The WFMU-Hypertext Connection

Listen to “Frisby,” the theme song of the Kokaine Karma show on WFMU in 1968-1969.

This song is a track on Anything & Everything, a 1957 LP of a Swarthmore musical produced by a college junior Ted Nelson. Nelson later became an information technology philosopher and in 1963 coined the term “hypertext,” an early concept that prefigured the World Wide Web. This song thus constitutes the earliest connection between WFMU and digital culture.

Ted Nelson argues that his production was the first rock musical ever.