suz-in-stl.bsky.social
@suz-in-stl.bsky.social
Retired arts librarian. Photo is from 1976.
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Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.
November 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
#at40 Today's early broadcast clocked in at 2 hours 53 minutes. They had started playing the number ones from the whole decade, and at least one "extra" and LDD.
November 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Casey sings! Sort of. Right before number 34 (10/26/74). #at40
October 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There used to be a radio PSA by the Illinois Sec of State encouraging organ donations. He used the Someone saved, someone saved...refrain on it and I thought it was very effective. #at40
September 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Pets inspire us every day.
They make us better people and light our life when it all is dark.
They are our soulmates, in every sense of the word.
August 27, 2025 at 2:40 AM
No LDDs, flashbacks, listener questions, or other extraneous stuff this week. Wonder if they were edited out or if the original show didn't have them. #at40
August 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I actually think the union would mind, Jackson. #at40
August 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I remember seeing news coverage of Pope John Paul II when he was touring somewhere, and the crowd of tens of thousands was singing Rivers of Babylon as he was being driven in. It was amazing and somewhat moving. #at40
August 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In Baker Street, I believe the line, "when you thought it held everything" is an allusion to this Samuel Johnson quote: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford." #at40
August 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#at40 early show started late, is a "top acts of the 70s" from 7/6/74.
July 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I recall hearing, at the time, that Carradine wrote this song to be as bad as he could make it, to make fun of ... something or somebody. Do any of our music insiders know anything about this?
June 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fwiw, the early #at40 just started eight minutes before the hour.
June 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
#at40. This van Gogh story has been debunked by an art historian doing primary research. He did not give it to a prostitute. You can google a short article, "What actually happened to Vincent van Gogh's ear?...." on the Berkeley library website. Also, Casey reads lyrics, so two Bingo squares!
May 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
#at40 Another European trip in 77! I was so incredibly lucky. Holding up the baldacchino inside St. Peter's Basilica.
May 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Oh boy, in 74 I was preparing for a multi-week stay in Appenzell, Switzerland. Heard some of these songs on Armed Forces Radio out of Munich. Great days! This is on Mt. Ebenalp, I think. #at40
May 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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The firing of the Librarian of Congress is worse than many appreciate. The Librarian is appointed for a ten year term by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate. The position is nonpartisan and runs the critically important Congressional Research Service.

www.npr.org/2025/05/09/n...
Librarian of Congress firing is latest move in upheaval of U.S. cultural institutions
President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.
www.npr.org
May 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I watched much of the early broadcast this morning. It clocks in at just a tad over 2 hrs. As usual, it has some greats and some awfuls. Those with "Casey speaking reverently" on their bingo card are in luck. #at40
February 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM