I find that hard to believe. Bert had so many songs on the stations I listened to, while Percy had only three. not counting Christmas.
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Which Beautiful/Easy Listening Orchestras Were Better or Worse Than Others and Why
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And to bring things back to Mantovani. The very last song played on KQYT just before the flip at midnight was...Mantovani. There's a recording of the flip somewhere out there. A member even posted it on RD some years ago.
That would have put KQYT up against KZZP, which was on fire at that time, and KOY against the far more established KTAR.
Plus---Edens was, more than anything, trying to protect his investment in Bill Heywood, easily the highest-paid talent in the market. Bill would later go on to play "traffic cop" in a morning newscast on KTAR, but at that time, he was viewed as a morning man on a music show.
95.5 KQYT Phoenix Becomes KOY-FM - Format Change Archive
Previous Format: Beautiful Music “Quiet 95” KQYT New Format: AC “95.5 KOY-FM” Date & Time Of Change: July 10, 1986 at 12:00am More Info: Wikipedia
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Thank you!
Also, as 39-year-old memory cells re-awaken:
Gary's mistake was in not simply simulcasting KOY as it was. But the moment he had the FM, he gave Heywood a younger sidekick (Tim Hattrick), started restricting talk in other dayparts---ultimately it no longer sounded like KOY on AM or FM.
Ronnie Aldrich's theme from "The Valachi Papers" sure is nice. Seems out of character for a movie about a Mafia informant.
I agree, KOY went too far to sound like KKLT (K- Lite). The music became more contemporary, leaving MOR behind. The less talk from DJ's made it music intensive sounding. And splitting into 2 different stations after 6pm didn't help either. Also, the end was near for the personality driven music format on AM.
I don't recall KQYT back announcing the songs at the end of a set. I'm not sure for how long they were doing that, but seems unusual as most Beautiful Music stations didn't announce song titles and artists.
The cover of the single Greensleeves?
KNCT for many years used Bonneville tapes. John Fox arranged a lot of custom music for Bonneville. 1980 - 1990.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Faulty memory there, Kat. Mantovani was the last song in the next-to-last set, per that aircheck.
I can even look it up for you. KBUZ was very early on - 1959 or '60. Well into the 70s - '76 or so. KRFM (KQYT from '77 or '78) led as far as ratings were concerned from 1966 into the 80s when KMEO surpassed. After KQYT changed formats KMEO hired Tom Churchill, who had programmed and early on owned KRFM with his family, to program KMEO until they changed to AC or whatever Group W called it then - I think Adult Spectrum Radio, Yes I have a lot of info on those stations in my notebooks.
KMEO was owned by Bonneville.
They did a painfully slow morph into AC, over a period of six months...at one point so cautious that they edited the vocals out of Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence" and wound up with a minute-and-a-half Bruce Hornsby instrumental.
By the time they finally got there, changing the call letters to KPSN and the station name to "Sunny 97", several other stations had flipped and it was a six-way AC battle.
Sunny 97 came in sixth in the first book, so they flipped and went Oldies against a weakened KOOL-FM, which was then in receivership.
Well, close I guess. It was the last ANNOUNCED song on KQYT. 😊 Which I thought was unusual for Beautiful Music, back announcing song titles and artists. Was this something that Beautiful Music stations started doing as way to add personality to the format? I just don't recall that being done at all.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Those stations which evolved into the format from "good music" tended to do that. IIRC, here in L.A., KPOL-AM/FM did the format that way.
Hmm. Couldn't have said it better.
Well let's see - Amor, Valencia, I Cross My Fingers, Brazilian Sleigh Bells, Christmas In Killarney, All My Love, Hot Canary, Syncopated Clock, Black Ball Ferry Line, On Top of Old Smokey, Loveliest Night of the Year, When the Saints Go Marching In, Always, Delicado, Jamaican Rhumba, Funny Fellow, Swedish Rhapsody, Theme From Moulin Rouge, Return To Paradise, Many Times, Suddenly, Dream, The Bandit, Non Dimenticar, Blue Mirage, Tropical Merengue, Valley Valparaiso, With A Little Bit of Love, Till, theme From A Summer Place, Theme For Young Love, Sons and Lovers, Dark At the Top of the Stairs, Light In the Piazza (not sure how much of a hit that was), Sound of Surf, Yellow Days, Can't Tale My Eyes Off of You, Zorba, Romeo and Juliet, Summer Place (vocal version), Everything's All Right, Joy, Crunchy Granola Suite, Hill Where the Lord Hides, Theme From Chinatown, Summer Place (disco version). May have missed a few. Not including the hits he arranged for vocalists he worked with. Only what was released with him as leader.
I was thinking perhaps you were listening to stereo stations that did not play mono his which were pretty much all of them up to 1967. I have heard Summer Place which was a mono single, played on stereo stations. Delicado he remade in stereo in 1962 - not anywhere near as good as the '52 hit record or so think I.
A mono single played in stereo still sounds mono, just noisier because the noise is doubled (what I've noticed is that while the noise is doubled, it's not in phase, so if you sum both channels to mono, most of the nose cancels out and the record sounds better).
I didn't know/remember that Delicado was remade in '62. My grandparents or great grandparents had the original shellac record (b/w "Festival"), and it sounds better in every way (the performance, not the record). I don't think I've heard the remake; I'll have to check it out now!
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