On right now, all the way to midnight, it’s Tom’s Halloween Spooken-Hanksy!
Category: Radio
The Cuts of His JIB
I am confident that no radio station, anywhere in the world, plays music from as many decades, excluding Classical, as John Garabedian’s Boston-based WJIB. Click play and you will agree.
33+45=78
Debbie Daughtry says Boss Radio 66 DJ Tom Hanks is back with a new “Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon.” According to Debbie, he’ll be spinning the tables at 78 rpm!
Here’s the show schedule:
https://www.bossradio66.com/2025/08/78s-from-back-of-station-wagon.html
Here’s a player:
Get listening!
AM Mono and FM Stereo
Somebody has declared this to be National Radio Day. It’s as good a day for it as any.
To Beeb or Not to Beeb
Today was the day when the BBC ended full access to Sounds outside of the UK. Live stations are still available for those who want to make the effort.
My Beeb listening is done with the Lyrion system. The Sounds plugin has been updated to accommodate the new restriction. As it turned out, my subscriptions are still working, so in effect I’m not affected in any way that matters to me. Yay!
Down at the Dump
I listen to Internet radio stations both near and far. One that isn’t too far from here is WATD-FM, based in Marshfield, MA.
The station’s call letters stand for “We’re At the Dump.” Its founder and owner is a gentleman named Ed Perry, who has some stories to tell.
This Perry anecdote reminds me very much of what happened to me on August 16, 1977.
“One Sunday morning in February 1959, I was playing rock and roll when the teletype started printing furiously from The Associated Press,” he recalled. “It was about the plane crash in Iowa that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. I read the news over the air, and the rest of the day I only played music from those three guys.”
I was freshly graduated from college and working as a DJ at a small AM radio station in Western Massachusetts, when the AP teletype started printing furiously. Elvis Presley was dead.
