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n. (context dated English) a small portable radio receiver having transistors rather than thermionic valves; popular from the late 1950s
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A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went. Beginning in the 1980s cheap AM transistor radios were superseded by devices with higher audio quality, portable CD players, personal audio players, and boom boxes.
Transistor Radio is the fourth studio album by M. Ward.
The first track is an instrumental cover of a track from The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds.
The track "Here Comes the Sun Again" is featured in the commercial for the 2007 Cadillac SRX Crossover. It was also played in the background during the second episode of Eli Stone. The track "I'll Be Yr Bird" was used in the movie The Go-Getter. The song "One Life Away" was featured prominently in the beginning of an episode of the TV series Dollhouse.
"Transistor Radio" was a comic song written by Benny Hill and Mark Anthony (a pseudonym of producer Tony Hatch), and performed by Hill. The song revolved around the story of a man whose attempts at intimacy with his girlfriend are constantly thwarted by music played from the girl's transistor radio. The song spoofs the Chipmunks, Elvis Presley's " Wooden Heart", the BBC Shipping Forecast and Jimmy Jones' " Handy Man".
"Transistor Radio" finished with the now-married couple alone in bed, with the expectant wife disappointed when her husband asks "'Ere, where's the radio?" Released as a single in 1961, the song reached the #24 in the UK Singles Chart.
Usage examples of "transistor radio".
Gant suspected that his room would be thoroughly searched during the meal, which was why the small transistor radio sat in the pocket of his overcoat, as it had done throughout dinner - he had hung the coat where he could see it, and where he could be seen to be able to see it.
Everybody had a transistor radio, all of them tuned to different stations.
From the speaker of the transistor radio came the sound of a phone ringing.
At a few minutes before ten Randy clicked on his transistor radio, and they all listened.
The transistor radio was telling the world that there had been a horrible mistake.
Harry settled as near the door as he could reach, and turned on the transistor radio.
Richie had hung his transistor radio over the lowermost branch of the tree he was leaning against.
He picked up a cheap transistor radio made of yellow high-impact plastic.
The device he held in his hand was as far from a transistor radio as modern science allowed.
The television was out of action, of course, and his transistor radio was still at the office.
I had nothing to prove that Cross existed but a transistor radio, a couple of batteries, an earplug, and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-three cents in change.