April 12, 2021
Set along a shallow stretch of the Tennessee River in the northwestern corner of Alabama, the communities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia are known collectively as the Shoals. Early American Indian inhabitants referred to the Tennessee as the “singing river,” which would prove fitting. Alongside it, centuries later, a rich musical culture would emerge, as two studios, FAME and Muscle Shoals Sound, drew the greatest musicians of the sixties and seventies and established the area as the “Hit Recording Capital of the World.”
And while the Shoals also lays claim to the birthplaces of W.C. Handy (known as the “Father of the Blues”) and rock and roll pioneer Sam Phillips (founder of legendary Sun Studio), the creative culture of the area extends beyond music. From the Rosenbaum House, the only Frank Lloyd Wright building in Alabama, to the flagship store of fashion designer Billy Reid, to acclaimed restaurant Odette, artistic excellence abo
Here are this past week s fun facts and trivia from Believe it or No:
The first place in the U.S. to use 911 as its emergency number was Haleyville, Alabama in February of 1968. The second place was Nome, Alaska a few weeks later.
The first in-flight movie was called Howdy Chicago! , and it was shown on a plane in 1921. It was technically not a feature length film but a commercial for Chicago. Keep in mind, this was also well before TV’s were common household appliances, so it was actually shown from an old-school projector onto a screen at the front of the plane.
The Radio Express Is Back In The Berkshires
Our
Feel Good 80 s Weekend feature is getting lots of positive buzz from listeners locally and world wide as we take you back to the days of Cabbage Patch Kids, GI Joe and friendship bracelets plus it s your chance to
dust off that Boom Box and break out The Walk Man as we relive these golden
RAD memories starting at 5 pm on Friday and we keep them rolling until 12 midnight Sunday.
Another highlight is when we bring my radio wife Lisa Z on board as she will co-host with yours truly on Saturday immediately following the 11 o clock news. Even though she is checking in remotely from her Springfield, Massachusetts residence,
When I was ten years old, my schoolfriends and I would whizz from one craze to another. One or two of these crazes diabolo, yo-yos, conkers, roller-skates are still with us. But many more have disappeared.
Whatever happened to the Gonk, for instance? The Gonk was a cylindrical doll covered in brightly coloured fur, rounded off with two little bulbous eyes.
It wasn’t long before Gonks gave way to younger, pushier, trendier rivals: Trolls, Wombles, Smurfs, Cabbage Patch Kids, My Little Ponies, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Tamagotchis.
For a short while, the Gonk lived on as a term of abuse directed at dim-wits, but even insults are subject to crazes, and this one soon died, just as the expression ‘dim-wit’ died.
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