April 20, 2023

A Keyboard & Its Master … Dan Troxell!

Dan Troxell is one of only two instrumentalists (the other being steel guitar player Curt Shoemaker) who still releases recordings which include…

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KMA Billboard 02
March 30, 2023

Small-Town America … Radio & Records

The small town I’m referencing is Shenandoah, Iowa … which has a population of little more than 5,000 and is located in…

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Sevoy Express - The 1940's
March 16, 2023

In the News … March 1945!

When XM Radio’s Savoy Express had its own newscaster, Ed Baxter … here’s what you would have heard Ed reporting on “the…

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March 2, 2023

A Marlin Radio Industry Saga … Part Two!

Picking up from where I’d left off in my previous Musings … This was early 1958. Having gained the knowledge and secured…

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February 16, 2023

A Marlin Radio Industry Saga … Chapter One!

Before I actually begin to tell you the story to which the headline relates, I’d like to preface what led up to…

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Luxury Railroad Travel Postage Stamps
February 2, 2023

Celebrating Luxury Rail Travel … in the 1930’s & 1940’s!

As the message read under that headline on this set of five U. S. postage stamps issued on August 26th, 1999 ……

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January 19, 2023

What Is It? Where Is It?

If you are among the few likely to identify this world-famous building from this minimal clue … congratulations! Thanks to my wife…

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WIOD Letter header
January 5, 2023

Wonderful Isle of Dreams … WIOD!

While I must presume this is a re-print, I’ve had this letter and the documents displayed below in my possession for at…

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December 22, 2022

Deep Within My Heart There Lies a Christmas Melody!

As “Richard” commented after reading my first Musings related to Christmas songs and recordings, which was published on this page in November…

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December 8, 2022

Radio’s ‘Christmas Festival’ Memories!

I recently received an E-mail from Frank Murphy … who was one of our key associates at our Bonneville Broadcast Consultants radio…

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November 10, 2022

Excuses, Excuses … or Thinking Positive!

Have you ever been heard to utter one or more of these statements? I’m confident that all of us have at one…

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Conrail Locomotive 8090 by Tony Kimmel
October 27, 2022

A Railroad Named Conrail and Its Heritage!

This is an encore of a Musings originally posted on this page on August 16, 2018, with a couple of additions. Conrail…

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