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DRC-FM's A-Z Countdown
- Thread starter MarcB
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Only 70's? No 50's or 60's? Looks like I'll have it fairly easy to do a compare with the music at work. Each year I like to check the system vs DRC's list to see if I can find everything, this way I can be sure that any possible requests that the students come up with for our friday oldies show will be met. I never finished before and my New Year's resolution this year it to at least get the list done, even if I don't search out copies of the missing tracks. Unless this is basically the top 100 of each year in the decade, then I'm already set.
It seems to be a stripped-down version of the '70s portion of previous years' playlists. John Lennon's "#9 Dream" always led off A to Z, and it should have led of the all-'70s version. But it didn't; the honor went to "(Hey, Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song." With four decades represented, it took eight to nine days to run through A to Z. This one will probably be over by Thursday. It will be strange to hear it without all those Beatles, DC5, Hermits and Monkees songs, but then, the early and mid-baby boomers are "aging out" of the format.
Already into the F's with Elton John's "Friends" playing right now. The countdown only went 13 hours its first day -- 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., with Tom Clay's show returning after its monthlong hiatus and overnight being voicetracked Rob Ray with the standard music mix. The countdown resumed at 5 a.m. today.
It's nice to hear stuff like "Friends" and "Eres Tu" again, but as I listen to "Funky Nassau" I can't help but think, "Damn, this is where 'Funky Broadway' (Wilson Pickett, 1967) should be .."
It's nice to hear stuff like "Friends" and "Eres Tu" again, but as I listen to "Funky Nassau" I can't help but think, "Damn, this is where 'Funky Broadway' (Wilson Pickett, 1967) should be .."
DJKraze said:
Rob Ray mentioned this morning that this year's A-Z would include 1,158 songs. Divide that by 13 hours a day at about 14 songs an hour, then add a few hours to compensate for the lower number of songs per hour during morning drive. I think they're done before the weekend, probably late Thursday or early to midday Friday.
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BobRadil
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DToTheJ said:All-70's? Wow, The Big D must be big fans of Rewound Radio.
Rewound also plays 50s and 60s.
An hour to go for the Wednesday installment and they're only into the M's, so maybe the countdown pushes into the weekend after all. I'm noticing a few personal favorites -- Linda Ronstadt's "Long Long Time" and Bobby Womack's "Lookin' For a Love," to name a couple -- that were on previous specials being dropped from this one. I assume that those titles are either no longer in the library (deleted to make room for '80s songs?) or that the entire '70s library just isn't being played.
BobRadil said:DToTheJ said:All-70's? ...Big D must be big fans of Rewound Radio.
Rewound also plays 50s and 60s.
Indeed they do - and I hear there's a cool person that plays them all on Friday nights...
I was referring to the recent Rewound specials, such as the "all-60's no-repeat weekend"; that was eventually followed up by an all-70's version.
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BobRadil
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DToTheJ said:Indeed they do - and I hear there's a cool person that plays them all on Friday nights...
Really??? You say Friday nights? Hmmm... I'll have to check him out.
I hope his selection goes a bit deeper than The Big D's.
CTListener said:
I mentioned earlier that I wanted to compare this list with the list pf tracks I have at work, and I finally started doing that, I ran into my first missing track... Ray Charles - America The Beautiful, ok, no collection of music is perfect I guess. At this point I got curious if I'd be able to go through this list faster by comparing the Billboard hot 100 for each year and as you mentioned above it must be a stripped-down version of the 70's lists as the very first song I ran into as #1 for 1970 "Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water" does not appear in the cut-n-paste version I got from yes.com. I'm wondering if 'DRC considers this song as too light rock or too folk and doesn't use it and at the same time without "giving away the store" what qualifies a Billboard Hot 100 song from the time frame they cover as something they play.
Could be that "Bridge" was released in 1969 and DRC considers it a '60s song. To DRC's credit, the A to Z contained all kinds of '70s music, from country crossovers like "Rose Garden" to "soft, folky" songs like "Operator" and "If You Could Read My Mind," so I don't see "Bridge" being excluded on the basis of incompatible style.
I suppose you've noticed the marginalization of the '60s on DRC over the past few months. Listen to a typical hour and you'll hear four '60s tunes, maximum. Most hours have only two or three. And I hear new '80s songs nearly every week. By this time next year, we'll probably be hearing a "Ticket to Ride" or a "Midnight Confessions" once an hour, and '70s and '80s the rest of the time.
I suppose you've noticed the marginalization of the '60s on DRC over the past few months. Listen to a typical hour and you'll hear four '60s tunes, maximum. Most hours have only two or three. And I hear new '80s songs nearly every week. By this time next year, we'll probably be hearing a "Ticket to Ride" or a "Midnight Confessions" once an hour, and '70s and '80s the rest of the time.
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BobRadil
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CTListener said:
It debuted in January, 1970 and was #1 around March.
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