Friday night MULTIMEDIA EXTRAVAGANZA with SWEET!

Wow, this one has Johnny a little verklempt and not for the song itself. Johnny was looking for a song from the 70's that rang a bell and for laughs he was going to include a picture of an old style transistor hand held radio like many kids had back in the day. He searched Google and it really hit him when he saw a picture of the ACTUAL radio Johnny used for years as a poor kid who was all about the music and the idea of radio. An AM/FM 9Volt radio with an extra long antenna that allowed a kid just outside Detroit to listen in at night to Red Wings and Blues games from St. Louis on KMOX. Listening to the news in Richmond Virginia on WRVA. Wondering what the weather was in the coolest place on earth, New York New York and listen for the temperature in midtown, a place he can go on his roof deck and go look at with his own eyes. The memories in looking at this one image kept coming back; listening to the Grand Old Opry on WSM Nashville, or maybe WBBM in Chicago. Most of all though, it was about listening to music of all kinds and saving up for that next 9V battery. Kids these last couple decades have no idea how great they have it with iPods and at least 128 bit mp3's and AAC files and Spotify and what not and it's all pretty high quality. Back with these radios you had station drift and fuzzing in and out as you tried to learn the songs. Airplanes didn't help. Then CB radios came out and interfered with such AM giants like the Big 8, CKLW out of Windsor Ontario. CB almost ruined it all (that would ultimately happen with right wing talk radio) but back in the day you had this:

Sweet (Yes it's The Sweet technically but Johnny's given up tilting at that particular windmill) and 'Fox on the Run'