https://northtexasradio.org Independent, Eclectic, Noncommercial Internet Radio Sun, 24 May 2026 05:00:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://northtexasradio.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cropped-NTR-Logo-512-32x32.png https://northtexasradio.org 32 32 https://northtexasradio.org/davey-and-goliath-lost-in-a-cave-1960-animation/ Sun, 24 May 2026 05:00:33 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3663 "For many children of the 1960s and 1970s, it’s a familiar scene: Sunday morning sunlight pours in through the window as you sprawl out on the living room floor. Some families busy themselves as they get ready for church—you may even already have on your Sunday best. From the family TV, a familiar voice bellows: “Oh, Daaavey.”
- Living Lutheran
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/larry-collins-and-joe-maphis-ramrod-1959-music-video/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:44:22 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3821 "At first, Collins played a Gibson LG-2, but almost immediately, the kids were sent to guitar builder Paul Bigsby’s shop in Downey, where he had customized or built instruments for Travis and others on “Town Hall.” For Larry, he dressed a 3/4-size Gibson ES-140 with an inlaid armrest and pickguard with Larry’s name, much like what he’d done on Maphis’ Super 400. He also added a Bigsby pickup near the bridge. In the years that followed, Larry worked with Semie Moseley on several fancy guitars including doublenecks that became trademarks associated with him and Maphis."
- Vintage Guitar
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/the-easybeats-friday-on-my-mind-1967/ Wed, 13 May 2026 02:25:16 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3778 "He has given up the faith," said Mrs. Vandersluys in a soft voice with a strong Dutch accent. "We never encouraged him to follow this life. As Jehovah's Witnesses we do not believe in creature worship. We are worried. It is not right the children idolise him. "We have not seen him for over two years. We want him home all the time, to lead a normal life."
- Mother of Dick Diamond (Dingeman Adriaan Henry van der Sluijs) - Bass Guitarist
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/alice-cooper-billion-dollar-babies-tour-1973-music-video/ Mon, 11 May 2026 23:27:13 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3784 Hello, Hooray / Billion Dollar Babies / Elected / I'm Eighteen / Raped And Freezin' / No More Mr. Nice Guy / My Stars / Unfinished Sweet / Sick Things / Dead Babies / I Love The Dead / School's Out / Under My Wheels
Billion Dollar Babies Tour 1973 - Alice Cooper - eChive
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-live-1972-music-video/ Sat, 09 May 2026 22:41:39 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3726 Marvin quit school in the 11th grade to join the Air Force, where he didn’t last long. He could tolerate neither the discipline nor menial tasks. “My discharge was honorable,” he said, “although it plainly stated, ‘Marvin Gaye cannot adjust to regimentation and authority.’”
MarvinGaye.net
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/beany-and-cecil-beanys-beany-cap-copter-1962-animation/ Sat, 09 May 2026 14:21:49 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3677 When I first went out to sell my puppet show in the early days of television, people would say, “You are known for your cartoons so give us cartoons. Don’t give us puppets.”
- Bob Clampett
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/serge-gainsbourg-jane-birkin-je-taime-moi-non-plus-1969-music-video/ Sat, 09 May 2026 03:21:32 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3687 “He’s horrible!” her older brother Andrew Birkin recalls Jane telling him, referring to the musician as “that dreadful man Serge Bourgignon.” “He’s meant to be my lover but he’s so arrogant and snobbish and he absolutely despises me.”
- Another Mag
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/metropolis-1927-silent-movie/ Fri, 08 May 2026 18:53:06 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3615 "The movie has a plot that defies common sense, but its very discontinuity is a strength. It makes “Metropolis” hallucinatory–a nightmare without the reassurance of a steadying story line. Few films have ever been more visually exhilarating."
- Roger Ebert
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/the-space-lady-major-tom-live-2013-music-video/ Thu, 07 May 2026 18:23:08 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3574 Busking was a means of survival for Dietrich in the 1970s. She and her late first husband Joel Dunsany—who went by the stage name The Cosmic Man—were draft-card-burners who went underground, obscuring their identities, cutting ties to family, and hitchhiking to different cities. Panhandling and busking was their only path toward income.
- Bandcamp
Continue →]]> https://northtexasradio.org/the-monks-complication-1966-music-video/ Wed, 06 May 2026 21:34:24 +0000 https://northtexasradio.org/?p=3555 "The Monks may be the strangest group ever to take form. Five American ex-servicemen stationed in Germany in the sixties, all dressed in black with heads shaved like monks. This was radical stuff for Germany 1965-66. Coupled with their violent, near-insane music it’s beyond radical for ’66, ’76 or even ’96. I could rattle on about pre-punk this and groundbreaking minimalist that, but that would be too pat. What the Monks were doing back then was way beyond that. The world still hasn’t caught up with the Monks."
- Ugly Things
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