Easy Listening is not dead!
Back in 2019, I wrote about a true radio broadcasting entrepreneur named Norm Alpert. We lost Norm in December of 2018, not…
In the News … 77 years ago this week!
Here’s the text of another report of what those who listened to XM Radio’s 1940s Channel — known as the Savoy Express…
enLighten, Marlin, & his 2021 SGMA Hall of Fame Induction
The enLighten Channel on XM Radio A prime definition of “enlighten” is “to give spiritual knowledge or insight” … which certainly was…
Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show – Part Five
As noted before, prior to leaving Maryland in the early part of this year, I sorted and sifted through many mounds of…
WNEW-AM’s Family tree!
Let’s say the trunk of the tree is the fledgling new industry of radio broadcasting. Eighteen months after KDKA Pittsburgh and WWJ…
A Radio Station & its Mistress! – Chapter One
Before we get into this story — which I will share in multiple parts over the next several weeks — I must…
RADIO… the early 1930s
This is a book I first read several years ago, having been loaned to me by my longtime radio industry friend, Ken…
Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Book! – Part 4
The significance of this message is that I needed something to fill this space … plus I believe the words speak for…
Remembering War Correspondent Tom Treanor at D-Day 1944
Encore of original from June 6, 2019. If this looks familiar, it’s an encore of a Musings shared here two years ago…
Opportunities …
… are awaiting, often dependent on how wide you open your eyes! … will sometimes drop into your lap, but you must…
FM Radio’s status … circa 1970!
Since this story begins with a gentleman named Edwin Howard Armstrong inventing and developing what we commonly call FM Radio, I thought…
Ethel Gabriel: An icon in the world of recorded music…
… especially as related to “our kind of music,” Easy Listening /Beautiful Music … passed away recently. Her name was Ethel Gabriel,…