Post by jptheprofessor on Jul 18, 2007 0:17:20 GMT -5
The correct answer to this afternoon's 4:15 PM "Classic Rock Clip" contest was "Centerfold" by the J. Geils Band, as we gave away another copy of Steve Perry's greatest hits CD Prime Cuts.
The 5:15 PM "Lost Classic" this afternoon was "Children of the Grave" by Black Sabbath, from their 1971 album Master of Reality. Today is Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell bassist Geezer Butler's 58th birthday.
This coming Friday, July 20, marks the 30th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1977, in which 85 people lost their lives. Can you remember what you were doing when this tragic local disaster took place? I remember that night pretty well. I was 16 at the time, and an avid AM radio "DX'er," an enthusiast who scanned the radio dials nightly to see what distant radio station signals I could find. That night, I had planned to sit down and watch the Major League Baseball All Star Game. But an hour before the game was to begin at 8 PM, the thunderstorms arrived. I remember the frequent vivid lightning, the loud and scary thunder, and heavy rains. My mother, brother and I retreated to our basement, as was the custom when a bad storm came along. We had a small black-and-white television in the basement, and I watched the baseball game between lightning static bursts on the television screen. The storm was still pounding away after 11 PM as the game ended, and Channel 6 news came on (NBC televised the All Star Game back then). I remember weatherman Ron Lorence mentioning that there were some street flooding problems in Johnstown that night due to the heavy rains. He didn't seem particularly alarmed or distressed at that point, so we didn't think much more than perhaps some street flooding and some flooded out basements. Eventually the storm subsided on the Altoona side of the mountain, and I went to bed. When I awoke the next morning, I turned on the television and found that Channel 6 was off the air. Then at 12 noon, we tuned into the late Denny Bixler's daily radio talk show, "Two Way Radio," to hear shocking footage of Denny narrating as he flew in a helicopter over Johnstown, describing a disaster scene of a flooded out city. It was at that point that we realized that a disaster on the other side of the mountain had indeed occurred. As I had a tape recorder hooked up to my radio system for my DX'ing hobby, I grabbed a tape, put it in the deck and started recording the flood coverage. Over the next several days and weeks, I recorded some 14 cassette tapes of coverage of the Johnstown Flood of 1977, including radio reports, Channel 6 newscasts when they returned to the air, and more. I still have those tapes!
Be listening to Adam Erickson and "Music in the Morning" this Friday for a special audio montage I put together from those tapes, of footage and coverage I recorded in the hours and days following the Johnstown Flood of 1977!
The 5:15 PM "Lost Classic" this afternoon was "Children of the Grave" by Black Sabbath, from their 1971 album Master of Reality. Today is Black Sabbath/Heaven and Hell bassist Geezer Butler's 58th birthday.
This coming Friday, July 20, marks the 30th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1977, in which 85 people lost their lives. Can you remember what you were doing when this tragic local disaster took place? I remember that night pretty well. I was 16 at the time, and an avid AM radio "DX'er," an enthusiast who scanned the radio dials nightly to see what distant radio station signals I could find. That night, I had planned to sit down and watch the Major League Baseball All Star Game. But an hour before the game was to begin at 8 PM, the thunderstorms arrived. I remember the frequent vivid lightning, the loud and scary thunder, and heavy rains. My mother, brother and I retreated to our basement, as was the custom when a bad storm came along. We had a small black-and-white television in the basement, and I watched the baseball game between lightning static bursts on the television screen. The storm was still pounding away after 11 PM as the game ended, and Channel 6 news came on (NBC televised the All Star Game back then). I remember weatherman Ron Lorence mentioning that there were some street flooding problems in Johnstown that night due to the heavy rains. He didn't seem particularly alarmed or distressed at that point, so we didn't think much more than perhaps some street flooding and some flooded out basements. Eventually the storm subsided on the Altoona side of the mountain, and I went to bed. When I awoke the next morning, I turned on the television and found that Channel 6 was off the air. Then at 12 noon, we tuned into the late Denny Bixler's daily radio talk show, "Two Way Radio," to hear shocking footage of Denny narrating as he flew in a helicopter over Johnstown, describing a disaster scene of a flooded out city. It was at that point that we realized that a disaster on the other side of the mountain had indeed occurred. As I had a tape recorder hooked up to my radio system for my DX'ing hobby, I grabbed a tape, put it in the deck and started recording the flood coverage. Over the next several days and weeks, I recorded some 14 cassette tapes of coverage of the Johnstown Flood of 1977, including radio reports, Channel 6 newscasts when they returned to the air, and more. I still have those tapes!
Be listening to Adam Erickson and "Music in the Morning" this Friday for a special audio montage I put together from those tapes, of footage and coverage I recorded in the hours and days following the Johnstown Flood of 1977!