[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[Michael Biel]

The song you really need is "Turn On Your Radio (and Listen In On Your
Home Town)", not to be confused with "Turn Your Radio On" which is a
gospel song.  The Ray Stevens song is yet another different one.  

The one I refer to was from 1924, Vocalion B 14754 Ben Selvin and has a
vocal by Irving Kaufman with a POSITIVE REALISTIC view of radio without
it being a fantasy like most of the other songs.  

"Turn on your radio,
And then you listen!
Without a radio, Oh! what you're missin'!
The air is full of song,
So run along and buy a set!
Just turn a little dial,
And in a while, see what you get!
You'll hear a jazz band play out in Chicago!
You'll hear 'most everyone of great renown!
And if you're blue, and on your mind
You've got the folks you left behind,
You can listen in on your home town!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTUuPHYNGgY 

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] My history of broadcasting course
From: Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>


I WISH THERE WERE A WIRELESS TO HEAVEN
TUNE IN ON L-O-V-E
STATIC

Bud

Sent from my iPad

On Feb 3, 2014, at 5:17 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Not necessarily hits, but
> 
> KISS HER BY WIRELESS..VINCENT LOPEZ
> MR. RADIO MAN..AL JOLSON (that one's about trying to communicate with the dead)
> TURN YOUR RADIO ON..various, revived in the 70s by Ray Stevens
> THE RADIO SONG..MR. & MRS. F. H. LACY (Gospel, c. 1927)
> 
> dl
> 
> On 2/3/2014 5:12 PM, Donna Halper wrote:
>> I am teaching about radio's formative years (1920s-1930s) and trying to
>> compile a playlist for my students of hit songs about radio from that
>> era. I can think of a few-- like Love Her By Radio or I Wish There Was
>> A Wireless to Heaven, but surely there were other hits I can share with
>> the class. For some reason, I'm drawing a blank. Suggestions?