I remember my wife and my trip to Europe. We went to Europe with a group of hearing impaired people. We flew to London and then got on a motor coach and rode around. Then we took a ferry across the English Channel to France and got on a motor coach and drove around Western Europe.
This was in 1995 and it was a great trip. My wife enjoyed interpreting and I enjoyed playing with my gadgets and trying to understand the sign language and enjoying the sights of Europe. It was amazing!
One of my most anticipated things was listening to radio in the different countries. Remember that this was 1995 and so I had to carry a camcorder and a camera and videotape and batteries rechargeable but still big batteries and film.
So I took my Walkman AM/FM radio with me. I didn't bring the cassette Walkman because it was too big. And I was excited because the Walkman AM/FM radio was small and digital. Of course I had some extra batteries for it too.
The trip was awesome, but this thing that I anticipated of listening to radio in England and France and Germany and Switzerland and Italy didn't work out the way that I wanted it to. I learned the hard way that in America radio stations tend to be on odd numbers, and in Europe, at least at the time, radio stations used even numbers.
Because of that my little portable Walkman AM/FM radio was made for America and only dialed in odd numbered radio channels. So every radio station that I listened to in Europe was fuzzy and on the edge and not clear at all because I couldn't dial in 104.6, I had to dial in 104.7 or 104.5.
I still enjoyed listening to the radio stations when I could and it was funny because there was a hot dance song that I kept hearing over and over it was called "The Color Inside". I'd listen to it in our room on the radio they provided since it could dial in the actual frequency and I'd listen to my fuzzy versions on my Walkman but it was a lot of fun and listened to that song. When I got home I tried to find it, but because the ease of the internet had not arrived in 1995 I couldn't find the song.
As far as I know the song was not popular in America. Many years later I searched the internet, found it, and listened to it. It was as good as I remembered it! I found multiple versions of it and I enjoy it to this day.
You can listen to The Color Inside at https://youtu.be/nRULkAGIOd8?si=qJ1BYPWxyKwDai2u
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