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58 years of Beautiful Music comes to an end

PTBoardOp94 said:
Uh, what? I live here in Kentucky, and there is very little of any of the bolded genres of music on the radio dial. You clearly didn't listen to the dial, you just punched up a sterotype of a Kentucky redneck and spewed it into your keyboard.

But if I'm wrong and you've got a southern gospel station recommendation for me, let me know! I used to host a gospel show for one hour on Sundays, and I miss the genre occasionally.
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As a listener, I think I understand what Joe is saying. I don't think he is making a stereotype about "rednecks". I didn't read anything about so-called "rednecks." I think he is trying to explain a driving trip in the southeast or lower midwest where he was scanning the car radio.
He was hearing the usual formats that are programmed nation-wide, and then he heard some country music formats. He was scanning the dial, and those formats could be country gold, or country classics, or specialty shows, or even shows with Opry music from Nashville where they play fiddle music. As he was scanning, he might have been pulling in Christian stations that mixed a variety of worship music, including gospel classics. He is saying that he was hearing shows that might have been programmed to the local listeners.

( I live outside of Oakland, Calif., and we also have country music here, very close to big urban areas - KBAY which is simulcast with a station near me, KKDV. Country music and country gold seem to be popular all around the nation. I listen to lots of country).

He was comparing that to his station in Yavapai Country, Arizona, where the median age is 54.1, and music is played for that age demographic. He is explaining why a station might be programmed to appeal to local interests.

In Yavapai County, between 2019 and 2020, the population grew from 228,067 to 232, 096 - according to county statistics.

So, he is thinking that the number of listeners to his local station, which is apparently programmed to older tastes, might be increasing.

There are numerous dialogues on this message board in which the listeners are relating one experience, and the station owners are relating a different experience. Sometimes the owners and listeners are on the same page, and sometimes they see things differently. This is especially true when programming formats are being discussed. JMO.

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Daryl Lynn L.A. said:
Top 40 went through a time when a lot of beautiful music and strings arrangements were very popular. Many were theme songs from movies. There were high charting songs of Somewhere My Love, ( Lara's Theme) from Dr. Zhivago, Ferrante & Teicher dual pianos with the Exodus movie music, Moon River by Henry Mancini, theme from A Summer Place by Percy Faith, etc. Most of those were top 5 charting songs and Top 40 radio in L.A. played all of those. That's just off the top of my head. Yes, I know it was a long time ago. But you can probably make a really good playlist.
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And the world-wide biggest instrumental hit of that era, Paul Mauriat's Love is Blue. That was the only song recorded in France to become #1 in the US, and sold something like 20 million copies world-wide. The only instrumental to sell more was Richard Clayderman's Ballade pour Adeline which did 22 million, but was not a huge US hit despite it's immense popularity in the rest of the world.
 
DavidEduardo said:
They bill very little. The Prescott format is maintained as it was according to part of a deal with César Chávez' Farmworker's union to be able to improve their Phoenix coverage. The former owner loved the format and wanted it kept.
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Wait, weren't they also accused of involvement in the Dominion voting machine-changing-votes scandal?? Oh wait, different Chávez. Kidding!!
 
Daryl Lynn L.A. said:
As a listener, I think I understand what Joe is saying. I don't think he is making a stereotype about "rednecks". I didn't read anything about so-called "rednecks." I think he is trying to explain a driving trip in the southeast or lower midwest where he was scanning the car radio.
He was hearing the usual formats that are programmed nation-wide, and then he heard some country music formats. He was scanning the dial, and those formats could be country gold, or country classics, or specialty shows, or even shows with Opry music from Nashville where they play fiddle music.
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While I appreciate you looking on the bright side, those genres simply aren't on the air. He could not have been scanning the dial and hearing them. Ergo the redneck sterotype.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
Uh, what? I live here in Kentucky, and there is very little of any of the bolded genres of music on the radio dial. You clearly didn't listen to the dial, you just punched up a sterotype of a Kentucky redneck and spewed it into your keyboard.

But if I'm wrong and you've got a southern gospel station recommendation for me, let me know! I used to host a gospel show for one hour on Sundays, and I miss the genre occasionally.
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Sorry you feel offended. Landed at BNA/Nashville, passed by Titan's/Nissan Stadium drove on to Clarksville. From Clarksville,
to Madisonville, KY through Henderson, KY to Evansville, IN. (I did hear a interesting station just south of Madisonville, KY but
it did not last long. Think it was at 92.1.). Drove around Evansville, Lloyd Expressway, Morgan Ave and onto Indy. From Indy to
Sellersburg, IN across the Ohio River on one of the only non-toll bridges into Louisville. Saw much of the west side of Louisville, passed by the airport, to the eastside to Shelbyville, KY. Shelbyville, KY to Lexington via Frankfort, KY. North/East side of Lexington took the Man O' War loop passed the pitiful Bluegrass airpark to Bluegrass Pkwy. Onto to Bowling Green and finally
back to Nashville. I have plenty of receipts I could share with you for hotels, gas, food, etc. My brother graduated from Murray
State so I'm not stereotyping as you call it. There was plenty of construction near Bowling Green.
The drive took place during the daytime and I manually scanned stations when safe to to so.
 
seatownmedia said:
I appreciate your opinion, but I enjoyed many 80’s hits. It wasn’t bad!

Here are some 80’s gems:

“This Time” Bryan Adams
“Love In An Elevator” Aerosmith
“Take on me” A-Ha
“Obsession” Animotion
“Goody two shoes” Adam Ant
“Heat of the Moment” Asia

And those are just the A’s. Too lazy to go through entire alphabet.
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I like the A-ha and Adam Ant song, although the Adam Ant song is more traditional.
 
michael hagerty said:
So, David---what is the deal? It's not in perpetuity, is it? Or does the world end with The Bee Gees into Alice Cooper into Lex DeAzevedo into Bert Kaempfert (although if it does, "Bye Bye Blues" would work...)?
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Alice Cooper is the only one that doesn't belong. The Bee Gees have several hits that would fit the format.
 
cc333 said:
This thread has gotten me thinking about assembling my own Beautiful Music playlist, and after listening to numerous unscoped airchecks I've found, I feel reasonably confident that I can pull off a reasonable facsimile (ancient way of saying "copy" ;) ).

So I've been listening to the 101 Strings among others for the past hour. It's hard to believe that some of this stuff once made the top 40!

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As I thought, there appear to be no singles released by 101 Strings.
 
Daryl Lynn L.A. said:
Top 40 went through a time when a lot of beautiful music and strings arrangements were very popular. Many were theme songs from movies. There were high charting songs of Somewhere My Love, ( Lara's Theme) from Dr. Zhivago, Ferrante & Teicher dual pianos with the Exodus movie music, Moon River by Henry Mancini, theme from A Summer Place by Percy Faith, etc. Most of those were top 5 charting songs and Top 40 radio in L.A. played all of those. That's just off the top of my head. Yes, I know it was a long time ago. But you can probably make a really good playlist.
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I don't know how popular it was but I just heard "Look for a Star" by Billy Vaughn on WERT. A great instrumental with a lot of instruments taking turns.
 
But back on topic…beautiful music is indeed a lost format. May exist in some high retirement areas but that is about it. Even 60’s music is aging out. Again, formats that are targeted at 70-plus are doomed. The future is late 70’s through the late 90’s, and even that will eventually collapse. Time moves on. Further I am not sure the next generation will understand the radio medium. I suppose a few will get it but most are in the YouTube generation and have little interest.
 
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PTBoardOp94 said:
While I appreciate you looking on the bright side, those genres simply aren't on the air. He could not have been scanning the dial and hearing them. Ergo the redneck sterotype.
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He's driving through a wide swath of territory, with stations fading in and out. Now, I live in the suburbs outside of San Francisco. That has to be the least likely market for country/western in the U.S.

And on my car radio, I can get country KRAK out of Sacramento, KBAY out of San Jose, and very best country gold station KWPX Cowpoke Radio 104.9 out of Banta, California, the little town that time forgot. "The heart of the San Joaquin Valley." They are playing fiddle music right now. They're playing "I'm Too Old to Boogie" by Butterball Paige from 1949. Yes, 1949. And Eddy Arnold, "Texarkana Baby." Often, they play Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys. They play a LOT of slide guitar and banjo/fiddle from the 1950's.

They are very well programmed. In fact, they are fabulous. I'm impressed, and I'm no "redneck". I'm a liberal Democrat. Somebody here knows how to program country gold. If I have stations like this in northern California, you must have something like this in your area. That doesn't mean you're a redneck. That means you're fortunate.

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DavidEduardo said:
And the world-wide biggest instrumental hit of that era, Paul Mauriat's Love is Blue. That was the only song recorded in France to become #1 in the US, and sold something like 20 million copies world-wide. The only instrumental to sell more was Richard Clayderman's Ballade pour Adeline which did 22 million, but was not a huge US hit despite it's immense popularity in the rest of the world.
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Love Is Blue - - a great song, with a beautiful chorus. It deserved all the sales and airplay that it received. KRLA used to play it leading up to the news break at :55 past the hour. Very memorable song; great arrangement.
 
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