Re: Pretty Little Baby

On 7/21/2025 6:47 AM, JAB wrote:

On Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:40:21 -0400, Michael Trew
<michael.trew@att.net> wrote:
 

I find it odd that my posts show up here with nothing under the
"correspondence" section, before you click on the post.

 I'm using Agent 8, and I can clearly see your name in Agent's Message
List.  Unknown how Thunderbird does it.
 

Around 1959, she moved

   Close to Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which would have had AM radio
stations reaching out to Carnegie, PA, most likely.   Maybe even a
clear channel AM station with  50,000 watts, like
 1020 KDKA Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDKA_(AM)>

KDKA has always been news/talk (first commercial broadcast station in USA)
Well before my time, but 810 AM was WAMO, was popular urban music around Pittsburgh in the era.  Not quite pop music, but it was the first time most white kids were exposed to "black" music in the 1950's.  DJ "Porky Chedwick" was famous for providing the music.

Around 1959

 AM Radio was installed in most, if not all vehicles then.  I'm not
aware if AM Radio was an option then when buying new.

AM came standard in most cars, but that depends on the car.  The last US vehicle I'm aware of to come standard with AM-only radio was the 1991 Ford Ranger.  Per the brochure, there was a negative dollar option to remove the radio all together.