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Christmas programming
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I haven't been keeping up, but how many stations have gone all-Christmas? I just checked on WEZV Myrtle Beach SC, K-104.7 Charlotte NC and WMAG Greensboro NC and they have. WEZV was still playing its regular music yesterday.
There might be more than that. I was hoping someone would list when each market's station or stations changed.
America's Best Music is playing a Christmas song after each commercial break and after news at the top of the hour. I've also heard what they do during the news when the automation on the individual station messed up. I think there is a Christmas song during the first half of the news for those stations that don't air news.
Edit: Commercial breaks are at approximately :20, :30, :40 and :50. Some stations choose not to air commercials at :50, including the one I listen to, and lately that station hasn't been doing a commercial break at :30, though they were for a while.
America's Best Music is playing a Christmas song after each commercial break and after news at the top of the hour. I've also heard what they do during the news when the automation on the individual station messed up. I think there is a Christmas song during the first half of the news for those stations that don't air news.
Edit: Commercial breaks are at approximately :20, :30, :40 and :50. Some stations choose not to air commercials at :50, including the one I listen to, and lately that station hasn't been doing a commercial break at :30, though they were for a while.
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Maybe I'm mis-judging the readership here, but I'm not certain there's anyone that pedantic out there...
I did qualify that with 'maybe'
You're not mis-judging. There are some who hope every market in the US will check in with how many stations have flipped to XMAS in their particular market. That would mean roughly 210 individuals would be responding to the inquiry.
I can report that Good Time Oldies, as it has for the past several years, only plays Christmas music part-time. In past years this lasted until around the day before.
I also heard Christmas music on 63 Big WAYS in the Charlotte NC area. That's a 50s-60s oldies station.
I also heard Christmas music on 63 Big WAYS in the Charlotte NC area. That's a 50s-60s oldies station.
And "Sunday Will Never Be the Same" by Spanky and Our Gang doesn't count. It just starts with "Gloria in Excelsis Deo", and can be played at any time during the year.
There's a poster in the classic television forum who posts lists of stations that carried obscure syndicated cartoons 25 or more years ago, updating threads as he finds "new" stations for each one in old TV listings. So yes, there are some real obsessives out there -- and in here!
And America's Best Music is now all-Christmas. I didn't listen over the weekend but today could be the first day.
Portland has five so far: one AC, one Adult Hits and three Christian Contemporary, one of which is translating an HD3.
Might as well join the fun: I hear Christmas at four spots on the dial here in south central Connecticut: WRCH 100.5, WEZN 99.9, WEBE 107.9 and from Massachusetts, WMAS 94.7.
I responded to the wrong thread but I'll say it again. WHVN in Charlotte is playing some Christmas songs. How often varies. One time I heard a Christmas song followed by a song that wasn't a Christmas song followed by a Christmas song. Most of the time today, the first time I've been able to listen since the change, four or five songs in a row have not been about Christmas. And I'm counting all winter songs as Christmas songs, if there were any. I remember the "Chestnuts roasting" song, "Silent Night" and "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and there were a couple of others.
And who puts presents on a tree?
And who puts presents on a tree?
Why would Air Supply sing about winter? In their part of the world it is summer now.
Only half of Air Supply is from down-under. The other half is English. I suppose the answer to your question is the same as why female vocalists sometimes sing a part that was written for a man but not changed for her.
I didn't know that. Actually, I think there must have been more of them on "Lost in Love".
Celine Dion performed an Air Supply song with the words "You are my lady" but it had to be changed to "I am your lady".
The same thing happened with a Jackson Five song.
Vchimpanzee wrote:
Celine Dion performed an Air Supply song with the words "You are my lady" but it had to be changed to "I am your lady".
The same thing happened with a Jackson Five song.
But Joan Baez, covering Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," left the opening line, "Virgil Cain is my name," unchanged.
Celine Dion performed an Air Supply song with the words "You are my lady" but it had to be changed to "I am your lady".
The same thing happened with a Jackson Five song.
But Joan Baez, covering Robbie Robertson's "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down," left the opening line, "Virgil Cain is my name," unchanged.
I've heard that song on the radio, but I don't know who did it and I rarely pay attention to lyrics.
It's silly to nitpick singers for the first-person lyrics they sing, especially if the songs aren't their own. Stevie Wonder declares "I was born in Little Rock," at the start of "I Was Made to Love Her," but he was actually born in Saginaw. Come to think of it, even if Wonder did write that song, the opening line is still fine just the way it is. Nobody's going to boo at a concert and start yelling "Liar!" over it.
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