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TV critic at New York Daily News. Yes, that's right. I watch TV for a living.
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Bobby Jay: Part of Radio History and Still in the Radio Present

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By David Hinckley
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Everything wasn’t better in the olden days of the 1950s and 1960s. A lot of things were worse. But some things really were better. Like, f’rinstance, sedans, strawberries and personality music radio. In the absence of stylish cars and strawberries with any flavor, then, it was nice this weekend to get a reminder of how pleasurable it once was to hear a person talking between songs on the radio.
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Michael Ochs: Who Knew That Collecting Rock ’n’ Roll Stuff Could Be a Ticket to Ride?

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By David Hinckley
| Medium
What a walk through Willy Wonka’s factory was to a chocaholic, a walk through the Michael Ochs Archives was to anyone who loves American popular music. Ochs, who died July 23 at the age of 82 after a long battle with Parkinson’s, assembled the world’s largest library of popular music photos — more than three million by the time he sold them to Getty in 2007.
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It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be a Tom Lehrer Fan

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By David Hinckley
| Medium
If there’s an afterlife, Tom Lehrer has spent the last two days learning whether its proprietors have a sense of humor. Lehrer, who died Saturday in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 97, wrote the 20th century’s finest catalog of satirical songs. Some were a little dark.
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