KDZA 107.9 A to Z Countdown

[oldies76]

KDZA (JET) 107.9 (Pueblo, Colorado) is airing a huge number of hit songs beginning 5/27/08 (9am MT) in order from A to Z. They claim it'll take WEEKS to air them all (a few thousand songs). Should be an oldies and classic hits fans treat to say the least!

 

[oldies76]

A follow-up to this, KDZA has played nearly 100 songs now (as of 230pm MT) and they are still in the A's. This should give some perspective on how enormous this countdown is! A ton of songs that were "hits in their day" are being played...mainly mid 60's thru the mid 80's.

 

[ricoontheradio]

Any way they'll be able to stretch that out to be an A-Z Summer (all the way through Labor Day)? That'd be amazing, but I wonder how many non-hits they're playing. Do they stream? Might be fun just to check out.

 

[oldies76]

Rico Garcia Any way they'll be able to stretch that out to be an A-Z Summer (all the way through Labor Day)? That'd be amazing, but I wonder how many non-hits they're playing. Do they stream? Might be fun just to check out.

Yes, they stream...They are playing almost everything in sight that made the top 15 in the 70's / early 80's and selected tunes from the mid-late 60's and even a few that charted lower than position 15 on the Hot 100. They even played "Amazing Grace" by Judy Collins. Talk about non-hits! It runs daily from 9am to 6pm MT. As of 5pm today, they were just starting the C's.

 

[palalwanabe]

Amazing Grace charted #15........ non-hit?

 

[oldies76]

Well.. a hit for a time in '71. Actually it's "amazing" that songs like "Amazing Grace" and "Lord's Prayer" crossed over onto the Hot 100 in those days.

As of 9am today (8 days in) they are in the H's.

 

[palalwanabe]

Oldies76 you are 100% correct, call me old (61.5) but that was the beauty of the chart in the 50's - 70's the diversity of "the Lords Prayer" along side with The Eagles, Al Green, America, Ray Stevens, etc. The 50's "Flying Saucers", "Purple People Eater" with All shook up, Bluberry Hill. How do I get to the KDZA website to listen to this countdown.

 

[oldies76]

Go to: www.jet1079.com

Remember the A to Z countdown is only played 9am to 6pm MT, Monday thru Friday.

Day #10 and they are only in the letter I's. Tons of hits being played...about mid 60's to mid 80's.

 

[palalwanabe]

Thanxs Oldies76, I found it, listening To The Isley Brothers, "It's Your Thang"............Keep On Rockin'.

 

[palalwanabe]

jack and jill - radio............maybe jackie blue next?

 

[palalwanabe]

if they do the next sequence

jackson - nancy and lee hazelwood
jacobs ladder - huey lewis
jailhouse rock - elvis

they are doing a-z whitburn book ..........pretty kool!!!!!

 

[oldies76]

palawanabe they are doing a-z whitburn book ..........pretty kool!!!!!

Well almost...you won't hear a song that peak at #75, or even #25 probably, but you will hear just about every major national hit that was ever released in that 20 year time span (65-86)....give or take.

Day#10...only in the K's

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Glad I wasn't listening when they were well into the Bs,
specifically "Brown"... ;D

 

[oldies76]

Yeah...You'll only hear "Brown Eyed Girl" once during the actual A to Z. After 6pm and on weekends, they're doing the regular rotation.

Day 13..in the M's...yes, they even played 1968's MacArthur Park & 1970's Ma Belle Amie...everything's game on this huge promotion!!

 

[oldies76]

Day 21....in the Letter S. Even "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey was played!

 

[davideduardo]

Yeah...You'll only hear "Brown Eyed Girl" once during the actual A to Z. After 6pm and on weekends, they're doing the regular rotation.

Yet most listeners don't stay tuned if they don't hear their favorite songs often. Playing a bunch of stiffs and maybe one good song an hour is a way to go out of business. About as dumb a Spring Book promotion as I have heard of lately.

 

[Don62]

Yeah...You'll only hear "Brown Eyed Girl" once during the actual A to Z. After 6pm and on weekends, they're doing the regular rotation.

Yet most listeners don't stay tuned if they don't hear their favorite songs often. Playing a bunch of stiffs and maybe one good song an hour is a way to go out of business. About as dumb a Spring Book promotion as I have heard of lately.

Who are you to say what's a good song? David, you've demonstrated your utter lack of musical knowledge or taste here on these boards. The late Gene Pitney, who you attacked as being "mediocre" had more talent in one tooth than you, pal.

I guess the masses who bought millions of copies of Honey, Barry Manilow songs, and the many records put out by Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Paul Anka, Three Dog Night, Journey, Kansas, Styx, etc., they're all nobodies and don't mean a thing in some so-called consultant's limited world.

 

[surfdude]

I've been programming for many years, including three Oldies stations.
You would be surprised how many former "Hit" songs Oldies listeners
don't like at all. Local research can clearly show which songs
MOST (as in majority) listeners really like and don't like. And, yes
there are some songs in a gray area. The consensus number is around 500.
Play more songs than that, and you can forget about having any listeners under 50.
Play the big (researched today) hits and anthems from the 60s and 70s and you can still compete for advertising.

Playing HONEY by Bobby Goldsboro and MA BELLE AMIE by Tee Set is a recipe for a format change.

Programming music on the radio based on past charts would yield poor ratings.
Many past chart "hits" we're fueled by drugs, payola, and "favors" from record promoters.
Soundscan came into being in the late 80s and legitimized the charts, somewhat.

Mr. Eduardo knows his stuff.

 

[davideduardo]

Yet most listeners don't stay tuned if they don't hear their favorite songs often. Playing a bunch of stiffs and maybe one good song an hour is a way to go out of business. About as dumb a Spring Book promotion as I have heard of lately.

Who are you to say what's a good song? David, you've demonstrated your utter lack of musical knowledge or taste here on these boards. The late Gene Pitney, who you attacked as being "mediocre" had more talent in one tooth than you, pal.

I don't say what the good and the bad songs are. The listeners do. And I have seen plenty of oldies and classic hit research to know that, for example, the Gene Pitney songs are anatema to under-55's and only a few even have a weak pulse for 55+. The songs are worn, burnt, and not likable today.

Gene Pitney was talented and had a bunch of hits way back when. None are hits today. In any case, I am not a singer and he was not a radio programmer or researcher or manager, so its apples to oranges there... pal.

I guess the masses who bought millions of copies of Honey, Barry Manilow songs, and the many records put out by Connie Francis, Brenda Lee, Paul Anka, Three Dog Night, Journey, Kansas, Styx, etc., they're all nobodies and don't mean a thing in some so-called consultant's limited world.

It does not matter what a consultant thinks. What matters is whether a lot of listeners want to hear songs by any of those artists TODAY. Are the songs hits, today, among listeners? If very few want to hear those songs, then there is no way they can be played.

As has already been posted... especially in the very to-the-point comment by Surfdude... charting in 1962 is meaningless today. The question to the listener is "how much do you want to hear that song on the radio today?"

 

[oldies76]

DavidEduardo Yet most listeners don't stay tuned if they don't hear their favorite songs often. Playing a bunch of stiffs and maybe one good song an hour is a way to go out of business. About as dumb a Spring Book promotion as I have heard of lately.

They've only just begun! Tell the PD your ideas and then tell us.

This isn't 1990's radio anymore..it's 2008 and times have changed for the targeted age group here. They want more than just your 300 boring oldies. Get with it.