Rock'n'Radio Blog
Don’t Sit on the LP: Vinyl Still in the Game
I'm a Baby Boomer, old enough to have had an intimate relationship with vinyl. My mother, with her record collection (probably handed down by her parents) of mostly 78 rpms, tried diligently to keep her four sons away from them - and the record player. But in some...
Bill Brownstein of the Gazette Interviews Ian Howarth about Rock’n’Radio
Like many a kid in the early 1960s, Ian Howarth would feign sleep late at night and, with a transistor radio tucked under his pillow, pick up signals from Boston, Chicago, New York and even Schenectady (who can forget WPTR?) to check out the latest Top 40 hits — which...
A look back at Montreal’s English radio heyday
When artists and groups recorded a hit single in the 1960s, the first priority when mixing it was that it had to sound good on a portable mono 45 RPM record player and, especially, the radio. AM Radio is as far from good sound as one can get, and the already limited...
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