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My Wife #$#.. KLUV

J

JRZFM100

My wife has decreed today that I can no longer listen to KLUV in the truck anymore when we drive together.

(I don't think it's at all related, but her demand comes after Jody did an appearance this morning at Prostate Day at USMD Medical Center.)

In the emerging conflict over KLUV, I asked her if she thought "irreconcilable difference due to KLUV radio" should be formally listed on our divorce decree.

She agreed that in theory the property division of our hypothetical split would allow me to retain of the AM/FM radios (to listen to KLUV) and she would receive all of the MP3 players.

What to do w/o KLuv? I KLUV my oldies!
 
According to 1.0 and only wife, she loathes the new 80's emphasis on KLUV. I think hearing Walking on Sunshine and Girls Just Want To Have Fun so frequently on KLUV has really struck a nerve.

On a positive note, she has stipulated to accept vehicular KLUV on Sundays, just not on Saturdays. So we have a 50/50 compromise. And I lose access to Charlie Tuna and the 70's .. no big loss there.

Previously I had asked her to allow KLUV to play during all East to West travel while having her station choice (99.5 The Wolf) play during all North - South driving.

The Sat/Sun compromise seems a win-win for all parties, and I avoided legal fees!
 
OH! AND I forgot Kool and the Gang... Too Hot and Ladies Night are also in very hot rotation on KLUV.

What is the prescription? Take Kool and the Gang, 1 song every 2 hours. Take with food!
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
This would be a more valid post if KLUV was actually playing oldies.
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They are.

Those eighties songs are 25 and more years old now. In other words, that music is pretty much as old as was the stuff from the fifties when they first flipped to oldies in the mid-80s.
 
Tell your wife to move to Houston - we would give anything to have something like KLUV here. We are the largest market in the country not to have an oldies / classic hits station.
 
I luv my USB stick loaded with 9 gigs of proper oldies. If my age means I don't matter to advertisers they won't mind if I quit on their ads served up twice an hour in 8 minute sweeps.
 
jimbo said:
I luv my USB stick loaded with 9 gigs of proper oldies. If my age means I don't matter to advertisers they won't mind if I quit on their ads served up twice an hour in 8 minute sweeps.
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Hey there's a new slogan the radio people can use: PROPER OLDIES. Some idiot radio person will adopt it :D
 
They are.

Those eighties songs are 25 and more years old now. In other words, that music is pretty much as old as was the stuff from the fifties when they first flipped to oldies in the mid-80s.
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There's one big difference between 55-71 oldies and 80s oldies. 55-71 music was heard by everyone on A. M. top forty stations when it was originally out. 80s music was so fragmented on so many different slivers of formats that it will never have the mass appeal that 55-71 music did. Also, for a major market station, KLUV wasn't all that good at playing 55-71 music either and they didn't have the personality dj talent in the 80s that other major market oldies stations did like WCBS-FM, New York.
 
JollyRancher said:
Hey there's a new slogan the radio people can use: PROPER OLDIES. Some idiot radio person will adopt it :D
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Ha! It just might happen. Stations latched onto the term "Quality Rock," after all. Then there's "World Class Rock," whatever that's supposed to mean.
 
RADIO TRUTH said:
There's one big difference between 55-71 oldies and 80s oldies. 55-71 music was heard by everyone on A. M. top forty stations when it was originally out. 80s music was so fragmented on so many different slivers of formats that it will never have the mass appeal that 55-71 music did. Also, for a major market station, KLUV wasn't all that good at playing 55-71 music either and they didn't have the personality dj talent in the 80s that other major market oldies stations did like WCBS-FM, New York.
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None of which is relevant in defining how old a song has to be before it can be considered an "oldie". Yes, fragmentation of the pop music audience starts becoming a problem as stations begin playing music from the late seventies onward -- between the polarizing impact of disco and the subsequent fragmentation of pop music into multiple formats, there is much less "shared" music for those generations that came of age after about 1977.

Nonetheless, that doesn't mean that those songs aren't oldies...just that playing those songs may not be a viable path to a building a mass audience. But the truth is that you also aren't going to attract those who came of age in, say, the eighties by playing music from 1955, either.

Whether we care to admit it or not, time is still moving forward. And much as it turns my stomach to even think of that song, "Me So Horny" by 2Live Crew now qualifies as an oldie...
 
Today, KLUV played the long version of "Making Our Dreams Come True" by Cyndi Grecco.

Boy, the quality of their digital copy of that Grecco single was just terrible. Had to plug my ears...

I've played that on Rhaposody and from other sources and found great quality copies.

Wonder where that got their copy from??
 
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