Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for December 01, 2016

Time for another sock, straight to the jaw!

It’s a shame there was no Internet at the time; Schroeder could’ve gone to the radio station’s web site and look at the day’s playlist.

Just whip up Shazam or SoundHound, or check out the station’s web site and see if they have playlists.

Sigh. I do remember the problem. Including the part when someone started talking on top of the crucial bit.

Yup. Still happens today. Sit down to my favourite radio show and the phone rings every five minutes, or someone comes to the door. Yes, I know about listening online, but some of us like our coffee freshly made, not warmed over in the microwave.

I remember WABC in New York often played “Suite Judy Blue Eyes” without saying “This is ’Suite Judy Blue Eyes” by Crosby, Stills, And Nash."

Yngvar, they didn’t have websites when this cartoon was drawn.

I remember when AM radio had music…seems like another planet. I remember listening to KRLD in Dallas at night, “Music ’till Dawn,” sponsored by American Airlines. Several of us in junior high and high school enjoyed it, played it all night while we slept, and talked about it at school. Classical and easy listening. Yes, it was another planet.

“Ol’ Sock”. Lol

I have actually called a radio station to ask them what song had just been played.

Of course that doesn’t work nowadays when stations are just playing a satellite feed from their network. Even they don’t know what’s on the air.

Charlie Brown, the personage from Porlock.

You can just hold up your iphone and ask Siri what song is playing; she’ll listen, give you the artist and title, and a link to buy it. There are apps that do that as well; it was incorporated into Siri a few IOS generations ago. Very handy when you’re in a store and hear a nice song.

I remember in the 1970s, a radio station played Pachelbel’s Canon in D, and emphasized that. The host said when they had played it in the past, the radio station received a lot of calls asking what it was. She wanted listeners to be sure and get the name of the piece so we wouldn’t have to call.

This seems familiar. Didn’t this one run a while back?

No. The one that ran was Schroeder running to his house to hear a Beethoven special, but when he got there, it was already over.

So that’s why they hate Charlie Brown

Even worse today.

Have had that happen to me too…Am "blessed?’ with an ear for music and can remember a tune or recording for ever….Have spent more that thirty years finding lost or unknown songs or recordings on many occasions…What a Joy to find them!

Too bad Charlie Brown is just another “Tin Ear” Blockhead!….They just don’t get it…From Handel, Brahms, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Bix,even Jimmy Rodgers " The Singing Brakeman"…Even Karen Carpenter..…what a voice!There is so much to enjoy…Shut -Up Charlie Brown...I am trying to hear something!…

This happen to me at the age of six in 1963 : I heard a tune on the radio but I was too little for understand the title or the author . But the riff was so inside in my head that 10 years after I hears again it (in a different version) and I recognise it :was “America” from Bernstein’s “West Side Story”

Yup, that’s how I get to hear the TV when my grandchildren are around.

Too bad there was no Google back then. I’m sure Schroeder can find the station’s phone number and call them, though.