Marlin’s Good-Time Picture Show # 7
First off, here are a couple of photos of the love of my life, my wife Alicia. By the time she was…
Song for Guy!
Sir Elton John is one of the most recognized and best-selling musical artists of all time! Yet, you may wonder, why is…
There’s no Escape-ing … 20 years!
This Easy Listening/Beautiful Music genre’s channel was birthed on XM Satellite Radio 20 years ago this week, in the last week of…
Missing… But Not Forgotten!
A sub-title of this Musings could be, “Tunes you no longer hear on SiriusXM’s Escape channel.” Why? While these melodies have long…
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…
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…
A Beautiful Music Radio Birthday!
On August 26, 2002, XM Satellite Radio management responded to subscriber demand by launching several new music channels … including The Village,…
Dolly Parton, a Book, and a Train!
Originally published May 3, 2018 When I read that Dollywood re-opened this week ––after being delayed by many weeks due to the…
Reflections: Christmas Music on Radio!
Just when you thought Christmas was behind us and all of the all-Christmas-music stations had returned to regular programming, here comes Marlin…
Tell me, is there a Santa Claus?
Following up on my last Musings, presenting the collection of my favorite Christmas season songs, we turn to this historic holiday season…
My Satellite Radio Days – Part Two
August 26, 2019 … the 17th anniversary of Escape, SiriusXM’s Beautiful Music/Easy Listening channel! Yes, the launch came on August 26th, 2002…