AM RADIO – Everclear

#1204 – AM RADIO – 11/2/2019

I resemble that remark.

On this day in 1920 Pittsburgh radio station KDKA became the first commercial radio station in the USA. To say the industry has changed over the years is an understatement of gargantuan proportions. Not only has over the air content changed, the music industry has changed, also. But when I was growing up in the late 60’s and early 70’s AM radio was IT. WDRC specifically – 1360 on your dial – was the pop music flagship in central CT. My ears were glued to it when they weren’t tuned into a BoSox or UConn Huskies basketball games.

Though Everclear leader Art Alexakis is clearly a couple of years younger than I (based on TV references) the under-riding theme of the song holds true: “I'd be in bed with the radio on. I would listen to it all night long just to hear my favorite song. You'd have to wait till you could hear it on the AM radio”.

I’d like to dedicate this song to my baby-sitter cousins Pauline and Lena with lots of love, who’d let me “listen to their AM radios (AM radios)”. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjg39XRkjVc

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