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Chubby Checker & The Twist Re: MIKE Plays everything, over and over
I think Chubby Checker was on a mission to get "The Twist" back on oldies stations. It really is stunning that they don't play that short, lively and important song. Someone mentioned "Blueberry Hill", it is such a classic.
Led Zeppelin's bootleg version is also a gem. Jimmy Page's guitar lines doing the piano work. Nice! The human brain gets bored quickly, but you can't tell the consultants that. Spicing up the radio is essential, but Mike FM just didn't - and still doesn't - get it.
I think Chubby Checker was on a mission to get "The Twist" back on oldies stations. It really is stunning that they don't play that short, lively and important song. Someone mentioned "Blueberry Hill", it is such a classic.
Led Zeppelin's bootleg version is also a gem. Jimmy Page's guitar lines doing the piano work. Nice! The human brain gets bored quickly, but you can't tell the consultants that. Spicing up the radio is essential, but Mike FM just didn't - and still doesn't - get it.
Re: Chubby Checker & The Twist Re: MIKE Plays everything, over and over
The thing with the Twist was it was not offically available on CD until last year (the ORIGINAL version not these re-recordings)
Varulven said:I think Chubby Checker was on a mission to get "The Twist" back on oldies stations. It really is stunning that they don't play that short, lively and important song. Someone mentioned "Blueberry Hill", it is such a classic.
Led Zeppelin's bootleg version is also a gem. Jimmy Page's guitar lines doing the piano work. Nice! The human brain gets bored quickly, but you can't tell the consultants that. Spicing up the radio is essential, but Mike FM just didn't - and still doesn't - get it.
The thing with the Twist was it was not offically available on CD until last year (the ORIGINAL version not these re-recordings)
Re: Chubby Checker & The Twist Re: MIKE Plays everything, over and over
Actually, if you're talking about the original version of "The Twist", it was first written and recorded by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters in 1958. His original version was a Top Ten R&B hit, but it didn't cross over to pop until it was reissued a couple of years later following the success of Checker's #1 crossover hit cover, at which time Ballard's reissue also became a minor pop hit.
Chubby Checker (real name Ernest Evans), produced by Dick Clark, covered "The Twist" practically note for note (but a bit smoother with a little less grit) about two years after Ballard's original and took it to #1 pop. Though Checker was also African-American, he was considered a much "safer" artist to promote as a teen pop crossover act in those days, as Ballard had been known for risque R&B songs in the 50's such as "Work With Me Annie", follow up "Annie Had A Baby", and "Sexy Ways".
At first Ballard didn't even know Checker had covered the song. He had said that the first moment he heard it on the radio he thought he was hearing himself. He did go on to have two pop Top Ten crossover hits of his own in 1960, "Finger Poppin' Time", and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go". Ballard continued to tour and occasionally record until his death at 66 in 2003.
Check out the original Twist here: "The Twist" - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - .mp3
chitchatjf said:The thing with the Twist was it was not offically available on CD until last year (the ORIGINAL version not these re-recordings)
Actually, if you're talking about the original version of "The Twist", it was first written and recorded by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters in 1958. His original version was a Top Ten R&B hit, but it didn't cross over to pop until it was reissued a couple of years later following the success of Checker's #1 crossover hit cover, at which time Ballard's reissue also became a minor pop hit.
Chubby Checker (real name Ernest Evans), produced by Dick Clark, covered "The Twist" practically note for note (but a bit smoother with a little less grit) about two years after Ballard's original and took it to #1 pop. Though Checker was also African-American, he was considered a much "safer" artist to promote as a teen pop crossover act in those days, as Ballard had been known for risque R&B songs in the 50's such as "Work With Me Annie", follow up "Annie Had A Baby", and "Sexy Ways".
At first Ballard didn't even know Checker had covered the song. He had said that the first moment he heard it on the radio he thought he was hearing himself. He did go on to have two pop Top Ten crossover hits of his own in 1960, "Finger Poppin' Time", and "Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go". Ballard continued to tour and occasionally record until his death at 66 in 2003.
Check out the original Twist here: "The Twist" - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - .mp3
Re: Chubby Checker & The Twist Re: MIKE Plays everything, over and over
Agreeed! What I was reffering to was the OROIGINAL version of Chubby's recording.
Eli Polonsky said:chitchatjf said:The thing with the Twist was it was not offically available on CD until last year (the ORIGINAL version not these re-recordings)
Actually, if you're talking about the original version of "The Twist", it was first written and recorded by Hank Ballard and The Midnighters in 1958. His original version was a Top Ten R&B hit, but it didn't cross over to pop until it was reissued a couple of years later following the success of Checker's #1 crossover hit cover, at which time Ballard's reissue also became a minor pop hit.
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Check out the original Twist here: "The Twist" - Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - .mp3
Agreeed! What I was reffering to was the OROIGINAL version of Chubby's recording.
Eli rules! Re: MIKE Plays everything, over and over
Eli, I'm always impressed with your vast knowledge. Chubby's manager sent me a maxi-single - a friend of
Bobby Hebb's knows Chubby and we were thinking of a double bill. There's such a ton of great old and new
music out there that the MIKE FM thing, although intriguing when they play Dean Martin and Guns 'n' Roses,
doesn't do enough to go deep dEEEP into catalog.
Last night I was in New York (up 27 hours straight) and saw Buzzy Linhart (co-author of my/our Hendrix book)
perform with Phoebe Snow, Ian Lloyd of Stories, Luther Rix from Ten Wheel Drive, it was an incredible performance - the legendary David Maxwell (Freddy King) on keys for a bit until Moogy Klingman (Utopia)
couldn't stand the heat and asked him to back off. You've met your match, Moogy! But seeing a packed
house in Manhattan on a hot summer's night and hearing this music which gets NO support from MIKE FM,
it's the real deal. This is the stuff Mike should be playing. Heck, Howard Stern had Buzzy on awhile back
and on the radio station in NY they re-played a lot of the Stern bits, I hear - Howard singing with Buzzy &
Moogy.
Which is why Howard Stern is so popular - he can mix and match and MIKE FM can't...or won't.
MIKE FM could grab some of Chubby Checker's MANY chart hits (21; 23 if you include The Twist's 3 chart
entries including with THE FAT BOYS in July of 1988 - YO! TWIST
Hey, what about THE FAT BOYS & THE BEACH BOYS - couldn't MIKE FM pull out a lot of the crossover stuff, do they play AEROSMITH / RUN DMC ? That's an easy one.
Eli, I'm always impressed with your vast knowledge. Chubby's manager sent me a maxi-single - a friend of
Bobby Hebb's knows Chubby and we were thinking of a double bill. There's such a ton of great old and new
music out there that the MIKE FM thing, although intriguing when they play Dean Martin and Guns 'n' Roses,
doesn't do enough to go deep dEEEP into catalog.
Last night I was in New York (up 27 hours straight) and saw Buzzy Linhart (co-author of my/our Hendrix book)
perform with Phoebe Snow, Ian Lloyd of Stories, Luther Rix from Ten Wheel Drive, it was an incredible performance - the legendary David Maxwell (Freddy King) on keys for a bit until Moogy Klingman (Utopia)
couldn't stand the heat and asked him to back off. You've met your match, Moogy! But seeing a packed
house in Manhattan on a hot summer's night and hearing this music which gets NO support from MIKE FM,
it's the real deal. This is the stuff Mike should be playing. Heck, Howard Stern had Buzzy on awhile back
and on the radio station in NY they re-played a lot of the Stern bits, I hear - Howard singing with Buzzy &
Moogy.
Which is why Howard Stern is so popular - he can mix and match and MIKE FM can't...or won't.
MIKE FM could grab some of Chubby Checker's MANY chart hits (21; 23 if you include The Twist's 3 chart
entries including with THE FAT BOYS in July of 1988 - YO! TWIST
Hey, what about THE FAT BOYS & THE BEACH BOYS - couldn't MIKE FM pull out a lot of the crossover stuff, do they play AEROSMITH / RUN DMC ? That's an easy one.
Re: Eli rules! Re: MIKE Plays everything, over and over
I perceive "Mike FM" and the "adult/variety hits" format as essentially a jockless 70's-80's-90's pop hits oldies station for the generation one notch younger than the WODS and WROR listeners. They may throw in the occasional big-name classic country hit (such as Johnny Cash) or MOR pop standard hit (such as Dean Martin) once in a while to give it some "kitch" factor, but they're not going to go really deep anywhere and risk losing ratings among the mainstream listenership.
Sounds like an interesting concert, but an "adult hits" station can't get significant enough ratings among the mainstream radio listenership by playing those artists nowadays. There are enough deeper music afficionados in NYC to pack a theater/club for a show like that, but you won't hear them played on NYC's "Jack" station WCBS-FM 101.1 (NYC's "Mike" equivalent). You may hear some of them there on specialty shows on non-comm/public radio stations such as WFUV from Fordham University.
Stern's popularity has very little to do with any musical guests he may have had on occasionally. His mass appeal is all about his talent programming titillation and controversy as America's premier "shock jock".
I've heard the Aerosmith/Run DMC version of "Walk This Way" on "Mike".
Varulven said:There's such a ton of great old and new music out there that the MIKE FM thing, although intriguing when they play Dean Martin and Guns 'n' Roses, doesn't do enough to go deep dEEEP into catalog.
I perceive "Mike FM" and the "adult/variety hits" format as essentially a jockless 70's-80's-90's pop hits oldies station for the generation one notch younger than the WODS and WROR listeners. They may throw in the occasional big-name classic country hit (such as Johnny Cash) or MOR pop standard hit (such as Dean Martin) once in a while to give it some "kitch" factor, but they're not going to go really deep anywhere and risk losing ratings among the mainstream listenership.
Varulven said:Last night I was in New York (up 27 hours straight) and saw Buzzy Linhart (co-author of my/our Hendrix book) perform with Phoebe Snow, Ian Lloyd of Stories, Luther Rix from Ten Wheel Drive, it was an incredible performance - the legendary David Maxwell (Freddy King) on keys for a bit until Moogy Klingman (Utopia) couldn't stand the heat and asked him to back off. You've met your match, Moogy! But seeing a packed house in Manhattan on a hot summer's night and hearing this music which gets NO support from MIKE FM, it's the real deal. This is the stuff Mike should be playing.
Sounds like an interesting concert, but an "adult hits" station can't get significant enough ratings among the mainstream radio listenership by playing those artists nowadays. There are enough deeper music afficionados in NYC to pack a theater/club for a show like that, but you won't hear them played on NYC's "Jack" station WCBS-FM 101.1 (NYC's "Mike" equivalent). You may hear some of them there on specialty shows on non-comm/public radio stations such as WFUV from Fordham University.
Varulven said:Heck, Howard Stern had Buzzy on awhile back and on the radio station in NY they re-played a lot of the Stern bits, I hear - Howard singing with Buzzy & Moogy. Which is why Howard Stern is so popular - he can mix and match and MIKE FM can't...or won't.
Stern's popularity has very little to do with any musical guests he may have had on occasionally. His mass appeal is all about his talent programming titillation and controversy as America's premier "shock jock".
Varulven said:... couldn't MIKE FM pull out a lot of the crossover stuff, do they play AEROSMITH / RUN DMC ? That's an easy one.
I've heard the Aerosmith/Run DMC version of "Walk This Way" on "Mike".
Good - pragmatic - points, Eli, however with Tony Bennett's success with the youth market, and the
"Bachelor Pad" craze of kids listening to Ferrante & Teicher, Esquivel, "Telstar" and other cool, innovative
old discs, one never knows what niche a MIKE FM could tap into if they had a little creative spark.
Playing Dean Martin for a jolt is a tease. The Bachelor Pad thing would make for a nice weekend show for
MIKE.
By the way, though radio is a hobby for me, I should be back on the air in about 2 weeks with my
JoeVigTop40 - the reviews of mine that have posted and unveiling all the great new music that comes
to my office - the new Tommy James album. To keep the disruptive forces away, I'll let you know what
station offlist, Eli. It's further up the dial than I've ever been.
"Bachelor Pad" craze of kids listening to Ferrante & Teicher, Esquivel, "Telstar" and other cool, innovative
old discs, one never knows what niche a MIKE FM could tap into if they had a little creative spark.
Playing Dean Martin for a jolt is a tease. The Bachelor Pad thing would make for a nice weekend show for
MIKE.
By the way, though radio is a hobby for me, I should be back on the air in about 2 weeks with my
JoeVigTop40 - the reviews of mine that have posted and unveiling all the great new music that comes
to my office - the new Tommy James album. To keep the disruptive forces away, I'll let you know what
station offlist, Eli. It's further up the dial than I've ever been.
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