Quotes About Radio

The music business was built around five pillars: • Free radio promotion • A limited number of competing music labels • The high cost of production, requiring musicians to get financing from labels • The Top 40 hits–based focus of the baby boomer generation • A high-margin, nonreproducible medium (the LP) Notice that none of these five pillars has anything to do with tribes or leadership. One by one, each of these five pillars has crumbled

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

Richard Diamond was also seen on TV (1957–60), but the role as played by David Janssen bore little resemblance to the Powell original. The most notable gimmick of the TV series was the addition of a secretary, Sam, who was seen only as a pair of gorgeous legs (which belonged to Mary Tyler Moore). The radio show was charming, though peppered with moments of genuine silliness. A solid run is available on tape. Powell, though at ease with the microphone, did tend to fluff.

Arthur Anderson, one of the players and a steady voice on Let's Pretend for years, recalled it decades later. Chamlee sang two songs per broadcast. He returned to the Met for the 1935–37 seasons. Anderson also remembered a commercial blooper by Ruffner: "Friends, do you wake up in the morning feeling dull, loggy, and lust-less?

This Is Your FBI was inevitably compared to The FBI in Peace and War in the G-Man thriller parade. Radio Life concluded that both were worthy and there was little to distinguish one from the other. This Is was privy to official Bureau files, while Peace and War was mainly fiction. But Peace and War sounded authentic: its author, Frederick L. Collins, had received Bureau cooperation in his research, though the radio version of his subsequent book remained unsanctioned.

It is difficult to overstate the impact that this program had on children of the 1940s. This writer vividly remembers an episode when the Shadow tracked down a murdering scarecrow. When the killer's coat was ripped off, revealing nothing but straw, the implications were so terrifying that the young writer-to-be could not sleep in an unlighted room for weeks. Today it's the highest of all high camp, scaring neither the aging collector nor his jaded children.

but nothing serious happened until July 28, 1942, when Jones went into the studio to record an amusing anti-Nazi war ditty, Der Fuehrer's Face. Originally intended for the Walt Disney cartoon, Donald Duck in Axis Land, this became in Jones's hands a musical riot, rocketing the group to national stardom in less than a month. It demolished Hitler's claims to genetic superiority and established the raspberry as a respectable part of American radio.

As philosopher Terence McKenna has suggested, "To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant" (McKenna 1991).

some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

Can we wait just a minute Turn that TV off for a minute Now politics and talkin shit aint really none of my buisness Lets go and play the songs we used to play On that old school radio Let the music soothe your soul Forget about the world Im groovin with my girl Forget about the news Lets put on our dancin shoes Lets not talk about the war Do we know what they fightin for I propose that we go to the floor and we slow dance

Archer pressed a preset button on my car radio. An old Britney Spears song blared, and I sung along to every word, bopping in my seat. Archer just looked at me. "Oh, come on!" I said. "Who doesn't sing along to Britney?

From a magician's midnight sleeve the radio-singers distribute all their love-songs over the dew-wet lawns.

The studio was connected by a picture window to master control, which was connected in the same way to the announce booth and the editing booth beyond that. She could see the length of the little station and into the hallway, too. And thus she was inducted into the visibility and invisibility of radio, the intimacy and the isolation.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

Y así, en tales manos, España se convirtió en un páramo de luto y tristeza, empobrecida, enferma, miserable, dócil, asustada y gris, teniendo como único alivio los toros, el fútbol y la radio

Como los seriales de la radio. Vivir emociones ajenas y disfrutarlas.

When i heard on the radio that the New York Panthers had been busted, i was furious. The so-called conspiracy charges were so stupid that even a fool could see through them. The police actually had the audacity to charge them with plotting to blow up the flowers in the Botanical Garden.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirin.

The voice came from the other side of the divider, an older man, bald, who wore a leather vest over a dark blue button-down shirt, like a Radio Shack manager who moonlighted as a forest brigand.

I think stuff on the radio is mostly good, but it's just not what I'm into. I'm not into rap metal.

My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.

I went to Sirius Satellite Radio and did my show, Rapping With Rip.