By Jack Silbert on December 7, 2021
EPISODE #464: 10th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL (RADIO IX) The Who — “Happy Jack” [THEME]Hank Williams — “Happy Rovin’ Cowboy” [Health and Happiness Show theme]soundbite — Jack on WNYC’s Morning Edition, 12/19/12 Gary Stewart — “Ten Years of This” Mac McCaughan — “I Hear a Radio”Hearty Har — “Radio Man ’56”All Ashore! — “Radio Sunshine”Freedy Johnston — […]
Posted in internet radio playlists | Tagged All Ashore!, BBC, Freedy Johnston, Gary Stewart, Hank Williams, Hearty Har, Mac McCaughan, Marshall Crenshaw, Michael Shelley, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, Steve Wynn, Talking Heads, WFMU, WNYC, Wussy, Yardbirds
By Jack Silbert on September 20, 2017
I take very good care of my backpacks. (Umbrellas too, but that’s another story.) As a result, I can remember every backpack I’ve ever owned. When my sister was graduating college, I was graduating high school, so she bequeathed me her grey JanSport backpack to begin my own university career. That was my first. JanSport […]
Posted in anecdotes, personal history | Tagged Colleen Green, Historic Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery, Jansport backpacks, Life in a Blender, Popfest New England, WNYC
By Jack Silbert on November 3, 2013
Maybe you’ve seen the name Frank B. on this site. Back in early 2008, Frank Boscoe invited me to become a contributor to Salt in Wound. Twenty years earlier, he was my music director at WRCT, the radio station of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Frank had a strong influence on my developing musical […]
Posted in personal history | Tagged #Poundsign#, Carnegie Mellon, Frank Boscoe, Jerry Fuchs, Leital Molad, meta, Pittsburgh, Rob Christiansen, Stephen Vesecky, The Gazetteers, unpopular music, Vehicle Flips, WFXIV, Wimp Factor 14, Wimp Factor Fourteen, WNYC, WRCT
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