WHEN MUSICAL WORLDS COLLIDE
Sometime around 1981, a record arrived at WSND-FM at Notre Dame that made everyone in the room laugh.
John Denver and Plácido Domingo.
On paper, it seemed absurd: the gentle folk-pop singer from Colorado paired with one of the world’s great operatic tenors. Then someone put on “Perhaps Love.”
And something unexpected happened.
It worked.
In this Chesterton Radio Deep Dive, we explore the strange and wonderful moments when musicians stepped across boundaries that audiences, radio stations and record companies had carefully drawn around them.
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