Fw: [GEMOTO:1518] HD Radio (cheap!)
Ken VanTassell
kenwvt@gmail.com
Thu May 3 12:09:04 EDT 2007
There is very little HD Radio being transmitted in NH:
The HDRadio.com website lists all the stations by city and state.
Concord, NH 89.1 WEVO-HD1 FM Nws/Tlk/Inf New Hampshire Public Radio
Concord, NH 88.3 WEVS-HD1 FM Nws/Tlk/Inf New Hampshire Public Radio
Keene, NH 1220 WZBK-HD AM Music of Your Life Saga
Manchester, NH 95.7 WZID-HD1 FM AC Saga
-Ken
On 5/3/07, Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@att.net> wrote:
> Brings up a fantastic old commercial/old radio/semi-classical music trivia
> question:
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> What semi-classical piece was the basis for TWO 1940s-era singing
> commercials for two totally unrelated products and what were the products?
> (Different parts of the music selection, which had no vocal in its original
> incarnation, were used in the two different singing commercials from the
> same era.)
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> Answer below
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> Artists Life Waltz by Johann Strauss (I think the younger Johann
> Strauss--but someone will correct me if I'm wrong)
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> The commercials were for La Boheme wine (which, in an incredibly declasse
> touch--appropriate, I guess, for a cheap sweet red wine that appealed mostly
> to winos--was pronounced La BoHEME not La Bo-emm, which is the correct
> French pronunciation) and Mad Man Muntz Car Dealership and Kaiser-Fraser
> automobiles.
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> The lyrics went: "With La BoHEME, you can't go wrong/it's the wine that
> real-ly rates a song" and "Kai'-zer-Frai'-zer/yours at once/di-rect from Mad
> Man Muntz."
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> --
> Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
> eFax 707-215-6367
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Doherty" <dave@skywaves.net>
> To: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>; "Roger Kolakowski"
> <rogerkola@aol.com>
> Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: [GEMOTO:1518] HD Radio (cheap!)
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> > Mad Man Muntz.
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> > Now there's a memory!
> >
> > -Dave Doherty
> > Skywaves, Inc.
> > 97 Webster Street
> > Worcester, MA 01603
> > 508-425-7176
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Roger Kirk" <rogerkirk@ttlc.net>
> > To: "Roger Kolakowski" <rogerkola@aol.com>
> > Cc: <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:38 PM
> > Subject: Re: Fw: [GEMOTO:1518] HD Radio (cheap!)
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> > > Brings to mind the "Loft Radios" that were so popular in the 50's after
> > > WWII surplus hit the market as well as the Muntz TVs that sold so well
> > > in NY.
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> > > Roger Kolakowski wrote:
> > >> Last try...
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> > >> Not a recommendation or a solicitation...you see what I see...
> > >>
> > >> Roger
> > >> WA1KAT
> > >>
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: Rick J Zach
> > >> To: gemoto@googlegroups.com
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:37 PM
> > >> Subject: [GEMOTO:1518] HD Radio (cheap!)
> > >>
> > >> HD Radio (cheap!)
> > >>
> > >> http://www.radiosophy.com/products/hd100.html
> > >>
> > >>
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