I recently purchased a CD with old AM
radio R&R disc jockey shows on it. Let me tell you, it doesn’t
seem at all as cool as it did then. R&R didn’t really start
rockin’ until 1956, although Bill Haley and his Comets recorded Rock
Around the Clock in 1954, it was still the top R&R song in 1955. It
took Elvis to really set the R&R radio shows on fire.
I have also seen drive-in movie speakers
converted to radio speakers, set on poles outside the car. This is a cool
idea that avoids chopping up the old radio.
Rich Barber
Brentwood, CA
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Subject: [FWDLK] What plays on old
AM radios
I often had this thought that it would be cool if I were at
a car show with the ’55 and turned on the radio and it started playing
songs and DJ and show names like they would have been in the 50s; sort of
Twilight Zone stuff. I bet some electronics whiz could make it work the
same way that XM radio transmits to FM radios in the car.
Smirk
Tom Taylor
55 Dodge
(now I only need the AM radio as my car came with a delete.
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