{"id":47553,"date":"2021-01-31T08:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=47553"},"modified":"2021-01-31T08:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:13:01","slug":"our-little-rendezvous-has-a-shortwave-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/our-little-rendezvous-has-a-shortwave-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Our Little Rendezvous&#8221; has a shortwave reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Chuck-Berry.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47554\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Chuck-Berry.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Chuck-Berry.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Chuck-Berry-300x293.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gregg Freeby, who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heres another one for you. I know we are always watching for short wave radios in popular movies but what about pop music? Turns out Chuck Berry\u2019s song, \u201cOur Little Rendezvous\u201d recorded in 1960 has a reference to a short wave radio. You can listen to it here:<\/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\/1q0EADsa8oo?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>How very cool! The grandfather of rock\u2019n\u2019roll never disappoints.\u00a0 Thank you for sharing, Gregg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gregg Freeby, who writes: Heres another one for you. I know we are always watching for short wave radios in popular movies but what about pop music? Turns out Chuck Berry\u2019s song, \u201cOur Little Rendezvous\u201d recorded in 1960 has a reference to a short wave radio. You can listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[442,3,305,43],"tags":[6038,6644],"class_list":["post-47553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-chuck-berry","tag-gregg-freeby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cmZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30748,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/gregg-finds-a-case-for-the-sangean-ats-909x\/","url_meta":{"origin":47553,"position":0},"title":"Gregg finds a case for the Sangean ATS-909X","author":"Thomas","date":"February 6, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Gregg Freeby, who writes: I recently purchased a Sangean ATS-909X and while I really like the radio, I wasn't too impressed with the envelope pouch\/case it came with for protecting the radio. 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