I’m Fixing to Listen to Some Sirius Radio

I’m fixing to listen to some Sirius radio.

I’ve got these music channels on my satellite TV called Sirius Radio, and the lowest channel plays music from the forties, the next one up plays music from the fifties (the best), then the seventies, and so on up through the nineties. For some reason it doesn’t go beyond the nineties in decades of music, but it does go way beyond mere time.

There’s an Elvis Channel where they play solid Elvis 24-7. You can hear songs from The King that you never heard of on it. Who would have thought that only about one fifth of his music pieces went on to be a hit?

If you stay up late enough and tune into the fifties channel you might hear Eunice Maresea doing “Shout, Shout, Knock Yourself Out.”
Up on the sixties channel I caught Steppenwolf doing “Magic Carpet Ride.”

If you want to venture into the seventies, they’ll probably be playing some Aretha Franklin doing, “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” Personally, my favorite from Aretha is “Taking That Midnight Train to Georgia.” I used to hum that one every time I was departing New York City.

You can flip up to the eighties and nineties channels and find some of your favorites on those two, but after that it gets bizarre.
What I mean by that is after the decades channels you come upon The Underground Garage Channel. I don’t know why but they play Beatles music on that one.

Oh, and then there’s the Margaritaville Channel. We can all relate to that one—beach music and Jimmy Buffet.

Then we come up on the Classic Revival Channel. I suppose they could play just about anything on that one, but I never heard of the group that was playing so I kept on clicking.
The next one was the Loft Music Channel. From what I heard on it they needed to keep it in the loft.

Don’t even ask me about the Coffeehouse Channel.
The Alternate Nation Channel got my attention at first, but after a few notes from a group called Naked And Famous playing “Punching in a Dream,” I punched in the next channel on my remote.
I was about to doze off when I picked up the Octane Channel. I wasn’t impressed with what they called music, but it did wake me up.

I flipped through the Bone Yard Channel, the Hair Nation Channel, Liquid Metal Channel, Hip Hop Nation and Soul Town. The only thing I heard I liked was Henry Lee and the Honey Bears doing “Cry for me Baby.”

Then I came upon the country channels and listened to Johnny Cash on Willie’s Roadhouse Channel. Alabama was playing on the Prime Country Channel and Freddie Fender was on the Outlaw Channel doing “Before the Last Teardrop Falls.”

Did I mention there was a Sinatra channel in there somewhere?
I flipped my remote back to the fifties channel and the Big Bopper was doing “Chantilly Lace,” so I’m fixing to just leave it there for a while.