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48 Hours of Christmas Music on DRC-FM

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DRC-FM is playing Christmas music for 48 hours. A lot of their Christmas Music was unknown to me. Ave Maria by Stevie Wonder. White Christmas by The Surpremes. And an unknown artist singing Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.

Obviously I've heard of these songs, but not by these artists.
 
> DRC-FM is playing Christmas music for 48 hours. A lot of
> their Christmas Music was unknown to me. Ave Maria by Stevie
> Wonder. White Christmas by The Surpremes. And an unknown
> artist singing Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.
>
> Obviously I've heard of these songs, but not by these
> artists.
>

The version of Rockin Around the Christmas Tree was done by Dion.
 
> DRC-FM is playing Christmas music for 48 hours.

Wow! How creative! How by-the-book! How typically Buckley!

I took a little informal, unscientific survey with some friends (none of them radio people) and asked what they thought of Christmas music being forced down their throats by EVERY freakin' radio station on the dial.

For the most part they all agreed that it would be nice to have an alternative. Maybe at least one station that was playing "normal" music.

This would have been a chance for DRC-FM, which is not setting the world on fire in the ratings, to at least have some increased sampling of the format.

Let every other station play the holiday stuff. They should have stayed with the regular format and gotten some listeners who are fed up with holiday music. Who knows...maybe some of those would have become permanent listeners.
 
> > DRC-FM is playing Christmas music for 48 hours.
>
> Wow! How creative! How by-the-book! How typically
> Buckley!
>
> I took a little informal, unscientific survey with some
> friends (none of them radio people) and asked what they
> thought of Christmas music being forced down their throats
> by EVERY freakin' radio station on the dial.
>
> For the most part they all agreed that it would be nice to
> have an alternative. Maybe at least one station that was
> playing "normal" music.
>
> This would have been a chance for DRC-FM, which is not
> setting the world on fire in the ratings, to at least have
> some increased sampling of the format.
>
> Let every other station play the holiday stuff. They should
> have stayed with the regular format and gotten some
> listeners who are fed up with holiday music. Who
> knows...maybe some of those would have become permanent
> listeners.
>

Actually, DRC-FM's Christmas Eve programming is pretty creative, given the inherent limitations of the genre. Rob Ray always gives a spin to quite a few little-heard versions of standards, as well as the odd novelty number, on the 7-midnight shift. After midnight, though, it's an autopilot selection of tried-and-true Christmas/cold weather/frozen precipitation songs right through Christmas Day.
 
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