Eve Of Destruction-Barry McGuire 1965--Old Anthem For a New Time

Barry McGuire ^ | 1965

[Aevery_Freeman]

The synopsis of America's timeline was also pretty good.

A truly prophetic song.

[Pelham]

Boss Radio 93 KHJ. The original KRLA, AM 1110. And the third leg of LA AM rock music radio in its heydey was...KFWB 98 AM. There was also Wolfman Jack on the Mighty 1090 XERB.

Buffalo Springfield remains one of my favorites. They were loaded with great musicians who went on to form other bands.

One of Rush Limbaugh’s secrets was his knowledge of production & program techniques that KHJ and its like had perfected, and which he incorporated into his show. That’s something his imitators just don’t get. He was a radio professional first long before doing politics and he understood his craft in detail. He occasionally talked about this on his program.

[Night Hides Not]

While you’re at it, read Atlas Shrugged, the chapter titled “Miracle Metal”. It describes in detail what the Swamp Elites think of us.

[Night Hides Not]

I listened to Radio Luxembourg my last two years in Germany, when I was at Spangdahlem AB. My morning drive was in German, afternoons had British pop music.

[ClaytonForester]

Kind of fits into the discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJae3Q2l-BY

[Pelham]

I used to make sure that I caught Paul Harvey’s 15 minute noon broadcast. In maybe 1979 and 1980 it was preceded by a 5 minute spot where Ronald Reagan read a commentary, one of the forgotten and brilliant political campaigns that no one has tried to duplicate.

Paul Harvey gave a lot of credit for his success to his wife Angel. She’s the one that produced his “The Rest of the Story” segments.

[bgill]

Seems a lot of us are on the same page.

[pfflier]

Radio Luxemburg would play the tunes that BBC banned or refused to play. A real treat was to hear something from the Beach Boys instead of the British philharmonic and Petula Clark.

[Fiji Hill]

When I started listening to Top 40 in 1964, I would switch back and forth between KRLA and KFWB. They both alternated songs with ads, and when a song was finished on one station, I would switch to the other because I preferred hearing a song to hearing an ad.

Then KHJ switched from country-western to Top 40 in early 1965. Their slogan was “more music,” and they delivered—or at least, they seemed to—by playing long sets of songs. Even though long rafts of ads would follow each set of songs, I was hooked.

[Fiji Hill]

I listened to Radio Luxembourg my last two years in Germany, when I was at Spangdahlem AB. My morning drive was in German, afternoons had British pop music.

Being closer to Luxembourg City, you probably got Radio Luxembourg better than I did, living in Saarbrücken. I would occasionally listen to it and enjoy tunes like Don't Let Him Touch You by the Angelettes or Is This the Way to Amarillo? by Tony Christie, which scored in the UK and Europe but failed to chart Stateside.

I also listend to the Armed Forces Network (AFN) station in Kaiserslautern, which blasted Southwest Germany with American Top 40 hits.

[Fiji Hill]

When I was in Iserlohn, in Westphalia, I couldn't get Radio Luxembourg, but I often listened to a British station that served British servicemen stationed nearby, and they played the BBC playlist. At night, I could sometimes get East German stations.

By the way, I prefer Petula Clark over the Beach Boys. My favorite songs of hers are Song of the Mermaid (1952), The Little Blue Man (1958) and Tout Au Long du Calendrier (through the whole calendar, aka Calendar Girl; 1961).

[Night Hides Not]

Although I worked at Spangdahlem, I lived in Traben-Trarbach, a town on the Mosel River. My first two years (77-79) I was stationed at Hahn. I was too far from either base to receive AFN, I basically lived without TV for 4 years.

No complaints at all. I kept busy, didn’t have much spare time overall.

Our Group HQ was at Kleber Kaserne, I traveled that road many times. I set a personal best on my last trip from K-Town to Spangdahlem: 90 miles in 55 minutes, long before the Germans completed the autobahn near Bitburg and Spangdahlem.

[daler]

“My blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’…”

I’m sure Robert Frost was in awe of that one.

[Fiji Hill]

I was a student at Saarland University in Saarbrücken in 1971-1972. On weekends, I would often travel by train to Kindenheim in the Rheinpfalz, near Bockenheim, the northern terminus of the German Wine Highway (Deutsche Weinstrasse), where a friend of mine lived. I would always change trains at Kaiserslautern (K-Town to the Americans, Lautern to the Germans).

[SaveFerris]

Crazy times

[pfflier]

We got a never ending repeat of "Downtown" and "I know a place". It wasn't until recently that I read Clark's bio and realized how embedded she is in euro-music, not just British music.

To me, the Beach Boys were Americana and the antidote to the British invasion groups.

[Fiji Hill]

To me, the Beach Boys were Americana and the antidote to the British invasion groups.

They were, indeed, Americana. Most Britishers would have a hard time understanding Shut Down, Surfin' and Be True to Your School.

[pfflier]

Yup...didn't see many souped up Humber or Hillman coups there and the seawater temp there was arctic quality..

They did have their school uniforms and associated colors though. They were very proud of this.