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Somehow I knew you'd be familiar with Radio Moscow themes! Thank you.
As to the frequency, yeah, it makes no sense yet there it was. Closest AM frequency in use in the area was a 1kW daytimer on 1590. Twisting the dial beyond that got only noise until a little above 1600 then some nights you'd find police calls from a suburb of Boston, can't remember the name of the town, somewhere near Swampscott. Then, especially on clear winter nights, there it was - English voiced programming and the distinctive chimes plus "This is The North American Service of....."
Over the years I had other radios in that same location. Nothing fancy, an old Firestone Air Chief; a Motorola portable and even a very old Philco portable with A, B and C batteries but only the Fada tuned those oddities. Perhaps some quirk of the particular radio which I gave away probably 50+ years ago. Still, good to know others heard those distinctive chimes.
Of music and radio and DX (distance listening).....
This piece was used as a sign-off theme by (then) WYNG, Warwick/East Greenwich, Rhode Island through out its "Beautiful Music" years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX522A_OKdY
At the time the station ran one thousand Watts (1 kW) on 1590 kHz, daytime only. During an annual proof of performance test I set up a looped tape of the Fred Waring song and let it run for about an hour during the international test period. About a week later got several letters from Australia and New Zealand accurately describing having received the signal. Nothing, though, from anywhere in Europe.