Old Album Cuts being played?

[Smittian]

I was wondering if any other stations do this?

My local station, KTEX (Brownsville-McAllen) has a couple of songs that were never released as singles that they like to play. One in particular is called "Birmingham Turnaround" by the late Keith Whitley. It was on his 1988 album "Don't Close Your Eyes" and was never released as a single, yet to this day, KTEX plays it on an almost daily basis. It's a good song, but I've never heard it on any station in any other market. I was wondering if any other stations have those type of obscure songs in rotation?

 

[Wabbit_Season]

I've heard "The Blues Man" by Alan Jackson on WEGX (Florence, SC). They are a fairly contemporary station in general, but I have heard this on more than one occasion

 

[radioman1380]

Stations, sometimes, play album cuts that may have some meaning to local listeners. Such as a particular artist that calls that area home, a song about that city or area or if someone at the station in charge of programming the music feels that the song might have some appeal locally. Many years ago I worked for a Billboard reporting station. The PD heard a song being played on a jukebox in the background of a scene at a diner on the "Twilight Zone" TV show. The song happened to be on an album by Country singer Jerry Wallace. Out PD played the song on-the-air and the phone lines lit up. The PD informed the record label and the song was released as a single and became a hit.

Years ago, recording artists would put out an album of 10 or 12 songs with only one being their latest hit. But, people would buy the albums for that one song. The PD and I would listen to newly released albums and could pick out those albums cuts that would make good cuts to release as singles. Then those that bought the albums would, over time, have an album that contained two, three or even four hits.

There are a lot of good songs on albums (CD's) that will never be released as singles, but are great songs in their own right.

I have been associated with broadcasting for nearly 40 years and know that many stations today are not programming for the listener. I have my own Internet radio station on Live 365 called "The Cow" which I call Country's answer to easy listening. It features country classics by the legends in country music, hits from the stars of yesterday and today, country styled instrumentals by various artists, as well as some album cuts. It's been 'on-the-air' for just over six months and has surpassed 10,000 total listening hours with listeners from all around the world.

http://www.live365.com/stations/radioman1380

 

[RFLA]

Blues man was released to radio by AJ and actually charted for him in 2000

What ticks me off about radio is songs like that.. Songs that made the charts that seem to be forgotten because they didn't make the top 5 or "was very well liked by our test group"

But anyhow the article is songs that never charted that are played on radio

One of the young country stations occasionally plays a top 50 hit by Tim Mcgraw called "telluride" (since it wasn't really big, it could fall here...

But a lot of stations are rolling on Fridays'
George Jones - Finally Friday
Aaron Tippin - Come Friday

RFLA

 

[Wabbit_Season]

I don't remember "Blues Man" being OFFICIALLY released. I could be wrong.

"Telluride" was never released; it charted when stations threw all the McGraw album cuts on the air when the cd first came out.

As for George Jones and Aaron Tippin, I know that AT was released last year as a single, not sure about George though....I think George got his exposure for that song from "After Midnight".

 

[RFLA]

You may be right on AJ.. I just knew that it had charted though and stations were starting to play it at that time more and more