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Episode 114: Splashdown!

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Groovy! Music-Making Asphalt!

The folks who silenced the nation's first "musical road" are singing a different tune. Workers on Wednesday began carving grooves on Avenue G that will produce notes of the "William Tell Overture" when cars drive over them.

The high desert city north of Los Angeles placed the grooves on another road, Avenue K, last month for a Honda commercial. The quarter-mile strip was engineered to play the notes — better known as the theme for "The Lone Ranger" — when motorists in Honda Civics hit them at 55 mph.

It was believed to be the first such musical road in the United States, although there are others in Japan, South Korea and Holland.

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Sweet!

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Syracuse University Scores 50 Tons of Vinyl

A vast collection of 78 rpm records is being donated to Syracuse University by the estate of a prominent New York City record shop owner.

The more than 200,000 records represented the entire inventory of "Records Revisited," a landmark Manhattan store owned by Morton Savada, who died in February of lung cancer at age 85.

The collection, valued at $1 million, weighs 50 tons and represents more than a half-century of American music history.

Included are recordings from 1895 to the 1950s, with big band, jazz, country, blues, gospel, polka, folk, Broadway, Hawaiian and Latin among the genres. The collection also contains spoken-word, comedy and broadcast recordings, and "V-disks," which were distributed as entertainment to the U.S. military during World War II.

"It's a treasure trove of that era," said Joe Lauro, founder of Historic Film Archive, whose holdings include more than 40,000 musical performance clips and which holds exclusive rights to such famous shows as "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert."

I love the fact that Savada often lent his 78s to movie and music producers rather than selling them, and never sold the last copy of a recording because he regarded his collection as an archive, not an inventory.

"He was more interested in making you a $5 copy on tape than selling you a record. He considered himself a keeper of history more than a collector," Lauro said.

Read the rest over at: CNN.

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Thanks to Guy Mauve for the cool shot.

Meet Otto Watt

Meet Mr. Otto Watt, one of the original radio freaks. The above strip is from way back in September of 1925.

Fred Neher was an American comic strip artist and cartoonist. In the early 1920s he assisted Arch Dale on Doo-Dads and he created his own feature Otto Watt.

Neher is best known for 'Life's Like That', a cartoon feature he drew for Bell Syndicate from 1935 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1977. It was published in 500 newspapers at its peak He also created a strip called 'Goofey Movies'.

If you're digging Otto, you'll probably also enjoy The Adventures of Radio Raymond and The Adventures of Radio Ralf as well as mucho mas vintage strips from the cool folks over at: Barnacle Press.

Happy 4th Of July!

Radio Rules,

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HMK Mystery Stream: Bohemian Mai Tai Jet Set

It's On! Grab a towel, a cold one and tune in!

HMK Mystery Stream: Irregular Frequency Episode 107: Bohemian Mai Tai Jet Set

Some material might not be appropriate for the young ones...

Carpe Los Dias!

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HMK Mystery Stream Episode 23: The Vintage Indie Pop Incident

Well, not much of a mystery with a name like: HMK Mystery Stream Episode 23: The Vintage Indie Pop Incident, huh?

I guess the real mystery is... which indie songs and what the hell does vintage mean in this context?

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Just in time for the weekend...

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