Showing posts with label Aretha Franklin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aretha Franklin. Show all posts

Saturday, August 18, 2018

Aretha: A Celebration Rebroadcast Schedule

If you missed Aretha: A Celebration, you can catch it at the following times, Central. Check out the major time zone chart for your city below.




Friday, August 17, 2018

Aretha: A Celebration TONIGHT 8pm Central



The show can be heard at the following times, central.

Premiere:  August 17 - 8pm

Repeat broadcasts:

Saturday, August 18 - 3 am
Sunday, August 19 - 1pm
Tuesday, August 21 - 6pm
Wednesday, August 22 - 9am and 9pm



Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Song of the Week--"Let It Be" by Aretha Franklin

It was a hard weekend, with the news coming out of Charlottesville. As usual, I turn to music and placed a 1970 album on the platter from Aretha Franklin.

Her cover of "Let It Be" moved me. This is the Vinyl Voyage Song of the Week.


Listen to this song at 10 am and 10 pm, Central TODAY and throughout the week on Vinyl Voyage Radio.

Or, if you want to hear it now, click on the link below.





Sunday, June 22, 2014

K-Tel's Dynamic Hits, This Month on Vinyl Voyage

This month on Adventures in Vinyl, we will highlight 20 Dynamic Hits, Volume 2 from 1972.  I bought this album brand-new.  When you listen to this episode, you will hear the first time it was ever played.

The album came out in 1972 and was advertised like any other K-Tel album on television.  It contains hits from James Taylor, Elton John, the Osmonds, Rod Stewart and many, many more--another great sampling of music from the time.

And, as a special treat, it also has a very rare recording of Aretha Franklin covering Frank Sinatra's "My Way."  This was never released until 2008.  How K-Tel got a hold of that recording, I do not know.


The album begins with a song that actually began as a television commercial jingle. Remember "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"?  That song proved so popular it was worked into a hit song and was covered by two bands in 1972:  the New Seekers and the Hillside Singers.  The version performed by the Hillside Singers starts off the album.  If there is a better song to bring you back to that time, I have yet to hear it.

Adventures in Vinyl can be heard at the following times (central):

Tuesday 1 pm 
Wednesday 2 am
Thursday 10 am
Saturday 12 pm
Sunday 4 pm

Adventures in Vinyl:  the only radio show dedicated to the lost art of the K-Tel record compilation.  

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Next on AiV: K-Tel's 20 Dynamic Hits from 1972

After an extended summer hiatus, Adventures in Vinyl is back with a very special K-Tel album from 1972.  First of all, this album is brand new--never opened.  You'll be hearing it first played on AiV.

Secondly, this album was a K-Tel album, but also a "Top Star Festival" album, which was the record label of the United Nations. Yeah, that United Nations.  They had released several albums in the 60s and early 70s with all proceeds going to refugee aid.  As far as I know, this is the only one released by K-Tel.

The album came out in 1972 and was advertised like any other K-Tel album on television.  It contains hits from James Taylor, Elton John, the Osmonds, Rod Stewart and many, many more--another great sampling of music from the time.

And, as a special treat, it also has a very rare recording of Aretha Franklin covering Frank Sinatra's "My Way."  This was never released until 2008.  How K-Tel got a hold of that recording, I do not know.


Not only that, the album begins with a song that actually began as a television commercial jingle. Remember "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"?  That song proved so popular it was worked into a hit song and was covered by two bands in 1972:  the New Seekers and the Hillside Singers.  The version performed by the Hillside Singers starts off the album.  If there is a better song to bring you back to that time, I have yet to hear it.

Adventures in Vinyl can be heard at the following times (central):

Tuesday 1 pm 
Wednesday 2 am
Thursday 10 am
Saturday 12 pm
Sunday 4 pm

Adventures in Vinyl:  the only radio show dedicated to the lost art of the K-Tel record compilation.