AM in Song Lyrics.........

[Jim KF2SY]

Always loved this tune from the band Son Volt,
Album: Trace
Song: Windfall

by Jay Farrar

...Now and then it keeps you running
It never seems to die
The trail's spent with fear
Not enough living on the outside
Never seem to get far enough
Staying in between the lines
Hold on to what you can
Waiting for the end
Not knowing when
May the wind take your troubles away
May the wind take your troubles away
Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel,
May the wind take your troubles away
Trying to make it far enough, to the next time zone
Few and far between past the midnight hour
Never feel alone, you're really not alone...
Switching it over to AM
Searching for a truer sound
Can't recall the call letters
Steel guitar and settle down
Catching an all-night station somewhere in Louisiana
It sounds like 1963, but for now it sounds like heaven
May the wind take your troubles away
May the wind take your troubles away
Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel,
May the wind take your troubles away.

[Ed KB1HVS]

~KHJ Los Angeles!~ portions of the days programming are reproduced by means of electrical transcriptions or tape recordings...................

You can hear the music on the am radio

The vcr and the dvd
There wasnt none of that crap back in 1970
We didnt know about a world wide web
It was a whole different game being played back when I was a kid

Wanna get down in a cool way
Picture yourself on a beautiful day
Big bell bottoms and groovy long hair
Just walkin in style with a portable cd player
No, you would listen to the music on the am radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a am radio

Flashback, 72
Another summer in the neighborhood
Hangin out with nothing to do
Sometmes wed go drivin around
In my sisters pinto
Cruisin with the windows rolled down
Wed listen to the radio station
We were too damn cool to buy the eight track tapes
There wasnt any good time to want to be inside
My mama wanna watch that tv all goddamn night

Id be in bed with the radio on
I would listen to it all night long
Just to hear my favorite song
Youd have to wait but you could hear it on the am radio
Yeah, you could hear the music on a am radio
I can still hear mama say boy turn that radio down!

aw, mom. not that show again! I dont wanna watch that show! cant we watch good times or chico and the man or something cool? turn it off!

Things changed back in 75
We were all growing up on the in and the outside
We got in trouble with the police man
We got busted gettin high in the back of my friends van

I remember 1977
I started going to concerts and I saw the led zeppelin
I got a guitar on christmas day
I dreamed that jimmy page would come from santa monica and teach me to play
Teach me to play...

There isnt any place that I need to go
There isnt anything that I need to know
I did not learn from the radio

Yeah when things get stupid and I just dont know
Where to find my happy
I listen to my music on the am radio
You can hear the music on a am radio
You can hear the music on a am radio

I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
I like pop, I like soul, I like rock, but I never liked disco
We like pop, we like soul, we like rock, but we never liked disco...

No I never liked disco...




 Everclear

[Jim, W5JO]

"TURN YOUR RADIO ON"

[John Holotko]

Seems that everyone's got  their own lyrics to this. This one seems to have the most AM references so, here goes.

Roadrunner
The Modern Lovers version - lyrics

one two three four five six
Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going faster miles an hour
Gonna drive past the Stop 'n' Shop
With the radio on

I'm in love with Massachusetts
And the neon when it's cold outside
And the highway when it's late at night
Got the radio on
I'm like the roadrunner

Alright
I'm in love with modern moonlight
128 when it's dark outside
I'm in love with Massachusetts
I'm in love with the radio on
It helps me from being alone late at night
It helps me from being lonely late at night
I don't feel so bad now in the car
Don't feel so alone, got the radio on
Like the roadrunner
That's right

Said welcome to the spirit of 1956
Patient in the bushes next to '57
The highway is your girlfriend as you go by quick
Suburban trees, suburban speed
And it smells like heaven(thunder)
And I say roadrunner once
Roadrunner twice
I'm in love with rock & roll and I'll be out all night
Roadrunner
That's right

Well now
Roadrunner, roadrunner
Going faster miles an hour
Gonna drive to the Stop 'n' Shop
With the radio on at night
And me in love with modern moonlight
Me in love with modern rock & roll
Modern girls and modern rock & roll
Don't feel so alone, got the radio on
Like the roadrunner
O.K., now you sing Modern Lovers

(Radio On!)
I got the AM
(Radio On!)
Got the car, got the AM
(Radio On!)
Got the AM sound, got the
(Radio On!)
Got the rockin' modern neon sound
(Radio On!)
I got the car from Massachusetts, got the
(Radio On!)
I got the power of Massachusetts when it's late at night
(Radio On!)
I got the modern sounds of modern Massachusetts
(Radio On!)
I've got the world, got the turnpike, got the
(Radio On!)
I've got the, got the power of the AM
(Radio On!)
Got the, late at night, (?), rock & roll late at night
(Radio On!)
The factories and the auto signs got the power of modern sounds
(Radio On!)
Alright

Right, bye bye!

[Gary - WA4IAM]

Yep, hard to beat The Modern Lovers and "Roadrunner". Got the AM sound! 

[KF1Z]

Maybe Slightly OT.... but fun...


The Flaming Lips:

Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

(start off with lots of static, and "tuning heterodyne")




put your face up to the window
tell me all about your gay folks
it feels better when you in it
if your nervous use the pay phone
put your face where we can see it
put it on a show on cable
you can really show it all there
turn it on when you are able
(CHORUS)
turn it on
turn it on and all the way up
turn it on
in your houses when you wake up
turn it on
when you ain't got no relation
to all those other stations
turn it onput your life into a bubble
we can pick you up on radar
hit a satelite with feeling
give the people what they paid for
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS
 

[KF1Z]

At least radio related..... "non mode specific"



Queen:

RadioGaGa


Radio - radio
I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio

You gave them all those old time stars
Through wars of worlds - invaded by Mars
You made 'em laugh - you made 'em cry
You made us feel like we could fly
Radio

So don't become some background noise
A backdrop for the girls and boys
Who just don't know or just don't care
And just complain when you're not there
You had your time, you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio - radio

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new ?
Radio, someone still loves you

We watch the shows - we watch the stars
On videos for hours and hours
We hardly need to use our ears
How music changes through the years

Let's hope you never leave old friend
Like all good things on you we depend
So stick around 'cos we might miss you
When we grow tired of all this visual
You had your time - you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio - radio

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah
Radio what's new ?
Someone still loves you

Radio ga ga (ga ga)
Radio ga ga (ga ga)
Radio ga ga (ga ga)

You had your time - you had the power
You've yet to have your finest hour
Radio - radio

[WA1GFZ]

let me tell you a story of a ham named Tim
bought a mountain cause he can't swim
hung some wire and added some fire
strappes to this day and I'm no liar.

[John Holotko]

Yep, hard to beat The Modern Lovers and "Roadrunner". Got the AM sound! 

Got the magic of the East Coast AM sound
Got the modern sound of the 813 rig when it's cold outside.
Strappin Massachusettes when it's late at night

\

I'm in love with the AM world

[WB3JOK]

It's an AM world,
I am, you am, we A.M.
Nobody cares about frequency modulation any more
We're the Techni Generation!...

(Crack the Sky, on the "White Music" album).

Feel better?

-Charles

[Ed KB1HVS]

Ha Ha! Crack The Sky! I thought I was the only one who had their records.   

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Best AM song ever,

http://www.amwindow.org/audio/htm/allyehams.htm

[John Holotko]

Best AM song ever,

http://www.amwindow.org/audio/htm/allyehams.htm

Heh heh ... That was awesome. Great. I love it. 

[Ed KB1HVS]

Best AM song ever,

http://www.amwindow.org/audio/htm/allyehams.htm

  Fantastic   This could be on the B side  http://www.amwindow.org/audio/htm/wa1hlr.htm