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106.7 FINDING NICHE, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF OTHERS LIMITED & MISSING OLDIES

Elvis Presley's birthday is Jan. 8th. It would be nice to hear a tribute to the real King of music. In the past and this time True Oldies will pay homage to the King. I'd like to hear something on that order again on 106.7
 
Yes 106.7 does have signal issues at times.

Now they seem to be getting hung up on certain songs. I'm hearing Paul Revere's
"Indian Reservation" and a few others much too often.

Some artists they only play their one same song, when they should be mixing it up more.

Yesterday at mid-day they sounded more like a Country & Rock station......a cross
between the River and The Bull. I don't think that's the sound they are aiming for.

They had better get their act together and soon.
 
I heard two songs from Sat. Night Fever within 90 mins. of each other yesterday and Diamond Girl by Seals & Crofts everyday just about.
 
amlover said:
Elvis Presley's birthday is Jan. 8th. It would be nice to hear a tribute to the real King of music. In the past and this time True Oldies will pay homage to the King. I'd like to hear something on that order again on 106.7
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Tell you what, if you'll promise to lobby just as strongly when the birthday of the very first radio music star comes along (that's July 28), and you call for a tribute to Rudy Vallée, then I'll join the Elvis tribute bandwagon. Rudy Vallée's heyday was only three decades earlier than Elvis Presley's. Rudy was a much a pioneer of a new musical style as Elvis was. In fact, many of the King's songs were sung in the same style that Vallée pioneered.

Or, we could both accept the fact that both Vallée and Presley were famous a long, long time ago and most people who are the age that radio stations want to attract can't remember either one of them.
 
Talk_Dude said:
amlover said:
Elvis Presley's birthday is Jan. 8th. It would be nice to hear a tribute to the real King of music. In the past and this time True Oldies will pay homage to the King. I'd like to hear something on that order again on 106.7
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Tell you what, if you'll promise to lobby just as strongly when the birthday of the very first radio music star comes along (that's July 28), and you call for a tribute to Rudy Vallée, then I'll join the Elvis tribute bandwagon. Rudy Vallée's heyday was only three decades earlier than Elvis Presley's. Rudy was a much a pioneer of a new musical style as Elvis was. In fact, many of the King's songs were sung in the same style that Vallée pioneered.

Or, we could both accept the fact that both Vallée and Presley were famous a long, long time ago and most people who are the age that radio stations want to attract can't remember either one of them.
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Comparing Elvis to Rudy Vallee is like comparing a Pinto to a Cadillac.
 
amlover said:
Talk_Dude said:
amlover said:
Elvis Presley's birthday is Jan. 8th. It would be nice to hear a tribute to the real King of music. In the past and this time True Oldies will pay homage to the King. I'd like to hear something on that order again on 106.7
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Tell you what, if you'll promise to lobby just as strongly when the birthday of the very first radio music star comes along (that's July 28), and you call for a tribute to Rudy Vallée, then I'll join the Elvis tribute bandwagon. Rudy Vallée's heyday was only three decades earlier than Elvis Presley's. Rudy was a much a pioneer of a new musical style as Elvis was. In fact, many of the King's songs were sung in the same style that Vallée pioneered.

Or, we could both accept the fact that both Vallée and Presley were famous a long, long time ago and most people who are the age that radio stations want to attract can't remember either one of them.
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Comparing Elvis to Rudy Vallee is like comparing a Pinto to a Cadillac.
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Please! Vallée was good, but not that good.
 
It would not hurt...even today...to do something to acknowledge Elvis's birthday. Play a song per hour, or a song every couple of hours.

Elvis did plenty of music, including songs such as "Suspicious Minds", "Burning Love", even "Moody Blue" (a song you could play once...it wouldn't kill a station positioned correctly), which falls within the years of the current "oldies/greatest hits" format. Even the Elvis Vs. JXL mashup would work.

Mixing those with with a "Jailhouse Rock", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Can't Help Falling In Love" and a few others would not hurt, again...positioned correctly. (Tell the audience why they're being played...a 35 year old probably wouldn't automatically make the date connection to Elvis.)

I just think, though the days of an "Elvis A To Z Weekend" are over.
 
KevinFodor said:
It would not hurt...even today...to do something to acknowledge Elvis's birthday. Play a song per hour, or a song every couple of hours.

Elvis did plenty of music, including songs such as "Suspicious Minds", "Burning Love", even "Moody Blue" (a song you could play once...it wouldn't kill a station positioned correctly), which falls within the years of the current "oldies/greatest hits" format. Even the Elvis Vs. JXL mashup would work.

Mixing those with with a "Jailhouse Rock", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Can't Help Falling In Love" and a few others would not hurt, again...positioned correctly. (Tell the audience why they're being played...a 35 year old probably wouldn't automatically make the date connection to Elvis.)

I just think, though the days of an "Elvis A To Z Weekend" are over.
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I agree. It wouldn't hurt.
 
Rudy Vallée's heyday was only three decades earlier than Elvis Presley's. Rudy was a much a pioneer of a new musical style as Elvis was. In fact, many of the King's songs were sung in the same style that Vallée pioneered.
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Yeah, and don't you just get tired of all those Rudy Vallée impersonators out there?
 
trusty said:
Rudy Vallée's heyday was only three decades earlier than Elvis Presley's. Rudy was a much a pioneer of a new musical style as Elvis was. In fact, many of the King's songs were sung in the same style that Vallée pioneered.
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Yeah, and don't you just get tired of all those Rudy Vallée impersonators out there?
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They're as bad as the Eddie Cantor and Al Jolsen impersonators!
 
To borrow a line from Elvis, the audio processing of 106.7 is a hunk-a-hunk-a burning turds. Can someone please convince them to stop mashing the audio to the extent that is bears little resemblance to the record that we heard when it was released?
 
It variesfromday today. One day it willbe good,thenext, excreble. Equally annoying is the glitch which drops the audio every fifteen mionutes or so.
 
littlejohn said:
It variesfromday today. One day it willbe good,thenext, excreble. Equally annoying is the glitch which drops the audio every fifteen mionutes or so.
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Dunno about that, it sounds consistently bad to me.
 
It's going to be hard for 106.7 to establish anything when they keep interrupting
the format for basketball games. How can they be taken seriously?
 
gregg75 said:
It's going to be hard for 106.7 to establish anything when they keep interrupting
the format for basketball games. How can they be taken seriously?
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Most of the GT hoops games are in the evening on weekdays, when adult-oriented stations lose a lot of listenership.
 
gregg75 said:
It's going to be hard for 106.7 to establish anything when they keep interrupting
the format for basketball games. How can they be taken seriously?
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GT pays a lot of $$$ to be on 106.7
 
What good is money without decent ratings............everytime I hear the games
which is often and even during the weekdays.......I turn off 106.7
 
OgOgglby said:
To borrow a line from Elvis, the audio processing of 106.7 is a hunk-a-hunk-a burning turds. Can someone please convince them to stop mashing the audio to the extent that is bears little resemblance to the record that we heard when it was released?
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I heard most of the stuff they play on a transistor radio with a 2" speaker or a 1950's era car radio tuned to an AM station. Even when I heard the songs on records, they were on scratched 45 rpm records played on a record player with a single lo-fi speaker. How could anyone be expected to remember how those old songs might have sounded in stereo on a good, hi-fidelity sound system?
 
Talk_Dude said:
OgOgglby said:
To borrow a line from Elvis, the audio processing of 106.7 is a hunk-a-hunk-a burning turds. Can someone please convince them to stop mashing the audio to the extent that is bears little resemblance to the record that we heard when it was released?
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I heard most of the stuff they play on a transistor radio with a 2" speaker or a 1950's era car radio tuned to an AM station. Even when I heard the songs on records, they were on scratched 45 rpm records played on a record player with a single lo-fi speaker. How could anyone be expected to remember how those old songs might have sounded in stereo on a good, hi-fidelity sound system?
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Except now they are playing 70s-80s stuff that would have been heard on a direct-drive turntable hooked up to a stereo from HiFiBuys, Stereo Village, or CMC...or maybe even Hi Fi Kenny's (lost our lease...closing the store for-ev-er!)
 
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