As a young, music-loving teenager, I turned to the radio like every teenager of my era. Music television was still a year or two away during my first couple years of adolescence and the radio was all we had. For music, it was FM only, of course. Where I lived, we had three choices for popular music: WAAL, "The Whale," played rock. The Doors, Styx, AC/DC and newer groups like The Fixx and Zebra. The first time I ever heard U2 was on WAAL. The Whale still exists and it's still playing the same music. Only now it's called "Classic Rock". WMRV played "middle of the road" music. Most of the pop music on the charts at the time, that wasn't too rockin', aired on WMRV. Hall and Oates, Stevie Wonder, Sheena Easton. This was the station that played in the orthodontist office. It was also my first regular listening station, until I got tired of Kenny Rogers and Kool and the Gang. WWWE, "Three W E," was the best station. It played...
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