AM Radio (not _talk_, therefore not politics...) - Beyond Tiki

JD Johnny Dollar Tiki Socialite Flyover, Missourah Joined: Oct 01, 2003 Posts: 3159	JD Johnny Dollar Posted posted on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 10:22 AM i stumbled upon an odd little "twilight-zone"-esque thing last week. i've been remodeling our downstairs bathroom, and in moving out the cd-boombox, i found myself without any background noise while i was shaving. so i grabbed a vintage white plastic "tube radio" that i inherited from gramps awhile back and plugged it in. after it warmed up i found out that (of course) it only played AM stations. blergh. so i fiddled the yellowing translucent 4" diameter dial, and of course got all kinds of talk, yada yada yada. personally hearing someone talk out their opinion is not my idea of relaxing (please let's not discuss talk radio in this thread thx :) ) but! i came to some music! and it was freakin all from 1950 to 1970, pushing into the late herb alpert "smooth jazz" but mostly square in there with frank sinatra and a bit of abba-esque. it was called "the music of your life" and i enjoyed it immensely. now is this only a local phenomenon or have people realized that AM can be for music??? i only relate because it was so cool to hear this music broadcasting from decades ago, right to my lil tube radio. over and out, j$

i stumbled upon an odd little "twilight-zone"-esque thing last week.

i've been remodeling our downstairs bathroom, and in moving out the cd-boombox, i found myself without any background noise while i was shaving. so i grabbed a vintage white plastic "tube radio" that i inherited from gramps awhile back and plugged it in. after it warmed up i found out that (of course) it only played AM stations. blergh. so i fiddled the yellowing translucent 4" diameter dial, and of course got all kinds of talk, yada yada yada. personally hearing someone talk out their opinion is not my idea of relaxing (please let's not discuss talk radio in this thread thx :) ) but!

i came to some music! and it was freakin all from 1950 to 1970, pushing into the late herb alpert "smooth jazz" but mostly square in there with frank sinatra and a bit of abba-esque. it was called "the music of your life" and i enjoyed it immensely. now is this only a local phenomenon or have people realized that AM can be for music??? i only relate because it was so cool to hear this music broadcasting from decades ago, right to my lil tube radio.

over and out, j$

Post #82996 by Johnny Dollar on Fri, Mar 26, 2004 10:22 AM