And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
One of the few baby stories to survive from my abusive childhood is that I apparently figured out how to turn on the radio before I could walk.
That was in 1945, and the radio was a well-remembered Zenith record-player/radio console which I climbed up the front of to reach the dial. Imagine what was on the radio in 1945....A decade before the befoulment of rocknroll and electric guitars taking over the entire culture, I learned from Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, the beboppers, the Grand Old Opry, the Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, on and on. Culture, in a word.
The world before the Baby Boom was a wonderland of beautiful music, made by and intended for adults. Thank God for that Zenith radio.
In the 40's, my grandmother watched me while both parents worked. I listened on the Philco console to whatever was on: comedy, music, drama, mystery, Soap Opera. This continued throughout my childhood and laid the foundation for an addiction. Today, there's nothing left to feed that addiction. Unfortunately, we've lost it all. TV is no substitute.
Hey Henry Lee, there is lots of old time radio on the internet. Utube has a bunch, there is some on archive.org too. I cut my teeth on CBS Radio Theater on Sunday nights in the late 60's and 70's. I wanted to be a sound effects guy on a radio broadcast.... Just born 30 years too late...
"Zenith, the quality goes in, before the name goes on!" And they were quality radios. I have a few tube models and I love em.
One of the few baby stories to survive from my abusive childhood is that I apparently figured out how to turn on the radio before I could walk.
ReplyDeleteThat was in 1945, and the radio was a well-remembered Zenith record-player/radio console which I climbed up the front of to reach the dial. Imagine what was on the radio in 1945....A decade before the befoulment of rocknroll and electric guitars taking over the entire culture, I learned from Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, the beboppers, the Grand Old Opry, the Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcasts, on and on. Culture, in a word.
The world before the Baby Boom was a wonderland of beautiful music, made by and intended for adults. Thank God for that Zenith radio.
Looks like the one in the middle of the front room at grandmas house
ReplyDeleteIn the 40's, my grandmother watched me while both parents worked. I listened on the Philco console to whatever was on: comedy, music, drama, mystery, Soap Opera. This continued throughout my childhood and laid the foundation for an addiction. Today, there's nothing left to feed that addiction. Unfortunately, we've lost it all. TV is no substitute.
ReplyDeleteHey Henry Lee, there is lots of old time radio on the internet. Utube has a bunch, there is some on archive.org too. I cut my teeth on CBS Radio Theater on Sunday nights in the late 60's and 70's. I wanted to be a sound effects guy on a radio broadcast.... Just born 30 years too late...
ReplyDelete"Zenith, the quality goes in, before the name goes on!" And they were quality radios. I have a few tube models and I love em.