Released Mid February 2003            Mercury Records
CD(440 063 335-2), CAS(440 063 335-4)
Compilation Produced by Mike Ragogna, Digitally Remastered by Bob Ludwig
Cover Art by Hugh Syme

Tracks
01. Working Man
02. Fly By Night
03. 2112 Overture/The Temples Of Syrinx
04. Closer To The Heart
05. The Trees
06. The Spirit Of Radio
07. Freewill
08. Limelight
09. Tom Sawyer
10. Red Barchetta
11. New World Man
12. Subdivisions
13. Distant Early Warning
14. The Big Money
15. Force Ten
16. Time Stand Still

    In February of 2003, Rush's latest CD The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974 - 1987 was released to the public.  I was lucky enough to have had a small hand in the development of this cd by having some items from my antique radio collection to be featured as artwork for the front cover and inner pages of the CD's booklet.  This page is devoted in showing what items of my collection are featured on the CD.

    The front and back cover pages, of the CD's booklet,  features an interisting old radio which features the official Rush logo as it's speaker grill.  In reality this radio is my 1933 RCA model 140, through which, by the wonderful computer wizardry of Hugh Syme, has been  transformed into this truly unique radio of fantasy.

Click here to learn more about the RCA 140.

    The horn speaker, which is featured on the back cover, is my Orchestrion DeLuxe horn speaker which was manufactured in Indianapolis, Indiana during the mid 1920s.  I regularly use this speaker when I enter one of my 1920s battery operated radios in antique radio contests.

Click here to learn more about the Orchestrion DeLuxe.

    This three tube, resistance coupled, amplifier is featured in the center section of the CD booklet.  Amplifiers, such as this one, were disigned primarly for the use in radios during the 1920s.  All three tubes ,being the UX-201A type, were manufactured by Gold Seal Products, 250 Park Avenue, New York, New York USA.

    When the CD is lifted from the CD case, a photo is revealed of a radio chassis.  That chassis belongs to my 1937 Wilson radio.  It was manufactured by the Wilson Radio Laboratories which was located on a farm, about 2 miles east of Alexandria, Indiana.  The factory building was the size of a one room school house and the average daily production was around two sets per day which were sold within a nine county area in east central Indiana.  Wilson produced a wide variety of radios from 1930 to 1943 of which I have a few examples in my collection.

    This dial was patterned after the dial of my 1936 Zenith model 12A58 radio.  Also the booklet has what looks to be veneer wood along the edge of each page.  That veneer wood is the upper sides of this radio.

    This is a photo of the official promotional poster.  2-11-2003 was supposed to be the release date of the CD but it didn't actually come out until a few days later.

Click here to learn about how radio station CFNY became the insperation of the song "The Spirit of Radio".