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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 3495772, member: 534"] My bedroom was in the attic. I took a huge spool of bell wire and ran it through the rafters all over the attic to pick up WJW (Cleveland - Alan Freed), WKBW (Buffalo - Tommy Shannon), and on nights that the atmospheric conditions were just right, a station out of the Carolinas that featured a grittier, more blues oriented playlist. There were very few commercially available FM radios prior to the late fifties, and the ones that existed were prohibitively expensive, plus there were relatively few stations broadcasting in FM. When I built an FM tuner from a Knight kit in 1961, I could receive 3 stations. Two were classical music and one was modern jazz. FM exploded when the LP started to outpace the 45 in the record industry, after the British invasion. It certainly was in my neighborhood. It was Lanson. The show alienated its traditional audience when the regular cast of mediocre singers attempted to sing the increasingly popular covers of R&B (especially group harmony) songs. Neither the producers nor the stable of regular singers understood or appreciated the music they were trying to mimic. YHP's previously loyal old fogey audience migrated to Lawrence Welk, and the teens that the Hit Parade producers were comically trying to appeal to were more likely to watch Bandstand. Her father was Chief Thunderthud. The same show also had a marionette character named Flub-a-dub that was loosely based on a platypus. We couldn't have cared less about an echo. We were looking for groups of teenage girls to stop and listen to us. I probably met 75% of the girls I dated in high-school that way. And now, those same "kids" answer most anyone with "What was that?", "Come Again?" or just "Huh?" In my neighborhood, the parents' reaction depended on which neighbor was involved. Some of them were just 'busybodies' to be ignored. Much worse if you attended a parochial school. The nuns truly believed they were the hand of God, striking down evil wherever it was found. The best example in this case would be Arthur Lee Maye, who played in the majors for more than a decade, and in the off season, was the lead singer of Arthur Lee May & the Crowns. [/QUOTE]

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