1
Longwave Loggings / Re: Radio Algeria Chaine 3 - 252 kHz
« Last post by Σ on Today at 11:26 »I look for this station often on my KiwiSDR and am pleased when it is listenable. The LW propagation can be very interesting.
Shortwave Pirate Radio In North America And Around The World, And Other Things That Go Bump In The Night
We seek to understand and document all radio transmissions, legal and otherwise, as part of the radio listening hobby. We do not encourage any radio operations contrary to regulations.
Always consult with the appropriate authorities if you have questions concerning what is permissable in your locale.
Recent Posts
2
Peskies / Re: 6666.6 kHz USB and 6670 kHz USB Active 2300 UTC 27 Jan 2020
« Last post by Σ on Today at 11:22 »There can be a lot of activity on 6666.6 if you park on it and listen at the right times.
3
General Radio Discussion / Re: Interesting Article - Synchronous AM’s Long and Tortuous History
« Last post by Σ on Today at 11:21 »I am always amazed how much they could do with the technology they had in those early days of radio. Those engineers knew their stuff.
4
QSLs Received / Radio Illuminati 26 Jan 2020 Test eQSL
« Last post by Skipmuck on Today at 09:07 »Thank you Mr. Azimuth Coordinator! Always appreciated! 
5
Broadcast Announcements / Key Channel Radio "Winter Marathon"
« Last post by Skipmuck on Today at 09:04 »
7
General Radio Discussion / Re: What's on shortwave now website
« Last post by chanito on Today at 03:19 »short-wave.info
Shortwave schedule is good too.
There is a LOT of content on SW despite what the English centric complainers say. DX is all about capturing that ID no matter what language....
Shortwave schedule is good too.
There is a LOT of content on SW despite what the English centric complainers say. DX is all about capturing that ID no matter what language....
8
MW Loggings / Re: WVMT AM 620
« Last post by East Troy Don on Today at 03:07 »WVMT AM 620 Burlington VT @ 1015Z 5kwWTMJ used to be owned by The Milwaukee Journal but is now a shadow of what they used to be. Nite power is now down to 10 kw, probably because of the Journal's financial struggles due in no small part to 50 years of absurdly bias reporting. Nice snag in Vermont cuz their nite signal frequently flames out just east of Toronto.
Been chasing this one the past couple of mornings,
got lucky and was able to pull it out of the muddle.
Vermont is elusive here in Michigan and this frequency is usually
covered here by WTMJ in Milwaukee.
9
Longwave Loggings / Radio Algeria Chaine 3 - 252 kHz
« Last post by W1EUJ on Today at 03:02 »Coming in fine here on the W1EUJ KiwiSDR now. Its usually a struggle to pick out the modulation but tonight its booming. Adjusted passband to avoid an NDB on the lower sideband.
10
Huh? / Bob Shane, Last of the Original Kingston Trio, Dies at 85
« Last post by Fansome on Today at 02:56 »Bob Shane, Last of the Original Kingston Trio, Dies at 85
The group spearheaded a commercially successful folk revival in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with Mr. Shane singing lead most of the time.
By Peter Applebome
Jan. 27, 2020, 9:30 p.m. ET
Bob Shane, the last surviving original member of the Kingston Trio, whose smooth close harmonies helped transform folk music from a dusty niche genre into a dominant brand of pop music in the 1950s and ’60s, died on Sunday in Phoenix. He was 85.
Craig Hankenson, his longtime agent, confirmed the death, in a hospice facility.
Mr. Shane, whose whiskey baritone was the group’s most identifiable voice on hits like “Tom Dooley” and “Scotch and Soda,” sang lead on more than 80 percent of Kingston Trio songs.
He didn’t just outlast the other original members: Dave Guard, who died in 1991, and Nick Reynolds, who died in 2008; he also eventually took ownership of the group’s name and devoted his life to various incarnations of the trio, from its founding in 1957 to 2004, when a heart attack forced him to stop touring.
Along the way, the trio spearheaded a reinvention of folk as a youthful, mass media phenomenon; at its peak, in 1959, the group put four albums in the Top 10 at the same time. Touring into the 21st century, the group remained a nostalgic presence for its fans, drawing many to its annual Trio Fantasy Camp in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mr. Shane was born Robert Castle Schoen on Feb. 1, 1934, in Hilo, Hawaii, to Arthur Castle Schoen and Margaret (Schaufelberger) Schoen. His father, whose German ancestors had settled in Hawaii in the 1890s, was a successful wholesale distributor of toys and sporting goods. His mother, from Salt Lake City, met her future husband when both were students at Stanford University in the 1920s.
In Hilo, Mr. Shane’s father had planned for Bob to take over the family business. But at the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Bob learned the ukulele and songs of the Polynesian Islands and met Mr. Guard, with whom he formed a duet. After high school, Mr. Shane, Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Guard occasionally played together while attending college in Northern California — Mr. Shane and Mr. Reynolds at Menlo College, and Mr. Guard nearby at Stanford.
After graduating in 1956, Mr. Shane returned to Hawaii to learn the family business, but he found himself more drawn to music. As he told it, he performed as “the first-ever Elvis impersonator” and counted Hawaiian music, Hank Williams, Harry Belafonte and the Weavers as among his influences.
A year later, when Mr. Guard and Mr. Reynolds decided to make a go of a professional music career, Mr. Shane joined them and returned to California, where the Kingston Trio was born, in 1957. The name, a reference to Kingston, Jamaica, was meant to evoke Calypso music, which was popular then. The members exuded a youthful, clean-cut collegiate style, exemplified by their signature look: colorful, vertically striped Oxford shirts.
A year later, its first album on Capitol Records included a jaunty version of a ballad based on the 1866 murder of a North Carolina woman and the hanging of a poor former Confederate soldier for the crime. The song, “Tom Dooley,” rose to No. 1 on the singles charts, selling three million copies and earning the trio a Grammy for best country and western performance. (There was no Grammy category for folk at the time.)
From its founding to 1965, the group had 14 albums in Billboard’s Top 10, five of which reached No. 1. The trio inspired scores of imitators and, for a time, was probably the most popular music group in the world. John Stewart replaced Mr. Guard in 1961. (Mr. Stewart died in 2008.)
The Kingston Trio’s critical reception did not match its popular success. To many folk purists, the trio was selling a watered-down mix of folk and pop that commercialized the authentic folk music of countless unknown Appalachian pickers. And mindful of the way that folk musicians like Pete Seeger had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era, others complained that the trio’s upbeat, anodyne brand of folk betrayed the leftist, populist music of pioneers like Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston.
Members of the trio said they had consciously steered clear of political material as a way to maintain mainstream acceptance. Besides, Mr. Shane said, the folk purists were using the wrong yardstick.
“To call the Kingston Trio folk singers was kind of stupid in the first place,” he said. “We never called ourselves folk singers.” He added, “We did folk-oriented material, but we did it amid all kinds of other stuff.”
Indeed, some of Mr. Shane’s finest moments, like the smoky cocktail-hour ballad “Scotch and Soda,” had nothing to do with folk. In 1961, Ervin Drake wrote “It Was a Very Good Year” for Mr. Shane. He sang it with the trio long before Frank Sinatra made it one of his classic recordings.
Still, more than any group of its time, the Kingston Trio captured the youthful optimism of the Kennedy years. The title song of a 1962 album was “The New Frontier,” echoing President John F. Kennedy’s own phrase and alluding to his inaugural address with the lyrics “Let the word go forth from this day on/ A new generation has been born.”
About the same time, the trio had an unlikely hit with the kind of material it had avoided: Mr. Seeger’s antiwar song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”
But by then the trio was on the verge of being supplanted as the face of folk by a new generation of harder-edged singers like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Joan Baez, and by hipper ones like Peter Paul and Mary. Then the coming of the British invasion and the rise of rock utterly marginalized the group.
Over time, others, including Mr. Dylan and Ms. Baez, have given the group more credit for popularizing folk music and for serving as a bridge to the more adventurous folk, folk rock and rock of the 1960s.
As Ms. Baez wrote in her memoir “And a Voice to Sing With”: “Before I turned into a snob and learned to look down upon all commercial folk music as bastardized and unholy, I loved the Kingston Trio. When I became one of the leading practitioners of ‘pure folk,’ I still loved them.”
Mr. Shane’s admirers said his talents were never fully recognized.
“Bob Shane was, in my opinion, one of the most underrated singers in American musical history,” George Grove, a trio member since 1976, said in an email in 2015. “His voice was the voice, not only of The Kingston Trio but of an era of musical story telling.”
The group disbanded in 1967, but after a brief stint as a solo artist, a year later, Mr. Shane was back, first with what was billed as the New Kingston Trio, then with various Kingston Trio lineups.
Mr. Shane, even by the group’s wholesome standards, stood out and was billed, half seriously, as the trio’s sex symbol. Over the years his hair went from frat boy neat to a snowy mane, but he remained congenitally upbeat, like a gambler accustomed to drawing winning hands.
After retiring, Mr. Shane lived in Phoenix in a home full of gold records and Kingston Trio memorabilia. Fond of cars and dirt bikes, he also collected Martin guitars and art. His survivors include his wife, Bobbi (Childress) Shane. He had two children from an earlier marriage, to Louise Brandon. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.
“The thing I’m most proud of next to my kids is that I have played live to over 10,000,000 people,” he said on the group’s website.
Even after his retirement, he still found ways to perform.
“Occasionally someone will call me and ask me to go onstage, and I pack a couple of oxygen tanks and go,” he said in a 2011 interview. “I always tell people I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”
The group spearheaded a commercially successful folk revival in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with Mr. Shane singing lead most of the time.
By Peter Applebome
Jan. 27, 2020, 9:30 p.m. ET
Bob Shane, the last surviving original member of the Kingston Trio, whose smooth close harmonies helped transform folk music from a dusty niche genre into a dominant brand of pop music in the 1950s and ’60s, died on Sunday in Phoenix. He was 85.
Craig Hankenson, his longtime agent, confirmed the death, in a hospice facility.
Mr. Shane, whose whiskey baritone was the group’s most identifiable voice on hits like “Tom Dooley” and “Scotch and Soda,” sang lead on more than 80 percent of Kingston Trio songs.
He didn’t just outlast the other original members: Dave Guard, who died in 1991, and Nick Reynolds, who died in 2008; he also eventually took ownership of the group’s name and devoted his life to various incarnations of the trio, from its founding in 1957 to 2004, when a heart attack forced him to stop touring.
Along the way, the trio spearheaded a reinvention of folk as a youthful, mass media phenomenon; at its peak, in 1959, the group put four albums in the Top 10 at the same time. Touring into the 21st century, the group remained a nostalgic presence for its fans, drawing many to its annual Trio Fantasy Camp in Scottsdale, Ariz.
Mr. Shane was born Robert Castle Schoen on Feb. 1, 1934, in Hilo, Hawaii, to Arthur Castle Schoen and Margaret (Schaufelberger) Schoen. His father, whose German ancestors had settled in Hawaii in the 1890s, was a successful wholesale distributor of toys and sporting goods. His mother, from Salt Lake City, met her future husband when both were students at Stanford University in the 1920s.
In Hilo, Mr. Shane’s father had planned for Bob to take over the family business. But at the private Punahou School in Honolulu, Bob learned the ukulele and songs of the Polynesian Islands and met Mr. Guard, with whom he formed a duet. After high school, Mr. Shane, Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Guard occasionally played together while attending college in Northern California — Mr. Shane and Mr. Reynolds at Menlo College, and Mr. Guard nearby at Stanford.
After graduating in 1956, Mr. Shane returned to Hawaii to learn the family business, but he found himself more drawn to music. As he told it, he performed as “the first-ever Elvis impersonator” and counted Hawaiian music, Hank Williams, Harry Belafonte and the Weavers as among his influences.
A year later, when Mr. Guard and Mr. Reynolds decided to make a go of a professional music career, Mr. Shane joined them and returned to California, where the Kingston Trio was born, in 1957. The name, a reference to Kingston, Jamaica, was meant to evoke Calypso music, which was popular then. The members exuded a youthful, clean-cut collegiate style, exemplified by their signature look: colorful, vertically striped Oxford shirts.
A year later, its first album on Capitol Records included a jaunty version of a ballad based on the 1866 murder of a North Carolina woman and the hanging of a poor former Confederate soldier for the crime. The song, “Tom Dooley,” rose to No. 1 on the singles charts, selling three million copies and earning the trio a Grammy for best country and western performance. (There was no Grammy category for folk at the time.)
From its founding to 1965, the group had 14 albums in Billboard’s Top 10, five of which reached No. 1. The trio inspired scores of imitators and, for a time, was probably the most popular music group in the world. John Stewart replaced Mr. Guard in 1961. (Mr. Stewart died in 2008.)
The Kingston Trio’s critical reception did not match its popular success. To many folk purists, the trio was selling a watered-down mix of folk and pop that commercialized the authentic folk music of countless unknown Appalachian pickers. And mindful of the way that folk musicians like Pete Seeger had been blacklisted during the McCarthy era, others complained that the trio’s upbeat, anodyne brand of folk betrayed the leftist, populist music of pioneers like Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston.
Members of the trio said they had consciously steered clear of political material as a way to maintain mainstream acceptance. Besides, Mr. Shane said, the folk purists were using the wrong yardstick.
“To call the Kingston Trio folk singers was kind of stupid in the first place,” he said. “We never called ourselves folk singers.” He added, “We did folk-oriented material, but we did it amid all kinds of other stuff.”
Indeed, some of Mr. Shane’s finest moments, like the smoky cocktail-hour ballad “Scotch and Soda,” had nothing to do with folk. In 1961, Ervin Drake wrote “It Was a Very Good Year” for Mr. Shane. He sang it with the trio long before Frank Sinatra made it one of his classic recordings.
Still, more than any group of its time, the Kingston Trio captured the youthful optimism of the Kennedy years. The title song of a 1962 album was “The New Frontier,” echoing President John F. Kennedy’s own phrase and alluding to his inaugural address with the lyrics “Let the word go forth from this day on/ A new generation has been born.”
About the same time, the trio had an unlikely hit with the kind of material it had avoided: Mr. Seeger’s antiwar song “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”
But by then the trio was on the verge of being supplanted as the face of folk by a new generation of harder-edged singers like Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and Joan Baez, and by hipper ones like Peter Paul and Mary. Then the coming of the British invasion and the rise of rock utterly marginalized the group.
Over time, others, including Mr. Dylan and Ms. Baez, have given the group more credit for popularizing folk music and for serving as a bridge to the more adventurous folk, folk rock and rock of the 1960s.
As Ms. Baez wrote in her memoir “And a Voice to Sing With”: “Before I turned into a snob and learned to look down upon all commercial folk music as bastardized and unholy, I loved the Kingston Trio. When I became one of the leading practitioners of ‘pure folk,’ I still loved them.”
Mr. Shane’s admirers said his talents were never fully recognized.
“Bob Shane was, in my opinion, one of the most underrated singers in American musical history,” George Grove, a trio member since 1976, said in an email in 2015. “His voice was the voice, not only of The Kingston Trio but of an era of musical story telling.”
The group disbanded in 1967, but after a brief stint as a solo artist, a year later, Mr. Shane was back, first with what was billed as the New Kingston Trio, then with various Kingston Trio lineups.
Mr. Shane, even by the group’s wholesome standards, stood out and was billed, half seriously, as the trio’s sex symbol. Over the years his hair went from frat boy neat to a snowy mane, but he remained congenitally upbeat, like a gambler accustomed to drawing winning hands.
After retiring, Mr. Shane lived in Phoenix in a home full of gold records and Kingston Trio memorabilia. Fond of cars and dirt bikes, he also collected Martin guitars and art. His survivors include his wife, Bobbi (Childress) Shane. He had two children from an earlier marriage, to Louise Brandon. A complete list of survivors was not immediately available.
“The thing I’m most proud of next to my kids is that I have played live to over 10,000,000 people,” he said on the group’s website.
Even after his retirement, he still found ways to perform.
“Occasionally someone will call me and ask me to go onstage, and I pack a couple of oxygen tanks and go,” he said in a 2011 interview. “I always tell people I intend to live forever. So far, so good.”