
Beautiful Music’s Greatest Hits!
Radio’s Easy Listening or Beautiful Music format––of which I have been called a pioneer and pace-setter, even the Father of its modern-day…

Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show #8
Most of what you are going to see and read about in this edition of my personal scrapbook will be about those…

Ambition and Happiness: Guest Commentary
At this point, I did not anticipate or plan to publish another commentary by friend Roy H. Williams so soon. However, when…

BNSF Railway & Its Heritage!
If you love “trains” and have at least some interest in railroad history as I do … you likely know everything I’m…

Fear & Courage!
Tim Moore, Managing Director of the Audience Development Group, a radio industry consulting organization … in mid-2019 posted this commentary as part…

Hope and a Future – A Guest Commentary
Here we go again … another heartfelt message from my friend – known as the Wizard of Ads, Roy H. Williams! If…

The Turnpike Servers The Nation
The World’s Greatest Highway System … that’s what the Pennsylvania Turnpike was billed as when the first section of it opened on…

2025 … a Year to Behold?
As we look forward to, maybe the word is anticipate, what this forthcoming new year holds … I literally sit here with…

Merry Christmas!
From yours truly, Marlin and my trusty webmaster Trishah … here’s wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas! And to our…

Be You. And Make the Best of It. – A Guest Commentary!
If you are a regular follower of Marlin’s Musings, you recognize the name Roy Williams. I first met him in 2002 when…

Thankfulness … or an Attitude of Gratitude!
There’s a Christian praise song whose opening line is “Give Thanks with a grateful heart,” … which truly rings close to my…

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…