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Christmas Radio Gripes

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

1. Of the Christmas stations I have sampled, not one of them have touched Run-DMC's "Christmas In Hollis." What gives?

2. How in the world is Jim Croce's "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way" considered a Christmas classic? Just because it refers to the holiday? It has about as much mirth as "Same Old Lang Syne."

3. Good heavens, how many Christmas songs did Amy Grant record? ???
 
Regarding 2: Anything to reduce the number of plays "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" receives.
(Of course, that means that they should be playing "Christmas in Hollis"...)

Regarding 3: At least two albums worth.
 
Let's see, two Amy Grant Christmas albums, and about nine or ten songs heard between two radio stations alone? That's unheard of! Not knocking the subject, she's a talented singer, but with marginal hits as "Baby Baby" in the 90's, hopefully she doesn't bank on only cashing in on radio royalties in November and December... I believe she has more potential than that.
 
DToTheJ said:
Let's see, two Amy Grant Christmas albums, and about nine or ten songs heard between two radio stations alone? That's unheard of! Not knocking the subject, she's a talented singer, but with marginal hits as "Baby Baby" in the 90's, hopefully she doesn't bank on only cashing in on radio royalties in November and December... I believe she has more potential than that.
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Only the composers and authors get any terrestrial radio royalties in any month.
 
Well, I hope whoever created "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" song gets a bonus for this: A Connecticut station just played two versions of the song, back-to-back, first by Burl Ives, and then by The Supremes. The station shall remain nameless, but they're completely phoning it in at this point.
 
DToTheJ said:
Let's see, two Amy Grant Christmas albums, and about nine or ten songs heard between two radio stations alone? That's unheard of! Not knocking the subject, she's a talented singer, but with marginal hits as "Baby Baby" in the 90's, hopefully she doesn't bank on only cashing in on radio royalties in November and December... I believe she has more potential than that.
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Isn't she still a major star in Christian Contemporary? I thought her pop crossover experiment was short-lived, might not have extended far past "Baby Baby" in fact. There are no stations in that format in the two cities I spend most of my time near -- Boston and Hartford -- so I have no idea whether she's still getting play in markets that are, er, less humanistic.
 
I'm not familiar with Amy Grant having done anything in the last couple of years, secular music wise or in the CCM world. However, I don't follow CCM music that closely now so I might have missed something. I did Google Amy Grant and 2007 seems to be the latest things I could find, so she may simply be taking life easy. Is she still touring?

Michael W. Smith, on the other hand has been active and still is recording and I believe still touring. So he is one of the "older" CCM artists still out there.
 
DToTheJ said:
Well, I hope whoever created "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" song gets a bonus for this: A Connecticut station just played two versions of the song, back-to-back, first by Burl Ives, and then by The Supremes.
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A mere drop in the bucket compared to this stream: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Radio." All Neon Nose...All The Time. 24/7/365 or 6. Only on the Internets.
 
Same shalow playlist,same xmas tunes from the same artists over and over again,I can't see much different then reguler radio,Here in the great land of CT. two top stations were playing xmas 24/7, some station were still playing xmas after Dec 26.
 
DToTheJ said:
2. How in the world is Jim Croce's "It Doesn't Have To Be This Way" considered a Christmas classic? Just because it refers to the holiday? It has about as much mirth as "Same Old Lang Syne."
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I would have to take a listen to that one again, in order to really be able to comment on it, but my take on it is that it is apparently similar to "She's Right on Time" (I think that's the title of it) by Billy Joel, which is more of what I would call a "quasi-Christmas" song.
 
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