dance music station (or at least show) needed in Boston

[BoscoGoldBear]

What we in Boston need (IMHO, which doesn't mean much either among the big bosses or among the posters here) is a time slot devoted to dance music classics not unlike that which the late Vinnie Perruzzi did on Star 93-7 (now classic rock-formatted Mike-FM - yeccch! Yet another Led Zeppelin station!), with songs such as the following:

Candy Girl - New Edition
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E. (biological aunt of Nicole Richie and a protegee of Prince)
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead
Thighs High - Tom Browne (aka Funkin' For Jamaica guy)
And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Coming Out Of Hiding - Pamala Stanley
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
Angel Eyes - Lime
Keep It Comin' Love - KC and the Sunshine Band
Dance With You - Carrie Lucas/Whispers
Keep On Dancin' - Gary's Gang
Dance With Me - Peter Brown
Must Be The Music - Secret Weapon

FYI, those were just the songs which I listened to on my way back from Tampa to Boston on Wednesday evening on JetBlue on the Groove and Strobe channels - we need (again IMHO) more than just freakin' Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Van Halen, Aerosmith and Guns'N'Roses on the classic side (that means WBCN, WZLX, WROR, WODS these days, WMKK, WBMX on weekends, WBOS and WFNX) and non-stop Nickelback, Staind, Godsmack, 3 Doors Down and Saving Abel on the current side ('BCN, WAAF, Kiss 108, Mix, 'BOS and 'FNX). You will notice tonight that Mix's "Back To The 80s" show won't air ANY of the 80s titles which I wrote (not even the ones which were big hits, i.e. Candy Girl and A Love Bizarre). And please, no mention that Barry already airs many of these songs on his Lost show, which (IMHO) is never va good sign for dance music classics which deserve better!

 

[MarcB]

Start your own. Call up WLYN/WAZN they'll sell you some time. Then go around to local pizza shops, mini-marts, auto repair shops, etc and get some sponsorships.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

We are not actively soliciting for that type of program, but I would not rule it out...
Any type of program has to work as an occasional thing, before it can even be
seriously considered as a format. Though the 3 Stooges will disagree,
those are the facts of commercial radio life.

As for the songs you mentioned - me, personally, as a listener -
I would not be caught dead listening to any of them. Personal choice...

 

[DJbobo]

What we in Boston need (IMHO, which doesn't mean much either among the big bosses or among the posters here) is a time slot devoted to dance music classics not unlike that which the late Vinnie Perruzzi did on Star 93-7 (now classic rock-formatted Mike-FM - yeccch! Yet another Led Zeppelin station!), with songs such as the following:

Candy Girl - New Edition
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E. (biological aunt of Nicole Richie and a protegee of Prince)
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead
Thighs High - Tom Browne (aka Funkin' For Jamaica guy)
And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Coming Out Of Hiding - Pamala Stanley
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
Angel Eyes - Lime
Keep It Comin' Love - KC and the Sunshine Band
Dance With You - Carrie Lucas/Whispers
Keep On Dancin' - Gary's Gang
Dance With Me - Peter Brown
Must Be The Music - Secret Weapon

FYI, those were just the songs which I listened to on my way back from Tampa to Boston on Wednesday evening on JetBlue on the Groove and Strobe channels - we need (again IMHO) more than just freakin' Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Van Halen, Aerosmith and Guns'N'Roses on the classic side (that means WBCN, WZLX, WROR, WODS these days, WMKK, WBMX on weekends, WBOS and WFNX) and non-stop Nickelback, Staind, Godsmack, 3 Doors Down and Saving Abel on the current side ('BCN, WAAF, Kiss 108, Mix, 'BOS and 'FNX). You will notice tonight that Mix's "Back To The 80s" show won't air ANY of the 80s titles which I wrote (not even the ones which were big hits, i.e. Candy Girl and A Love Bizarre). And please, no mention that Barry already airs many of these songs on his Lost show, which (IMHO) is never va good sign for dance music classics which deserve better!

WMKK's HD 2 Funkytown already plays all this disco crap. You know what their ratings are? 0.0

 

[MassMusicMan]

Please, just stop posting. I beg you.

 

[MarcB]

We are not actively soliciting for that type of program, but I would not rule it out...
Any type of program has to work as an occasional thing, before it can even be
seriously considered as a format. Though the 3 Stooges will disagree,
those are the facts of commercial radio life.

As for the songs you mentioned - me, personally, as a listener -
I would not be caught dead listening to any of them. Personal choice...

Ok. Well your stations are the first ones that popped into my mind when I thought of stations brokering their airtime in the Boston-area. I could've said WWZN, but I went with your stations instead.

WMKK's HD 2 Funkytown already plays all this disco crap. You know what their ratings are? 0.0

No HD 2 stations show up in the ratings anywhere that I know of. You know why? Not a lot of people have access to the technology. And those that do probably don't have the Personal People Meter.

 

[Watt]

Seriously, you make a post like this every month. It's not gonna happen.

Find an online dance station, or buy an iPod, load it with all your dance favorites, and then you can program and re-program playlists 'til you dance your face off.

And just so you know, WFNX does not play any of the bands you listed. Not a single one.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

I am not the target demographic for our stations here,
as I do not speak the languages in question. As a listener,
I am, first and foremost, a ROCKER - and I have been so
since the Beatlemania/British Invasion days, as a little kid...
You could call it classic rock, but a wider variety than is heard on
commercial radio these days.

As far as dance/house/trance/rythmic, etc. - it is all disco to me -
and we buried it in 1980...

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

What we in Boston need (IMHO, which doesn't mean much either among the big bosses or among the posters here) is a time slot devoted to dance music classics not unlike that which the late Vinnie Perruzzi did on Star 93-7 (now classic rock-formatted Mike-FM - yeccch! Yet another Led Zeppelin station!), with songs such as the following:

Candy Girl - New Edition
A Love Bizarre - Sheila E. (biological aunt of Nicole Richie and a protegee of Prince)
Boogie Nights - Heatwave
Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now - McFadden and Whitehead
Thighs High - Tom Browne (aka Funkin' For Jamaica guy)
And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Coming Out Of Hiding - Pamala Stanley
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
Angel Eyes - Lime
Keep It Comin' Love - KC and the Sunshine Band
Dance With You - Carrie Lucas/Whispers
Keep On Dancin' - Gary's Gang
Dance With Me - Peter Brown
Must Be The Music - Secret Weapon

FYI, those were just the songs which I listened to on my way back from Tampa to Boston on Wednesday evening on JetBlue on the Groove and Strobe channels - we need (again IMHO) more than just freakin' Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Van Halen, Aerosmith and Guns'N'Roses on the classic side (that means WBCN, WZLX, WROR, WODS these days, WMKK, WBMX on weekends, WBOS and WFNX) and non-stop Nickelback, Staind, Godsmack, 3 Doors Down and Saving Abel on the current side ('BCN, WAAF, Kiss 108, Mix, 'BOS and 'FNX). You will notice tonight that Mix's "Back To The 80s" show won't air ANY of the 80s titles which I wrote (not even the ones which were big hits, i.e. Candy Girl and A Love Bizarre). And please, no mention that Barry already airs many of these songs on his Lost show, which (IMHO) is never va good sign for dance music classics which deserve better!

WMKK's HD 2 Funkytown already plays all this disco crap. You know what their ratings are? 0.0

Just to let you know, most of us CAN'T afford the HD radios that some of you have talked about! Second, I'm guessing that XM/Sirius still costs LESS than an HD radio (correct me if I'm wrong - you will anyway). My point: I'd do XM/Sirius long before dropping an easy 4 figures on HD radio.

 

[reelyreal]

4 figures? How about 99 bucks for an HD radio on amazon?

 

[BoscoGoldBear]

I am not the target demographic for our stations here,
as I do not speak the languages in question. As a listener,
I am, first and foremost, a ROCKER - and I have been so
since the Beatlemania/British Invasion days, as a little kid...
You could call it classic rock, but a wider variety than is heard on
commercial radio these days.

As far as dance/house/trance/rythmic, etc. - it is all disco to me -
and we buried it in 1980...

Hello? What do you think Kiss 108 was during the Sunny Joe White years? Rock? Don't think so!

A little history lessson from this original Kiss 108 listener is in order:

After being disco from '79 to '81, Kiss became a dance-heavy top 40 from 1981 through 1991 when Sunny (coke problems which ultimately cost him his heart and life) got the boot in favor of Steve Rivers' rock-heavy top 40 (a la Zoo 94; BTW, I hope Steve recovers from his current illness), which got trashed in the spring ratings by disco-formatted Mix 98-5 AND Zoo 94 (Sunny was real boss before becoming actual boss there). Richie brought back the Kiss classics and trounced both Mix and Zoo, which both backtracked from disco in 1992. Mix stormed back with disco in 1993 and was #1 with mainstream adults while Zoo flipped to the gangsta rap format that it still has today as Jam'n. Kiss bought Zoo/Jam'n with the intent to make Jam'n a second nickname for Kiss and flip 94.5 back to WCOZ and hire John Ivey to head the rock-heavy top 40. However, Boston had race riots in my community of Southie the year before, so rather than 94.5 flipping to rock-40 (broadcasters were scared of the rioters from certain unfriendly neighborhoods) it was Kiss 108 which had to make the sacrifice and take Ivey and the rock-40 format instead, which has been the case of the last 15 years. Success eventually came back to Kiss, to the point where if anyone in my nieces/nephews' generation wants dance music, they listen to the gangsta rap station, as what happened at my niece's Sweet 16th party back in '07. (Yes, I gave said niece major league grief over that.) Likewise, none of them expect to hear dance music on Kiss, unless maybe it's a big top 10 hit nationally (a la the old F-105).

Now as for myself, I got sick of rock (which I put under the heavy metal umbrella) and WCOZ thanks to my metalhead brother and most of his friends. My anti-rock stance had softened for a while, but once I hear metal from stations outside the rock format which have NO business playing them (i.e. Mix 98-5), especially songs which were failures on the pop chart (i.e. Back In Black, You Shook Me All Night Long, For Those About To Rock), then of course I'm going to label them as rock stations. What about Wall Of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio?" Didn't even make the top 40, and was UNPOPULAR outside of the rock arena. Or REM's "It's The End Of The World As We Know It?" Total failure outside of rock! Mix should replace these stiffs with songs which were ACTUALLY popular in the 1980s, i.e. those by Bobby Brown, New Kids, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Kool & the Gang (where's "Celebration?"), Rick James, and others. Know why I listen to WEEI and WRKO? WAY TOO MUCH HARD ROCK, THAT'S WHY!

Clearly I'm very conservative not only in politics, but (definitely) in music and even food! I think I've at least said my peace!

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

Sorry Stevie - I neither need, nor care, for your "history" lesson.
I could listen to KISS for 5 minutes - but that would be 5 minutes
out of my life that I would never get back again...
Dance/disco - you're welcome to it - you can keep it all of it.
Just make sure to listen to it with headphones on, so the rest
of us don't have to hear it! ;D Just my piece...

 

[radiojay1]

I am not a big fan of rock, I prefer dance, disco, and R&B music.  That's why I listen a lot to Oldies 103.3, because they play some of the classic dance music I like, however I know all these big radio corporations only care about ratings and those green pieces of paper with numbers on them, so that's why stations in certain cities and areas target only certain demographics they feel will make money for them.  For example the rock stations may target men and the AC stations may target women, which I think is stupid, because we know men and women listen to both of those kinds of music.  However those not in the target demo do not matter as long as the station makes $.  From listening to classical stations, I can tell they target rich people, but I'm curious, does a person feel left out when they are listening to a station that plays music they like and they are not part of the target demo?  Do they feel ignored when the advertising or the presentation of the station does not relate to them?  I love 70's and 80's R&B music, but many stations that play it only target the black audience, but I am sure white people, or people of any other race, who love the music also listen. But if there is not a big enough demo in a city or area to make enough $ to fill the pockets of mighty corporate, then there will be no station to serve that demo.  But for now, without a local station that plays all dance or all urban ac, I am happy that I can hear other stations online, like Magic 92.5 in San Diego.  I love the old school dance, disco, and R&B music they play.  I guess San Diego has the right demographics for a station like that. :  

 

[nd2023]

You could probably walk into WRBB and apply for a show, and get one. However, Touch 106.1 has a better signal than WRBB.

 

[johnster]

Steve last time!
http://www.star937fm.com <---click here
Then click on the Listen Now button. If you like that go to BestBuy or Radio Shack and get a HD2 radio.
It will set you back about 100.00 but you will have your dance station. Thats about the best your going to do.

 

[d21ofnj]

As far as dance/house/trance/rythmic, etc. - it is all disco to me -
and we buried it in 1980...

Sadly enough, Top 40 is now burying rock stations as of late. But as far as your theory of thinking dance/house/trance/etc is all disco to you, that's your opinion, but dance has resurrected from the "so-called" battle to demise disco. So what would happen today if a rock station decides to flip to dance? Will it make you feel better to demise a format that is truly loved by the people and not a monopoly to corporates?

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

: If you like that crap - good for you! Get yourself an
Ipod, crank it up to 15 and go crazy. Just do it with headphones
on, in private, PUH-LEEZ!

 

[d21ofnj]

: If you like that crap - good for you! Get yourself an
Ipod, crank it up to 15 and go crazy. Just do it with headphones
on, in private, PUH-LEEZ!

I don't need to get an Ipod for the music I love, I share it with the world. I blast my stereo and keep the listener's speakers pounding. There's nothing wrong with dance, unless you and all the haters are still living in the past. It's nearly 30 years since that ridiculous campaign happened, get used to dance coming back.

 

[nd2023]

There's a big polarity with dance music: people that absolutely love it (Pulse 87 listeners) and people who absolutely hate it (the "disco sucks" and "filly needs a danz stayshun" crowd), and people who just like to dance to it (most of the people who go to nightclubs). Can't say the same about classical music (but I hate certain classical stations that interfere with dance stations). Or CHR, there are people that like it, and people who tolerate it, and people who think it's crap, but it doesn't have the fanatics that dance has.

 

[WLYNWAZNgm]

LIke it or not, that is your own business. As far as a radio format
is concerned, if any station ownership thought there was money to be
made by doing it, they would already be doing it, regardless of their personal
feelings/tastes... Business is business...