Category: Radio

DJ Memory

Hearing this one puts me right back at the mic in the radio station broadcast studio. This video is funny, because Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks sang the backing vocals, and they aren’t in the video.

Here’s another one. Except by the time this single came out I was functioning as a one-man news department. The circumstances of my quitting that job are painful for me to recall.

The short explanation is that I was working 72+ hours/week for $110 net pay. The station owner needed me to do something that was one thing too many for the hours and the pay. Having made myself as valuable to the station as I could, I left just when it needed me most. I was as young as Randy VanWarmer was in this video.

Me back then.

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Four days ago I heard Jo Stafford’s “You Belong to Me” as a Pandora QuickMix selection. I was so impressed with her singing that I published this post:

Pitch-Perfect

Then today, while listening to Drew Carey’s Friday Night Freak-Out from a couple of weeks ago, I paused about 45 minutes into the show. With a Rory Gallagher track on the phone, I went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea.

Returning to the porch I put down the tea and checked my laptop. YouTube was suggesting a video from a month ago. Well, whadda ya know, it’s by a young guy who is obviously delighted with Jo’s singing of “You Belong to Me” and, by coincidence, he’s wearing a Rory Gallagher t-shirt. He shows exactly how well Jo could sing both on-key and deliberately off-key.