I don't know why, but I couldn't remember the calls, it's WWOW Conneaut, AM 1360, and whatever their FM translator is. They seem to run Yacht Rock full time. It's on anytime I'm passing through on I-90.
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Anyone listening to the yacht rock weekend on klos
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I had the exact same reaction - Math doesn't add up. I was 8-12 during those years, so I think I am at the very bottom of the demo who actually heard it the first time. If younger generations are hearing it and liking it, I am not surprised as I mentioned several pages(!) ago. But they did not grow up with it.
The only reason I am so familiar with that music at such a young age is that I was an only child, and given a lot of time to myself, I found radio to keep me company (and it was actually much earlier than that).
Exactly. You'd be among the youngest.
I used it in programming to 37-year-olds at KOLO in Reno. Those people are now in their early to mid 80s.
They said people 45-54 "heard these songs while growing up", which is not the same thing as "heard these songs when they were new". I'm younger than 4/5ths of the Backstreet Boys and I heard plenty of '50s and '60s music when I was growing up.
Yeah, but 50s and 60s music was played on oldies radio all through that. Yacht Rock didn't have that exposure until its relatively recent "renaissance" of the last 10-15 years. The "dead zone" for that music was while 45-54 year olds were growing up.
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Is it because both Yacht Rock and the music that KLOS plays are dominated by white males, with very few female or minority artists?
Hey hey hey... don't go maligning the vaunted Vega like that. Malign it right. I owned a '74 Vega, the first car I bought with my own money*, and can assure you it was much worse than you're giving it credit for. For example, the damn manual transmission didn't work right for the first 35K or so, until Chevy was forced to rebuild it, gun to their corporate heads, under an involuntary extended warranty. (Due to an internal scandal that was discovered by GM within Chevrolet.) And then there was the peeling, blistering paint and body rust. The cylinder heads were just the whipped cream and cherry on that toxic sundae. About the only thing I can say in the car's defense is that, at least it wasn't the one with the exploding gas tank.
(*My actual first car was a 1960 Impala, which I got after my grandfather had a stroke and could no longer drive. Bringing this back to radio, those big rear fender wings made for some excellent AM reception.)
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
100% yes, David. I think there are all kinds of variations for both formats.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I learned something a decade ago, when I put the first incarnation of The Eighties Channel™ on the air in Albuquerque ... and it was validated by the experience of my main on-air talent Gene Knight when he was doing afternoon drive at KXSN in San Diego: If younger demographics find music that came out before they were even born to be preferable to the music that the conventional wisdom says they are supposed to like, then accept the gift and go out there to sell that audience to the local businesses.
You're all psychoanalyzing this to a point of distraction. Who cares why they like it if they do? Personally, neither KRKE's owner or I care what demographics we're getting, we care that our advertisers are getting results.
Perhaps the days of "expecting" certain demos to respond to specific formats, we're back to making every format as mass appeal as possible.
Yacht Rock actually has a much higher percentage of minority artists than rock music in general. SiriusXM even created a sub-channel called Yacht Soul to highlight them:
Yacht Rock Channels and Music Mixes on SiriusXM: Listen
Drop your anchor and relax all summer long with our exclusive yacht rock channels and specials.
Yet, there is no 'Women of Yacht Rock' sub-channel.Yacht Rock actually has a much higher percentage of minority artists than rock music in general. SiriusXM even created a sub-channel called Yacht Soul to highlight them:
Yacht Rock Channels and Music Mixes on SiriusXM: Listen
Drop your anchor and relax all summer long with our exclusive yacht rock channels and specials.www.siriusxm.com
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Yacht Rock actually has a much higher percentage of minority artists than rock music in general. SiriusXM even created a sub-channel called Yacht Soul to highlight them:
Yacht Rock Channels and Music Mixes on SiriusXM: Listen
Drop your anchor and relax all summer long with our exclusive yacht rock channels and specials.
See? You're still psychoanalyzing it.
Just enjoy the music and stop nitpicking it, okay?
Psychoanalyze.. Isn't that what we do best here on Radio Discussions? 😁
Not before I make a joke about how “The Women of Yacht Rock” was 16 pages in Playboy, hell no.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters, and Thelma Houston are surprisingly high on the list of what counts as Yacht Rock:
That's another good song and I've been able to hear it.
Speaking of which, today is Al Stewart's birthday. Used "Time Passages" in celebration of his birthday on-air today. Another great forgotten Al Stewart tune! I'd wager it would also be considered "yacht rock."
It's really great to see this music getting more attention, as I much prefer it to the classic rock stuff of this era that typically ends up in the limelight. I enjoy the softer sounds of the 70s quite a bit.
When the overall radio listenership pie continues shrinkin', I think the existing formats will need to become more mass appeal in order to survive.
That is a fascinating list.
I'd just say "songs by" Diana Ross, the Pointer Sisters and Thelma Houston, since the judges seem very clear-headed about not labeling artist's entire catalogs. Seventeen of Steely Dan's tracks fall below 50 points out of 100 and they're as low as 17.75.
In Memphis, our long time FM AC station, WRVR played pretty much all the songs on Sirius Yacht Rock channel from the time they were new until about 20 years ago. Seemed like when I traveled, most AC stations sounded like WRVR did in the 80s and 90s.
I was talking to a guy born in 1982 about yacht rock at a Labor Day party and he knew all those songs because when he was a kid in the 1990s, his mom always had on The River in the car.
So I would argue that most of the Yacht Rock playlist was still widely heard for a good 25 years, until the early to mid 00s.
For years, Dick Clark did WRVR’s tv commercials and always said it was where you could hear Diamond, Streisand and Lionel Richie. Today you may still hear All Night Long by Lionel Richie, but Diamond and Streisand have not been heard for ages.