Lately I've been thinking about radio. I'm enjoying the HD radio I had installed in my van, listening to commercial-free music of a higher quality than I'm used to brought me back to the late 60's and early 70's. That is when they weaned us away from the AM band.
Make some noise if you remember the AM radio!!!
The DJ's didn't talk to you, they kind of yelled at you, and talked in their special radio DJ voices. Dead air was punishable by death, so there was lots of filler. Oh hey, that sounds like FM today...
At one time FM was the "Cool People" band. Everybody on it was hip and simply talked like they were having a conversation with YOU. They played the l o n g versions of tunes instead of the 3 minute cuts for Top 40 radio.
Well, if you're too young to remember this, here is your chance to experience it now.
1. buy an HD radio.
2. turn it to the stations you normally are forced to listen to.
3. check out their HD offerings.
It is much like the internet radio, but portable.
Dig it while you can, in a few years it will sound just like the crap we've grown accustomed to...
"This is Johnny Smoothe, here in the dark, playing music to keep your love-light lit. Here is Brasil 66 with....................", etc.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I remember.
Scorpio and Psychy were the first in Chicago. WOPA in Oak Park.
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