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Carly Simon is classic rock?
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And incredibly---the Troubadour is still in business---65 years on!
History : Troubadour
Named one of the best rock clubs by Rolling Stone and located in West Hollywood, CA, the legendary Troubadour is an all ages venue and premier music destination for established and rising artists.
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Anyone ever hear of a band named Swampwater? They played the Troubadour back in the day.
Yeah. Ronstadt's old backup band. A couple of 'em joined the Flying Burrito Brothers.
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You mean John Beland. He did a special performance on our radio station last year. John Beland He's a friend of ours.
John and---I thought the fiddle player went to the Burritos too. Gib?
Am I right that John was in the documentary about Linda that came out a couple of years ago?
Of course that was really an ELO combination; it starts out sounding like a straight performance of the beginning of the symphony then suddenly segues into a very high energy cover of the Berry hit. This version gained some notoriety in 1974 as it was the very first track played on NYC’s ill-fated WQIV after its flip from Classical WNCN.
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for remembering KFAD after half a century.
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You are right Guilbeau also joined Flying Burrito Brothers. You seem to know a lot about the LA scene.
Born there. Grew up with L.A. music and media.
I used it a couple of times at different stations on April Fools' Day. Started my show with an announcement in a fake British voice that the station had gone Classical, then hit ELO. When the guitars hit, I yelled "April Fool's" and we were off:
Wrong Mediafrog, It was not the extended ELO track but rather the separate tracks, played by the jock and likely inspired by the ELO mix. I remember it well. It was right before Tim Spencer came on at Midnight on KFAD. Why I remember that so clearly, I can't say but do wish other memories were just as clear and much like yesterday. It would be some time before my Mom jumped me for changing their alarm radio in their bedroom when WFAA FM became KZEW 98FM and Mom and Dad awakened to Procol Harum instead of the beautiful music station it had been the day before.
So---he played the entire first movement---which was like seven minutes itself---and then went into the ELO track?
In all my years in LA... earlier in the 70's with KW, and then the 90's onward with Doberman, Heftel, Tichenor and Univision... I never visited any well known venue except the Million Dollar, complete with horses on a stage. And people would ask, "what's it like living in Hollywood" and I'd respond, "Sorta' like Mexico City, but smaller and less traffic."
Yes, son, there are many parallel worlds.
I remember coming across “The Zoo” on its very first day and thinking “that’s quite a change.” Of course your parents would have had several other choices with KTLC, KOAX, KEZT, and KWXI having the same or very similar format to WFAA-FM. The DFW FM dial was quite oversaturated with Beautiful Music/Easy Listening formats in 1973.
Now back to Carly Simon.
Yes, he played the whole first movement. Although I liked Classical, when in the mood for classical, I thought it was a bit too long. It seems that set was about 20 minutes, give or take a couple of minutes.
Yes, my parents had several choices for Beautiful Music and I think they moved down to WBAP FM. KWXI was a bit too upbeat for them and KTLC was a second choice before KOAX won them over some time later
Yes, my parents had several choices for Beautiful Music and I think they moved down to WBAP FM. KWXI was a bit too upbeat for them and KTLC was a second choice before KOAX won them over some time later
WBAP-FM was already gone when WFAA-FM flipped, having launched KSCS “Silver Country Stereo” the year before.
Beautiful Music to Album Rock happened twice in San Francisco (KSAN and KFOG), twice in San Diego (KPRI and KGB-FM) and once in Los Angeles (KWST).
Ah yes...AOR circa 1970s Album Oriented Rock...circa 1980s Adult Oriented Rock...from the 1990s to today: ALL OLD RECORDS!Well, I have now...
R&R launched in October of 1973, covering four formats---"Singles", "Rock Albums", "Country and Western" and "Pop/MOR"
With the November 9, 1973 issue, R&R changed "Singles" to "Rock".
In the November 1, 1974 issue, R&R dumped the "MOR" from "Pop/MOR" and that chart and news section simply became "Pop".
So Top 40 was "Rock", there were "Rock Albums", and Adult Contemporary was "Pop". You can see (and I can recall) the confusion.
In February of 1975, after briefly referring to it as "FM Rock Radio", R&R coined the term "Album Oriented Rock (AOR)".
In the October 3, 1975, issue "Pop" became "Pop/Adult".
R&R finally settled on "CHR" for "Contemporary Hit Radio" in 1980.
OK, I see the problem. The single version fades out a minute early just after the freeform part begins. It isn't as noticeable as the musical ending in The Carpenters' "Goodbye to Love" which seems to go on forever and reminds the listener that they are actually a Rock band after all!
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