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broken piano noises
Sometimes when you flip over a rock you find amazing things. Lets' start with the meme I saw. Let's also briefly revisit the definition of meme. Per Merriam Webster: /mēm/an amusing or interesting item...
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DJ Powel Crosley Jr. and the mystery of 8CR
How or when Crosley wrote the above pamphlet I do not know. It's obscure ephemera. But powell has always been involved writing his own history. Wikipedia clearly states that Powel Crosley Jr.'s...
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Cassette Magnetic Shield
tapemuzik.deI had to transfer some cassette spools last year into new shells. In the process I noticed that new and old magnetic shields are very different sizes. Most are flat and roughly 25 mm x 12...
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The Lost Lost World
I'm reading the book The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. It's not about running. It's a book by Alan Sillitoe about the bleak working class life in Nottingham, England; published in 1959. It's...
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Works Cited
I've been at this for almost 20 years now and gradually I've noticed that this blog has been cited a few times as a primary source. I do quite a bit of original research so why not? It's nice that it...
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Angst and Cooking (Part 2)
I had no idea this cookbook would warrant a part 2 post. But since I wrote that post in 2014 almost everyone mentioned has died. That first post is here; where I spent some time untangling all the...
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DJ Shorty Fincher
I bumped into Shorty Fincher before, reading about Lucky Lang. Shorty was actually named Luther Clark “Shorty” Fincher and he was born in 1899 in Iukia, MS according to his biography in this song book....
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Around The Samovar
A samovar is a metal container traditionally used to boil water for tea. There's a central tube in which you burn coal or wood to heat the water. Many Russian samovars have a konforta, a sing-shaped...
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Calling all WCPRs
There have been a lot of different WCPRs over the years. Today there are three: 1450 WCPR-AM in Coamo, PR which first signed on in 1967, also 97.9WCPR-FM in D'Iberville, MS which signed on in 1992 and...
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WRKZ - radio artifact
A brand name containing the number "107" might normally be assumed to be at 107.1. But in this case Z-107 was actually 106.7 WRKZ-FM in Elizabethtown, PA. At least it actually contains a "Z". The...
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Heavy Metal Thunder
I've been tracing back the origins of heavy metal radio shows for years now. Back in 2010 I wrote about early metal radio shows and traced all the "oldest" active shows back to the early 1980s. [LINK]...
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First AI Radio Station
I loathe AI, at least what we're calling AI today. It's not intelligent as we would normally use the word. But it's definitely artificial. As Joe Slater once wrote "ChatGPT isn’t ‘hallucinating’—it’s...
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Ron Harris - Interview (Part 1)
Ron Harris is not a household name but when you read a lot of radio history sometimes you run across the same name multiple times. It makes sense that you'd see famous names repeatedly. It makes a lot...
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News and Reviews 2024
We are now in year 19 .... Annually gather my thoughts and I revisit my my statement from 2015... "it seems both impossible and inadvisable to have gone so far down the rabbit-hole." This blog began in...
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DJ David Brenner Live (Part 2)
1979 Desert Inn flyerI did listen to that entire David Brenner Live episode. In the first 10 seconds they plugged the local affiliate and I learned that this was broadcast on WXRK New York, NY. I doubt...
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Riot Radio
Riot Radio is a free internet radio show that plays independent punk music from around the world. The program was started by it's host Kevin in 2002 as a a college radio show on WONY at the State...
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WPIR - Primitive Inventory Control
I found a lot of 7-inches all marked with the letters WPIR on eBay [LINK] and it got me curious. I know that station. I have met some of their alumni over the years, memorably card-carrying record...
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Interview with Jeffrey Riman
Professor Jeffrey Riman was kind enough to make time to talk with me about reporting for Billboard back in the early 1970s while he was music director at WPIR. He endured numerous follow up questions...
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Splicing Tape
Today when I say "splicing tape" people assume magnetic tape or film. But the term goes back much further. In my career I've mostly used 3M scotch splicing tape when editing 1/4" recording tape. But a...
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WTSR vs. WTSR
When you look back at your life you can gain perspective and reassess events, small and large. So let me tell you the tale of two WTSRs. Recently while discussing carrier current radio stations with a...
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Lake Fred Radio
The popularity of the name Fred has been in decline since 1888. Despite titular Fred's like Fred Flintstone, Fred from Scooby Doo, Fred Durst, Fred Savage, DJ Fred Allen, Fred Schneider, Fred Armisen,...
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60 Years of Albert Batts
The second radio station to sign on in Chattanooga was 1420 WAPO-AM in September of 1936. WDOD literally beat them by a decade. It had been on air since 1925. The third was WDEF which signed on in...
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The Golden Age of the Bike Radio
There have been hundreds of thousands of different makes and models of transistor radios. Every once in a while I find one unique enough to write about. I recently discovered the Concept 2000 Bike...
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G & F Searchlight Radio
My interest in radio is mostly history and programming. I accumulate books, and ephemera. I'm not particularly a collector of radios themselves. But I do recognize an unusual table radio when I see...
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Colwyn Bay Wireless College
For several years now I've been seeing folks selling ads snipped from magazines and newspapers. It's a little problematic to have the content removed from it's source material. The same complaint...
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