Radio Request Cards: A Blast from the Past
By Paul Augustin
April 2022 PHOTO ESSAY
ONE FEELS A sense of enveloping nostalgia, reading through the collection of old radio request cards; the words acting as a portal into the distant past when letters and postcards of varying penmanship, from barely legible scrawls to slanted cursives, were sent to radio stations, for song requests and dedications to friends, family, loved ones or even, just for the listener’s own pleasure. What a thrill it must have been to hear one’s name over the radio!From the 1950s to...
Paul Augustin
is the director of Penang House of Music, and founder and festival director of the Penang Island Jazz Festival.
