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Mississippi AM Top 40 (from before many of you were born)
- Thread starter robgrayson
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I grew up listening to JDX and really enjoyed those clips. as mentioned earlier it always amazed me how they could end a song at the top of the hour and go into the news without ending early or cutting the song short. And they did it with songs that didn't fade out on the end which made it even more cool. One of my pet peeves of todays radio is they mess up the seques between songs. Since everything is computerized, the voice track at the beginning is drowned out by the music ( no actual DJ present to adjust the volume, or to speak louder). The cross fading drives me crazy on songs like "Stairway to Heaven, Slow Ride" etc.) the next song or annoucer starts before they stop singing. Thats a big no-no in my book. It's almost as bad as talking over the vocals after an intro. You should never start a song until the previous has completley ended unless the song fades out on the end. They are also doing that on TV. On scenes that fade to black, the commerical starts with only a frame or two between. The fade to black is often as important to the film as the film itself. When you listened to JDX back then, you were listening to an actual performance by the jock. They knew how to cue up songs at just the right moment without screwing up, The levels were always right because they could reach for the knob if something didn't sound right. A computer cannot read your mind and get everything right, and fix things on the fly if something doesn't quite work. A computor can never replace a real disk jockey.
i for one don't miss cueing vinyl, nor do i miss the sound of cue burn !!! as far as mkt testing songs, if the test is conducted in your mkt great, but to use a list of songs tested in chicago and apply it in mississippi, to me is toopid !!! i disagree about computer replacing a real disc jockey...of course it depends on how the system is set up, our current system at blakeney communications is set up so as to where we have volume controls, we can adjust the levels as we talk over songs or music beds, and we have the freedom to have fun while being informative too. maybe we are not the norm, as far as not having to talk but every 15-20 minutes, between answering phones and social networking on fb with listeners, almost everything i put on air goes on my fb page, traffic, wx, teasing upcoming contests etc, keeps me pretty busy !! also having the internet to get info is sweet !!! im not the most talented guy , but i love what i do !!! and take pride in running a tight board, im glad i dont have to back time into anything anymore !!!!
The timing was a vital part of what added to the listening experience. Not just back-timing going into news,etc., but in the tight delivery,as well. You just couldn't walk in and get a job at those places because you could push buttons, ya know. Recorded calls from listeners hitting the post over the intro of songs helped to keep you alert, for example, and some of the best segues out there have not been heard because you can't do it with voicetrack. You had to stay on your toes. Some jocks stood while on-air to move around. The fun of sharing those old airchecks back then was not in the music played, but what the jocks "said" and to match it (Or copy it. Thanks Robert, for "Morning Has Broken", by the way). The last second live interaction with music made the listener want to know what's next, as was said here before. Any ipod can play music. Like a lot of us,mine has more oldies than most oldies stations have, and more classic rock than most classic rock stations have. Heck, I love good music. In those days, it wasn't the high fidelity of the sound as much as it was the personality of the stations. It was a great time for radio.flytrap said:
timing is everything...always has been always will, thats a no brainer, i do phoners with listeners and contest winners...these things havent changed, computers arent a setback if utilized properly...all stations dont vt at least we dont..on sundays we do, but hell who wants to work 7 days a week?? finding part timers that have the drive to want to do this full time, even near a college town is a challenge.
Right on JBI...I started part time at 16.Full time at 17. age 23 found me at my fav station WTIX New Orleans.Nice gig working for the man that invented Top 40(Todd Storz). The 60's were the golden age in radio.We were all lucky to be a part of history.
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Lee Arthur "The House Rocker" Rhodes passed away about a year ago, March 11th, 2011. His Saturday night soul show moved from WOKK-AM (Country) to WALT-FM (Top 40) in the mid 70's. He always used an instrumental by E-W-F to get him into the live ABC Newscasts. And his longtime sponsor was the Miller distributor, "be sure and pick up plenty of Miller Ponies for your next good time."
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