The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 15, 2022

The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM.  The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode features a lot of great songs, with a “sample example” of how Everclear took a 1970’s Jean Knight hit and…

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Alexander went walkies.

During my 2022 college reunion, I took several photos around campus, including snagging this shot of the statue of Alexander Hamilton, for whom the college was named. Backstory. The college itself was formed in 1793 as the Hamilton Oneida Academy, a school that Presbyterian seminarian Samuel Kirkland hoped would educate the local indigenous peoples. The…

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The Nightowl Radio Show playlist for July 8, 2022

The following is a playlist for the broadcast of the Nightowl Radio Show, a one-hour college radio show on station WHCL-FM.  The show can be streamed tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern at whcl.org. Tonight’s episode features a lot of great songs, including a track that influenced a #1 song – which later influenced a song…

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A surprise response from Professor O’Neill

I was not expecting to see Professor O’Neill at my recent Hamilton College reunion. But apparently, in his 90’s, he still made an appearance. Flashback. In 2020, I blogged about how, in my first-ever essay, as a Hamilton College pre-freshman, Professor O’Neill caught me using an incongruous grammatical error. The statement was, in effect, “Usually…

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So next week’s radio show will sound different … for all the right reasons.

About a year ago, I was recording the DJ part of my Friday night “Nightowl Radio Show” radio broadcast, when all of a sudden … the microphone shorted out. Ugh. I ordered a new microphone and headset combo, but the unit I received had a very tinny microphone. Essentially, I had to record my audio…

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