Remembering Radio?

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Dana Jean

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As a kid, there was some spooky radio show I would listen too, and I listened to Dr. Demento.

Years later when I had kids, I found the radio program, The Shadow -- still own -- on cassettes. My oldest and I listened to them and just died laughing. They were hysterical but in a fun way.

And always listened to Kasey Kassem (sp?) top 40. In my romantic teenage girl heart, I always hoped some guy was going to dedicate a song to me. ha!
 
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DiO'Bolic

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Radio shows were a little before my time. But come a different type of Rock’n’Roll in the latter 60’s, I was forever grateful for FM. WZZO baby! And wouldn’t you know it, for my birthday around that time my parents bought me a General Electric Solid State radio... AM only :(. And I still have it.
 

GNTLGNT

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As a kid, there was some spooky radio show I would listen too, and I listened to Dr. Demento.

Years later when I had kids, I found the radio program, The Shadow -- still own -- on cassettes. My oldest and I listened to them and just died laughing. They were hysterical but in a fun way.

And always listened to Kasey Kassem (sp?) top 40. In my romantic teenage girl heart, I always hoped some guy was going to dedicate a song to me. ha!
...this brought tears to my eyes....the voice was getting rough, but the cadence and enthusiasm was still there.....I listen as often as I can to the re-broadcasts on Sirius XM.....
 

mal

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Sorry - I'm on my phone which is a pain in the butt ... so you must have seen a few Snowbirds in your day?
Seen the Snowbirds a few times. Lived a few houses down from one of the pilots when I was a lad. Not from Moose Jaw though, that was where the radio station broadcast from. Slightly off the beaten path in Melville, SK.
 
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swiftdog2.0

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I grew up on Boston area free form FM radio in the late 70's, 80's and 90's. WBCN, WCOZ, WAAF, and later WFNX (late 90's through 2000 something).

WBCN was the best of the bunch until they brought in Howard Stern in the early 90's. That and being sucked into the CBS corporation brought about their demise. It was a painful death spiral until they went off the air in 2009 :(

Up until about 1993 or so WBCN would play all types of rock. It's primarily where I got the foundation of my music education. How can you not love a station that had both Peter Wolf (from the J. Geils Band) and JJ Jackson (yes, the VJ from MTV) as two of their first DJs? JJ Jackson was a huge Led Zeppelin supporter and was tight with the band. WBCN was the first station in the world to play Led Zeppelin II and III on the air (confirmed by Jimmy Page). I do miss :listening_headphones: to it.
 
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Pucker

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WBCN is off the air?

That's a shame.

Last time I heard that station they were broadcasting the Pats, unless I'm misremembering.

When I was a teenager in the '70s Matty Siegel and Charles Laquidara and Mark Parenteau were my constant companions. Radio was different then. Now it's almost all canned stuff that doesn't even really need personalities, but that's just more of the world moving on I guess.

I did have an opportunity to be a kind of disc jockey myself when I was in the Navy running SITE. It was fun, but even back then there was plenty of stricture on what you were allowed to play.
 
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