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Harvey_Dogg
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She had AC hits too.
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Carly Simon is classic rock?
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Nearly 500 comments. Vchimpanzee has a hit record, and with Carly Simon.
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A lot of us grumpy old guys here!
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WNAP was a station that would play Frank Zappa followed by Carly Simon-You're So Vain followed by Sly And the Family Stone.
Cris Connor had a free reign. to program the station back in those days. It was a fresh approach. No heavy rotations. No consultants.
Gee! Looks like Carly Simon was played with Classic Rock after all.
The key word is: WNAP was a station. Guess the fresh approach didn't work out? These days the call letters are on an LPFM.
"Take a nap, and sleep easier with W-NAP."
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All good things must come to an end. WNAP was quite successful for about seven years from 1968 until 1975. But radio stations are like us dogs. They get old and die.The key word is: WNAP was a station. Guess the fresh approach didn't work out? These days the call letters are on an LPFM.
"Take a nap, and sleep easier with W-NAP."
Not a very long-lived dog, as compared with other legacy rock stations. 'Dirt-W-NAP'.
Anticipation '22 -- Carly Simon (ft. Vchimpanzee)! Rocketing up the charts in "anticipation" of post 500!
And here's where facts come in. WNAP ran from 1968 to 1986 and did well until its final year.
That's one year less than KMET, six years more than KSAN.
That was 1986, or 36 years ago. A lot has changed in over thirty years.
Don't pretend to know what my point was Mike. There were a lot of freeform AOR stations in the late 70's and smaller ones lasting into the early 80's before hanging it up. Stations like KISW in Seattle have been AOR/Active Rock since 1974, and are still today. Most wouldn't be caught dead playing Carly Simon, while some other's back in the day were considered All Over the Road.
Point is; these aren't the 80's anymore. The way consumers-consume is different than it was. Anyone thinking that going back to freeform would be successful, is either living in the past too far or doesn't understand how this business works.
Pointing to some obscure station's limited success thirty six years ago only makes a point to yourself, but is in modern times, is useless minutia.
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That's right. Old, tired, and grumpy now. Thirty six years ago, you would not have caught me listening to Carly Simon doing Glenn Miller's theme song-Moonlight Serenade. I appreciate many different styles of music today.
I didn't pretend to know what your point was, Kelly. I quoted your post. In full.
Nowhere in it did you suggest this had any relevance to today, nor did Harvey Dogg. So if it was your point and you neglected to make it, it would have been a non sequitur anyway.
That's great! You know that whatever music ever imagined can be played via your smartphone? There's no need to dream that radio stations would switch and play Carly Simon followed by Black Sabbath.
She was -- Amy was touted as the "Christian answer to Madonna" in the '80s -- but she got shunned by some Evangelicals for having an affair with Country singer Vince Gill and eventually divorcing her husband Gary Chapman to be with him.
Anyway, it was strange to hear 1st Wave -- SiriusXM's '80s New Wave/Alternative channel -- play two 1970s songs by the Patti Smith Group in a row about half an hour ago. I briefly thought they were stunting and were going to change format!
Like Blondie's early hits, Patti Smith's '70s songs were solidly within the parameters of New Wave. They certainly didn't sound anything like the mainstream pop/rock of the earlier years of the '70s (BTO, for example, or if you're looking for a female artist, Heart). Again, the channel is going for a sound. Don't get hung up on years, or on the throwaway channel descriptions on SXM's literature and online channel guides. Nobody is going to sue the company or demand a refund or rebate because 1st Wave plays two Patti Smith songs.
So does that mean Carly Simon also counts as New Wave?
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