One of my fave memories of my cousin Diane is from when we were 9. It was 1974. She and I had discovered Top 40 radio thanks to the tiny transistor radios that her grandfather/my uncle gave us. She was still living on Long Island then, so while she listened to WABC in NYC, I listened to WRKO out of Boston. Being on Cape Cod, on clear nights I, too, could pull in WABC on my radio, and she was way out on Long Island and could get WRKO too. The stations played essentially the same songs, with…
