Based on your enjoyment of the playlist above, you might also check out Home | Kstar Country K-Star Radio/KVST 99.7 FM, Montgomery Texas here in Conroe, TX -- between 10a and 12p CDT, they do a great country classics program, hosted by two Texas radio legends.
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One was played today. "Dern Ya" by Ruby Wright.
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@vchimpanzee, if you truly go bananas for ultra-classic country and western music, you might enjoy World Wide Country Radio hosted by Greg Hicks on shortwave station WWCR. (It can be heard through their internet streams.)
The show is one hour long and airs 8 times on weekdays, with a completely new playlist for each of the 8 broadcasts. Greg generally plays '50s through '80s country and western, western swing, bluegrass, rockabilly, and an occasional Elvis song.
Right now, the schedule is:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12 AM to 1 AM (EDT) on http://67.225.254.37:3963/live
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11 AM to 12 PM (EDT) on http://67.225.254.37:3863/live
The show occasionally changes timeslots when WWCR shuffles its schedule, so assuming it ever vanishes from the coordinates above, just consult the WWCR program schedule to find it again. In the meantime, my automatic stream recorder thingy always grabs its broadcasts for me when they air, so if you or anyone else would like hearing samples without having to wait, I've uploaded a couple recent shows below (we'll call these airchecks for ... reasons):
https://files.catbox.moe/wkuah2.mp3 (start listening at 1:48)
https://files.catbox.moe/skz2md.mp3 (start listening at 1:20)
The show is one hour long and airs 8 times on weekdays, with a completely new playlist for each of the 8 broadcasts. Greg generally plays '50s through '80s country and western, western swing, bluegrass, rockabilly, and an occasional Elvis song.
Right now, the schedule is:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 12 AM to 1 AM (EDT) on http://67.225.254.37:3963/live
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11 AM to 12 PM (EDT) on http://67.225.254.37:3863/live
The show occasionally changes timeslots when WWCR shuffles its schedule, so assuming it ever vanishes from the coordinates above, just consult the WWCR program schedule to find it again. In the meantime, my automatic stream recorder thingy always grabs its broadcasts for me when they air, so if you or anyone else would like hearing samples without having to wait, I've uploaded a couple recent shows below (we'll call these airchecks for ... reasons):
https://files.catbox.moe/wkuah2.mp3 (start listening at 1:48)
https://files.catbox.moe/skz2md.mp3 (start listening at 1:20)
As part of its regular format, the station played "Little Green Apples".
Thanks, chimp. I made that comment as a joke over a month ago. I'm convinced now, they like their Roger Miller. It's still not "King of the Road", but I digress.
The playlist is so large they probably do play that and I haven't hear it.
I agree. Unless the station is trying for a 100 percent "oh wow" or "Lost 45s" vibe by playing only chart stiffs and B sides, it makes no sense that the playlist wouldn't include Miller's best-known song. ("Little Green Apples" is familiar to boomers as well, but by O.C. Smith rather than Miller.)
If a station takes ad money or even co-sponsors any show or event, they can't refuse to run ads for one specific event based on the politics or viewpoints of the performer.
The man who runs the station explained how they decide what to play, but I don't think he was being serious. This still doesn't explain how the station ended up with so many versions of every song.
The name of each song goes on a piece of paper and is put in a pile. The name of each artist is put on a piece of paper and put in a pile. So they draw the name of the song, and then the name of the artist. It's not too much of an exaggeration to say every song has been recorded by every artist. the familiar version will show up from time to time.
For "Yesterday" best popularized by The Beatles, has versions from up to 3,000 different artists across multiple genres. That's one big pile to choose from!
Something new today. "Open Up Your Heart" by Flaco Jimenez is partly in Spanish and has an accordion which makes it sound like Regional Mexican.
WNCW 88.7 plays 3 hours each Sunday morning 9:00am-12:00pm - the show is called Country Gold with Tom Pittman. One of my favorite shows on the station.
www.wncw.org
Country Gold
This classic country show features three hours of the best in country music and the history of its artists and songs from the classic period of honky-tonk music, as well as a wide range of country music from the end of WWII until the mid 1970's. You'll hear icons like Hank Williams, George...
www.wncw.org