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DG makes a few additions

RBW - Would you mind letting me know what station you are referring to? I'm interested in checking them out too. :)

I know KLBB in Minneapolis seems to have a somewhat similar "split identity." They seem to have a local morning show and then they run Music of Your Life during the day and Dial Global at night.

I know that Larry Graham song has been on the playlist a while. That Julie Rogers song is really nice... heard it for the first time in my life while streaming DG station WMPX in Midland, MI a few days ago. Treats like that make the format still fun to listen to (for me at least).
 
ChrisInMI said:
RBW - Would you mind letting me know what station you are referring to? I'm interested in checking them out too. :)
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It's WABY... but they don't stream. Sorry.
 
Yet a few more that are either new or have been re-added in the past month...
"Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)" by Bill Conti (This was on the list several years ago)
"Where You Lead" by Carole King
"Angel of the Morning" by Merrilee Rush (Again, I think this one was on the playlist 5-6 years ago)
"Something Wonderful" by Carly Simon
"Diamonds Are Forever" by Shirley Bassey
"Last Dance" by Donna Summer (At least the third disco song added lately)
"Peace Train" by Cat Stevens
"Take These Chains from My Heart" by Ray Charles (I really like this one)
"All Right" by Christopher Cross
 
I think the Shirley Bassey song has been on the playlist for a while. I remember hearing it last summer on WBCO in Bucyrus, OH, which runs the DG format.

Another song to add to the "additions" list: "Steal Away" by Robbie Dupree.

At the same time it looks like some of the '50s music is disappearing again, especially those by female artists. From my periodic checks of yes.com I have noticed that Doris Day, Patti Page, Julie London, McGuire Sisters and even Connie Francis aren't being played anymore. And of course Rosemary Clooney, Jo Stafford, Teresa Brewer, Kay Starr and the like have been off the playlist for years. (Of course much of their music would obviously clash with a lot of what is now on the playlist.) The only female vocal from the '50s I can think of off the top of my head still in apparent rotation is "Fever" by Peggy Lee (there may be others but that's the only one I can think of right now).
 
publisher said:
Yet a few more that are either new or have been re-added in the past month...
"Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky)" by Bill Conti (This was on the list several years ago)
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It was gone?
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"Where You Lead" by Carole King
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Never liked the song, but I watched "Gilmore Girls" for seven seasons so it makes me feel good to hear it. It was on Timeless Classics.
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"Angel of the Morning" by Merrilee Rush (Again, I think this one was on the playlist 5-6 years ago)
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Heard it this morning, but it should never have been gone.
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"Something Wonderful" by Carly Simon
"Diamonds Are Forever" by Shirley Bassey
"Last Dance" by Donna Summer (At least the third disco song added lately)
"Peace Train" by Cat Stevens
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Don't know the fourth one and probably wouldn't like it. Not sure the Donna Summer one belongs.The only thing wonderful Carly Simon ever did was "Moonlight Serenade". The Bond song belongs, definitely.
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"Take These Chains from My Heart" by Ray Charles (I really like this one)
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This one should have always been on the list.
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"All Right" by Christopher Cross
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No, it isn't.

I heard Terri Nunn perform on "Don't Forget the Lyrics". She's got a nice voice. But the last thing I want to hear on Dial Global is "Take My Breath Away". It's just a terrible recording. All that new age sysnthesizer mess doesn't belong and "Axel F" and anything by Celine Dion shouldn't have been there anyway.

Another song I was reminded of was "Arrow Through Me" by Paul McCartney. A lot of his material with Wings has been on Dial Global, and not all of it good. This is a song that just wouldn't fit, though it might work on a smooth jazz station.
 
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"Charade" by Henry Mancini (a very nice surprise)
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I heard it but I had just arrived at my destination. Do I waste gas or run the battery or just let it go? I run the battery to hear Mike Huckabee at 3. Unless I'm at home, which I am 3 days a week.

Whatever they're doing I can't listen for the next five days once I get out of range. The affiliate where I'll be was made a Rush/Beck/Hannity simulcast several years ago even though the main station has a great signal. :mad:
 
Just heard The Four Seasons... "Oh What a Night"-- December `63.
 
Oh..... and don't forget about Don McLean's "American Pie"! YES I've heard Jeff play it....all 7+ mins of it. I know it's un-American of me, but I ab-so-lute-ly LOATHE that song :mad: I hope it's on a very LIGHT rotation. Due to the length it's gotta be!!
 
"Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs. A standard on Timeless Classics, but I never heard it on DG before. Which was okay with me.

Is "Spinning Wheel" new? Not that it doesn't fit, because it's jazz.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Is "Spinning Wheel" new? Not that it doesn't fit, because it's jazz.
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No. They've been "spinning" Blood Sweat and Tears since last winter.
 
RBW said:
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Is "Spinning Wheel" new? Not that it doesn't fit, because it's jazz.
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No. They've been "spinning" Blood Sweat and Tears since last winter.
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That's still relatively new.

I have to admit Jeff Rollins' show was leaning AC last Friday.

I don't know about today because the station is covering Fourth of July events. I don't know why this one guy can't do Mike Huckabee. Does he not want to cut off his boss in mid-sentence when the boss is interveiwing someone on location? I heard him say it was 8:31 when Mike Huckabee's show starts at 8:30. I'll have to go to the trouble of listening online when I can go to a library that lets me listen without bringing my own headphones.

Furthermore, the guy who was manning the studio said he was playing patriotic songs. "Born in the U.S.A." has been mentioned on this site before. Does the concept of "format" mean NOTHING? Most of the time this station sounds like Dial Global even when it is local, with a few off-the-wall tunes like "Hey Jude" by The Beatles and "I Got You" by James Brown. And "Wild Thing" by The Troggs was the "Name That Tune" one day. Usually, the morning DJ/station owner plays the whole song after revealing what the "Name That Tune" song was, but fortunately not in this case.
 
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I don't know about today because the station is covering Fourth of July events.
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From what I heard this morning it was as typical as any other...except... I heard them playing God Bless America about 3 times...all by different artists. The afternoon airing was by (Canadian) Celine Dion!!
 
I heard "How 'Bout Us" by Champaign. That's always been a nice song.

I also heard "Groovy Kind of Love" by Phil Collins, which personally I could do without. Although it's not too bad.

I guess the format is still going to sound the same as it always did at times, and at other times it will lean AC, as it has in the past, only now there will be even more of an AC lean. But i's not as annoying as what happened to Timeless Favorites.
 
ChrisInMI said:
At the same time it looks like some of the '50s music is disappearing again, especially those by female artists. From my periodic checks of yes.com I have noticed that Doris Day, Patti Page, Julie London, McGuire Sisters and even Connie Francis aren't being played anymore. And of course Rosemary Clooney, Jo Stafford, Teresa Brewer, Kay Starr and the like have been off the playlist for years. (Of course much of their music would obviously clash with a lot of what is now on the playlist.) The only female vocal from the '50s I can think of off the top of my head still in apparent rotation is "Fever" by Peggy Lee (there may be others but that's the only one I can think of right now).
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I hadn't noticed this, but some of these were the very songs that made it clear the format WAS getting better. And I still want to hear them. They're not doing the same with the men, and that's why it still sounds good.

Kay Starr's "Rock and Roll Waltz" used to get played a lot back in the days before the format got "updated" in 2001.
 
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Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors" played this morning on Jeff's show. I think that was a first.
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Hopefully a last. Everything I heard was good.

I heard Gloria Gaynor's "Never Can Say Goodbye" one day. The thing about disco is that it does fit the corny Las Vegas lounge image, which is an important part of the standards format.
 
Yes "GG"s Never Can Say Before, has been heard a few times already on Jeff's show. He played it earlier this week just before 7 am, then in the next hour, played Donna Summer "Last Dance"... but when the song finished he credited it as Gloria G. Never Can Say Goodbye!! That's the first time I've EVER heard him make a mistake :eek: Both songs were played at about 55 mins apart.
 
A few more newbies:
"It's All Right" by The Impressions
"A Mother's Prayer" by Jackie Evancho
"In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans
 
Jeff's show sounded normal today. Even three instrumentals (one of those was during a commercial break) and lots of actual standards.

I didn't hear it Friday. There was something really off-the-wall but then the DJ was the man who had been on earlier and he announced the baseball game would start at 9:30. Great. I just turned it off.

Wednesday I heard "Holding Back the Years" by Simply Red, which I find really irritating. I once heard it during a job interview. Naturally, I couldn't say how much that annoyed me, and more than likely in that office environment there would have been that and much worse. But I didn't get the job anyway. By the way, that was back in an era when some offices actually played beautiful music, and there was a station playing it.
 
Jeff's show sounded normal today. The most off-the-wall song I actually heard was "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me". I only say that because it's relatively new in the playlist, but not that new. Jeff forgot to mention The Pips who were important to that song.

One new song I heard was "When You Wish upon a Star". Whoever sang it had an operatic style. At first I thought it might be Susan Boyle but she was played an hour later and she sounds different.
 
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