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Disco on KOOL?
- Thread starter landtuna
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I've really got to agree with the oldies on XM. They have a lot deeper selections and definitely more "show" than the HD2 channel around here, KOOL. Like the man said, you get what you pay for (not to mention the dozens of other great channels and all the college football and basketball of your faroff alma mater like West Virginia). I'm sorry if I sound like an ad, but I just had to respond to my experience about the oldies.
Thanks to free-wheelin' Bruce Kelly, the Nurse and I have XM in the Gremlin. If AMC is your drive, then XM makes it less embarassing! The Sixties on Six are great and those throwback specials on Friday afternoon are always interesting (WIFE in Indy featured 4/25). We toggle between XM 6 and XM 60 - Soul Street...old school R&B that keeps the Gremlin's doors thumpin' with soul pow-pow-power!
We heah in the Fashionable East Valley can always tell when the good doctor is drivin' around in the Grumblin - no more mosquitoes (and all the oldsters advised to stay inside). ;D
Note to the good doctor: didn't ADOT, DMV or Homeless Security outlaw old AMC products suspecting them of being used as car bombs or summat?
Note to the good doctor: didn't ADOT, DMV or Homeless Security outlaw old AMC products suspecting them of being used as car bombs or summat?
KOHS said:Hmmm...I always pictured you driving listening to The Blend and not The Sixties on Six.
Don't try to tell me that Nurse Jeff doesn't get excited when they play Karen Carpenter's "Top of the world!" ;D
Nurse Jeff, the sixth Dave Clark 5, lost interest in Carpenter's music around the time K~Lite was blown up. Maybe it was the thought of pillow talking with Ray Vargas while listening to an anoerxic singer late at night ??? Now he's into Joan Osborne covers of Motown classics and much less moody. Our '76 Gremlin is the Miracle Mile of music with XM, FM and good ol Amplitude Modulation. 6 AM, 12 FM and 12 XM buttons keep us getting on each other's nerves by the constant channel surfing. KOOL 94~Five is on one of the presets, but we really don't know why anymore as Sixties on 6 es mucho mejor!
Dr. Akbar said:
Karen Carpenter deserves much more than the description given above. She and her brother were among the top easy listening acts for a number of years and, in 1999, VH1 ranked Karen Carpenter at #29 on their list of the 100 Greatest Women of Rock and Roll. Although I would disagree with the "Rock and Roll" catagory there is no question that she had one of the purest and natural voices in all vocal music. Her eventual death of a disease not recognized at the time was tragic.
landtuna said:
I don't really disagree with VH1's ranking, I think Karen's voice was highly underrated and timeless. I think her "Masquerade" was even better than George Benson's. Also, she and Richard were such nice people.
Funny that this thread was atop the PHX board about 7:20
Saturday evening...
It appears KOOL has dropped the 7-12 disco show. The past
fifteen minutes has been the normal '60s/'70s mix, sans DJ.
Did anyone hear what Tony pitched to in his last talk break
before 7?
"Jockless Saturday Night" on KOOL 94.5--oops, I mean 94.5
whatever. May NFVG smite me for that! ;D
Saturday evening...
It appears KOOL has dropped the 7-12 disco show. The past
fifteen minutes has been the normal '60s/'70s mix, sans DJ.
Did anyone hear what Tony pitched to in his last talk break
before 7?
"Jockless Saturday Night" on KOOL 94.5--oops, I mean 94.5
whatever. May NFVG smite me for that! ;D
Just tuned into the "new jockless" KOOL-FM and their signal is absolute kee-rap! I suspect the engineer is out getting some taco's or summat.
Switched to KSLX and they've got someone who sounds just like my grandmother tending the board. Not kidding! I didn't know there was such a thing as an "old jock" (not this old anyway). Maybe it's a new "classic DJ" thingie. You know, like us "classic listeners". ;D
Switched to KSLX and they've got someone who sounds just like my grandmother tending the board. Not kidding! I didn't know there was such a thing as an "old jock" (not this old anyway). Maybe it's a new "classic DJ" thingie. You know, like us "classic listeners". ;D
After midnight Sunday night, I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I heard "Stay" (Jackson Browne), "I Shot the Sheriff" (Clapton), "Show Me the Way" (Peter Frampton), and some Fleetwood Mac songs all in the first day of this change. Along with, of course, 70's at Seven or 70's Sunday stuff. It seemed like 70's-galore... like I could have been listening to the HD-2 station (particularly in the evenings). I didn't like it! I like those songs (except "Load-Out/Stay" because it's too long and slow), but these songs weren't "KOOL"... I thought I could have been listening to KSLX of 6-7 years ago at some parts...
But I knew I should shut my mouth for a week before I post any furious postings here on the topic, and I knew right...
As the week has been coming to an end, I think it's gotten better! Not extremely filled with 70's stuff anymore like it was at the beginning of the week. Just the right touch. 60's is still present! There have been some 60's songs added to the playlist as well:
--They're finally playing Junior Walker & the All-Stars again (like I mentioned in some previous post)
--I heard the one-hit wonder Swingin' Medallions "Double Shot of My Baby's Love"
--Soul Survivors "Expressway to Your Heart"
--They're finally playing Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her" again
--Heard The Rascal's "A Girl Like You", which I always thought would sound good on KOOL
...and more.
This is great!! The occasional disco song is worth it, in my opinion... but I liked the Saturday Night Dance Party disco stuff personally, as long as there's not too much of it. One or two an hour is good, nothing much over that.
Perhaps, landtuna, you should check it out once more before they lose a long-time listener. Maybe you might like it a little better than at the beginning of the week?
Two thumbs up!
Lauren
But I knew I should shut my mouth for a week before I post any furious postings here on the topic, and I knew right...
As the week has been coming to an end, I think it's gotten better! Not extremely filled with 70's stuff anymore like it was at the beginning of the week. Just the right touch. 60's is still present! There have been some 60's songs added to the playlist as well:
--They're finally playing Junior Walker & the All-Stars again (like I mentioned in some previous post)
--I heard the one-hit wonder Swingin' Medallions "Double Shot of My Baby's Love"
--Soul Survivors "Expressway to Your Heart"
--They're finally playing Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her" again
--Heard The Rascal's "A Girl Like You", which I always thought would sound good on KOOL
...and more.
This is great!! The occasional disco song is worth it, in my opinion... but I liked the Saturday Night Dance Party disco stuff personally, as long as there's not too much of it. One or two an hour is good, nothing much over that.
Perhaps, landtuna, you should check it out once more before they lose a long-time listener. Maybe you might like it a little better than at the beginning of the week?
Two thumbs up!
Lauren
Lauren,
Yup. Like you, I noticed the change over the past week too. Truth is, I don't listen enough hours to detect a trend in the average week. I'm usually tuned into the netcasters. I did try again last night and couldn't believe what a crappy signal they were puting out. First time I've heard that mess since the studio move earlier this year. They used to put out the second-best signal in the Valley on FM. Only KMLE was better.*
I'm still waiting for KOOL to back it up a bit into the late 50's and air some of the pioneers of Rock n Roll (Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Rick Nelson, and yes, even a Johnny Mathis heart-tugger every now and then). If they did that, and added some background static, echo and location broadcasting from a classic car show or Johnnie's Big Boy I'd be fat and happy instead of just fat. ;D
* - ears-only listening, no instruments used.
Yup. Like you, I noticed the change over the past week too. Truth is, I don't listen enough hours to detect a trend in the average week. I'm usually tuned into the netcasters. I did try again last night and couldn't believe what a crappy signal they were puting out. First time I've heard that mess since the studio move earlier this year. They used to put out the second-best signal in the Valley on FM. Only KMLE was better.*
I'm still waiting for KOOL to back it up a bit into the late 50's and air some of the pioneers of Rock n Roll (Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Rick Nelson, and yes, even a Johnny Mathis heart-tugger every now and then). If they did that, and added some background static, echo and location broadcasting from a classic car show or Johnnie's Big Boy I'd be fat and happy instead of just fat. ;D
* - ears-only listening, no instruments used.
landtuna said:
Ain't gonna happen. Anything before '64 is personga non grata.
Even '64-'66 or so is being reduced, although you'll still hear Beatles, Stones,
Motown of that era, along with anything in the "forever in power rotation"
category--a certain Orbisong, the only James Brown song they play, and
yes, the Righteous Bros. song with a "Ghost" of a chance.
Now if they'll only slash the airplay of that wimpy first Herman's Hermits song.
And what was the deal with This Diamond Ring getting a three-week
return to mega-play status recently? The song sounds so out of place in
today's oldies--oops, classic hits--environment. Is PD Kris the president
of the Ron Hicklin fan club? ;D
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Gotta say, I haven't heard 'This Diamond Ring' in forever. It might have played on a weekend syndication show? ???
I don't hear big changes on KOOL. I always assumed they played most of the songs (in some way) that everybody is talking about in this string. Most of us old guys will say that KOOL is probably the most consistant station in the valley over the years. Maybe a few songs shifted around from here to there but it has always worked for my ear.
Wifey always listens more than me and I asked her if she noticed anything. She couldnt point out any difference but said she likes it. She always has listened to KOOL the most so take it as you will.
I don't hear big changes on KOOL. I always assumed they played most of the songs (in some way) that everybody is talking about in this string. Most of us old guys will say that KOOL is probably the most consistant station in the valley over the years. Maybe a few songs shifted around from here to there but it has always worked for my ear.
Wifey always listens more than me and I asked her if she noticed anything. She couldnt point out any difference but said she likes it. She always has listened to KOOL the most so take it as you will.
landtuna said:
landtuna,
You're describing the old KOOL AM, what a great station. Rockabilly, R&B, Pop like Bobby Vee and Linda Scott, all day. What a variety, Linc Wray and The Wraymen! And the static! It was like trying to tune in the Wolfman from Del Rio, TX late at night in high school. Sadly, the station met it's demise, in the nineties, I think. I never saw it mixing well w/KOOL FM, though, guess that's why they had the two different stations.
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