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For people who like mainly melodic big band music, and pre Glenn Miller music, a good station is Cladrite radio on Live 365. They have a very pleasant and "toe tapping" format that is easy to listen to. Also, they mix in classic advertising.
 
Pre-Glenn Miller? Interesting.

I don't know what stations air it, but there's a show called "Jazzology" that I used to listen to. It just happened to be on when I would drive to the trash dump ("convenience center" is the technical term) before my community was incorporated. I think the owner of the stations that air the show is the narrator, and he could learn a thing or two about sound quality. The recordings sound okay (most of them date back to the 30s or even before), and I think he says most of them are on CD.

I saw the movie "Brideshead Revisited". Julia is danicng after announcing her engagement at her 21st birthday party. I'm not absolutely certain of how much time has passed, but the movie opens during World War II and then we see "Ten Years Earlier" and Charles is starting college at Oxford, where he meets Julia's brother Sebastian, who later takes him home several times.

Anyway, I really liked the song that Julia and her fiance danced to, and the one that followed. That's REALLY not what we would hear on adult standards radio.
 
For a few years back in the 90's we had a new station hit the air in NJ. They put 50kw on the-then recently opened 640 allocation. Their basic format seemed to be if the artist was alive, they would not play his/her songs!
Mostly pre-1950's, with a lot of journeys back to the 20's/30's. Needless to say, the station did not last long. No advertisers leads to a lot of bills not being paid. Its now Radio Disney with the same calls, WWJZ. And basically no different audience-wise than it was then. Still no listeners!
 
There are still some existing stations that are mostly big-band and earlier music. However, for obvious reasons they operate non-commercially. KBRD 680 in Olympia, WA is one, and they also stream. Some of the music they play goes back as early as 1910, and possibly even into the 19th century.
 
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