One of my favorite youth group events at our church was the annual family sock hop. The sock hop was in our recreational building, which we affectionately referred to as “The Tin Tent”. It had CONTINUE READING…
Music videos have been a part of my life since I was a very young child. The first time I ever saw MTV was at my grandparents’ house in Chicago. I don’t remember watching cable CONTINUE READING…
TRN Time Machine is away this week but we are opening the VIP Vault once again to replay episodes from the old TRN Podcast. On the heels of MTV’s 40th anniversary, listen to our MTV CONTINUE READING…
“Ladies and Gentlemen, rock and roll.” Those were the first words spoken by creator John Lack as Music Television aka MTV launched on Saturday, August 1, 1981, at 12:01 a.m. eastern time. The first images were CONTINUE READING…
Before MTV The earliest ancestor of the modern music video was the soundie, a black-and-white 16mm film recording of a musician performing before a live audience. The first soundies appeared in 1940, and all the CONTINUE READING…
You can guess the title of most songs just by listening to them. Most songs have the song’s title in the chorus or at least somewhere within the lyrics. But there are a small group CONTINUE READING…
TRN Time Machine time jumps to several decades as Jason and special guest Tim (@OldSchool80s) travel through the Evolution of Music. You’ll hear our earliest memories of listening to music and influences from our parents and friends. CONTINUE READING…
With this being graduation time, I am reminded of a couple scenes from my beloved ’80s movies. First we have Rodney Dangerfield as “Thornton Melon” in 1986’s Back to School delivering something on the humorous CONTINUE READING…
There were so many tremendous vocalists in the ’80s, but one of the best and most underappreciated is Paul Carrack. You might not immediately recognize the name, but I expect you would recognize his voice. CONTINUE READING…
Music has a way of dating itself. I’m not talking just the instrumentation and production of music although that is probably the easiest way to recognize songs from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, etc. Not very CONTINUE READING…
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