Born in a house where radio was playing all the time, with the lilting and melodious voice of the old time singers floating in the background I am what can be called a radio baby - if there ever was or would be a term like that.
It was to the musical notes of the religious paeans that the morning used to begin. My mom being an early riser would switch on the radio and the euphonious notes would glide in the morning brilliance, rousing us from the sleep.
Afternoons, after the school were spent listening to the pleasing sounds wafting from the radio.
The daily ritual of listening to the old classics made me so adapt at knowing a song just from the initial music score, that it was a game that I often played, of guessing the song from it, and rare was the chance when I was wrong.
I knew and still know many of the old songs of the '70s and '80s and few from times before that.
It is so sad, that listening to the radio has been put on a back-burner; even if the radio is switched on, after an elapse of 5 minutes, there is not a single song played- it is one advertisement after another. The songs of today, most often are not able to bind the attention of the listener for a long time and even if popular for a short duration, often are forgotten easily.
With the advent of Walkman, I-pods, and other gadgets, the radio generation is well past its living days, especially when the radio has moved online.
Where is the fun in tuning in to a streaming frequency, without the knobs and dials of a radio?
It was to the musical notes of the religious paeans that the morning used to begin. My mom being an early riser would switch on the radio and the euphonious notes would glide in the morning brilliance, rousing us from the sleep.
Afternoons, after the school were spent listening to the pleasing sounds wafting from the radio.
The daily ritual of listening to the old classics made me so adapt at knowing a song just from the initial music score, that it was a game that I often played, of guessing the song from it, and rare was the chance when I was wrong.
I knew and still know many of the old songs of the '70s and '80s and few from times before that.
It is so sad, that listening to the radio has been put on a back-burner; even if the radio is switched on, after an elapse of 5 minutes, there is not a single song played- it is one advertisement after another. The songs of today, most often are not able to bind the attention of the listener for a long time and even if popular for a short duration, often are forgotten easily.
With the advent of Walkman, I-pods, and other gadgets, the radio generation is well past its living days, especially when the radio has moved online.
Where is the fun in tuning in to a streaming frequency, without the knobs and dials of a radio?
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