Just in time for Thanksgiving! An all-new Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon with DJ Tom Hanks. Tomorrow at 1 PM ET on Boss Radio 66.
Category: Radio
Comfort Mood
MeTV Music for pleasurable nighttime oldies radio listening. (Regular programming during the day.)
Sound Noir
The Big Sleep this ain’t. It’s the Firesign Theatre’s gleefully twisted parody of the hard-boiled detective genre, “Nick Danger, Third Eye”.
Freak-Over-and-Out
With no formal, or even informal, announcement, Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out is no more. I hoped he was just taking a summer break, but Carey’s show is no longer listed on the SiriusXM schedule and his name doesn’t appear as a host.
Update:
Not Fakin’ Mono
Mono vs. Stereo is an endlessly interesting aspect of Sixties Pop music.
The rise of FM radio in the late 60’s was, I would conjecture, a reason why “folded mono” became standard for singles after albums were produced in stereo exclusively.
Mono FM receivers collapse stereo broadcasts into mono. So, if that was what people were already hearing, why bother laboring over dedicated mono mixes for singles played on AM stations?
Barnes Newberry opened this week’s “My Back Pages” on WMVY with selections from Simon & Garfunkel’s Bookends album.
“Fakin’ It” from Bookends is an all-time favorite of mine. There’s so much creativity in the production. I love the “Strawberry Fields Forever” fade-out. All it needs is “I buried Paul (Simon).”
The true mono mix for the 45 provides a striking contrast to the album’s stereo mix. Note the running time.
Catch a Radio Wave!
Tomorrow at 1 PM ET, TuneIn to your Memorial Day DJ Tom Hanks, on Boss Radio 66.
