It all began with a Motorola bedside radio my parents bought me for a Christmas present in 1955 to introduce me to disk jockeys Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsburg (link) and Joe Smith at WVDA (link) (all in Boston) and to open up a music experience for me that was dramatically different than that found on my parent's 78 RPM records and the music coming from my local radio station - WIDE in Biddeford, Maine. I soon discovered all night radio from those powerful 50,000 watt stations in upstate New York - WPTR in Albany, Troy, and Schnectedy and the irrepressible Dick Biondi at WKBW in Buffalo. ( Dick Biondi played a record hop at Thornton Academy that was celebrated on the Cruisin' Series)

The year was 1956 and I (and the world) was transformed by a new form of music that would become the soundtrack of my life.

This site was created simply to bring back some memories and to preserve the excitement that was part of the "birth of rock and roll". The music is still part of me, whether it be in my record collection, or on a playlist on my iPod. This is the fifties and sixties as I experienced those decades and the soundtrack that got me through them.

Listen to the 45's in the 50's and 60's jukebox and click on the video links to see these rock 'n' roll originators perform live.