The Family Next Door:
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Saturday, September 26, 2020
Saturday, September 19, 2020
"I don't know what you'd call that"
"I don't know what you'd call that" was Kay's reply to an interviewer in the 1980s, who used a cassette player to play a tape of orchestral dance music from the late 1950s, about a decade after Kay had switched from a music-oriented career to her work as a teacher.
"The album is called 'Swing Fever," said the interviewer. "Now, would you call music of this type swing?"
Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Radio sponsors you don't hear today #1
In the age of old time radio, every kind of industry had a program named after it. Some of the products don't exist any more -- tooth powder, for example. Other sponsors are around but their product line or business has radically changed. For example, trains!
The Railroad Hour:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railroad_Hour#:~:text=The%20Railroad%20Hour%20was%20a,on%20those%20written%20before%201943.