Harry Chapin performs W.O.L.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVh6aOwY08g
I've mentioned before that as a callow youth I'd had a fantasy of being an 'underground' radio DJ. This song is a nice example of the dark side of that dream, (the commercial radio jock). I still harbor hopes, (perhaps naively), that Internet radio will allow a renaissance in the type of formatting, (or non formatting) that I loved so well.
I know that Harry was not always personally or professionally acclaimed. But he was a great idealist and humanitarian, who put his time, and his money, on the line - not always in ways that were promoted or publicly known. He didn't need to talk the talk, the Man walked the walk.
I've mentioned before that as a callow youth I'd had a fantasy of being an 'underground' radio DJ. This song is a nice example of the dark side of that dream, (the commercial radio jock). I still harbor hopes, (perhaps naively), that Internet radio will allow a renaissance in the type of formatting, (or non formatting) that I loved so well.
I know that Harry was not always personally or professionally acclaimed. But he was a great idealist and humanitarian, who put his time, and his money, on the line - not always in ways that were promoted or publicly known. He didn't need to talk the talk, the Man walked the walk.
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