Vinyl Voyage Radio

It's no secret that I'm a big fan of Frank Sinatra. As a teacher, I put Frank Sinatra extra credit questions on every test, reward kids with Frank Sinatra extra credit tokens and often play Sinatra for the kids as they work in class. When I first started teaching, I gained a little notoriety when I created the Frank Sinatra Detention Club . When kids got a detention, they came in after school and I played 30 minutes of Frank Sinatra music for them. And, I sometimes sang as well. It was a slow newsday back in September, 1992. For a few days, the story was all over; first on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times and then on the front page of USA Today . Then came the calls and the shows: local radio, Good Morning America and even a joke by Jay Leno on the Tonight Show .  It was crazy. People thought my "punishment" was funny. I, however, never saw it as a punishment. I saw it as a means of introducing students to the great Frank Sinatra. Here we...

Tonight, we celebrated the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr. through the power of music.  If you missed this broadcast, you stream it on demand at MixCloud. Martin Luther King, Jr: A Celebration in Song, 2016 by Vinyl Voyage Radio on Mixcloud

You may have by now heard the news: Columbia House is coming back in 2016. Yes, the company that helped fill out my record collection (and later my cd collection) is getting back into the vinyl business. I'm sure they won't have the same unbelievable vinyl offers like they had in the 70s and 80s. Remember those offers? 13 albums for $1.00! But the fact that they are going to be back selling vinyl is great news. And it got me thinking: if Columbia House can make a vinyl comeback, what about K-Tel? For those of you wondering, K-Tel is still around; they haven't gone anywhere. They had some financial troubles in the late 90s for sure, but they still have a nice catalog of music, numbering over 6,000 tunes. In fact, they still license that music for all sorts of projects--from movies to tv and commercials. They have tunes from Chuck Berry and Etta James. B.J. Thomas and Leslie Gore. The Buckinghams and Tina Turner. I am sure they have many of the tunes that filled thei...

I'm having a problem letting go. As I mentioned in my last post, Live365 is closing up shop, leaving thousands of broadcasters without a platform, including Vinyl Voyage Radio. However, I don't think I am going anywhere.  We recently purchased a new stream and are looking at funding options to keep the station going.  More to come on that front. One thing is for sure: I will need your help. In the meantime, we are up and running. Bigger and better. We stream now at 128kps, instead of 64. And, we are going to be available on more platforms and streaming services. So thank you for everything. The future looks bright.....I've got to wear shades. :)

It appears that this radio station will no longer be operating after January 31, 2016. I started Vinyl Voyage Radio almost exactly five years ago after re-discovering a bunch of my old records in the basement. My K-Tel collection stood out. Oh, how I loved my K-Tel albums back in the 70s. The impetus for Vinyl Voyage came because I wanted to share those albums. And share them I did. Nearly every month for the last five years I have recorded episodes of Adventures in Vinyl to play those K-Tel records again. And I spent countless hours digitizing my other albums as well. As a result, the playlist for this radio station has grown to thousands of songs easily spanning 60 or more years. We have been playing vinyl music 24 hours a day for the last 5 years, with a much more diverse and deep playlist than any commercial station on terrestrial radio. There are Vinyl Voyage listeners all over the world. From Finland to Israel, from Papua New Guinea to Slovakia, from Brazil to Taiwan and ma...

Happy New Year, vinyl lovers!  As we ring in 2016, we ring it in with style. K-Tel style! This month we are featuring the classic K-Tel album, Southern Fried Rock . The album was released in 1980- on the new and improved K-Tel label. The label was now orange and brown and the songs no longer massively edited.  This album features cuts from The Marshall Tucker band, the Allman Brothers, .38 Special, Charlie Daniels and many, many more! Check out the commercial below: Adventures in Vinyl features a classic K-tel album on every episode. New episodes can be heard on the weekends on Vinyl Voyage Radio. Random episodes are played throughout the week. Saturday, 12:30 pm (Central)  Current Episode Sunday, 4 pm (Central) Current Episode Tuesday, 1:30 pm (Central) Retro Repeat Wednesday, 2 am (Central) Current Episode Thursday, 10 am (Central) Retro Repeat If you can't hear Adventures in Vinyl at those times. every episode streams on Mixcloud . Listen to the cur...