Crooner Radio Italiano

Crooner Radio Italiano exists in a peculiar space - broadcasting from France but programming Italian classic music for diaspora listeners and enthusiasts of 1940s-1960s European popular music. At 128 kilobits the stream carries vintage recordings with reasonable clarity. Programming emphasizes Sinatra, Dean Martin, traditional Italian singers, and material that defined that particular era's elegant popular music sensibility. The station doesn't apologize for its specificity - it serves people who've internalized this music as cultural artifact, who recognize Sinatra's interpretive choices, who…