I have a new favorite radio station, WJIB, 740 AM, Cambridge “Easy As a Summer Breeze.” My friend Brian introduced me to this amazing little station.  I had no idea that there were any stations that play music on the AM anymore,  WJIB  is like a dinosaur that somehow survived, it’s truly a window from another world.

WJIB plays easy listening hits and Tin Pan Alley songs from the 1940s 50s and 60s, listening to it is like being at my grandmother’s house, which is awesome.  I find it a really refreshing change of pace from most of the music I listen to, and a lot of it’s pretty catchy, people really knew how to write a pop song back then.  Its commercial free and apparently run entirely by a single man, Bob Bittner, out of his own pocket, which is just the tip of the iceberg in its long colorful history.  One of my favorite parts is that instead of using CDs or MP3’s or vinyl to play the music, Bob uses “six-hour VHS hi-fi tapes played from a stack of VCRs in the WJIB studio,” which frankly, is just ridiculous.


So anyway, if you’re in the Boston area please tune in.  Be sure to catch their daily broadcast of the national anthem at noon.  I’m just so excited that this kind of thing still exists. They don’t have a website, but for more info check out these two articles here and here