Vinyl Voyage Radio

What better way to celebrate the beginning of a New Year than to take a trip to years past with the magic of K-Tel. We kick off a marathon of K-Tel starting with the 2013 premiere of Dynamic Sound at 11 am (central). Then, back to back episodes of Adventures in Vinyl follows: Right On , 1976 Rock 80 , 1980 Fantastic , 1973 Music Machine , 1977 Pure Rock , 1981 Adventures in Vinyl---the only radio show dedicated to the lost art of the K-Tel record compilation.

It wasn't a heavily promoted record compilation.  After all, K-Tel did not advertise the album on TV like other albums that they released in 1974.  However, Dynamic Sound is a solid album and one of the better preserved ones in my collection. Like other K-Tel albums from the early 70s, Dynamic Sound boasts "22 Original Hits, Original Stars." The album clocks in at 57 minutes and, like all K-Tel albums of the day, is heavily edited.  Some of the songs are under the 2 minute mark; shorter than their radio edits. But that's okay.  It's K-Tel after all. This album features some of the biggest names of the time:  Bachman Turner Overdrive, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Helen Ready, Donny Osmond (and his sister, Marie) Tony Orlando and Dawn and many, many more. The premiere of Dynamic Sound can be heard at the start of a New Year's Day marathon at 11 am (central) Tuesday, January 1, 2013. Adventures in Vinyl, the only radio show dedicated to the lost art of...

Some of the albums you will hear on the Vinyl Voyage Christmas. It's been hard for me to get into the Christmas spirit this year.  And with all of this talk about the so-called "war on Christmas"----I don't see it.  If there is a war, Christmas has won. Radio stations began playing Christmas music just after Halloween.  In fact, Christmas beat the shit out of Thanksgiving this year with stores opening on Thanksgiving so that people can start even earlier their Christmas shopping. Perhaps Linus was right, Christmas is too commercial. It's not like when we were children, is it?  Perhaps it is because we are not children anymore.  But we can relive some of that through the power of music. One thing I have discovered since starting Vinyl Voyage Radio a couple of years ago:  music is a time machine.  Nothing like hearing a song from the past to bring back a flood of feelings from a time long gone. This year on Vinyl Voyage Radio, we are going to...