Todays Radio
What is todays radio? It's hardly magic and that's what radio used to be. Kids used to sleep with radios under their pillows. It wasn't the technology that we were in love with then, those transistor radios were damned uncomfortable. It was the talent. The DJ's. Those guys made you listen. Maybe they were hokey by todays standards but they weren't out of sync in the way you'd think you were out of sync if you looked at an old photo of yourself. At the time, you were cool. And that's what radio shows were.
The music and the era I speak of the the sixties through the early seventies and a good part of the eighties. Radio was able to, and still can create, a mood, tell a story or set the right stage for a hit song. I grew up in Detroit with Tom Clay and Lee Alan on the Horn and Robin Seymour and Dick Purtan and CKLW and WABX.
I loved those stations, those guys, those shows. I believe it can still be done today. Check back as soon I'll be offering one hour shows available for download or streaming. Dreams don't die and as Tom Shannon used to say on CKLW...the sun never sets on the steps of the Shannon empire. Never knew what that meant but damn I believed it! It's why I'm still doing major market radio today after 36 years in the business.
The music and the era I speak of the the sixties through the early seventies and a good part of the eighties. Radio was able to, and still can create, a mood, tell a story or set the right stage for a hit song. I grew up in Detroit with Tom Clay and Lee Alan on the Horn and Robin Seymour and Dick Purtan and CKLW and WABX.
I loved those stations, those guys, those shows. I believe it can still be done today. Check back as soon I'll be offering one hour shows available for download or streaming. Dreams don't die and as Tom Shannon used to say on CKLW...the sun never sets on the steps of the Shannon empire. Never knew what that meant but damn I believed it! It's why I'm still doing major market radio today after 36 years in the business.
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