[Ads-l] blast from the past

[Stephen Goranson]

OED has it from 1954, perhaps a transitional use, for a band reunion, prior to DJ uses for oldies.
 (In DJ speak, different than wax to watch and such.)

Earlier from newspapers.com, e.g.:

...a duel with rapiers comes like a bugle blast from the past...
Butte [Montana] Miner, Jan. 3, 1903, 4/3

[agreement with an editorial, which]
comes like a trumpet blast from the buried past
Times Dispatch [Richmond, VA] April 25, 1910, 4/1

It was, as has been said, a trumpet-blast from the past...
Rutland [VT] Daily Herald July 9, 1913, 11/2

 SG

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