POTD: The Spirit Of Radio
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s a special video made by the classic rock band Rush as a tribute to their late drummer Neil Peart and to the radio stations that first helped boost the band’s popularity four decades ago.
Best Things I’ve Heard Recently
After a couple of months of not listening to podcasts, here are three episodes I enjoyed recently and recommend to you.
POTD: Kids React To Led Zeppelin
Picture Of The Day: Despite playing them thousands of times during the first half of my radio career, I was never a Led Zeppelin fan. Still, I got a kick out of these kids’ reactions.
Another Covid Concert Cancellation
Another concert tour cancelled due to concerns about COVID-19: John Fogerty won’t perform at The Fabulous Fox in St. Louis on July 12th. But here he is doing a CCR classic at home with his family.
POTD: For The Longest Time
For today’s Picture Of The Day, a bunch of sheltering-at-home choral singers from Vancouver, Canada, perform a Billy Joel classic, with lyrics customized for the coronavirus crisis.
Tom Snyder & Little Richard
With the deaths of Little Richard last weekend and Tom Snyder in 2007, it’s delightful to look back at this perfect amalgam of a great broadcaster and a great entertainer, from a 1997 broadcast of “The Late Late Show.”