I give up

[NashRadio]

Nashville will never have a radio station with a format that is remotely creative or innovative or even interesting. I guess other cities have the same problem, but this was very discouraging. About like the 118 times 104.5 changed nicknames, + wound up playing the EXACT SAME SONGS. If people listen to these stations, they deserve what they get.

 

[firepoint525]

"57 channels, and nothing on!" :

 

[bub]

"All this music and nothing to play." ;D

 

[Prais]

My i-pods are fabulous.

oldies
40's 50's
beautiful music

People who are literate enough to pronounce artist's names, properly (me).

And the biggest benefit; I car-pool with my boss and can drown her out with Jo Stafford or Mantovani.

 

[bub]

My i-pods are fabulous.

oldies
40's 50's
beautiful music

People who are literate enough to pronounce artist's names, properly (me).

And the biggest benefit; I car-pool with my boss and can drown her out with Jo Stafford or Mantovani.

What if she sings along to Mantovani? ;D

 

[deltas69]

What if she sings along to Mantovani? well here's a chance to start a thread about the Shell Dinner Hour circa 1971 @ WFMG in Gallatin.....but I won't... no need to thank me..too much of late concerning the G city as it is.........

 

[Prais]

To quote Winston Churchill, "Never, never, never, never give up."

O, and she might HUM along, as only a few Mantovani songs are "sung" or maybe she could hum along with Andre Kostelanetz, or Roger Williams, or 101 Strings, or Percy Faith, or Bert Kaempfert, or Werner Mueller, or...you get the idea.

I still play them all on the closed circut information tv channel I operate at a 100 bed nursing home. Beautiful!

 

[bub]

What if she sings along to Mantovani? well here's a chance to start a thread about the Shell Dinner Hour circa 1971 @ WFMG in Gallatin.....but I won't... no need to thank me..too much of late concerning the G city as it is.........

Oh, go ahead and do it! And after you start it, have an Arbor Mist. ;D

O, and she might HUM along, as only a few Mantovani songs are "sung" or maybe she could hum along with Andre Kostelanetz, or Roger Williams, or 101 Strings, or Percy Faith, or Bert Kaempfert, or Werner Mueller, or...you get the idea.

Or the Mitch Miller Singers. You're on your own, however, trying to find a bouncing ball.

 

[TheBigA]

There is simply no way any one station will be able to play music that everyone will like. Regardless of format. You can't take a mass medium and expect it to serve individual tastes. The best you can do is target practice. Set up a big enough target and shoot arrows somewhere in the vicinity.

The big thing I've noticed is the lack of tolerance people have for music they either don't know or don't like. That's changed. In the old days, people were more patient with their radio station. They'd sit through a song that hated with the hope that at some point, they might get their favorite. Even if it took all day and hundreds of commercials. Today they won't sit through one commercial.

I think people are looking for someone or something to bring us together. Even the talk stations alienate people. It's hard to find that one thing that works. When you find it, let me know.

 

[Prais]

The Big A said; "In the old days, people were more patient with their radio station"

Exactkt. And lots of radio stations played "a big variety" - even "top 40" back then had Kyu Sakamoto, Dave Brubeck, Elvis and Sinatra all on the same station.

 

[deltas69]

Andre Kostelanetz, or Roger Williams, or 101 Strings, or Percy Faith, or Bert Kaempfert, or Werner Mueller well..add all the big band artists from the war era..and you have the format of WFMG in 1970/71...i remember getting calls when we inched up to sergio mendes/brazill 66...STOP PLAYING THAT ROCK AND ROLL........

 

[TheBigA]

People are shocked to find out that WSM-AM was not originally a country station, and didn't become one until the 80s. They were a full-service AM that played the Opry.

I don't think a station like that would work today. You mention Brubeck, Elvis and Sinatra. But I heard the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Al Hirt, Ray Charles, Los Bravos, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash, and Napoleon the 14th singing "They're Coming To Take Me Away" all on the same station.

 

[olebud]

People are shocked to find out that WSM-AM was not originally a country station, and didn't become one until the 80s.

It must have been early 80. I got there in November 80 and it was all country.
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[Prais]

Big A, you are correct.

One reason why a "full service station" that plays music wouldn't work on a blowtorch is that ascrap and bmi would take their percentage of the "gross profit." That's why most of them are news/talk any more.

Another reason is the audience for those artists mentioned is way over 60. If you are 40, you won't sit still for Mantovani, or even Sinatra.

 

[Evangelist]

Big A, you are correct.

One reason why a "full service station" that plays music wouldn't work on a blowtorch is that ascrap and bmi would take their percentage of the "gross profit." That's why most of them are news/talk any more.

Another reason is the audience for those artists mentioned is way over 60. If you are 40, you won't sit still for Mantovani, or even Sinatra.

Mantovani, no. But the Chairman of the Board is timeless.

 

[barnaby_wilde]

But I heard the Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Al Hirt, Ray Charles, Los Bravos, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash, and Napoleon the 14th singing "They're Coming To Take Me Away" all on the same station.

Me, too! I am one of those who remember the old days and therefore am no longer a relevant demographic for radio. I remember taking my daughter to high school and how she would change the channel at the end of every song. I heard more of the last parts of songs than I care to mention. No patience at all for radio. Now that she is grown up (about a dozen years later), I was working at her house all day yesterday and she had WRLT on in the background. Not much of what they played was really my cup of tea, but it never got to the point that I had to rip the knob off and change the channel. Lots of variety, and not the same old same old. I guess us old fogies are still more patient with radio than the post-boomer generations. If we weren't, we wouldn't listen at all.

 

[NashRadio]

Just a little clarification on my original post

I don't hate the music. I will listen some. It's just that Cromwell has tried this before and obviously didn't like the result. And of all the possible other options of ready-mdae formats, or God forbid somthing new or original, made the easy (and wrong, by their own admission) - dare I say no-brain- chioce.

 

[TheBigA]

Re: Just a little clarification on my original post

I don't hate the music. I will listen some. It's just that Cromwell has tried this before and obviously didn't like the result. And of all the possible other options of ready-mdae formats, or God forbid somthing new or original, made the easy (and wrong, by their own admission) - dare I say no-brain- chioce.

Just an example of how totally tough it is to program a music radio station today. It's not because they don't want to try new & original. As often as you've heard these songs, imagine what it's like for the people who work at these stations. They're not playing those songs for themselves. When they get home, I promise you it's something completely different. Maybe Napolean the 14th! I remember those lyrics by heart.