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Christmas music vs. winter music

It's typical for a Tennessee station. Mix 92.9 here in Nashville did not go all-Christmas until last week. The FISH teased Christmas music the Saturday before Thanksgiving like they always do, then switched over sometime last week as well.
 
CTListener said:
At least everyone who was around then still remembers it, and it does get plenty of classic country airplay. But you also had Alabama and Eddie Rabbitt visiting the upper reaches of the Hot 100 regularly with scarcely recalled hits like "Feels So Right," "Love in the First Degree," "Suspicions" and "Step By Step," that don't get played hardly anywhere these days. Funny thing was, all this Hot 100 gravy for country acts died in 1983. Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle hit the top 10 with "You and I" in '82, but his follow-up, "You Can't Run From Love," was a CHR stiff. Even more amazing was Alabama's fall from pop grace. "Take Me Down" -- No. 18 pop in 1982, "The Closer You Get," which had as non-country a production as any of their singles -- dead in the water at No. 38 in 1983. But the acts MTV was breaking in those years, everything from Rick Springfield to Duran Duran to Men At Work to Culture Club, exposed country crossover as a placeholder until edgier product came along.
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MTV may have put rocket fuel in Springfield's career, but this Saturday morning 'toon from a few years before was his first big break afaik:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Magic!

ixnay
 
vchimpanzee said:
Me too. How did we get off on this topic?
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I think Dan Fogelberg was brought up and someone mentioned how he's never heard on the radio except around Christmastime, which led into a discussion of the demise of soft singer-songwriter music and crossover country music at Top 40 radio after the early '80s. You're right, we have strayed a long way from Christmas/winter music itself. Sorry.
 
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