Whale on the Air

A local radio station has changed its format and become The Whale, playing classic rock. (The first two songs it aired were the old Hartford Whalers hockey theme and AC/DC’s “For Those About to Rock…”

A classic rock station named The Whale naturally made me think of ‘80s metallists Great White. So I went searching for other whale songs. The initial obstacle was that whales sing songs themselves, and there’s a lot of online activity about that. Then I found someone had already made a very good list of whale-themed songs that I doubt I could beat. That whale of a list is here, and runs the gamut from Captain Beefheart to Lou Reed to Laurie Anderson to Tom Waits to Judy Collins to Pete Seeger to Yes. Thanks, Thousand Mile Song, for saving me the trouble. Whale on!