A Kind of a Hush

Deep Purple’s recording of Joe South’s “Hush” is one of those songs that takes me back to powerful memories from a particular point in my life. “There’s a Kind of a Hush All Over the World” by Herman’s Hermits it wasn’t! I’d just finished an extremely difficult year in the 7th grade, and “Hush” really excited and grabbed me.

EVERYTHING WAS CHANGING SO FAST! Not just for me as a kid on the cusp of turning thirteen, but for the world. LBJ wasn’t running for re-election, MLK and RFK had been assassinated, etc. And to top it off, a month after “Hush” peaked on the charts my family up and moved from Connecticut to Massachusetts.

Jon Lord of Deep Purple has died. “Hush”, with Lord’s incredible keyboard sound, is one of the last songs that is indelibly associated in my mind with 77 WABC Musicradio in New York. It’s my assumption that Herb Oscar Anderson’s departure from WABC was due to songs like this one.

Rewound Radio picking up the slack

Thanks go to Allan Sniffen on Rewound Radio for playing a tribute to Oldies 103 in Boston, which had been one of my radio presets, but it suffered a format change a few weeks ago. With the demise of the oldies stations on broadcast radio, thankfully there are online stations to carry on, and I think Rewound Radio is the best of them. Click the link and make a request! I did.

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Another favorite online station, Beatles-A-Rama, unfortunately seems to be nearing its likely end. Here’s the story.

I’ll contribute some money, but considering the financial shortfall I don’t see how Pat can save the sinking ship.