pbr said:
Dayton's Ultimate Oldies radio is interested in adding more tunes to its 5,000 tune library. Of interest are those local hits from 1955 through 1974. Tunes which were Top 40 locally; but barely charted or got nowhere nationally. Sometimes it would be a local group. Other times a recording from elsewhere that somehow clicked in Dayton or Cincinnati.
How can we get a comprehensive list of these local hits? Send your thoughts to
[email protected] .
A good source of information might be the charts that the various radio stations printed each week and handed out at the record stores. Anyone have access to a complete collection of these charts?
PBR:
Glad to see you liked the idea I e-mailed to you Sunday night. There's just one problem with doing it the way you're trying to do it:
There is no such list of "Dayton" records out there. No such list exists on the internet...or anywhere else.
To know what songs to play...you had to be there. You had to be a kid, like me at age 9 or 10 in 1966-1967 glued to the transistor radio listening to WING...following the charts...seeing what was truly big from the local area, what was significant to the local area and what wasn't significant at all.
Sure...you can look at music surveys from WING and WSAI. If you had a large collection of them, you might find some of the titles I'm referring to. But, don't just think because it made the bottom 20 on those stations that you have, necessarily, the songs that were indigenous to the WING's and WSAI's of the world that anyone might actually care about.
You see...great as some of those stations were back then...they played more than their share of stiffs. And you don't want to be playing those.
If I thought really hard and made a "list", it would likely be quite smaller than you may be thinking. That's why I suggested in my e-mail of combining the "Dayton" tunes with "recognizable" yet "off the beaten path" oldies from the 60's and 70's. I suggested offering my services to you in a form which I could conceivably do, producing the program in my home studio and making it available to you as, kinda of a "syndicated" show (sans commercials, of course.)
I only thought that, perhaps, you might be interested in the expertise I have...having been the guy who completely rebuilt WING's oldies library in the 80's...(well over 2000 songs), someone with a music collection that exceeds 140,000 song titles of all different musical genres. Someone who could give you a program that would sound as professional as you are all trying to be. Someone who has programmed oldies stations successfully and not simply relied on the same 450 songs or so over and over and over. Someone who has counted as valued colleagues and/or friends, Dick Bartley and Dusty Rhodes, just to name a few.
If you're still interested, I'd love to hear from you.
