[Fiji Hill]

I'm pretty sure "Love Is Strange" wasn't on the playlist of KFI, the station we usually listened to on our Zenith portable AM radio. You would have to tune in to a black station like KGFJ to hear that. KFI stuck to pop standards like Perry Como's Round and Round.

[firebrand]

We had two black radio stations in Newark. One of them played older stuff and gospel, the other not so much.

There was also a polka station that you could listen to for about four minutes before you went nuts. When I was really little, my grandparents used to listen to opera on the Italian station.

For some reason, we could get WWVA, from Wheeling, West Virginia, in Newark, late at night. Someone told me it was a very powerful station because it was in mountainous country where it was harder to reach everybody. Not sure how true that is, but I heard a lot of good music on that one.