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My Life Is A Song #102

December 29, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

Connections.  Arguably one of the top five non-fictional, science programs of all time, Connections was a stellar late-seventies BBC program about science and history and how seemingly unrelated events combined to get us to where we are today.  Or in the case of its original broadcast, 1978.  I became infatuated with this program in my […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Connections, country, music, radio, TV, vintage

My Life Is A Song #96

February 17, 2017 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

One night in St. Jacobs, the old fable of the City Mouse and the Country Mouse played out in real life within the bland, beige box that was my childhood bedroom.  I, as you rightly presume, starred as the Country Mouse. It was 1985, most likely later March or possibly early April, and a rather […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, hockey, kids, radio, Woolwich

My Life Is A Song #85

December 2, 2016 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

I was a timid child.  Still am, to be honest.  Few things make me more uncomfortable than talking on the phone, having to make calls being the worst.  Luckily I was also the oldest child so I had a younger sister I could browbeat into doing those things I desperately wanted to do but was […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: '80s, Eighties, hair metal, radio, sister

My Life Is A Song #19

August 28, 2015 by acrockofschmidt Leave a Comment

In a world of digital music, where millions of songs from the most famous to the most obscure are immediately available to anyone almost anywhere on the planet with a few clicks on a computer, it seems almost absurd that AM radio was still a meaningful popular music medium in my lifetime.  Sure, it was […]

Filed Under: Music Schmidt Tagged With: Billy Joel, Eighties, orange, radio, Sauble Beach, Top 40

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