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Some of the most enterprising public service radio programming in recent years has come from the listener-supported FM stations of the Pacifica Foundation. They tackle controversial issues from all sides, broadcast disk jockeys who are knowledgeable as well as funny, and put on first-rate readings from literature. Their news, drawn from their own Washington bureau, has unusual freshness. All this went well at the original Pacifica station in Berkeley, Calif., and at the two newer ones in Los Angeles and Manhattan. But last March, the foundation got into Texas-and trouble...
Author Charlie Gillett begins his story back in the '40s, when the rhythm-and-blues musicians who sang about "rock and roll" were talking about loving, not music. It took some shrewd record producers and a Cleveland disk jockey named Alan Freed to make the term-and the music itself-acceptable to a larger, white audience. The sound came off the streets and was segregated as carefully as the people who listened...
...supported by a major record company (Columbia, RCA Victor, Decca, Capitol). Shamelessly, the majors scoured the catalogues of small, regional record companies for top-notch rock and roll songs, then rerecorded them in what the trade calls "cover" versions, using their own stars. Shamefully, most of the radio disk jockeys-with exceptions like Freed -obliged the big companies by playing their issues. In the end, though, both the record companies and the DJs were foiled. "The audience was determined to have the real thing," writes Gillett, "not a synthetic version of the original. Independent companies, sensing this desire, were eager...
...frequently fatal condition that occurs in premature infants. Also included is the feline mewing of a baby with cat-cry syndrome, a congenital defect that produces abnormal development of the brain, and the wheezing gasp of an asthmatic infant. Only one of the sounds on the 45-r.p.m. disk makes for pleasant listening. Obviously included for purposes of comparison, it reproduces the lusty cry of a healthy newborn...
Barefoot and Pregnant. The day's crowds ranged in size from as many as 20,000 marchers on New York's Fifth Avenue to four women hurling eggs at a Pittsburgh radio station whose disk jockey had dared protesters to flaunt their liberation. In nearly half a dozen cities, women swept past headwaiters to "liberate" all-male bars and restaurants. At the Detroit Free Press, women staffers, angered because male reporters had two washrooms while they had only one, stormed one of the men's rooms, ousted its inhabitants and occupied it for the rest...