No offense taken! The early 90s was a huge time of musical change.
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Anyone else thinks CHR music has become even more annoying?
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I agree, however it seems to have gotten interesting again within the last month or so and I'm listening again. I just about gave up after ten years.
"An Open Letter to My Teenage Son" Victor Lundberg (1967)
"Ringo" Lorne Greene (1964)
"Flying Saucer" Buchanan & Goodman (1956)
The hits chr needs are out there, they just dont ever or take years to find them. The thing is....is it now too late? Have we already lost our audience for good due to our idiocy over the last 5 years? I just doesn't seem like hit terrestrial radio is hurting in other countries where they played the last few years so much better than we did over here.
Seems like you would have a fun station....
Good As Hell (as mentioned)
Davido-Fall
Tones and I-Dance Monkey
Jonas Brothers-Only Human
Regard-Ride it
Post Malone-Circles
Selena Gomez-Lose you to love me
Ed Sheeran with Chris Stapelton and Burno Mars-Blow or the one with Camila-South of the Border
Seems like you would have a fun station....
Good As Hell (as mentioned)
Davido-Fall
Tones and I-Dance Monkey
Jonas Brothers-Only Human
Regard-Ride it
Post Malone-Circles
Selena Gomez-Lose you to love me
Ed Sheeran with Chris Stapelton and Burno Mars-Blow or the one with Camila-South of the Border
Keep in mind the process of picking the songs that get played on the radio involves both the radio stations AND the record labels. So the labels, who have a vested interest in getting airplay by their artists, have a hand in what gets played. It's not just radio finding songs. They're being hammered by labels and artists saying "play my song," plus they're getting requests and input from listeners, fans, and everyone else. They also see what songs are being streamed, and they have to decide if they drop a current song by Post Malone to instead play one of his other new songs that's getting a lot of streams. It's not a simple process. Radio is being inundated with new music, and the public has a limited and short attention span. Studies show that it takes a few weeks for songs to have an impact on listeners, so if they drop out of a song too soon, it will kill that song for things like awards or the charts.
I don't recall the first one.
"Ringo" was spoken word backed by a musical score. I don't consider it a "song" by musical standards.
"Flying Saucer" was a novelty record consisting of brief cuts from real songs interspersed with a 'news' narrative. Neither a musical song or spoken word.
You're lucky.
Found it tonight on Youtube. What a smarmy bunch of smaltz. Very similar to the Lorne Greene recording.
Desiderata -- Les Crane (1971)
oldies76 said:
You missed nothing. I can't believe this garbage got airplay on any rock station. This was right wing drivel that would embarrass Rush Limbaugh, and at the height of the Vietnam War yet.
I actually like that one. I wonder how many Beatles fans thought he made a record about Ringo Starr until they actually heard it?
Those were fairly common from the late '50s through about 1970 or so. Most were entertaining. I don't know how many were released nationally and how many were put together by local rock stations. I do remember hearing more of them than what was probably average on KRIZ & KRUX Phoenix, and WLS & WCFL Chicago.
I think I meant the 8 minute "The Astronaut" by Jose Jimenez (1961)
"I have no son!"
Also "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair in 1973. It was played on Canadian and U.S. radio and was released as a 45:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4i3LmR0K74
And a much more recent example of a spoken word hit is Baz Luhrmann's "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)", which was #1 in the UK and almost made the U.S. Top 40 in 1999.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
I didn't move to Phoenix until 1979 and didn't listen to either KRIZ or KRUZ even then. KOOL-FM was always my fav until they ditched Oldies for whatever-the-hell-they're-playing-now.
Back in '73 I interviewed for a sales job at KOOL-FM. I was thinking of adjusting my ASU classes to evenings, and working in the daytime. I'd already owned stations, managed them and sold for them. But they were concerned with my "sales experience" and I did not get the job. But the KOOL organization had a reputation for being ultra-conservative and it seems that hiring was based on knowing someone on the inside.
It was an interesting experience, as the offices at 511 W. Adams, in desert Phoenix, looked a lot like the inside of a Boston law firm... dark, quiet and conservative. I guess Chauncey and Homer Lane were fairly buttoned down people...
Half of those are getting CHR airplay (Lizzo, Jonas Brothers, and Post Malone,) and Ed Sheeran is getting plenty of airplay at CHR, though Blow, which you'd think should, isn't getting played much at CHR but is doing okay at Active Rock. I actually really like Only Human, can't resist tapping my foot every time that comes on.
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