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Newsday Archives Finally Online Long Island Researchers Rejoice!! This is a big event for newspaper researchers particularly if you come from Long Island like myself. This is because on newspapers.com - the leading source for accessing high quality newspaper archives - have added what looks like the entire archives for the Long Island newspaper Newsday which dates back- as far as I could tell- to 1940 or so- under various editions. At first glance it looks like the Nassau and Suffolk editions are up on the site relatively complete but either way a huge addition to the newspaper research community has been made. Researchers from the New York area have been waiting for a long time and it's been a little bit disheartening over the years to not have been able to access the news and events from the area of your birth. The famed Brooklyn Eagle has been up for many years but that paper of course concentrated on Brooklyn and while the New York Times and the NY Daily News have been ...

Media 314 Pop Culturez Pop Music Epic Edits: Classis hits that were edited, sliced and remixed to fit on a 7-inch 45 rpm record.... American Pie (UA/Liberty)- Don McLean How do you make sure an 8 minute hippie poem about the history of rock n roll with allusions to the counter-culture gets airplay on Top 40 bubble-gum radio stations??? Cut it in half! Despite long songs having been issued on 7-inch singles before and becoming million-sellers (ie. 'Hey Jude', 'MacArthur Park') record companies were still very hesitant in the early 1970s to issue long tracks for public consumption and radio airplay. Mindful of this and realizing that he might have a potential hit single on his hands New York guitarist and vocalist Don McLean decided to take matters into his own hands and prepared a 4 minute version of 'American Pie' when he issued his album of the same name in 1971. Record company officials promptly ignored McLean's version as the song bulleted up the pop...

 Media 314 Publications Pacific Shortwave Radio Log   Location: Honolulu County, Oahu, Hawaii Main receiver: Tecsun S-2000 (w/long wire antenna) Recent shortwave loggings in Excel spreadsheets October 2020   November 2020   December 2020   January/Feb 2021   Date UTC Station kHz SINPO Details                                                                         ...