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Battle of the Best Boss

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Last year we had a thread on Internet Boss Radio Stations and 93 KHJ. Since then I have listened to a few of the Internet Boss offerings and have found this one to be 100% pure music with great Johnny Mann jingles. The playlist is reported to be over 1500 although I wouldn't be surprised if its deeper than that? If you have an hour give this one a listen, any thoughts would be appreciated! Whomever is behind this stream knows Boss Radio!

http://www.backwhenradiowasboss.com/
 
michael hagerty said:
Deep cuts, no. But KHJ played a ton of stiffs, which is part of why L.A. natives think there are "hits" that aren't being played.

http://home.earthlink.net/~thebig93/index.html
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Well, if I remember correctly, most Top 40 stations were exactly that - top 40, (i.e.: KFWB "Fabulous Forty" and KRLA "Tunedex") until Boss came along and shrunk it down to 30 - but the format was also full of oldies...uh...pardon..."goldens," and even the occasional "double-goldens," so there never seemed to be that much repetition, except for the top hits that most listeners probably wanted to hear every hour or two.

Also, it's not just "stiffs." I can think of a lot of certified hits of those days that never get heard on Oldies or Classic Hits radio. Two that come to mind - Honey, by Bobby Goldsboro (it was HUGE), and Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks. I'm assuming the research shows that nobody wants to ever hear those again. I know I don't :cool:

Here's a KFWB Fab 40 from the year after KHJ took over the airwaves. I had forgotten that Larry McCormick (the KTLA weather guy for many years) was a DJ. I'm guessing "Lord Tim" was KFWB's obligatory English jock, like KHJ's Tommy Vance, or KEWB's Michael Scotland, later known as Michael Jackson (KABC).

http://las-solanas.com/surveys/KFWB/KFWB_1966-10-04_1.jpg
 
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michael hagerty said:
Deep cuts, no. But KHJ played a ton of stiffs, which is part of why L.A. natives think there are "hits" that aren't being played.
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Drake had a habit of flavoring the playlist with "turntable hits" that kept the flow and tempo of the station where he wanted it.

Without getting into the precise decision making process, the net result was the frequent presence of songs that were there for flavor, not sales appeal. In other words, stiffs.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Drake had a habit of flavoring the playlist with "turntable hits" that kept the flow and tempo of the station where he wanted it.

Without getting into the precise decision making process, the net result was the frequent presence of songs that were there for flavor, not sales appeal. In other words, stiffs.
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Of course, I never meant deep album cuts, just deep into the lists of songs you will probably hear here and nowhere else, yet if old enough might had heard them before.

I can still hear Steele now doing his thing when he played this gem, it charted better in Canada!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2ZXco32IRU
 
A good indication of how many stiffs Drake played---the list I posted is from 1965 to 1973 at KHJ...the Drake era. The website Hot Hits references plays more than 1500 songs....the number of titles KHJ played during those years is 600 higher.
 
DavidEduardo said:


Drake had a habit of flavoring the playlist with "turntable hits" that kept the flow and tempo of the station where he wanted it.

Without getting into the precise decision making process, the net result was the frequent presence of songs that were there for flavor, not sales appeal. In other words, stiffs.
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Wasn't a lot of KHJ's music 'day-parted?' Forgive me if I'm misusing the term. Over the past years, listening to air checks of KHJ, I've noticed that the mid-day music seems only a strassman (look it up) away from KMPC, with the added energy of Frank Terry or Charlie Tuna, and of course, the ever present Boss formatics. But often, the music selection seemed almost MOR.
 
LKellerIII said:
Wasn't a lot of KHJ's music 'day-parted?' Forgive me if I'm misusing the term. Over the past years, listening to air checks of KHJ, I've noticed that the mid-day music seems only a strassman (look it up) away from KMPC, with the added energy of Frank Terry or Charlie Tuna, and of course, the ever present Boss formatics. But often, the music selection seemed almost MOR.
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Llew: True, especially after KFWB went news in '68.
 
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