Bruce Redding had access to a transistor radio, and we carried it everywhere, listening to KJRB, a local radio station. Dee-jays of the period played an eclectic mix of genre, including show tunes and movie themes, rock & roll, rhythm and blues, gunfighter ballads and country and western, folk music, nightclub crooners and occasional jazz. We liked Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, The Shirelles, The Crystals, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Bobby Blue Bland, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Marty Robbins, Acker Bilk, Mary Wells, Henry Mancini and on and on.
Bruce Redding had access to a transistor radio, and we carried it everywhere, listening to KJRB, a local radio station. Dee-jays of the period played an eclectic mix of genre, including show tunes and movie themes, rock & roll, rhythm and blues, gunfighter ballads and country and western, folk music, nightclub crooners and occasional jazz. We liked Roy Orbison, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, Fats Domino, Bo Diddly, The Shirelles, The Crystals, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Bobby Blue Bland, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Marty Robbins, Acker Bilk, Mary Wells, Henry Mancini and on and on.
