{"id":65447,"date":"2026-02-27T08:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65447"},"modified":"2026-02-27T08:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:49:24","slug":"al-spots-a-hallicrafters-receiver-in-a-jeanne-mas-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/al-spots-a-hallicrafters-receiver-in-a-jeanne-mas-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Spots a Hallicrafters Receiver in a Jeanne Mas Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65448\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image001.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image001.png 526w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image001-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Al, who writes:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Hello Thomas!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I\u2019d like to pass along a radio spotting report; a Hallicrafters S-40B, or is it a S-77, in a Jeanne Mas video of her song \u201cJohnny Johnny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">It appears several times in the video, this may be the clearest, about :40 in.:<\/p>\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\/_Ws1wlWAZ4U?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=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I have a S-40B tucked away in a closet so of course it caught my eye!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I stumbled upon it doing while doing research for this week\u2019s \u201cBirthday Radiogram\u201d segment that airs during The Mighty KBC\u2019s \u201cThe Giant Jukebox\u201d music show with host Eric van Willegen. I\u2019ve been producing the segment for a couple of years now. Kim Elliott of \u201cShortwave Radiogram\u201d invited me to give it a try while he was away on family business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I\u2019d never heard of Jeanne Mas, a French pop singer from the \u201880s, but her birthday is this weekend. Her videos do have quite a few hits. For the moment, I\u2019m going with Cindy Wilson of the B-52s for the segment this week. But we\u2019ll see how things develop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I thought your readers might enjoy this sighting&#8230;and the video &lt;smile&gt;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">73 de WD4AH<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">-Al<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you for sharing this, Al!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Al, who writes:\u00a0 Hello Thomas! I\u2019d like to pass along a radio spotting report; a Hallicrafters S-40B, or is it a S-77, in a Jeanne Mas video of her song \u201cJohnny Johnny.\u201d It appears several times in the video, this may be the clearest, about :40 in.: I have [&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":[3,305,4796],"tags":[11048,7861,5506],"class_list":["post-65447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-vintage-radio","tag-jeanne-mas","tag-movies","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h1B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33257,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/boat-anchor-tuesday-hallicrafters-s-40b-and-sx-100\/","url_meta":{"origin":65447,"position":0},"title":"Boat Anchor Tuesday: Hallicrafters S-40B and SX-100","author":"Thomas","date":"July 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor, Chris Peters, who shares the above photo for\u00a0Boat Anchor Tuesday\u00a0and writes: I was lucky enough to recently pick up both these familiar faces for $150. 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