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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: clock radios |
| Date | Mon, 17 Oct 2005 12:58:42 -0400 |
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From: "Borislow, Gary" <gary.borislow@sage.com>
> I liked how you mentioned you were listening on your clock radio,
> David.
> That was my primary music player as a youngster. This weekend, I
> was
> watching the latest Time Life Music infomercial, for the 70's Music
> Explosion (co-hosted by an insanely cheerful Barry Williams). Many
> of the
> songs took me back to my clock radio days, but for some reason, "You
> Make Me
> Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer gave me the strongest recollection.
> So much
> so, that I could clearly see the numbers on the clock stacked up,
> each
> waiting for its turn to flip.
My clock radio was actually the entree OUT of the Top 40 for me. When
one of my older sisters got married and moved out of the house, it
occasioned a reshuffling of the upstairs bedrooms, which meant that
for the first time (at the age of 8 or so), I got a bedroom of my own.
I was bequeathed an old clock radio to go on my nightstand, but the
antenna was broken, which meant that the Denver top 40 station, KIMN,
came in all staticky, and the only clear station I could get was
Boulder's own KBCO. This had been a freeform progressive rock
station, but by 1978, it was in the process of adding a bunch of new
artists to its playlist, with the result that by the time we left
Boulder in 1983, it was a full-fledged new wave station!
S
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