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WHDH Radio Aircheck

24 July, 2010
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Just dug up this telescoped aircheck from a day just prior to Father’s Day in 1987. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] WHDH is no longer with us – it went away when 590 WEEI owners purchased WHDH, deleted the heritage Boston station and planted WEEI at 850, a much more powerful signal, where Sportsradio 850 WEEI still resides to this day. The WHDH call letters still reside in Boston on Channel 7. The days of “Full-Service Adult Contemporary (A/C)” radio are all but gone, but WHDH and WBZ (1030 Boston) were prolific radio leaders in listenership and billing with the format that met it’s peak in the 70s and 80s. I was certainly blessed to have had even a relatively brief opportunity to take the format out for a spin.

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WSSH Boston Radioactive Memories

24 July, 2010
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Lost and found. I just dug through a bunch of audio tapes tonight that I didn’t even know that I had saved. I had assumed the tapes were lost in our 2000 move to Vermont. Mostly airchecks from my radio days at WCAP (980 Lowell), the former WSSH (99.5 Boston), and former WHDH (850 Boston). The one I’ve got running now is a March 14, 1987 aircheck from WSSH. It’s ‘scoped’ from 7PM to 1AM which means that the tape only recorded whenever I keyed the microphone and then went into ‘pause’ mode whenever I turned off the mic. So, you get my voice talking into and out of a music set. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I now notice how often I mentioned that a certain song was “on compact disc.” That’s because the technology was just getting going. In fact, most of the songs you hear were played on “cart” which was a tape cartridge that resembled an 8-Track tape. (Ask an old guy if that still eludes….) Time had a way. I forgot how much I really enjoyed working at WSSH. Like WHDH, it’s no longer a radio station!  ”Wish, ninety-NINE point five, WSSH” was based Continue reading →

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Music from Church

3 May, 2010
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Here are some recent recordings from Panton Community Baptist Church Mighty to Save  [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Jesus Lives and So Shall I  [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Master in this Quiet Place  [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Shoreham Loses Historic Structure

11 April, 2010
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Newton Academy in Shoreham was destroyed by fire during the evening of April 7th, apparently due to a lightning strike to a gas furnace in the Shoreham Preschool section of the town’s multi-use building. Shorewell Clinic medical offices in the building were also destroyed along with years of medical records. Some artifacts from the Historical Society were salvaged. No injuries in battling the fire with mutual aide from Vergennes, Addison, Bridport, Cornwall and other towns. The building’s 200th anniversary was to be celebrated this summer. Newton Academy served as the town’s high school until 1967. Recently a 250K new roof was installed. Tough loss for the small town of 1,200. Here is my report for Farm Fresh Radio 102.9 in Burlington — [Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Daniel Hannan at International Leaders Summit in Brussels

5 February, 2010
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“Almost nobody now argues for the inevitability of socialism for the desirability of state planning…and yet the percentage of wealth taken by governments continues to grow.” If you have ten minutes, grab a cup of coffee and check this out. Even if you are apolitical. The courage of this British member of Parliament could teach us something about standing firm. “Just as the Asian powers are learning the benefits of decentralization, of devolution, of competition, we are adopting our own version of the Ming, Mogul, and Ottoman path towards ever closer union, harmonization, more bureaucracy, more rules, higher taxes.”

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