Good Morning, Class of '64
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| The Radio was an Elaborate Piece of Furniture in the Home |
Bertolt Brecht
You little box, held to me escaping
So that your valves should not break
Carried from house to house to ship from sail to train,
So that my enemies might go on talking to me,
Near my bed, to my pain
The last thing at night, the first thing in the morning,
Of their victories and of my cares,
Promise me not to go silent all of a sudden.
“So many people have the TV or radio
constantly turned on "for company,"
or spend their time reading trashy novels,
aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on.
Then suddenly one day you are old or
sick and you realize you have done nothing
with your life. All your thoughts are other
people's thoughts and you have no idea who
you really are or what the purpose
of your life might be.”
Karen Kingston
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Another Day with Larry
The Radio
We had no telephone. We had no
daily newspaper. We saw our neighbors rarely. Our lifeline to the outside world
was our Sears Silvertone battery-powered radio with the fifty-foot wire aerial.
We got our local news and weather forecasts from the radio. We got our national and international news from it. Dad liked Gabriel Heatter, and, after he went off the air, Lowell Thomas. Mom religiously listened to the funeral notices daily on WDNE, the Elkins station. We enjoyed country music and prizefights on the radio.
We liked the great radio
comedies. Jack Benny was my favorite - he still is. I have a good collection of
Jack Benny and other great radio comedies on tape and CD. I enjoy them as much
as I did then.The writing quality and timing of the performers fascinate me. I
also liked Have Gun, Will Travel,
Gunsmoke, Gangbusters, and The Inner Sanctum.
Jack Benny
"Well!"
So that your valves should not break
Carried from house to house to ship from sail to train,
So that my enemies might go on talking to me,
Near my bed, to my pain
The last thing at night, the first thing in the morning,
Of their victories and of my cares,
Promise me not to go silent all of a sudden.
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| Silvertone 7120 |
constantly turned on "for company,"
or spend their time reading trashy novels,
aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on.
Then suddenly one day you are old or
sick and you realize you have done nothing
with your life. All your thoughts are other
people's thoughts and you have no idea who
you really are or what the purpose
of your life might be.”
Karen Kingston
Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui
Another Day with Larry
The Radio
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| Silvertone Model 2451 Farm Radio |
We got our local news and weather forecasts from the radio. We got our national and international news from it. Dad liked Gabriel Heatter, and, after he went off the air, Lowell Thomas. Mom religiously listened to the funeral notices daily on WDNE, the Elkins station. We enjoyed country music and prizefights on the radio.
Gabriel Heatter
There's Good News Tonight
Lowell Thomas
A Traveling Man
WDNE FM
A Country formatted broadcast radio station
licensed to Elkins, West Virginia, serving
the North-Central West Virginia area.
WDNE-FM is owned and operated by
West Virginia Radio Corporation.
ww.wdnefm.com/
licensed to Elkins, West Virginia, serving
the North-Central West Virginia area.
WDNE-FM is owned and operated by
West Virginia Radio Corporation.
ww.wdnefm.com/
We liked the great radio
comedies. Jack Benny was my favorite - he still is. I have a good collection of
Jack Benny and other great radio comedies on tape and CD. I enjoy them as much
as I did then.The writing quality and timing of the performers fascinate me. I
also liked Have Gun, Will Travel,
Gunsmoke, Gangbusters, and The Inner Sanctum. Jack Benny
"Well!"
Benny portrayed a miser who
played his violin badly.
He was always "39" years old,
regardless of his actual age.
Known for his comic timing,
and ability to create laughter
with a pregnant pause or a single
expression such as his
signature exasperated "Well!".
Listening to the radio is a
very active mental process. You use your imagination to create mental images of
the performers and scenes. That exercises the mind and stimulates creativity.
Television is the opposite. It dulls the mind. Watching television is a very
passive process.
I am so thankful I grew up in
the era of radio. I “saw” Marshall Dillon, Chester’s limp, Jack Benny,
Rochester, Mary Livingstone, Dennis Day, Amos, Andy, the Kingfish, George
Burns, Gracie Allen, and so many more. And I saw them in living color and high
definition! If you really want to dull a child’s mind, put him in front of a
television set for several hours a day.
We saw it all, on the radio!
Antique Radios, Radio Catalogue
and Radio Museum
http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=3331
Silvertone: 1915-1972
Sears Archive
http://www.searsarchives.com/brands/silvertone.htm
and Radio Museum
http://www.radiomuseum.org/dsp_hersteller_detail.cfm?company_id=3331
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| Silvertone 6130 |
Sears Archive
http://www.searsarchives.com/brands/silvertone.htm
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| Silvertone 7241 |
battery operated
tube radio w/ battery eliminator
| Silvertone 7036a |
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| Silvertone 6320 |
Antique Radios
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/radios/overview/stories
Golden Age of Radio
http://www.cybercollege.com/frtv/frtv018.htm
“I'm not trouble at all.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/radios/overview/stories
| Silvertone 6251 |
Golden Age of Radio
http://www.cybercollege.com/frtv/frtv018.htm
| Silvertone 7134 |
I'm just a guy trying to get a girl
to give him the time of day.
I'm like every song on the radio.”
Hailey Abbott
Hailey Abbott
Boy Crazy
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| Silvertone 7037 |
“Lux spent the ride dialing the
radio for her favorite song.
"It makes me crazy," she said.
"You know they're playing it somewhere,
but you have to find it.”
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
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| Silvertone from 1940 |
“...some nights I'd sneak out and listen
to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy -
children need solitude -
they don't teach that in school...”
John Geddes
John Geddes
A Familiar Rain
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| Silvertone 7039 |
“I want to broadcast your poem
to me over the radio so everyone
will know we love each other just
as deeply as the people in pop songs.”
Bauvard
Bauvard
The Prince Of Plungers
Yesterday Once More
Peaked at number 2 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart
According to Cash Box, on June 2, 1973,
"Yesterday Once More" was the highest-debuting
single at No. 71 and by August 4 it reached No. 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_Once_More_%28song%29
The Carpenters - 1973
Yesterday Once More
When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs
When they played I'd sing along
It made me smile.
Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well.
Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.
When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.
Lookin' back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed.
It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away.
Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.
All my best memories
Come back clearly to me
Some can even make me cry.
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.
Yesterday Once More
Peaked at number 2 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart
According to Cash Box, on June 2, 1973,
"Yesterday Once More" was the highest-debuting
single at No. 71 and by August 4 it reached No. 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday_Once_More_%28song%29
The Carpenters - 1973
Yesterday Once More
When I was young
I'd listen to the radio
Waitin' for my favorite songs
When they played I'd sing along
It made me smile.
Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they'd gone
But they're back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well.
Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.
When they get to the part
Where he's breakin' her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.
Lookin' back on how it was
In years gone by
And the good times that I had
Makes today seem rather sad
So much has changed.
It was songs of love that
I would sing to then
And I'd memorize each word
Those old melodies
Still sound so good to me
As they melt the years away.
Every Sha-la-la-la
Every Wo-o-wo-o
Still shines
Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they're startin' to sing's
So fine.
All my best memories
Come back clearly to me
Some can even make me cry.
Just like before
It's yesterday once more.
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| Farm Family Gathered Around the Radio |
Good writing!! Loved this one!!JMC
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