Has anyone come across any information on when HPR will actually be launched? We are now approaching the middle of October and their website still does not give any inclination of when it will start airing.
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Hit Parade Radio Launch?
- Thread starter KlunkLetter
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I always wondered if this thing would actually ever get started.
Looking for it and waiting.
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"Hit Parade" is a phrase John Rook has long been in love with. It's old, from the 40s I think. He called our chart at (then Top 40) KFI the Hit Parade. I agree, it seems pretty cheesy today.
“Your Hit Parade” (sponsored by the makers of Lucky Strike cigarettes) was a popular radio program broadcast from 1935 to 1955. Each Saturday evening, the program offered the most popular and bestselling songs of the week as determined by “the best sellers on sheet music and phonograph records, the songs most heard on the air and most played on the automatic coin machines.” The show's ad agencies never revealed the specific sources or the methods that were used to determine top hits, however they made a general statement that it was based mainly on "readings of radio requests, sheet music sales, dance-hall favorites and jukebox tabulations."CaptainShowbiz said:
A countdown with fanfares led to the top three finalist songs each week, with the number one song for the radio broadcast finale. Occasional performances of standards and other favorite songs from the past were known as "Lucky Strike Extras."
The weekly radio broadcasts presented live musical productions with orchestra and numerous memorable vocal talents such as, "Wee" Bonnie Baker, Dorothy Collins, Georgia Gibbs, Dick Haymes, Snooky Lanson, Gisèle MacKenzie, Johnny Mercer, Dinah Shore and occasional guest vocalists.
LS/MFT – Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco
Be happy, go Lucky,
Go Lucky Strike…
For the taste that delights,
Light up a Lucky Strike…
Right now… it’s Lucky light up time.
http://www.tobaccovideos.com/commercials/008luckystrike.html
Times have changed, a tobacco maker will no longer be a major (or minor) sponsor for any event, whether on radio, television or live event.
This is too bad, my childhood memories of the Lucky Strike Hit Parade bring back my [then] fascination with the music, and their advertisements never enticed me to begin or continue smoking.
Thanks for the memory – I remember the brand also, although I didn’t smoke them.Limp73 said:
See vintage printed ad: http://www.adclassix.com/a4/57hitparadecigarettes.html
Here is a video of the commercial opening for the televised “Your Hit Parade” program, sponsored by, of course, Hit Parade cigarettes.
http://www.flixya.com/video/241402/Hit_Parade_Cigarettes
Nah, they're not a day over 650.Prais said:
:Prais said:
I feel sorry for you thinking your iPod is better. A day in the future, you will be lamenting the greatness of your iPod when the younger generation will be touting the latest technological advances.
BTW, 700 year old has been dj's--just a little stretch of the facts?
klunk said; I feel sorry for you thinking your iPod is better. A day in the future, you will be lamenting the greatness of your iPod when the younger generation will be touting the latest technological advances.
WHAT? That's one reason why I HAVE an i-pod... so some old has been doofus in Texas doesn't play 20 commercials and pick the music for me.
I know what I like and there are 2000 songs on my i-pod, LOTS more than "hit parade radio" will play.
I feel sorry for YOU, being this old guys groupie, and clinging to a fossil that is SO over! Not 700 years old - is he 800?
So we are even.
WHAT? That's one reason why I HAVE an i-pod... so some old has been doofus in Texas doesn't play 20 commercials and pick the music for me.
I know what I like and there are 2000 songs on my i-pod, LOTS more than "hit parade radio" will play.
I feel sorry for YOU, being this old guys groupie, and clinging to a fossil that is SO over! Not 700 years old - is he 800?
So we are even.
There is something to say about we “old guys”, we’ve been around long enough to recognize talent and good music.
We “old guys” have, for the most part, more experience in radio behind us than the average jock of today will have in a lifetime. We, from the old days, were here when radio was an innovation; when jocks had to fly by the seats of their pants without the aid of computers doing their timing or playlists, when jocks had to squint through the glass and read the meters on the xmtr; switch between studio and remote feeds without the aid of a board op or producer, read commercial spots and answer the phone and hold the bladder and stay awake and alert on overnights to keep from having dead air.
Without the Hit Parade and the age of the big bands, the birth of rock&roll, jazz, pop and all the other genres of music … I’ll say you would have much fewer than 2000 tunes on your I-pod.
Without those who came before you, you would not be enjoying what you have today. I honor and respect those who came before me, no matter their age. Can you do the same?
We “old guys” have, for the most part, more experience in radio behind us than the average jock of today will have in a lifetime. We, from the old days, were here when radio was an innovation; when jocks had to fly by the seats of their pants without the aid of computers doing their timing or playlists, when jocks had to squint through the glass and read the meters on the xmtr; switch between studio and remote feeds without the aid of a board op or producer, read commercial spots and answer the phone and hold the bladder and stay awake and alert on overnights to keep from having dead air.
Without the Hit Parade and the age of the big bands, the birth of rock&roll, jazz, pop and all the other genres of music … I’ll say you would have much fewer than 2000 tunes on your I-pod.
Without those who came before you, you would not be enjoying what you have today. I honor and respect those who came before me, no matter their age. Can you do the same?
>>Without those who came before you, you would not be enjoying what you have today. I honor and respect those who came before me, no matter their age. Can you do the same?>>
Well said Grid. I still listen to the few great ones we have like Dick Biondi on WLS-FM.
There will never be another era like that one and I greatly respect all of the DJs from those days.
Well said Grid. I still listen to the few great ones we have like Dick Biondi on WLS-FM.
There will never be another era like that one and I greatly respect all of the DJs from those days.
Well - if local live dj's increased audience TODAY - they would be on the air. Its not 1967 any more.
You said;
"we’ve been around long enough to recognize talent and good music." Think about this; THAT is the motto of every generation. Talk to your parents (my mom is 82) about Benny Goodman.
Technology brought us "radio stations in a closet."You guys can recall
the "old guys." I can as well....but it won't do us any good. The old Lujack may have been great (for you not me) but someone needs to wake up "the new Lar".
Life goes on ....for better or worse, time marches on.....You are correct, "There will never be another era like that one" but those days are OVER.There will never be another era like THIS ONE, either.
I had a 1984 Ford Granada. It was a really nice, plush car that had a great engine. When I sold it, it had close to 200 thousand miles on it. I had an Oldsmobile. To quote Dinah Washington, "What a rocket!" It was worn out when i sold it, too.
The presentation of "Hit Parade Radio" sounds DULL. Especially Lujack, but also Wink make it FEEL like the old WAIT (am820) is now playing rock and roll. The music is really good but the presentation stinks.
Someone else must think so as well - or it would already be "on the air."
Meanwhlle, my i-pod works.... playing the same music (but more of it and to my exact taste) without paying for those guys. Then, I hit wgn for news on the hour. The news on the radio 150 miles from Chicago where I live - also sucks. VIOLA! I have my own CUSTOM station.
You said;
"we’ve been around long enough to recognize talent and good music." Think about this; THAT is the motto of every generation. Talk to your parents (my mom is 82) about Benny Goodman.
Technology brought us "radio stations in a closet."You guys can recall
the "old guys." I can as well....but it won't do us any good. The old Lujack may have been great (for you not me) but someone needs to wake up "the new Lar".
Life goes on ....for better or worse, time marches on.....You are correct, "There will never be another era like that one" but those days are OVER.There will never be another era like THIS ONE, either.
I had a 1984 Ford Granada. It was a really nice, plush car that had a great engine. When I sold it, it had close to 200 thousand miles on it. I had an Oldsmobile. To quote Dinah Washington, "What a rocket!" It was worn out when i sold it, too.
The presentation of "Hit Parade Radio" sounds DULL. Especially Lujack, but also Wink make it FEEL like the old WAIT (am820) is now playing rock and roll. The music is really good but the presentation stinks.
Someone else must think so as well - or it would already be "on the air."
Meanwhlle, my i-pod works.... playing the same music (but more of it and to my exact taste) without paying for those guys. Then, I hit wgn for news on the hour. The news on the radio 150 miles from Chicago where I live - also sucks. VIOLA! I have my own CUSTOM station.
Prais said:
Too bad bank accounts do not define a person's character, then you'd be a winner. Maybe someday you'll be featured on an 'Animal Stories' segment by that over the hill jock.
Prais said:
The only thing you got correct was the term, 'sir'. For that, I thank you. As for the term 'whiney wannabee', I'm not sure what that has to do with my comment. I am so happy for you making a name for yourself in radio. Congratulations.
Oh, BTW, I have bought several dogs in my lifetime and they got 'fixed'
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