"Beautiful music" compliant?

[boiseengineer]

Even the slightest addition of "new" music would get listeners a little riled.
One frequent caller wasn't "riled" but just wondered if we'd changed music suppliers.
He noticed the change from SRP to Bonneville and was matter of fact "well change happens".
Also called when the FM went country.
"Tennessee Ernie Ford, "The Ol' Pea-Picker," spent much of his last years at his cabin near Grandjean, Idaho. " in Central Idaho mountains.
Ours was the only FM he could get.

 

[johnbasalla]

An acquaintance of mine has worked for Record Research for many years now, and stayed on after Joel's death to continue the business along Joel's daughter. He tells me there are several deliberate errors in the books, so that if someone tried to "pirate" the books by copying the information verbatim for an allegedly "new" book, it would be easily proven by the inclusion of those entries.

Several? I thought there was only one, maybe two. From a factual standpoint, too many could harm credibility.

 

[K.M. Richards]

Several? I thought there was only one, maybe two. From a factual standpoint, too many could harm credibility.

One or two per book, I am led to believe. With the number of books that have been published, it adds up

 

[AMRadioGuy]

There were three major French orchestras that put out a lot of BM instrumentals. The aformentioned Paul Mauriat ("Love Is Blue"), Franck Pourcel, and finally Raymond Lefevre, who had a minor top-40 hit with "Soul Coaxing."

Such a gorgeous song! I think it did pretty decent in Pittsburgh on KQV...

 

[Fighting Irish]

Even the slightest addition of "new" music would get listeners a little riled.
One frequent caller wasn't "riled" but just wondered if we'd changed music suppliers.
He noticed the change from SRP to Bonneville and was matter of fact "well change happens".
Also called when the FM went country.
"Tennessee Ernie Ford, "The Ol' Pea-Picker," spent much of his last years at his cabin near Grandjean, Idaho. " in Central Idaho mountains.
Ours was the only FM he could get.

My late grandmother had a similar reaction around 1985, when her favorite BM/EZ station, which was always on at home and in the car, was trying to evolve into a soft AC format. We were riding in the car, and "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer came on. I don't remember her exact words, but she was muttering about that weird music that WEZW was suddenly playing.

 

[michael hagerty]

My late grandmother had a similar reaction around 1985, when her favorite BM/EZ station, which was always on at home and in the car, was trying to evolve into a soft AC format. We were riding in the car, and "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer came on. I don't remember her exact words, but she was muttering about that weird music that WEZW was suddenly playing.

The transition period was rough for some stations.

In Phoenix, Bonneville's KMEO took six months trying to morph, resulting in some ridiculous moments. Among the worst: Editing Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence" to eliminate all the vocals, resulting in a two-minute Bruce Hornsby instrumental.

 

[PTBoardOp93]

Several? I thought there was only one, maybe two. From a factual standpoint, too many could harm credibility.

It's a common thing in the publishing industry, especially in reference materials like maps and cookbooks. A map might show a street ending in a cul-de-sac when it really goes through, or a recipe might have an obvious error (6 cups of butter instead of 6 tablespoons) where an experienced cook would quickly realize the error.

I guess the Whitburn books would fall in the "reference" category.

 

[Ed Nielson]

I tried to upload the jpg but the board seems to be having issues right now, so I'll just have to type it out. This is from the first inside page of Joel Whitburn's book, Top Pop Singles, 1955-1996:

Counterfeiters Beware! Intentional peculiarities have been very sparingly yet strategically scattered throughout this book. We will prosecute, to the fullest, anyone copying any information herein -- chart data, biographical or title notes, pricing, picture sleeve designations, etc.

Notice they are called "peculiarities."

 

[CTListener]

It's a common thing in the publishing industry, especially in reference materials like maps and cookbooks. A map might show a street ending in a cul-de-sac when it really goes through, or a recipe might have an obvious error (6 cups of butter instead of 6 tablespoons) where an experienced cook would quickly realize the error.

I guess the Whitburn books would fall in the "reference" category.

I had a reference book of shortwave "utility" stations years ago -- The Klingenfuss Guide -- that mentioned the insertion of deliberate errors right up front, in the foreword. I wonder whether the erroneous entries put stations on the wrong frequencies, got the call letters wrong, or just misspelled a city or country. Any way it was done, no real harm was incurred by the SWLs using the book. A map showing a cul-de-sac instead of a through road, though, could cause a motorist to unnecessarily miss out on a more direct route to his/her destination. Labeling Pleasant Street as Plesant Street might be a safer way to go.

 

[RMarino]

My late grandmother had a similar reaction around 1985, when her favorite BM/EZ station, which was always on at home and in the car, was trying to evolve into a soft AC format. We were riding in the car, and "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer came on. I don't remember her exact words, but she was muttering about that weird music that WEZW was suddenly playing.

“Axel F” is a hard sell on a B/EZ format. Even in the early 2000s it wasn’t on the playlist of WDDV Sarasota, FL, which was a sister station to the one I was on. I also don’t think it ever played on WDUV Tampa even as it tried to modernize during that period.

 

[boiseengineer]

When Bonneville went to satellite delivery we ended up changing providers since the transponder they were on was wiped out by the AT&T microwave 5 blocks away pointed right at us. While visiting Seattle I'm hearing fairly high noise in KSEAs Beautiful Music audio. The music stops to a local break and the noise goes away. Back to the music and it's back. Found out later since all the satellite dishes are on Vashon at the KIRO site, the Bonneville satellite music was STL'd back to the studios in Seattle.
KSEA a Bonneville station.