Decades later, life's soundtrack of soul, pop and rock still sounds good. Twist the knob to cut the static.
The music hummed to life with the turn of a knob. In the late 1960s, I listened to tunes of the trying times — soul, pop and rock — on a chocolate brown RCA radio, 1950s vintage, handed down from my great-grandparents. Clear vacuum tubes glowed like the day’s first light, visible through slots in the back of the hard Bakelite cover. The sound was scrambled through static until fine-tuned and clear on the AM dial.
Secret sauce, still in the family and still a secret, came from many places Listening to the hits on KAPE and KTSA was a daily ritual while living off Five Palms Drive, near Lackland AFB. Marvin Gaye addressed an unfaithful lover and bet she wondered how he knew in his version of “Heard It Through The Grapevine.” Jose Feliciano’s rendition of The Doors’ “Light My Fire” blistered through the speaker. The Beatles advised us we could take a sad song and make it better on “Hey Jude.
‘This is like my chosen familia’: The gospel according to Taco Church We gravitated to songs that spun a story, like Stevie Wonder’s “Living for the City,” a sorrowful tale of a boy born in hard times Mississippi, surrounded by walls that ain’t so pretty. Nor is his doomed escape from poverty to New York City, where a street scam lands him in jail. We each had a theme song. Lonzale’s was The Four Tops’ “Are You Man Enough.” Willie’s was Graham Central Station’s “Can You Handle It.
San Antonio’s 'whole breakfast in a taco' stays top of mind Willie and Lonzale enlisted in the Army. Fred and I signed up for the Air Force. In 1975, we left Omaha with the unofficial theme song of our graduating class on our minds — Earth, Wind and Fire’s “Keep Your Head to the Sky.” Willie, Lonzale and Fred returned to Omaha after four-year hitches. I retired after 22 years in San Antonio, the place where music first grabbed me and hasn’t let go.
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