One Of My Favorite Songs From The Early Days Of FM Rock Radio is ...

[SpruceTop]

Al Stewart's "Roads To Moscow." To me, given today's setting of strife and conflict in Eastern Europe, this song translates to and finds a new relevance to the current time but hopefully ends in a modern-times reversal of the storyline given the current adversaries.

[Voxbox30]

Man, thanks so much for posting this.
I loved this when it came out, and still do after watching this.

It's dark, eery, sad and has a sense of longing, saudade, even. And has a historical basis too.

Cheers, Colin

[Silly Moustache]

It's taken me a long time to find out when FM radio started here in the UK .

It was 1955,and after browsing the "hit Parade" of that date, the only "Rock Songs" I can find are both by Bill Haley - Rock Around the Clock, and "Shake Rattle & Roll.

I think it was a Little Richard song that I heard someone playing in the distance, and I climbed our apple tree to listen to it from a neighbour's bedroom window. I guess it was some time in the '50s.

I bought my first two singles on my birthday in 1959, one was by Lonnie Donegan (skiffle) and the other was Tom Hark by a south African band called Elias and his five jive flutes.

I think the first Rock record I bought was Blue Moon by the Marcels in 1961.

[frankmcr]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

It's taken me a long time to find out when FM radio started here in the UK .


I bought my first two singles on my birthday in 1959, one was by Lonnie Donegan (skiffle) and the other was Tom Hark by a south African band called Elias and his five jive flutes.

Youtube has everything. (Looked up the record because I keep trying to play pennywhistle & figured from the reference that this would be kwela.)