{"id":37171,"date":"2019-05-09T06:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=37171"},"modified":"2019-05-09T06:35:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T10:35:18","slug":"brilliant-radio-song-by-van-morrison-in-the-days-before-rocknroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/brilliant-radio-song-by-van-morrison-in-the-days-before-rocknroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant radio song by Van Morrison: &#8220;In The Days Before Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Van_Morrison_1972.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37173\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Van_Morrison_1972.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Van_Morrison_1972.jpg 353w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Van_Morrison_1972-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Van_Morrison_1972-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave Porter, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After some 20 years I have rediscovered this radio song by the UK northern Irish singer Van Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In The Days Before Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are some great TX station names in the song! It&#8217;s a full 8 minutes long&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Take a listen&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a2GpEoZrS04?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/a2GpEoZrS04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to view\/listen on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve heard this song in twenty years or more. Thank you for sharing this, Dave!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to add Van Morrison to the list of radio influenced musicians we&#8217;ve featured in the past, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/peter-gabriel-inspired-by-shortwave-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Gabriel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/joe-strummer-the-mescaleros\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Strummer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/john-lennon-and-the-sony-icf-2001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Lennon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/wilcos-yankee-hotel-foxtrot-and-shortwave-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wilco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/besnard-lakes-a-canadian-band-inspired-by-shortwave-radio\/\">Besnard Lakes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/for-elliott-sharp-musical-experimentation-was-inspired-by-shortwave-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elliott Sharp<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/novo-the-shortwaves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">N\u00f6v\u00f6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/holger-czukay-another-musician-fascinated-with-shortwave\/\">Holger Czukay<\/a><\/li>\n<li>and, of course, our friend <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/this-frequency-a-new-ep-from-madtone-and-jazzmin\/\">Madtone<\/a>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><em>Post<\/em> Readers:<\/strong> Do you know of any other musicians who were influenced by the shortwaves?\u00a0 Please comment and share links to their work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Porter, who writes: After some 20 years I have rediscovered this radio song by the UK northern Irish singer Van Morrison. &#8220;In The Days Before Rock&#8217;n&#8217;Roll&#8221; There are some great TX station names in the song! It&#8217;s a full 8 minutes long&#8230;. Take a listen&#8230; Click here to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[4716,611,7762],"class_list":["post-37171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dave-porter","tag-shortwave-music","tag-van-morrison"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9Fx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47553,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/our-little-rendezvous-has-a-shortwave-reference\/","url_meta":{"origin":37171,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Our Little Rendezvous&#8221; has a shortwave reference","author":"Thomas","date":"January 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gregg Freeby, who writes: Heres another one for you. 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