Month: December 2021

Video Killed The Radio Star

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Challenge: Song Lyric Sunday

For today’s song lyric Sunday Jim Adams asked us to pick a song that featured electronic communication devices (pagers, iPhone, Android, fax machine, computer, TV).

I could think of one song that answered that challenge.

Video Killed The Radio Star by the Buggles is a straight forward song-there was an uprising of technology and it not only obliterated everything in it’s path, it recreated the wreckage in it’s own image.

So this somewhat simple song that was the first video played by MTV was actually a window ( see what I did there? ) to what was coming.

I love the Web and  I love my laptop but do you know  what I miss?

Dial tones and that pop and hiss that records made when you played them late at night.

anita

I heard you on my wireless back in ’52
Lying awake, intent at tuning in on you
If I was young, it didn’t stop you coming through
Oh-a, oh-a
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see

Oh-a oh-a
I met your children
Oh-a oh-a
What did you tell them?

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart
Oh-a-a-a oh

And now we meet in an abandoned studio
We hear the playback and it seems so long ago
And you remember the jingles used to go

Oh-a oh-a
You were the first one
Oh-a oh-a
You are the last one

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
In my mind and in my car
We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far

Oh-a-aho oh
Oh-a-aho oh

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

In my mind and in my car
We can’t rewind, we’ve gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put the blame on VCR

You are a radio star
You are a radio star

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star

Songwriters: Trevor Horn, Geoffrey Downes, Bruce Woolley

Winter Windows

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Turn off the TV, turn down the lights and enjoy these Christmas radio shows from the 30’s and 40’s. It really is a magical experience.

Anita

Mercury Theater With Orson Welles Show Titled A Christmas Carol. Original Air Date Was 12/24/1939. Probably the most famous version of Lionel Barrymore’s yearly radio appearances as “Ebenezer Scrooge” on radio during the ’30s and ’40s

Stars from the movie reprised their roles for this radio broadcast in 1947

These episodes are presented in their entirety, including any original commercials.

1945: The Night Before Christmas – Holmes (Rathbone) and Watson (Bruce) must catch a thief to save Christmas.

1947: The Adventure of the Christmas Bride – Holmes (Stanley) and Watson (Shirley) must watch over an heiress during the Christmas holiday.

1947: New Year’s Eve Off Scilly Isles – Holmes (Stanley) and Watson (Shirley) strive to prevent the destruction of a luxury liner.

Seven Days and Counting

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*12 Days of Christmas Memories and Adventures

On the seventh day of Christmas

I remembered some great advice from Christmas of 2017

Note to self regarding Christmas Gifts:

If you have a dog that was bred to track, hiding their Christmas Presents is pointless.

Pointless I say.

Photo A.M. Moscoso

Ho. Ho. Ho.

Night Light

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RDP Saturday:  Variegated Skies

When I saw today’s RDP prompt, my mind jumped straight to the works of Victorian era artist John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Grimshaw’s art tells a  wonderful story and the story teller here is the night  light that gives voice and expression to  everything it touches. The trees, the buildings,the clouds, the figures traveling along the roads paved with granite and wet dark earth. Each of these elements add something to the narrative.

John Grimshaw is famous for his night scapes, so the story might be a dark one but it’s a lively and invigorating one all the same.

I hope you enjoy the samples of John A Grimshaw’s work I selected to illustrate my post today.

Anita

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) Nearing home

Near Hackness, a Moonlit Scene with Pine Trees