Oedipus... Please accept my apology!
10/25/25 - I was listening to a favorite radio station... WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey, here in the baffling USA (you KNOW what I'm talkin' about), when suddenly, the King of the Wild Frontier, Mr Magnetism himself comes drifting through the airwaves into my Rotel RX203 receiver. It was a little ditty from Quit Dreaming and Get On The Beam... Banal. I was shocked... overwhelmed. I hadn't heard a Bill Nelson song on the radio since 1993, when KFJC (12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills California) played a two hour program of Bill's material. I laughed... I cried, and I mistakenly kicked Oedipus the cat (he tried to get intimate with his mom at one point... hence the name). My joy suddenly became an inadvertent assault. Sorry kitty!
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Here on the east coast of USA, I have TWICE in the last 15 months heard Be-Bop Deluxe on Sirius XM Deep Tracks. That's nationwide. Earl Bailey seems to know who Bill is. Before then, the last time I heard Bill on a US radio station was when I myself played one of his on my college radio station in 1979 - another song from Quit Dreaming (Do You Dream in Color?) Before that, and aside from that, the only time I ever heard Bill on the radio (when it wasn't me playing him) was on the legendary airwaves of WGTB, Washington, DC. Summer, 1977. The song was Sister Seagull from the newly released Live in the Air Age, and I was hooked from that moment until this one.