Ever onward, ever alone, 1969

"Our young narrator crisscrosses the US in his car, listening nonstop to the radio, which is his only companion. I too was a young man in 1969, though my experiences were not at all the same. I did listen to the radio a lot, and my first wife was a great fan of Herb Jepko, whose all-night show Nitecaps could be heard coast to coast in the early 1970s, and is heard briefly here. Talk radio, in the days before it was debased by the likes of Howard Stern etc. etc., was a real force, a social outlet to be reckoned with."

Composition by John Tenney. 

This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds