[78-L] My history of broadcasting course

[David Lennick]

Hadn't heard the Hartford version before..nice! Here it is with illustrations 
and a long fadeout.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64uy8XlA_ac&feature=kp

Did it do anything? Ray Stevens was the one we all played in 1972.

dl

On 2/4/2014 4:45 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> It was Harry Nilsson who wrote Turn On Your Radio in the 70s, songs
> close in title.  I always think of John Hartford more on the Stevens
> song.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbie.com
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] My history of broadcasting course
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Date: Tue, February 04, 2014 3:35 pm
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
> The Ray Stevens song IS the gospel one, by Albert E. Brumley.
>
> dl
>
> On 2/4/2014 3:30 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> 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?
>> _____________________________________