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Montage
Today’s featured song: actually, several songs from lots of places… The music featured today will take a little bit of explanation. Okay, rewind the clock back to my days of recording music from top 40 radio stations in the 1970s, and in particular, from WLS in Chicago. In its heyday, the Rock of Chicago was famous…
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Peak Experience
Today’s featured song: Mountain Top by Chris Christian from his self-titled 1978 album. This entry from Tape JM-31 includes tracks 13 and 14. It starts with a station identification featuring an excerpt from the the song The Army of the Lord by Harvest (from their 1984 album Send Us To The World) and a reading of 2 Timothy…
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The Sky
Today’s featured song: Temple To The Sky by Leon Patillo from the 1979 album Dance Children Dance. Our “count up” (instead of a count-down) through the songs on JM-31 from 1984 now continues with track number 12, from CCM radio as heard on WHME-FM. Although it’s a nice little tune, I’ll have to say that the lyric content for…
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Travel
Today’s featured song: Walking This Road by Silverwind, from their self-titled 1981 debut album. Our travel through songs played on CCM radio in 1984 continues with track 11 from Tape JM-31. Demonstrating that this group’s first album had staying power on the radio, here is a song from that release still in rotation three years later.…