this is advance copy ,which I own and use with my own permission,from next week's RHYTHM TRACKING column in NY's GOOD TIMES Magazine
RHYTHM TRACKING/Jimi LaLumia
ELVIS DURAN:
We start the year by naming Elvis Duran of the Z100 syndicated morning show our "New York Icon" for the year past. Hipsters have no problem admitting that they wake up with Elvis and company, and as a true Top 40 devotee, I have been all over Z100 since's it's earliest days, when I became the first person to feature Shannon, Ross, Jon Bell and all the rest in the full color pages of Long Island Nightlife Magazine and in the now dormant Island Ear(another music paper put to sleep by GOOD TIMES, like all the rest.); this was before they went 'from worst to first' and naysayers were saying that Top 40 would be a dead format for New York.
By the 90s, Elvis was blasting from the radio speakers in the afternoons into Jimi LaLumia's Record Connection in Lake Ronkonkoma; this was during the 'alternative rock' phase of pop music, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and all, and Elvis and I became phone friends for a while.He was quick to announce on the air a Jayne County appearance at CBGB when Bowie and Courtney Love were on the guest list,and he went out of his way to plug an downtown fund raiser headlining the fab Cherry Vanilla, while playing the latest from The Breeders or Alice In Chains.
He was, and is, very much in the mix of 'what's happening',which even now, should be a pre requisite for Top 40 radio. He and his crew are a pleasure to wake up to in the morning, and I'm happy to name him this year's "New York Icon." Rock on, Elvis.
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The latest attempt at dance radio in New York, Pulse, seems ready to give up the ghost.Industry message boards are flapping over the departure of air personalities,and the absence of substantial commercials to pay the bills. America is just not responsive to new dance tracks, such as they are, and there's no movement on the horizon that appears ready to change that.But I told you a long time ago that "Disco Sucks!", didn't I?
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RHYTHM TRACKING/Jimi LaLumia
ELVIS DURAN:
We start the year by naming Elvis Duran of the Z100 syndicated morning show our "New York Icon" for the year past. Hipsters have no problem admitting that they wake up with Elvis and company, and as a true Top 40 devotee, I have been all over Z100 since's it's earliest days, when I became the first person to feature Shannon, Ross, Jon Bell and all the rest in the full color pages of Long Island Nightlife Magazine and in the now dormant Island Ear(another music paper put to sleep by GOOD TIMES, like all the rest.); this was before they went 'from worst to first' and naysayers were saying that Top 40 would be a dead format for New York.
By the 90s, Elvis was blasting from the radio speakers in the afternoons into Jimi LaLumia's Record Connection in Lake Ronkonkoma; this was during the 'alternative rock' phase of pop music, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and all, and Elvis and I became phone friends for a while.He was quick to announce on the air a Jayne County appearance at CBGB when Bowie and Courtney Love were on the guest list,and he went out of his way to plug an downtown fund raiser headlining the fab Cherry Vanilla, while playing the latest from The Breeders or Alice In Chains.
He was, and is, very much in the mix of 'what's happening',which even now, should be a pre requisite for Top 40 radio. He and his crew are a pleasure to wake up to in the morning, and I'm happy to name him this year's "New York Icon." Rock on, Elvis.
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The latest attempt at dance radio in New York, Pulse, seems ready to give up the ghost.Industry message boards are flapping over the departure of air personalities,and the absence of substantial commercials to pay the bills. America is just not responsive to new dance tracks, such as they are, and there's no movement on the horizon that appears ready to change that.But I told you a long time ago that "Disco Sucks!", didn't I?
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