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This Next Song is Number 1 With a Bullet
Hat tip, the Newseum. I schmoozed the headlines there on the way to work this morning.
Vinyl records at Guantánamo: Navy radio station resisted a recall
Behind a Cuban minefield is the U.S. military's last broadcasting trove of vinyl records. They've been kept there long after military authorities recalled them in the 1990s, during the transition to newer technology.
Guantánamo
August 2, 2015
By Carol Rosenberg
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
@CarolRosenberg
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE —
Havana may have its classic American automobiles but, step into a back room of this base radio station, and the U.S. sailors who broadcast here behind a Cuban minefield have a vintage collection trapped in a time warp of its own.
There’s a trove of about 20,000 vinyl records saved from a headquarters recall in the ’90s and sometimes broadcast to base residents when the mostly strict military format allows. ... In fact, Radio Gitmo has the U.S. military’s last broadcasting collection of vinyl records — and studios outfitted with turntables.
“We are more or less trusted with this media,” said Petty Officer Jared Collins, 26, a station engineer, standing amid rows of records in paper slipcovers in an obsolete TV studio. “It would be a crime to get rid of them.”
On a recent Friday he set a stylus onto a live recording of Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling and broadcast it to radio listeners among the 6,000 or so people on this base.
Guantánamo
August 2, 2015
By Carol Rosenberg
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
@CarolRosenberg
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE —
Havana may have its classic American automobiles but, step into a back room of this base radio station, and the U.S. sailors who broadcast here behind a Cuban minefield have a vintage collection trapped in a time warp of its own.
There’s a trove of about 20,000 vinyl records saved from a headquarters recall in the ’90s and sometimes broadcast to base residents when the mostly strict military format allows. ... In fact, Radio Gitmo has the U.S. military’s last broadcasting collection of vinyl records — and studios outfitted with turntables.
“We are more or less trusted with this media,” said Petty Officer Jared Collins, 26, a station engineer, standing amid rows of records in paper slipcovers in an obsolete TV studio. “It would be a crime to get rid of them.”
On a recent Friday he set a stylus onto a live recording of Chuck Berry’s My Ding-a-Ling and broadcast it to radio listeners among the 6,000 or so people on this base.
I'm pretty sure that broadcasting "My Ding-a-Ling" is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
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