WUSF FM, Tampa FL.
Spent my teen years in St. Pete, where one of my favorite things was listening to “the Underground Railroad” Saturday night at midnight.
In stereo. The show opened with the sound of a steam train chuff-chuffing from left to right in my headphones and the DJ would announce 📣 you’re listening to the Underground Railroad and, being FM, would play entire albums, ten minute songs, long jams like nothing you’d hear outside of a record store.
I first heard John Mayall, Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express, Savoy Brown’s Hellbound Train, The True Story of the SS Titanic by Jamie someone or another,
” it was midnight on the sea the band was playing nearer my God to thee, fare thee well Titanic fare thee well, they wouldn’t take Jack Johnson on board they said this ship don’t haul no coal, fare thee well Titanic, fare the well.”
Broad-based musical tastes were reinforced by my brother’s collection of things like Tangerine Dream, Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, Genesis, ELP, and more, also heard on WUSF.
The college used to hold Sat night festivals on the riverfront at its Tampa campus which were fun.
good times. Thanks for asking the question.
