Rant here about Timeless Classics

[vchimpanzee]

I had a good experience last Tuesday afternoon. I'll just pretend that I actually left for home two minutes earlier and never heard that Phil Collins duet! One reason was the commercial for the Rat Pack show.

This is what came up when I did a search.

http://local.yahoo.com/details?fr=d...BYABqB7djUlKaCTdTxrI5wx23ejMytgsVs.92zRBH4h8-

 

[vchimpanzee]

I was dreading listening to this music on the way home from the beach. Especially in my new(er) car where the AM doesn't work that well, the Music of Your Life station just doesn't last that long.

Fortunately, there was a basketball game (who plays basketball during the day except on weekends?). I was trying to set the station so I could find it again and ended up on a sports talk station because I just don't understand that radio. But this was a good thing. It gave me the idea to try Rush Limbaugh. He's always fun.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Does anyone know if Hopeless Classics still does new versions of old standards? I should update the Wikipedia article I started. The web site doesn't even list these any more, although the list of artists is the same as when it was really standards, and it shouldn't be.

I thought I heard one, but it sounded so much like what I heard on an oldies (or similarly formatted) station that I believe it was the old version. It's unusual to hear jazz on a station like that, but not unheard of.

There was a new Barry Manilow version of an old Barry Manilow song. As far as I'm concerned, that doesn't count.

 

[vchimpanzee]

I haven't listened since Thursday, but they were still doing the sensible thing here. Mostly regular music, including two songs by The Eagles during the time I listened (not too bad, but that sort of thing can get on my nerves if I'm not thinking of the station as being something other than what I really want).

But what really made me happy was a Christmas song--by Vaughn Monroe. It has been a while since I heard sweet saxophones here like so many orchestras did in the 40s. Stardust used to do those all the time.

 

[Chuck]

I haven't listened since Thursday, but they were still doing the sensible thing here. Mostly regular music, including two songs by The Eagles during the time I listened (not too bad, but that sort of thing can get on my nerves if I'm not thinking of the station as being something other than what I really want).

OK, I give up. What are The Eagles doing on a Standards station? I like the Eagles, but I can't think of any of their songs that fit. Am I just getting too old?????

 

[Famous56guy]

I haven't listened since Thursday, but they were still doing the sensible thing here. Mostly regular music, including two songs by The Eagles during the time I listened (not too bad, but that sort of thing can get on my nerves if I'm not thinking of the station as being something other than what I really want).

OK, I give up. What are The Eagles doing on a Standards station? I like the Eagles, but I can't think of any of their songs that fit. Am I just getting too old?????

I guess you did not get the Memo Chuck, but Timeless Classics is no longer a Standards station. It's been "rebranded" Timeless Favorites" and its format is A/C, soft oldies. Its also very painfull to listen to, especially the new so called "on air talent" The Stardust Format was a "Masterpiece"

 

[Chuck]

I guess you did not get the Memo Chuck, but Timeless Classics is no longer a Standards station. It's been "rebranded" Timeless Favorites" and its format is A/C, soft oldies. Its also very painfull to listen to, especially the new so called "on

I didn't know that. Thanks for the update. We don't have either Timeless Classics or MOYL in my area. There are plenty of Soft AC stations though....

 

[Famous56guy]

I guess you did not get the Memo Chuck, but Timeless Classics is no longer a Standards station. It's been "rebranded" Timeless Favorites" and its format is A/C, soft oldies. Its also very painfull to listen to, especially the new so called "on air talent"

I didn't know that. Thanks for the update. We don't have either Timeless Classics or MOYL in my area. There are plenty of Soft AC stations though....

 

[Famous56guy]

I guess you did not get the Memo Chuck, but Timeless Classics is no longer a Standards station. It's been "rebranded" Timeless Favorites" and its format is A/C, soft oldies. Its also very painfull to listen to, especially the new so called "on air talent"

I didn't know that. Thanks for the update. We don't have either Timeless Classics or MOYL in my area. There are plenty of Soft AC stations though....

 

[vchimpanzee]

I haven't listened since Thursday, but they were still doing the sensible thing here. Mostly regular music, including two songs by The Eagles during the time I listened (not too bad, but that sort of thing can get on my nerves if I'm not thinking of the station as being something other than what I really want).

OK, I give up. What are The Eagles doing on a Standards station? I like the Eagles, but I can't think of any of their songs that fit. Am I just getting too old?????

It has been several years since my Stardust affiliate first had "Best of My Love" on a local show, when even the local show was still pretty close to ideal. Worthless Classics was playing "Desperado" when I was listening, and "I Can't Tell You Why" later in the day. Sorry to tell you this, but that second one has been in the Dial Global playlist even as they have moved back in a standards direction.

I was listening on the last day before The Twelve Days of Christmas. I listened a week later and it was Day 8. And I heard Guy Lombardo with The Andrews Sisters. It was amazing.

Since I got my "new" car, I can pick up the Country Legends station better, and I pretty much stay with that.

 

[vchimpanzee]

They were doing pretty well. I was out of range of my country legends station, and I heard that "Turn Around, Look at Me" by The Vogues was coming up. I'm working on my fantasy iPod collection (see below) and wanted to make sure I had the right version of that song, though I have yet to hear The Lettermen do it since I found out the name of the song and heard it was by The Vogues. At the time, I thought that was the only version.

Then I heard "You're the Inspiration" by Chicago. Honestly. The opening of that song is something not even AC listeners should be subjected to. No more! I'm changing it! The country station was playing "Coal Miner's Daughter." ;D

Since we can't edit here after time has passed, I'm putting together my fantasy iPod collection here and hoping to move the "completed" product to this board:

http://lounge.cwtv.com/showthread.php?p=4537688 (vocals)

http://lounge.cwtv.com/showthread.php?p=4537686 (instrumentals)

There will be another collection on the country board on this site, and I'll provide a link when that's ready. Next Christmas, I hope to have a Christmas collection too.

 

[vchimpanzee]

Continuing with the theme of what would go in my iPod:

http://lounge.cwtv.com/showthread.php?p=4592503 (country)

I forgot to mention that because of some difficulties I had when I used this name, I go by Kyle X-El on that site. A lot of "Smallville" fans use names ending in "-El" because Superman and various relatives have names ending in "-El". I was a fan of "Kyle XY" when I chose the name, but ABC abandoned me, and I don't have cable, so now I say it refers to Kyle Chandler of "Friday Night Lights".

Charlotte has lost one of its three affiliates of this format. The one with the strongest signal, the only one reaching Charlotte at night. WNMX is now oldies. To my knowledge, although I haven't actually checked, WAME and WEGO are still doing Worthless Classics.

I did listen to WNMX briefly. It's even worse.

 

[studionote]

I have started a Yahoo group for EZ listening Music DJs and fans of the old Beautiful Music Stations. If you want to join us send a blank email to [email protected]

 

[vchimpanzee]

I was invited to participate in another survey. I don't know whether the 600 songs are all in the Timeless playlist, but if they are, it's being programmed by a chimp. I don't understand what Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett are doing there at all.

It's one thing to have these songs included: "Doctor My Eyes", "For What It's Worth", "Dreams", and "Time of the Season".

These songs are another matter entirely: "Joy to the World", "What a Feeling", "Staying Alive" and "Lights".

There were other songs that werre quite loud and jarring that I couldn't identify.

If they asked if I was tired of the songs, I could honestly say yes because I was tired of hearing them at that time.

 

[vchimpanzee]

While I personally like "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" and "Take It Easy" by The Eagles and actually gave them a high score, they don't really belong. Same for "Aimee" by Pure Prairie League. I don't guess I would object to any of these on Dial Global, where they do have "I Can't Tell You Why". I haven't heard any Eagles songs on my country station, but they would fit. Same for "Black Water" by The Doobie Brothers, which I like, though it wasn't in the survey. Unforgettable Favorites did play it. "Listen to the Music" was, and I like it, but that one's REALLY out of place.

"How Long", "Baby Come Back" and "Lowdown" are on Dial Global but really shouldn't be. Those were in the survey. All three have qualities I like, but all have parts that I don't like. I like the flute on "Lowdown" and have heard the song on smooth jazz radio. That is, the station that switches to smooth jazz on weekends.

I had a list of other songs in the survey that don't belong, but I don't know what I did with it. I do remember "Still the One", "It's So Easy" (no, it isn't), "You're No Good" (appropriate), "Hard Habit to Break" (easy, actually), "Still the Same" and "We've Got Tonight" (the orignal). At least there was no Michael Bolton. My Stardust station played him during both their chimpanzee periods when they went local. The first chimpanzee period lasted about a month in 1997. The second time they tried local DJs, it wasn't quite as bad, but it wasn't good and I missed Joe Lacina's final days on the midday shift.

There were some Sinatra songs, and others by artists of that type. I know Johnny Mathis used to be on oldies radio, and an oldies station where I live, before it switched to country, played a couple of Sinatra songs but also at least one song each by Kiss and ZZ Top. And by Kiss I don't mean "Beth".