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Damn, what a joy to have good College FM stations.

Just was inspired by my local college station playing great Jazz off an album...  When living in the Madison, Wi, Iowa City, Ia area and a few others...Chicago, Milwaukee, L.A. etc. college FM stations have been a joy. 

Not my music that I own or would, but my local station just played a great song by the Mills Bros...  Ed Sullivan gave them new life in the 50s.  If you have a local college FM station that plays good music, support their fund drive and let your friends know that there are still reasons to own a great tuner.   For what it's worth (no not the Buffalo Springfield song) the "wood look" Sony table radios. like the ICF-9550W  are worth your time. ...can be had on ebay for near nothing and if nothing else, some music for the garage while you are changing the oil on the Ferrari California Spyder 250GT SWB......or the minivan. 








whatjd
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David, you are correct.  From the biggest Maggies to ARC and more, I have gotten the most time and pleasure out of some college FM stations.  I am always reminded of the movie "Radio Days" .  Although Woody has had his problems, that film always makes me smile and be thankful for my life of listening to the radio.  I started with WLS out of Chicago with the top 3 phone requests of the night at 10 PM.  For many of the early years it was the Del Shannon, Gene Pitney and many, many girl groups...then the British Invasion struck..and although I like much of it, many American Rockers were brushed aside.  At SummerFest in Milwaukee I was able to see Mr. Pitney and others on the "Oldies Stage".....a warm Summer night with all the Micro Beers from the Milwaukee area and all of those things that can make for a great/warm Summer night. 
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roberjerman
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Tampa has WUSF 89.7 All Night Jazz. Sunday - Thursday 9 PM - 5 AM. On Friday and Saturday 9 PM - 6 AM. Mostly Jazz from the Fifties to the Present. On the 'Net: wusfjazz.org
whatjd OP
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Thanks to all.  Kind of like having new music ammunition.  


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bdp24
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@whatjd, we must be about the same age ;-) . Though the pre-British Invasion Pop music was dismissed as disposable fluff by the mid-late-60’s counterculture and critics---who insisted on bands being primarily Blues-based---they were mistaken. Your two examples are proof: Gene Pitney was an incredible singer and songwriter, and Del Shannon’s 1982 comeback album was produced by Tom Petty, who was a big Shannon fan.

Early 60’s Pop music was written by some of the best songwriters of all time: Carole King & Gerry Goffin, Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann, Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry, Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Otis Blackwell, Bert Berns, Bobby Darin, Doc Pomus & Mort Shuman, and Phil Spector. The first UK Beatles album was simply covers of early-60’s Pop hits, fer cryin’ out loud!

There was also Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison (now THERE’S a singer!), Surf music, and what Rock ’n’ Roll historians call Garage Rock: Paul Revere & The Raiders ("Just Like Me" ROCKS!), The Sonics ("The Witch" sounds like The Ramones, but much more primitive and brutal), The Wailers (the classic "Louie Louie", which every band in America played), lots more. A great time in Pop music, imo far better than most from the 80’s, for example. The "New Romantics", anyone? ;-)

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