Not only does it seem like Cousin brucie's always on Channel 6, but he's ALWAYS talking. Always. Somebody tell him its about the music.
He was never like this. Play the music, Bruce.
He was never like this. Play the music, Bruce.
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60's on 6... He's ALWAYS talking!
- Thread starter Barry45RPM
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Mel's his boss now - so he probably got the edit to play less music, so Mel pays less royalties, but still gets to charge the customer for more music royalties.
WCBS-FM must be glad that he didn't come back to the station after flipping back to oldies from Jack.
As soon as Isaw the subject, I knew who it was about. That says something right there! ;D
I used to like him on WABC, now not so much.
I used to like him on WABC, now not so much.
Cousin Brucie can do no wrong in my book. If I want a straight ahead oldies format, I can get that on the channel the other 6.75 days of the week. Bruce is doing his show the way it was done when he started in the 50s-early 60s. If you don't like it, tune it out. If you like the nostalgia that comes from a chatty, more personable friend on the air -- if you like sharing your memories and the soundtrack of your life with the guy who brought it to you in the first place -- if you like the stories behind the performers and the companionship of a wide-awake guy during long hours on the interstate -- then tune in Brucie. He is a national treasure; a guy who has understood what an entire generation forgot: "It's RADIO, not a jukebox"
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Oldiesmike
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I agree with this too. I would love to see an oldies station on sirius/xm. And if they ever did do this, i would also love to see them hire some of the ex-cbsfm jocks for it.
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I like having the option of tuning into a specific decade only,, it gives each channel the option of going much deeper,,, What they should do is bring in a Spin Cycle like format that they used to have with Oldies, Country, POP, Dance, Classical and everything under the sun,,, Or Maybe not,, too much variety,,, But what I personally would like,, is a channel like the 90s channel, but played some late 70s , back to about 77, and 90s up to about 93,,, but that would make alot of the 80s purist unsubscribe.. At least all of our decade music is there,, we just have to flip around the dial to hear it.
Ken said:
101.1 is Classic hits WCBS.That means they play Boston "more than a feeling" and CCR.
Oldies is doo-wop,the Platters,etc.Ya silly-
I also knew who this was about as soon as I saw the subject line. It bugs me the way Sirius has muzzled most of the other DJs, like Motormouth, yet allows Brucie to blab incessantly on and on and on and on.......
Hate to burst your bubble New Yorkers but there are many more of us here in flyover country to whom Cousin Brucie means nothing. Hard as it might be for you to imagine, the world doesn't revolve around NY and we didn't grow up with him as you did and his appeal isn't universal. This is just another example of Sirius' New York-centric approach to everything they do.
From a programming perspective, his show seems too stark a contrast from the rest of the 60s channel music-intensive approach. I personally would like to hear a little more of the other DJs to make it more fun, like XMs original 60s on 6, but this guy yaks way, way too much!
Hate to burst your bubble New Yorkers but there are many more of us here in flyover country to whom Cousin Brucie means nothing. Hard as it might be for you to imagine, the world doesn't revolve around NY and we didn't grow up with him as you did and his appeal isn't universal. This is just another example of Sirius' New York-centric approach to everything they do.
From a programming perspective, his show seems too stark a contrast from the rest of the 60s channel music-intensive approach. I personally would like to hear a little more of the other DJs to make it more fun, like XMs original 60s on 6, but this guy yaks way, way too much!
Well said. I grew up in NY Listening to WMCA and WABC and as a kid/teen never knew there were any other jocks "in charge" of the music except our "Good Guys" like Jack Spector, Cousin Brucie, Dan Ingrahm, HOA, Joe O'Brian, etc.
The fact is in California the guy who brought the Beatles to the place was NOT Brucie but a DJ named Bob Eubanks (of The Newlywed Game fame). Every metropolitan area had "their own best TOP 40 station ever" and their beloved jocks, and never heard of ours... although I'll bet their PDs looked to Rick Sklar as a god for devine inspiration.
All that being said, Brucie uses "I and Me" much too much, and forgets that it was the wriers producers, and artists who made the records. He just sounds too phony now, and as an old man is not sexy and shouldn't include all of his innuendos. Bruce, let the music speak, be a fan, not a megaphone.
The fact is in California the guy who brought the Beatles to the place was NOT Brucie but a DJ named Bob Eubanks (of The Newlywed Game fame). Every metropolitan area had "their own best TOP 40 station ever" and their beloved jocks, and never heard of ours... although I'll bet their PDs looked to Rick Sklar as a god for devine inspiration.
All that being said, Brucie uses "I and Me" much too much, and forgets that it was the wriers producers, and artists who made the records. He just sounds too phony now, and as an old man is not sexy and shouldn't include all of his innuendos. Bruce, let the music speak, be a fan, not a megaphone.
Barry45RPM said:
You are right... there was a "station that brought the Beatles to LA" or Cleveland or Pittsburgh or whatever on every tour stop. And there were millions of listeners who had no idea who Brucie was.
But I occasionally sample 60's on 6 and find it rather fun to hear Brucie. Part of the fun is the fact that he plays real hits most of the time, as opposed to "every third song is a I've-never-heard-that-one-before" the rest of the time.
Most Top 40 programmers outside of the immediate NY area looked at Bill Stewart, Gordon McLendon, Todd Storz as role models, while WABC was awfully New York for many. We also had Chuck Blore for a while, and then, of course, Bill Drake and Ron Jacobs. I liked many aspects of WABC myself, and used the same jingles for my Top 40 in the 60's... I even have one for my website, too.
OMG - I felt a sigh of relief finding this thread. He talks and talks and talk. And then, good gawd almighty, he talks s'more. Bill Drake was right, shut up and play the hits. If ya got something to say drop it over the intro. I can't listen on Wednesday afternoons, Saturday evenings and it seems like all day Sunday with encore shows.
The Station that Bob Eubanks was on when The Beatles came to town was 990 KKIS Pittsburg.
I have the commemoritive program from the concert in my storage with a picture of Bob Eubanks right on the cover taken at the concert produced by 990 KKIS. I never said anything about the Concord Pavillion. But I do know that he introduced the Beatles at a concert somewhere in the bay area back then because films exist of him doing so.
RadioStarOne said:
Eubanks was live on KRLA Pasadena/LA
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