Radio Remembrances

 

Very much under-rated singer. I think like a lot of blues/soul artists, she just didn't get a lot of airtime on mainstream radio back in the sixties. There were a couple of AM stations I used to listen to back then that played a lot of black artists, but radio was moving to all mainstream rock and roll, and album cuts on FM, as I recall. WLS was the big AM station in Chicago with Clark Weber when I was in high school and for a few years thereafter. I think they were still broadcasting the Breakfast Club and The National Barn Dance at that time as well. One of my alternative stations featured Daddy-O's Jazz Patio. That's where you could hear Carla Thomas and other Jazz, Blues and Soul artists back then.

 They just don't make 'em like this one anymore. And if they do, I don't know where I would go to listen to them. The public radio stations I used to listen to went to a talk radio format. Shame really. If I wanted to listen to people yapping for hours on end I'd sit on a barstool.

I was on the road yesterday and got a call about fixing some aluminum fenders. The photo doesn't reveal the extent of the damage, but lots of cracks to be fixed. I'm guessing some of the cracking was from vibration but judging by the way they are bent, someone was standing on them. I wasn't looking for any work, but he came to me by way of a friend of mine. I still find it odd a small city where he lives doesn't have a weld shop. That's how I ended up welding the helicopter tanks.

Picked up the air and oil filters for the mower and got the first mowing of the season done. I'll get the filters changed and swap the blades out in the next couple of days. My weed-whacker leaked a puddle of gas on the garage floor, so I need to see about fixing that. I got the pickup in for service yesterday, picked up some medical records for the Missus at the hospital, and did some grocery shopping. Doing some household chores and driving the Missus to an appointment today. No rest for the wicked.