Community Chat

[janinna]

I also listen to the Ticket. It is a sports station, but it is so much more. They talk about all kinds of topics and it is really enjoyable. I moved away from Dallas years ago, but I listen everyday. The hosts haven't changed in years. A top rated station.

[hennypenny]

My parents always listened to classical or Jazz, all good with me except for Mahler.

I remember KEWB, channel 91 (if I remember) --we used to listen and call in at night and chat with the DJ.

Can't remember his name. In the early sixties.

Now it is NPR for me---love "wait wait"

mr henny likes the sirius 60's.

[AngelPuppy1]

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@qualitygal wrote:

@AngelPuppy1, we have Sirius in our car too.  We usually have the 60's on with Phlash Phillips.  He's fun to listen too. I think I'd have it in the house but I think the t.v. would win out. 

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@qualitygal

Same here!  DH would hog the radio and I wouldn't get to pick! LOL!  

[Cats3000]

I remember listening to:  Don McNeill's Breakfast Club, the Lone Ranger, Dragnet, Arthur Godfrey Time, the first "talk radio show" hosted by Barry Gray, Melody Ranch starring Gene Autry.

[LilacTree]

My dad, after the war, sitting in his chair, cracking his gum, reading the newspaper, with the big band sound or a baseball game filling the room, on Sundays, the only days he had off from work.

My mom, alone at night (dad worked nights), listening to classical music, especially the Warsaw Concerto (that I still love), she would sing or hum with the music while she was ironing.  She was always doing something in the house at night.  When she was upset, she would talk about it (to herself, which I find myself doing this last year).  I was a night owl as a child and sometimes I would get up just to be alone with her . . . and she would let me.

[chickenbutt]

I really don't have any childhood radio memories (what a shock heh), but one of my favorite things when I go anywhere in my car is the car radio.

I have listened to the same  oldies rock station for almost 40 years and I still love it.    

I just came back from the store and heard 'Hey Jude' (Beatles).  I had not heard that song for a long time and, for some unknown reason, it made me cry.  I still knew all the words, though!  But I remembered that I've been way to emotionally open lately and need to work on closing that up. 

I've never tried any of the new satellite radio type stuff like Sirius. Well, I understand it's not actually 'new' by this point.  I just have a regular am/fm car radio and I'm happy with that, probably mostly because I don't spend excessive amounts of time in my car.  Otherwise, I might feel differently I suppose.  But I'm pretty sure I could listen to older rock and roll music for a very long time! 

[Group 5 minus 1]

William Conrad and Fred Allen

Did I mention Candy Bergen's father?

[SeaMaiden]

I listen to talk radio in my car, and when on my walks.  I love the banter and the current subject matter discussed. 

[GingerPeach]

As a young adult, I listened to local radio personalities such as Frank Dill & Mike Cleary (Frank & Mike in the Morning), a mix of music and talk and sports.  It was funny and smart and low key.  Nothing stupid or rmean.

Before that, SF Bay Area was lucky enough to have Don Sherwood and his brilliance.  

Also mixed in were some rock stations, but when smooth jazz came around in the early 90s, I was very happy.

It was too depressing when smooth jazz left the airways so suddenly.  I know "real" jazz aficionados and others didn't like it, but it was perfect music to soothe your day and all the djs were good at their jobs (and also didn't do stupid or mean stuff).

These days, I don't want to pay for Sirius so I mostly listen to a local station for its oldies as well as a good amount of NPR.

[Laura14]

I rarely go a weekend without streaming TuneIn Radio with the latest Handel on the Law just because he cracks me up.  

And I still carry on my grandfather's tradition:  Baseball is best when listened to on the radio.