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9781886745063
1995 is the 75th anniversary of the first radio broadcast. NEVER BEFORE HAS ANYONE PUBLISHED A PHOTO BOOK COVERING RADIO BROADCASTING FROM THE '20s THROUGH THE '90s! This is the biggest & most complete book on radio ever written. This coffee-table-sized gift book is a pictorial history of radio featuring rare photos from the pre-invention era of radio, & covering the '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, & '90s. Imagine rare photos of the golden era of radio, the rock 'n' roll era of Dick Clark, Alan Freed, the '60s Beatles era featuring Cousin Brucie Morrow, Casey Kasem, the '70s covering the start of Larry King, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, David Letterman & Tom Snyder. This book covers the films & television programs about radio...GOOD MORNING VIETNAM, PLAY MISTY FOR ME, WKRP IN CINCINNATI, FRASIER, & many more. Text also covers how Top 40 Radio was invented & how Talk radio has become so important in America. This book will amaze the collector market. Rare, NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS along with classics everyone will be glad they have. A must for every library, school, classroom, media study, collector or radio fan. A collection so rare that no one before has attempted such an undertaking. This book reflects radio's influence on other media; how radio has changed over the years & how it has evolved to what it is today & will be tomorrow. To order BLAST FROM THE PAST contact Streamline Press at 224 Datura Street, 7th Floor, West Palm Beach, FL 33401, (800) 226-7857; FAX (407) 665-6164.Rhoads, B. Eric is the author of 'Blast from the Past A Pictorial History of Radio's First 75 Years' with ISBN 9781886745063 and ISBN 1886745064.
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