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LEGENDS 102.7: NOW THAT'S VARIETY FOR YOU!!

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Savage

Sitting in the doctor's waiting room, it was impossible to miss the music mix yesterday morning being played by Legends 102.7 and heard on the office PA system:

Working In The Coal Mine, Lee Dorsey....then Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash....and...no, seriously...Play That Funky Music from the timeless Wild Cherry.

C'mon, guys. You can do better than this. Where are the Cowsills? Mitch Miller? Blue Oyster Cult?? :D
 
I do believe you'll hear "The Rain, the Park, and Other Things" if you listen long enough, but WLGZ does need more cow bell.
 
Savage said:
Sitting in the doctor's waiting room, it was impossible to miss the music mix yesterday morning being played by Legends 102.7 and heard on the office PA system:

Working In The Coal Mine, Lee Dorsey....then Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash....and...no, seriously...Play That Funky Music from the timeless Wild Cherry.

C'mon, guys. You can do better than this. Where are the Cowsills? Mitch Miller? Blue Oyster Cult?? :D
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You mean you missed Perry Como followed by the Rolling Stones?

A good logo for Legends should be " We've got something for everyone!"
 
Mark_Giardina said:
You mean you missed Perry Como followed by the Rolling Stones?
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As bizarre as that may seem, note two things: 1) WLGZ is attracting listeners (it was on in that doctor's office, and displacing the workplace radio station is no easy task) and 2) at least they're not doing a pre-fab over-researched canned format with out-of-market VTs. Say what you will about the way WLGZ is programmed, you have to at least give them credit for thinking outside the box.
 
I remember a cacophonous format early-on in my days at WEBR that went something like this:

NEWS
Lovely Lady From Shady Lane-Mills Brothers
Physical-Olivia Newton John
Take Five-Dave Brubeck
Country Roads-John Denver
STOP SET
A Tisket A Tasket-Ella Fitzgerald
White Sportcoat-Marty Robbins
You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine-Lou Rawles
String Of Pearls-Glenn Miller
Tiger By The Tail-Buck Owens
STOP SET

And I'm not kidding!
If you press it I will give full credit to the program director...by name.
 
As bizarre as that may seem, note two things: 1) WLGZ is attracting listeners (it was on in that doctor's office, and displacing the workplace radio station is no easy task) and 2) at least they're not doing a pre-fab over-researched canned format with out-of-market VTs. Say what you will about the way WLGZ is programmed, you have to at least give them credit for thinking outside the box.
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Scoot-

I'm the first to give credit where credit is due. Legends audience has grown and they do offer what most other radio stations playing music don't; live announcers versus voice-tracking.

I wish the folks at Legends the very best, but they really need to work on expanding their music rotation.

MG
 
I just took a look at their monitored airplay for the past seven days and WLGZ has about 1,000 different tracks listed. Granted, some were played five or more times, but that's pretty deep compared to just about anyone else.
 
scooterodell said:
As bizarre as that may seem, note two things: 1) WLGZ is attracting listeners (it was on in that doctor's office, and displacing the workplace radio station is no easy task) and 2) at least they're not doing a pre-fab over-researched canned format with out-of-market VTs. Say what you will about the way WLGZ is programmed, you have to at least give them credit for thinking outside the box.
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It always seems to be on in the 7-11 at Monroe and Meigs when I stop in there, too. And it occupies presets numbers 1 through 5 in my mother's car - though after I exposed her to the 50s-60s oldies on WFBL in Syracuse a few months back while we were driving through, there's been a constant refrain of, "I wish we had a station like that one we heard in Syracuse."
 
Just a gentle, and most friendly poke in the ribs, guys. There is no question that it's fun to listen to.

Bring it! Lipps Inc.! Red Foley & Kitty Wells! Calcutta from Lawrence Welk! Survivor! Miss Toni Wells! Annette Funicello!
 
"Bring it!  Lipps Inc.!  Red Foley & Kitty Wells!  Calcutta from Lawrence Welk!  Survivor!  Miss Toni Wells!  Annette Funicello!+


Uh, err...Mr. Savage, could you possibly mean Miss Toni Fisher of "The Big Hurt" fame?
 
"Working In The Coal Mine, Lee Dorsey....then Folsom Prison Blues, Johnny Cash....and...no, seriously...Play That Funky Music from the timeless Wild Cherry.
C'mon, guys. You can do better than this. Where are the Cowsills? Mitch Miller? Blue Oyster Cult??"

Comin' up next, right after the news, on Legends 102.7---forget Jack and Fickle, we're REALLY playing what we want!

;D
 
Bob1370 said:
Comin' up next, right after the news, on Legends 102.7-
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What news? The station doesn't offer any news; national or local. Apparently management doesn't feel the audience they are targeting wants to know what is going on in the world or here in Rochester. When I'm in the car traveling on business I have switch from Legends to another station just to hear the news. ::)
 
Seems "Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five would be appropriate for WLGZ and the AC-Oldies-Standards thing that WEBR was doing back then. Yowsa!
 
Yes, Miss Toni FISHER. "The Big Hurt," 1960. Thank you yugoidar. "Shouldn't drink all that cough syrup on the way to work in the morning." I plead guilty to absent-mindedly typing the name of a CLIENT instead of the one-hit-wonder.

See? This is what it comes to when you run your own station. Priorities get mixed up.
 
I duly note that Fickle and Legends are both playing Blondie and Foreigner. "One Way or Another" was an "almost-drive-off-the-road" moment when it first dropped on 102.7; and then "Double Vision" was another one a couple of weekends ago. I expect that there is more overlap than that now.

My one suggestion would be for Legends to stop calling the add of incremental circa-1980's tracks "new music," if they haven't done that already. Perhaps new to the playlist but still 20+ years old.

And thanks duly noted to Mr. Savage for costing me money since now I'll have to find "Calcutta" on iTunes. I hadn't thought about that a-wunnerful a-number since I was about six years old!
 
Be careful, next you'll want to download Jorgen Ingmann's "Apache," "Topsy, Part 2," "Teen Beat" and The Surfari's "Wipeout" just to hear the psychotic laugh... and by that time, you're beyond rehab.
 
.....or how about Chad Romero's Hippy Hippy Shake followed up by Barry Manilow's Copacabana.
Maybe I'll call 'em up and suggest they play Peppermint Rainbow's Will You Be Stayin' After Sunday....(Drake's drum roll.....1969).

Just ta play devil's advocate here: We're all lookin' at Legend's mix from a angle of being in the business. Having programed radio stations before or working for a tightly formatted station. But do you think the average listener out there who may be the one to call up a station to say they heard a song on that station the other day and I know you've got it cuz I heard it just the other day. Yeah, they heard it the other day on the Drive or on Warm cuz they're close in frequency. Or to the average listener who doesn't pick up the fact that they sometimes run the weather bed with no pre-recorded weather forecast in it. The reason all the stations have come and gone through history is because they've done it the way you're 'supposed' to program a station. But Legends is breaking outta the 'box' and doing it their way. I bet they don't have some consultant in Big City USA flyin' in for a weekend giving his 2 cents worth and the PD and GM bowin' to him and implementing his suggestions.
What do ya'll think of that perspective?

Bill
 
I understand where you are coming from, but allow me to add some comments please.
You mentioned the music repetition at two other Rochester radio stations. Well, from my perspective, Legends is falling into a similar format by featuring the same songs on a continuous basis. Legend’s format is supposed to span three decades; that’s one hell of a lot of songs that could be played. As an example a listeners shouldn’t have to hear the same Dean Martin tune three times in a week.
The fact that some doctor’s offices are replacing WRMM with Legends only proves that the station has great potential, even if its just background music. The fact that Legends doubled its audience from the fall to spring book is another indication that the station has no where to go but up.
Legends doesn’t have to go out and hire veteran talent and pay big salaries in order to make the station more marketable. They have some good people already on staff and I know that their sales have picked up considerably.
Right now Legends is balancing on a high wire. It could either fall into the abyss or it could make it to the end and offer something different to its listeners.
Crawford has a decision to make. Either do it the right way or the cheap way. It's their call.
 
VOR -

Music rotation and library depth aren't really money issues. What do you mean by "the right way or the cheap way"?
 
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