August 12, 2021

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…

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July 29, 2021

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…

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June 17, 2021

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…

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June 3, 2021

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…

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May 20, 2021

Opportunities …

… are awaiting, often dependent on how wide you open your eyes! … will sometimes drop into your lap, but you must…

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May 6, 2021

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…

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April 22, 2021

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,…

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The 1940's Savoy Express
April 8, 2021

The year: 1945, the date: April 12th! Remember!

The world is finally within months of bringing World War Two to a conclusion, as U. S. troops and Allied forces from…

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The King of Happy Music
March 11, 2021

The King of Happy Music!

ABOUT THIS ENCORE PRESENTATION: When I first published this in January of 2019, my dear wife Alicia was still with me ……

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February 11, 2021

XM Radio . . . the Beginning and the End!

As I write this, it’s the beginning of February … within three weeks from now, I expect to be moving “home” to…

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Bill Tynan (on left) and Bob Carpenter (right) visit Marlin at XM Satellite Radio in 2002.
January 28, 2021

Remembering WHFS …

  . . . and its two founders! Updated from the original post dated 9/13/18. The story of this station’s birth, which…

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Trenton Bridge, Trenton Makes - The World Takes
December 31, 2020

Memories of Ernie Kovacs

This is an encore of a Musings I posted here in January of 2018, which was exactly as described … my Memories…

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