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• Get Your Kicks in ’66

  7/24/2024

  This Saturday night on WRCO’s Those Were the Days, we will be featuring tunes that were on the charts in July of 1966. It may have been the last year for classic Top 40 radio. A year or so later, music began to change drastically and splinter into different genres. The songs that were on […]

• 1987 Best of Times

  7/17/2024

  Nineteen hundred and eighty-seven was a great year. The Milwaukee Brewers were known as ‘team streak’, the top movies included 3 Men and a Baby, Fatal Attraction, Beverly Hills Cop 2, and La Bamba. Television shows that I watched on the Sylvania Superset were Cheers, Golden Girls, and the Simpsons on the Tracy Ullman show. […]

• Summertime Memories

  7/10/2024

  There is nothing like summer. Hanging out with family and friends and making new memories. Some of my favorite old memories go back to those sunny days of my youth. Growing up on the farm, we worked hard but also appreciated some down time. Music made the chores go faster and I always had my […]

• Summer of ’82

  7/3/2024

  In July of 1982 I was ready to leave the nest. It was an exciting time because I knew that I would not have to be up early for morning milking and my social calendar would not have to take a hit because of nighttime farm chores. My destination was Wausau Wisconsin to attend the […]

• Top 40 Radios Heyday 1967

  6/26/2024

  The year of 1967 is my favorite year for Top 40 music. Every type of music competed for radio airplay. I was just a ‘wee Nee’ then, and don’t remember hearing those songs on the radio when they first came out. When I began collecting music, it was amazing to find many of the tunes […]