October 11, 1969: The Wisconsin Badgers, riding a 23-game winless streak, get a late touchdown pass from Neil Graff to Randy Marks and beat Iowa 23-16. It’s the first win for the Badgers since the 1966 season finale, a streak eased only by a tie with Iowa in 1967.
November 23, 1974: The Badgers meet Minnesota in [...]
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When the sales rep first handed the radio station’s rate card to the client, he burst out laughing. The rep sat there mortified, and her mortification got even worse when the client called to his partner in the outer office, “Come on in here! You’ve got to see this!” She thought they were laughing because [...]
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What makes old record charts endlessly enchanting to me is how they can be viewed as a montage of people, places, and moments. Take the chart from WGRQ in Buffalo, New York, dated October 1, 1973:
2. “Heartbeat–It’s a Lovebeat”/DeFranco Family (holding at 2). What radio people call the “news sounder” is [...]
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All my life, there’s a sound I’ve associated with early fall. It’s the trilling of the tree frog. I have never actually seen a tree frog—in fact, I don’t even know if the sound is really made by tree frogs, or if it comes from something else. But my mother always called them tree frogs, [...]
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A backstage pass is one of the most sought-after totems in rock—but it’s also one of the more overrated. You expect tables laden with food, liquor flowing freely, and dissipated rock stars cavorting with scantily clad groupies. Maybe that happens with acts like the Stones or Van Halen, but in my experience, backstage is mostly [...]
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I’m taking the day off today and letting some of my favorite bloggers do the heavy lifting instead.
–Any Major Dude With Half a Heart recognizes the greatness of early 70s soul.
–At Bloggerhythms, Charlie picks 10 lesser-known/underrated Beatles songs.
–Barely Awake in Frog Pajamas welcomes you to July 36th.
–SHHH/Peaceful breaks down the American Top 40 broadcast from [...]
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