The importance of calling a radio station to request a song
Oct 23, 2021 9:08:01 GMT -5
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Post by mesquite on Oct 23, 2021 9:08:01 GMT -5
When I was a child churches would have 'Singings' maybe a couple times a year. A singing was held in a church sanctuary usually on a Sunday afternoon. People who liked to sing selected random songs from the hymnal and joyfully worked their way through four verses and the choruses. People loudly and forcefully announced "Hymn number 244" sort of like a Bingo caller. It wasn't as easy as it seems. One probably memorized favorite hymn numbers prior to the singing. You never wanted to crash into another person's hymn. So you had to figure when your turn was. You wanted to wait long enough after the last hymn so that people had started anticipating what the next hymn would be and who might call it.
The thing that made it really special was hearing a woman's loud and forceful voice in the church sanctuary during a worship activity. That just didn't happen. I think many women found 'Singings' to be empowering. People listened to what they said and went along with it.
During the church service we would only sing three of four verses. There was something wrong with singing the third verse although I was never privy to what that was. Come to think women were like third verses. Joining with others to loudly harmonize a third verse at Singings for some was both intoxicating and exciting.
When I was in junior and high school radio was a much bigger part of people's lives. Television soap operas had not yet sucked out people's brains. (Today we have totally unReal Housewives to suck out people's brains). You could call a radio station and they would put you on the air while you made your request or dedication. Hundreds if not thousands of people listened to what you said, if only briefly without interrupting. A DJ, always a man, did exactly what you asked him to. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people listened mostly silently and respectfully to your song. Think how empowering that was. And it was mainly older girls calling in.
Why am I telling you all this? Just thought some would like to know how the feminist movement really started. By 1970 the girls had become young women ready to rip, tear. and burn bras.
Brady, Texas is 28 miles north of Mason on Highway 87.Occasionally Tracy Pitcox will announce a church singing on The Morning Show on a radio station out of Brady. On fall evenings in Brady, a town with about 5,300 people straddling the Texas Hill Country and West Texas, Pitcox helms the control board at KNEL-FM 95.3, airing his Hillbilly Hits radio program. Barely an hour into the four-hour show—which reaches five Central Texas counties on its FM frequency and is livestreamed on the internet on Thursdays beginning at 6 p.m.—Pitcox has already fielded requests for twenty songs. Some arrive by phone, others by web; they come from down the street and as far away as Australia.
I moved to Mason to go back in time. Don Quixote only had 40' high windmills. I have 380' high wind turbines with 120' blades and I love it.
The thing that made it really special was hearing a woman's loud and forceful voice in the church sanctuary during a worship activity. That just didn't happen. I think many women found 'Singings' to be empowering. People listened to what they said and went along with it.
During the church service we would only sing three of four verses. There was something wrong with singing the third verse although I was never privy to what that was. Come to think women were like third verses. Joining with others to loudly harmonize a third verse at Singings for some was both intoxicating and exciting.
When I was in junior and high school radio was a much bigger part of people's lives. Television soap operas had not yet sucked out people's brains. (Today we have totally unReal Housewives to suck out people's brains). You could call a radio station and they would put you on the air while you made your request or dedication. Hundreds if not thousands of people listened to what you said, if only briefly without interrupting. A DJ, always a man, did exactly what you asked him to. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people listened mostly silently and respectfully to your song. Think how empowering that was. And it was mainly older girls calling in.
Why am I telling you all this? Just thought some would like to know how the feminist movement really started. By 1970 the girls had become young women ready to rip, tear. and burn bras.
Brady, Texas is 28 miles north of Mason on Highway 87.Occasionally Tracy Pitcox will announce a church singing on The Morning Show on a radio station out of Brady. On fall evenings in Brady, a town with about 5,300 people straddling the Texas Hill Country and West Texas, Pitcox helms the control board at KNEL-FM 95.3, airing his Hillbilly Hits radio program. Barely an hour into the four-hour show—which reaches five Central Texas counties on its FM frequency and is livestreamed on the internet on Thursdays beginning at 6 p.m.—Pitcox has already fielded requests for twenty songs. Some arrive by phone, others by web; they come from down the street and as far away as Australia.
I moved to Mason to go back in time. Don Quixote only had 40' high windmills. I have 380' high wind turbines with 120' blades and I love it.
