Going back to the songs on the last thread—
Everyone’s Gone to the Moon
was playing on the radio when the NY blackout began. I remember it well (I was having a non-parental-approved after school party when it started)
An aircheck of New York City radio station WABC from November 9, 1965 reveals disc jockey Dan Ingram doing a segment of his afternoon drive time show, during which he noted that a record he was playing (Jonathan King’s “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon”) sounded slow, as did the subsequent jingles played during a commercial break. Ingram quipped that the King record “was in the key of R.