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K.M. Richards
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Make that the three of us, actually. While I wouldn't program it, it's a song I still enjoy hearing when my MP3 player shuffles to it.
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Does anyone besides me think AC today is a joke?
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Make that the three of us, actually. While I wouldn't program it, it's a song I still enjoy hearing when my MP3 player shuffles to it.
I like the song too. I even enjoy the version by The Ray Conniff Singers!
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Han Solo
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A song that causes me to change the channel is Chuck E's In Love by Rickie Lee Jones.
I like both Eres Tu and Chuck E's In Love. I think some classic hits stations still play the latter -- it was on the WDRC-FM Hartford playlist before the station went classic rock and dropped all pop -- but the former was dead to radio the day it exited Top 40 playlists back in the '70s. Obviously, when tested, the public greatly prefers the Rickie Lee Jones tune.
Tom Kent spins Chuck E's in Love as does SiriusXM. But, that's a specialized program and a specialized format. Doesn't apply to radio.
I hated the Rickie Lee Jones song in 1979 and still do. Eres Tu has made it's way to Adult Standards for the few stations that still have that format.
I hated the Rickie Lee Jones song in 1979 and still do. Eres Tu has made it's way to Adult Standards for the few stations that still have that format.
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I can't stand that one and I can't stand another one that's musically similar (talk-singing style): All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow.
Somewhere in the garage is my record label "gold record" framed commemoration of having been the first US contemporary station to play the song while I was at KRUX.
I was in college when "Eres Tu" was a hit. IIRC, the Top 40 station in town only played the English version ("Touch the Wind," which wasn't even an attempt to translate the original), while the AC station I listened to only played the Spanish. This was in a city with a minimal Spanish-speaking population and no Spanish-language radio stations.
Do you have any suggestions on where to post, besides XMfan?? And no, I do not start debates, I simply respond to others that I agree with, and the pros weigh in. How many times have you seen me start new threads lately on issues that I do agree with? None. I don't, knowing the backlash I'll get from you, Big A and others.
If you seriously don't want me here (after 3400 posts), then complain to the mods again and get me banned, like Avid. Please, If that's what you prefer, than by all means. You say I'm intelligent, then let's have discussions then. Ask me a question or two about classic hits...but you won't, since you tend to know it all.
Last I checked this forum is also for music fans.
If you rather it not be, make your case with the moderators.
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KRTH has played "Eres Tu" before, but that was probably a year or two ago. Maybe David Eduardo can fill in to when it was played last.
You can't possibly believe that.
It's a different thing to demonstrate that seniors spend money on things and then to try to use that as evidence that advertisers want to use radio to reach seniors.
My intention was not to play "Eres Tu" and "Guantanamera" every hour but rather a somewhat lengthy playlist of popular songs, that happen to be in Spanish. The point really was an attempt to come up with something that would affect you in the same way the 90+% are affected when they hear a song that they truly don't like, in this case, twice an hour. I think part of the problem is that most adults aren't really into music discovery and just want to hear their favorite songs, so anything not immediately regarded as such, is merely discarded, in this case, by changing the station.
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K.M. Richards
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Second paragraph responses first. I would rather have you here than Avid, all things being equal. You have at least demonstrated an ability for rational thought, even on those occasions that you let your personal objections overwhelm the rational conclusions. Avid was just plain insane, as evidenced by his later posts in which he lashed out at everyone who disagreed with him. You may aggravate me on several levels, but you don't engage in personal ad hominem attacks (which, for the record, was what got Avid banned).
The only reason I never ask you about music is that I have been a programmer for enough years that I am very well versed on that subject and I can't think of anything to ask you as a result. In fact, I find your knowledge of what you call "lost hits" to be fairly equivalent to my own.
That said, I'll turn to the first paragraph. I've never been much for music discussion boards, although I have maintained an account at Both Sides Now, primarily because they have a specific board for radio topics (and also have a humongous thread on digital television which has the highest post total of any thread there). New members have to be approved by the board owner and I don't know if he is accepting new signups, but you could give it a try. Just promise me you'll stay out of the radio topics area as there are already too many people there who cannot resist telling me what's wrong with radio today.
I have a suggestion for you to consider. When others bring up a subject which you've commented on in the past, how about pointing at your previous comments instead of rehashing and reposting things we've already seen you say?
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1st - Yes, I do believe that. I'm not skeptical about everything that the news media reports.
2nd - BigA had said that entertainment is just for young people. I was pointing out that that is not true.
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Han Solo
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1st - I don't think that Unregistered guest is not skeptical about everything he or she hears reported in the news.
2nd - That Unregistered guest answered that a few pages ago. BigA said that entertainment is just for the young and the Unregistered guest explained that that is not true.
2nd - That Unregistered guest answered that a few pages ago. BigA said that entertainment is just for the young and the Unregistered guest explained that that is not true.
Waah, waah, waaaaaahhh. He got a dose of the same screwing he gave Conan. Call it karma.
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I've answered that a few pages back.
I've answered that a few pages back.
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That's exactly right Mr Solo.
I don't recall disliking that song.
One of the things I like about WBRF, the classic country station I listen to when I am in the area where it is located (close to home, interference from a hip-hop station and a Hot AC which may be CHR are problems) is all the songs they play that I never heard. If I listened more, these might be more familiar, but I don't recall hearing them on other classic country stations.
WAVO in Charlotte is a standards station which plays a lot of songs, or at least versions of songs, that I don't know. Since they can no longer afford DJs and the listeners who choose to have to pay the music royalties, the one thing that bothers me is not knowing what those songs are. At least the ones with words give me a way to figure it out.
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