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Fass brought his acting training to the radio via his voice. Filmmaker Susan Lazarus recalls listening to Bob show as a teenager. She drifted off to sleep and woke some hours later to hear Tom Rush singing a beautiful song live in BAI studio. It was called Urge For Going, by a new Canadian songwriter named Joni Mitchell (who would also go on to sing and play the piano on Radio Unnameable). Lazarus remembers the sense of discovering something with Fass at the very instant of transmission. t was like magic.
Nowhere else, Jay Sand writes, could you hear a DJ laying two records at the same time or backwards, or the same song over and over and over again, simply because he liked its message. Nowhere else in the early 60s could you hear callers and hosts alike criticize LBJ for escalating the war in Vietnam, encourage men to burn their draft cards, or