Christmas / Navidad station!

[davideduardo]

KRCD and KRCV went all Christmas at midnight tonight. The blend is English and Spanish Christmas standards and pop...

First song was Pandora's Peces en el Río, then Johnny Mathis and It's Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Christmas

 

[radiojomo]

That's genius! I wonder if any other Spanish AC/Oldies/CHR stations across the country will flip to Christmas and if this trend will catch on, I know KLVE plays Christmas hits around the actual date but I haven't really seen it on a full blown scale. Too bad Exitos didn't jump on this idea. It could have given them the push they need.

 

[davideduardo]

That's genius! I wonder if any other Spanish AC/Oldies/CHR stations across the country will flip to Christmas and if this trend will catch on, I know KLVE plays Christmas hits around the actual date but I haven't really seen it on a full blown scale. Too bad Exitos didn't jump on this idea. It could have given them the push they need.

This is certainly an experiment. It's never been done before anywhere except Puerto Rico (where Christmas music is an offshoot of local "hillbilly" music and is often risqué and full of doble entendre... and never done on a major facility. And definitely not exportable.).

In favor: many Hispanics go to KOST for the holiday music. Some of these are bilingual, and might stick with a Spanish language station.

Against: there are very few Spanish language Christmas songs known and loved by the Hispanics found in LA... which is why the same titles, in different versions, play every hour and a half. Historically, in Latin America Three Kings Day was celebrated, not Christmas. And Santa and the green tree are recent imports... so the idea of "Mommy kissing santa under the Christmas tree" has not cultural attachment. Nor does snow. Or Bing Crosby.

So, we'll see if this had impact, It's definitely original, particularly the blend which seems to be very well thought out.

 

[cd637299]

They play this Christmas tune on Spanish stations here in south FL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTcS-sjWTAc

(David might be tired of this one)

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[davideduardo]

They play this Christmas tune on Spanish stations here in south FL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTcS-sjWTAc

(David might be tired of this one)

I was tired of it in 1970...

 

[oldies76]

KRCD and KRCV went all Christmas at midnight tonight. The blend is English and Spanish Christmas standards and pop..

A great idea!! I'm sure we'll be hearing Jose's "Feliz Navidad" more often here.. Never get tired of that song.

By chance, would you happen to know when and which of Lima, Peru's radio stations turn over to Christmas? Is it similiar to here, when it begins after Halloween or is it more traditional there, beginning in December?

Without Black Friday there (no thanksgiving, except to the Americans living there), Christmas music format must be totally different in Lima. Just curious...

 

[davideduardo]

By chance, would you happen to know when and which of Lima, Peru's radio stations turn over to Christmas? Is it similiar to here, when it begins after Halloween or is it more traditional there, beginning in December?

I don't know of any station in Latin America that plays all Christmas music. There is only a limited repertoire and no tradition of more than a few songs on some formats.

The dominant formats on FM in Lima play English language music, and don't play any Christmas music. The AC stations in Spanish may toss a few songs in, but the norm is not to hear more than an accent of Christmas music (Other than a couple of occasional hit songs, I don't recall playing any Christmas music at all on my stations in Ecuador, covering a half-dozen formats.

 

[PapiYankee]

I was tired of it in 1970...
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It wasn't recorded until 1976.

 

[davideduardo]

I was tired of it in 1970...

It wasn't recorded until 1976.
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The Hugo Blanco version dates back to the late 60's, although it may not have gotten general release outside of Venezuela and the Bolivarian nations until later.

I used to have a cassette of a parody song done by El Loco Loco, a DJ on WKVM in San Juan, in 1971 which changed the names and locations to very local references... "El burrito sabanero va camino de Llorens..." referring to the largest housing project in the metro.

And I played the song on my HCFV "Canal Tropical" in Quito, probably in 67 or 68.

Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia; the Spanish wiki says the song was done by Juanes who was not even born when the song first came out.

 

[Identnut]

The Hugo Blanco version dates back to the late 60's, although it may not have gotten general release outside of Venezuela and the Bolivarian nations until later.

I have a feeling this is the one that Raymond Arrieta has been playing duing his "Beberazzi DJ" bit on WFID.

 

[PapiYankee]

The Hugo Blanco version dates back to the late 60's, although it may not have gotten general release outside of Venezuela and the Bolivarian nations until later.

I'm referring to the Rondallita version which as far as I know is Hugo Blanco.
The liner notes of the album says "Grabado en Sonomatrix Venezuela Julio 27, 1976"

If there is an earlier recording of that song I've never heard it.

 

[davideduardo]

I'm referring to the Rondallita version which as far as I know is Hugo Blanco.
The liner notes of the album says "Grabado en Sonomatrix Venezuela Julio 27, 1976"

If there is an earlier recording of that song I've never heard it.

Liner notes on Albums, particularly re-releases, are notorious for being wrong... as I said, there was a parody version in PR on WKVM in about 1971 by a DJ who was no longer at the station by even 1972.