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Sammy Reed
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I might as well start this thread about WETB's short-lived foray as an easy-listening station. I don't know exactly when they started using that format, but 1987 was the year i first noticed it.
I don't know who else wants to admit such a thing, so I guess I'll be the one stuck with this dirty work: You see, I liked easy-listening, and dangit, when WTFM went oldies-to-today in 1986, it left a void for me. I noticed a North Carolina FM station running the first satellite format I ever came across, called "The Breeze", but it wasn't really easy-listening. Then I eventually noticed "East Tennessee's Beautiful 79".
It seemed to have a limited number of songs that had to be used repeatedly. A few I remember were - and I'll get the most embarrassing one out of the way first - There was some 60's song that had lyrics with puns using country names. The one that stuck in my brain was "I wanna touch your warm Brazil". (I didn't consider this to be "easy" to "listen" to.) They also played an instrumental version of Taco's rendition of "Puttin' On the Ritz", and the 10cc recording of "I'm Not in Love"!
One thing it did accomplish was this: I always thought an easy-listening station should have a female DJ. And WETB had one, in the form of someone who only identified herself as "J.C.", or was it "Jacey"? She was also the voice of half or more of the commercials on the station. I thought she did pretty good.
WETB would become a gospel station in 1989.
I don't know who else wants to admit such a thing, so I guess I'll be the one stuck with this dirty work: You see, I liked easy-listening, and dangit, when WTFM went oldies-to-today in 1986, it left a void for me. I noticed a North Carolina FM station running the first satellite format I ever came across, called "The Breeze", but it wasn't really easy-listening. Then I eventually noticed "East Tennessee's Beautiful 79".
It seemed to have a limited number of songs that had to be used repeatedly. A few I remember were - and I'll get the most embarrassing one out of the way first - There was some 60's song that had lyrics with puns using country names. The one that stuck in my brain was "I wanna touch your warm Brazil". (I didn't consider this to be "easy" to "listen" to.) They also played an instrumental version of Taco's rendition of "Puttin' On the Ritz", and the 10cc recording of "I'm Not in Love"!
One thing it did accomplish was this: I always thought an easy-listening station should have a female DJ. And WETB had one, in the form of someone who only identified herself as "J.C.", or was it "Jacey"? She was also the voice of half or more of the commercials on the station. I thought she did pretty good.
WETB would become a gospel station in 1989.