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John Lennon’s Tooth To Be Auctioned Off
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Imagine having John Lennon’s tooth. It’s easy if you try. A molar from the Beatle legend’s mouth will go on the auction block next month, & the reserve price has been set at $16,000. For the Beatle fanatic, the slightly yellow tooth, which has a cavity, by the way, could be the most elusive piece…
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Cannonball Run Remake Imminent?
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In 1981, you may have been one of many who flocked to your local movie theater to see Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Dom DeLuise and Farrah Fawcett team up and take off cross-country in a crazy race to the finish. Ticket-takers raked in $72,179,579 on the comedy, making it the 6th highest grossing film of…
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Thomas Dolby October 2011 Tour Dates
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Thomas Dolby (“Europa & The Pirate Twins,” “She Blinded Me With Science,” “Hyperactive!”) is heading out on a brief lecture & music tour next month! The tour begins in Washington, D.C., at The Loft Oct. 3. Other stops are New York City at Tribeca Oct. 5; Chicago at Martyr’s Oct. 7; Seattle at The Triple…
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9/11/01: we remember these broadcasters
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BlackLight Radio, along with our fellow broadcasters, wishes to remember the following broadcast engineers and technicians who lost their lives while on duty at the World Trade Center on 9-11-2001: Robert Pattison – WCBS-TV Isaias Rivera – WCBS-TV William Steckman – WNBC-TV – WA2ACW Donald DiFranco – WABC-TV Steven Jacobson – WPIX-TV – N2SJ Gerard…
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Sppoky Tales From Scouts (& Another Survey)
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I have two distinct memories of spooky goings-on in Boy Scouts in the 80s (not counting the grapes and spaghetti we touched with our eyes closed in Cub Scouts in the 70s, of course): #1 – On a camp-out late one night around a bonfire, one of the assistant Scoutmasters recited from memory Robert Service’s…
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The Revenge Of The 80s Halloween Music Survey!!!
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Just when you thought it was safe to come back to BlackLight Radio.com… IT’S BACK!!! It’s The Revenge Of The 80s Halloween Music Survey… 10 MORE songs… 10 MORE DECISIONS FOR YOU TO MAKE! We’re giving you so many chances to tell us what to play and what not to play this Halloween on BlackLight…
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80s Movie Music Madness (BLR survey #3)
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The 1980s gave us so many great scary-movie franchises: Friday The 13th, Nightmare On Elm Street, Child’s Play… and so many great stand-alone scary movies: The Shining, Bad Dreams, The Fog… and on the list goes. Many of these films produced great spooky tunes combining the excesses of the 80s with the new punk, goth…
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80s Halloween Song Survey #2
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Here’s the next survey: 80s Halloween Music Survey #2 Tell us what you like for Halloween, and be sure to take the previous survey below!
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Halloween’s Coming; Help Us Scare Up Hits!
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Halloween is coming, the goose is getting fat… …No, that’s not it… We ARE getting ready for another 80s Halloween here at BlackLight Radio, and YOU can help prepare the tricks & treats for the listeners this year! Starting today and every day through the end of September, we’ll post a new survey of ten…
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14K For A Day: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
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BlackLight Radio’s celebration of the 80s radio station that brought Tulsa “The Music You See On MTV” returns this Tuesday (tomorrow!) from midnight to midnight central time. For those who don’t know, 14K was radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma for two years between August 1983 & August 1985. They had the largest teen listening audience…
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R.I.P. Jani Lane
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TMZ is reporting the lead singer for the late 80s hair metal / glam metal band Warrant has passed away at the age of 47. His body was found in a Comfort Inn hotel in Woodland Hills, CA; no official cause of death has yet been released, but his alcohol struggles in recent years were…
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Nobody Puts Baby In A Remake!
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My wife LOVED “Dirty Dancing.” She rewound the video cassette again and again to watch Patrick Swayze romance Jennifer Grey over and over again… these days, it’s a matter of picking one of the three (yes, THREE) DVD versions of the movie we have, & jumping from chapter to chapter. My senior year in high…