

93 "Hold What You've Got"..............................Joe Tex

94 "Nowhere To Run"....................................Martha and the Vandellas

95 "Just A Little".....................................The Beau Brummels

96 "Seventh Son".......................................Johnny Rivers

97 "It's Not Unusual"..................................Tom Jones

98 "I'm Into Something Good"...........................Herman's Hermits

99 "We Can Work It Out"................................The Beatles

100 "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away"................The Silkie