Most bizarre KRTH weekend theme ever: Yes-vember in No-vember

[scooty430]

This weekend's theme is "Yes-vember in No-vember."

Apparently the idea is they will be saying "yes" to requests. The promos say they will be playing songs "you haven't heard in awhile." The one song I remember in the promo I heard today is "Judy In Disguise."

Well, put your money where your mouth is, K-Earth!

 

[DoctorWu]

I give Jhani big props for remaining inventive. The station's sure seen an upswing since he took over.

-- Doc

 

[oldiesfan6479]

Upswing indeed.

A lot more creative than summer 2004 and an "All My Guy Weekend."

Well it just seemed like it was from the number of times I heard the song
over a three-day period. :

And this theme sure beats all Christmas music, which the C(BS) classic hits
stations in Boston and Phoenix (at least) have flipped to. Closed circuit for
Jhani: don't get any ideas!

 

[OCradiodude]

Sounds like they are taking a page from Dave Mason's playbook from the former Kool 99.3 in San Diego. He had an all request weekend as well, but this was different. Any song, no restrictions. Guaranteed play.

 

[scooty430]

The all-request aspect is very cool, if it's real. The title to me is what was a little bizarre. ??? Creative, but a little out there.

I would LOVE a "no restriction, automatic play" listener request like you describe in San Diego. They could say we'll play ANY Top 40 charting song from 1955 to 1985.

Can you imagine how wild and exciting it would be if they took the call live, had all those songs ready to go in the computer, and then played them? The suspense of what to hear.....the sheer VARIETY (real variety, not "radio world variety," David)....the jock/listener interaction? That would be fun, compelling radio that would generate a buzz.

 

[oldies76]

Typical KRTH...not surprised at all. Sounds worse than the Parade of Hits.

Want a REAL themed weekend Scooty430? Beginning 11/24 on KDZA JET 107.9 out of Pueblo, Co. they are doing the A to Z thing once again. This time though, they are going backwards from Z to A.

If it has any similarities to the A to Z they did in late May, it will be a very long specialty. The one in late May lasted almost 4 weeks (ending in late June), basically airing it only Monday thru Friday from 9am to 6pm, Mountain time.

We shall see! Stay tuned.

 

[scooty430]

Yes, today I heard someone request "Play That Funky Music White Boy" (the listener's version of the title) and "Wishing On A Star." Wow, what great requests.

On the other hand, I heard someone request a song I had never heard before around 2pm. I should look it up. OK, I did, and it was Chad and Jeremy's Yesterday's Gone.

While looking that up, I also saw on Yes.com they played: "Great Pretender," Beach Boys' "Shut Down," Sukiyaki, Polk Salad Annie, and Western Union. Those are very unusual for K-Earth to play. Other than that, typical fare.

A cool weekend would be 100 percent live requests, one after the other, all done on the spot. Maybe CBS-FM can try that - their weekends tend to be all-inclusive, rather than the "three interesting songs per hour" style.

I'll check out the Pueblo, CO countdown. After the CBS countdown, it's a little hard to beat, but who knows. I do want to check out the top 5 flashback thing and see what that is all about.

 

[oldies76]

The Top 5 on WCBS is just a year at random at the top of every hour..pretty neat. It's not the whole hour.

The version of Sukiyaki played on KRTH, I assume was the Kyu Sakamoto version from '63, not the '81 remake.

Yeah, a solid true request weekend would be nice. KRTH actually did that, long ago on Saturday nights in the mid 80's: The Saturday Night Request Show....those were the days, to be sure.

Hopefully some day, K-Earth will do a long special, like an extended 3000 song A - Z or something.

 

[scooty430]

If I ran K-Earth, the day after Christmas, I'd start the biggest countdown of all-time: the Top 10,001 Songs of All Time. Going from 1955 to 1989 (and maybe including some pre-rock that fits like Sinatra, Mr. Sandman, Come Softly To Me, The Thing....) they could get 10,000 songs.

They could put real thought into what is the Top 100, and the ultimate "best" song (rather than using their market research, which leans toward "safe" titles. "Your Song" was #4 last year! Ridiculous.)

They could promote the heck out of it during the Xmas music period, get a lot of press, and get people to tune in during that "in-between holidays" period when listening is low.

 

[oldies76]

If I ran K-Earth, the day after Christmas, I'd start the biggest countdown of all-time: the Top 10,001 Songs of All Time. Going from 1955 to 1989 (and maybe including some pre-rock that fits like Sinatra, Mr. Sandman, Come Softly To Me, The Thing....) they could get 10,000 songs.

That might be stretching it a bit, but who knows? If you played every song to chart at positions #1 through #10, from 1955 thru 1989, you'd only have 3394 songs. I'm afraid you might be getting into D.E.'s "Stiffs" beyond that.
You might have to go beyond position 25 or 30 for each year.

Would you go 24/7 or just daytime hours?

 

[Pronkie]

I listened a little bit Saturday afternoon......Beside "The Great Pretender"by the Platters or "Crying" by Roy Obrisbon, the usual playlist....

 

[scooty430]

If I ran K-Earth, the day after Christmas, I'd start the biggest countdown of all-time: the Top 10,001 Songs of All Time. Going from 1955 to 1989 (and maybe including some pre-rock that fits like Sinatra, Mr. Sandman, Come Softly To Me, The Thing....) they could get 10,000 songs.

That might be stretching it a bit, but who knows? If you played every song to chart at positions #1 through #10, from 1955 thru 1989, you'd only have 3394 songs. I'm afraid you might be getting into D.E.'s "Stiffs" beyond that.
You might have to go beyond position 25 or 30 for each year.

Would you go 24/7 or just daytime hours?

I'd say use any Top 40 charting song, plus any song that didn't hit the Top 40, but got a bit of airplay.

There are plenty of surprisingly lower charting songs out there that are fine to play, even if you stick to 70s and 80s. For example:

Boston - Long Time (#22 / 1977)
INXS - One Thing (#30 / 1983)
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes (#26 / 1983)
CSNY - Suite Judy Blue Eyes (#21 / 1969)

And of course songs that were only on albums:

Led Zep - Stairway to Heaven
Beach Boys - All Summer Long, Wendy

I'd say you'd have to go 24/7. It would take 2 weeks or more to do. Stopping at night would make it take a month.

 

[scooty430]

I listened a little bit Saturday afternoon......Beside "The Great Pretender"by the Platters or "Crying" by Roy Obrisbon, the usual playlist....

Here's what's really uncool: they played both of those songs TWICE! And I have heard Light My Fire THREE TIMES! Friday around 2, Saturday around 1, and Sunday around 11. Unacceptable.

It's telling that one of the callers said, "I'd like to hear Roy Orbison, but something OTHER than Pretty Woman, please." If only radio programmers would listen to how bored we are....

I did hear Puff the Magic Dragon on Saturday. That was pretty surprising. Another Saturday Night by Sam Cooke was a nice choice as well.

 

[RadioStarOne]

Have they played "White Lies, Blues Eyes by Bullet or Sunny Days by Lighthouse?

 

[scooty430]

Have they played "White Lies, Blues Eyes by Bullet or Sunny Days by Lighthouse?

No, but they did play Mack the Knife.

 

[radio124]

I did actually hear The Great Pretender 3x, again on Sunday at about 3:54 pm. If they wanted to play a Platters song they could have substituted My Prayer, Twilight Time or the beach music classic With This Ring from 1967.

 

[oldies76]

It's almost like KRTH is afraid to play songs, it has never or rarely played before (in the last 15 years or so).
What's the big deal? CBS-FM does it all the time. Playing any song 3 times a day is absurd and a great way to lose some of your listeners.

Themed weekends is something KRTH is not well-known for, with a few rare exceptions, like Z to A.

 

[radio124]

Maybe the websites Yes.com and Mediabase are somewhat responsible for our displeasure with KRTH. With these services one can review an entire weekend of programming within seconds. Back in the glory days of KRTH this would have been impossible to do since part of the time we would have been working, sleeping, visiting, dating, etc. I'm sure the KRTH of 1983 repeated songs on their Super Sixties Weekend. We just didn't have the technology to be as aware of it as we are now. I remember hearing "Sweet Cream Ladies Forward March" by the Box Tops a lot. Most likely it was played more than once.

 

[Marv-L.A.]

Besides that Box Tops tune, I can certainly think of several other tunes from that same year (1969) I'd love to hear...

Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon---Paul Revere & The Raiders
What Kind Of Fool Do You Think I Am?--Bill Deal & the Rhondells
In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus)---Zager & Evans
Hair---The Cowsills

There are lots of others of course, but those were off the top of my head.

I did hear Neil Diamond's exhilirating 'Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show' played immediately upon request, which was really startling.

Today's radio stations, regardless of format, don't trust or respect their listeners, and that's really deplorable.

 

[davideduardo]

Themed weekends is something KRTH is not well-known for, with a few rare exceptions, like Z to A.

Huh? KRTH pretty much burnt out the concept, particularly in the 90's, with every weekend being themed... the British Invasion Weekend and then the Girl Group Weekend and the Surfing Weekend and the...