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Simon 98.7 now playing some 1960`s Oldies!

  • Thread starter GoodTimesandGreatOldies
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So, I took the Pepsi Challenge and looked up the song logs from WSMW at yes.com and I counted TEN (10) 60's songs played between 1 o'clock pm on Sunday the 30th and 1 o'clock pm on Monday the 31st (one of those songs was "Purple People Eater" and it was released in '58, so I threw it in the "pile"). So, may we stop the madness, GTAGO? That's much less than an hour's worth of pre 70's tunes in a 24-hour period. At long last, sir, have you no decency?
 
nuffsaid said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Big Ape is back and his words should be heard and understood. Think he has dried out long enough to find his keyboard!
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As my buddy Randy Kabrick mentioned in an earlier post, "I never went anywhere off the boards, I merely said I would not comment on "family matters at WHTZ!
 
BIG APE said:
nuffsaid said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Big Ape is back and his words should be heard and understood. Think he has dried out long enough to find his keyboard!
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As my buddy Randy Kabrick mentioned in an earlier post, "I never went anywhere off the boards, I merely said I would not comment on "family matters at WHTZ!
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I doubt you know much about New York City's Z-100, New York's hit music station.
 
vchimpanzee said:
BIG APE said:
nuffsaid said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Big Ape is back and his words should be heard and understood. Think he has dried out long enough to find his keyboard!
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As my buddy Randy Kabrick mentioned in an earlier post, "I never went anywhere off the boards, I merely said I would not comment on "family matters at WHTZ!
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I doubt you know much about New York City's Z-100, New York's hit music station.
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OK Nit Picky WTHZ.... but I do know about Z-100!
 
BIG APE said:
vchimpanzee said:
BIG APE said:
nuffsaid said:
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Big Ape is back and his words should be heard and understood. Think he has dried out long enough to find his keyboard!
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As my buddy Randy Kabrick mentioned in an earlier post, "I never went anywhere off the boards, I merely said I would not comment on "family matters at WHTZ!
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I doubt you know much about New York City's Z-100, New York's hit music station.
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OK Nit Picky WTHZ.... but I do know about Z-100!
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Really? I only knew you had some connections with 94.1 FM by whatever letters it was known and the Jacksonville station WAPE.
 
;D I bet I am three times your age and have worked at 15 stations and owned 2...Thank you very much.. P. S. I also still hold a FCC Radiotelephone First Class License with Radar endoresment (Actually, they changed it to General Class Lifetime Issue now) Shoe size 9, Right handed..divorced, no kids, one parrot..Anything else ya want to know..Just dial me up! BIGAPE

THE MONSTERS...COMING SOON TO A STATION NEAR YOU
 
BIG APE said:
;D I also still hold a FCC Radiotelephone First Class License with Radar endoresment (Actually, they changed it to General Class Lifetime Issue now) BIGAPE

THE MONSTERS...COMING SOON TO A STATION NEAR YOU
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Hey Big Ape, You may have to explain what a 1st ticket is to some of the folks on here. You may even have to explain what a FCC License is and what is an endorsement is. Like you, some of us come from a different era and actually remember having to take (or fake) transmitter readings every half hour. At least the FCC licensing process required some folks to be vaguely familiar with transmitter readings and other such trivial matters. I once heard Sis Kaplan ask whether or not someone had a 1st ticket and comment how "Mickey Mouse" that requirement was. Who would have believed it would have gone from over regulating to no regulation. And to think we've lived to see it!
 
triadradionewsman said:
BIG APE said:
;D I also still hold a FCC Radiotelephone First Class License with Radar endoresment (Actually, they changed it to General Class Lifetime Issue now) BIGAPE

THE MONSTERS...COMING SOON TO A STATION NEAR YOU
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Hey Big Ape, You may have to explain what a 1st ticket is to some of the folks on here. You may even have to explain what a FCC License is and what is an endorsement is. Like you, some of us come from a different era and actually remember having to take (or fake) transmitter readings every half hour. At least the FCC licensing process required some folks to be vaguely familiar with transmitter readings and other such trivial matters. I once heard Sis Kaplan ask whether or not someone had a 1st ticket and comment how "Mickey Mouse" that requirement was. Who would have believed it would have gone from over regulating to no regulation. And to think we've lived to see it!
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This is the secomd best post I have read lately and the 1st was another one you posted.. P.S. I made Sis eat her words for saying that.. Me and Stan left Jax and went fishing for 2 weeks~!
 
BIG APE said:
;D I bet I am three times your age and have worked at 15 stations and owned 2...Thank you very much.. P. S. I also still hold a FCC Radiotelephone First Class License with Radar endoresment (Actually, they changed it to General Class Lifetime Issue now) Shoe size 9, Right handed..divorced, no kids, one parrot..Anything else ya want to know..Just dial me up! BIGAPE

THE MONSTERS...COMING SOON TO A STATION NEAR YOU
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If you really are three times my age, call Guinness!
 
You made a comment one time that you had never worked in radio! So, if I can be so bold, What do you do? And why the big interest in these boards? Not a fight, I'm just interested!
 
BIG APE said:
You made a comment one time that you had never worked in radio! So, if I can be so bold, What do you do? And why the big interest in these boards? Not a fight, I'm just interested!
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Earn interest on inherited money, which isn't enough for luxuries like XM.

And why shouldn't I enjoy the rants on these boards? They're fun to read.

Back on topic--I haven't heard anything newer than 1990 on this station in weeks. That doesn't prove anything because it's such a small sample, but it's not the same station it was.
 
So what's the big deal about Simon playing some older songs .. they have played tunes from the 60's for a long time .. maybe with WTHZ out of the picture they are playing a few more .. still not enought to make them "oldies".
 
I've said all along that that's the beauty of the Simon format....they can react to market changes without being labled a specific format. Gives them a lot of flexibility.
 
(sitting in my Cracker Barrel wooden rocker)

BIG APE..and you guys remember a machine before cart decks called a McKenzie? It was a goofy magnetic mat type of contraption that held separate tracks of spots, jingles, promos etc. If the "Mack" bought the farm..EVERYTHING wsa toast and you had to resort to finding the tapes of the spots and playing them on a (gulp) MAGNECORDER. The savage machine that could slice pepperoni in rewind mode..and 16" GATES transcription turntables, and those remote switchers that you had to "dial" to get the readings...Hold the switch down until the needle on the meter gets to 3.6..then dial to position 4 and hit the UP switch so the directional pattern will kick in.

sorry..back to topic. I hear SIMON is playing oldies! woo hoo
 
jeff, i gotta go sit at cracker barrel. that sounds relaxing.

omg the magnacorder "maggie" rewind. i'm suprised i still have all my fingers.

and yeah i remember those remote controls. and big ol gates turntables with the old gray research tone arms, before those new micro-traks.

hey a TOTALLY unrelated question. on "whole lotta love" by zep, about 4 min in, "wayy down inside. woman you need me"... that "pre-echo" i guess you'd call it. print-through on the master tape? or intentionally done? i always thought it sounded like tape print-through.

-amos
 
amos said:
hey a TOTALLY unrelated question. on "whole lotta love" by zep, about 4 min in, "wayy down inside. woman you need me"... that "pre-echo" i guess you'd call it. print-through on the master tape? or intentionally done? i always thought it sounded like tape print-through.

-amos
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Definitely intentional :D
 
From the start, I thought it sounded like print through, too. Gotta say, it has to be intentional... plus it probably wouldn't have shown up right there on 15 ips.

If it was print through, they left it on purpose, 'cause it worked.
 
I heard two newer songs on Simon, though the sample still isn't significant.

One was "Jump, Jive and Wail", which may have been by Brian Setzer. It sounds like it's from 1959, though. Good song, and perfect for an oldies station.

The other song sounded alternative and very loud. So I guess they haven't made the final change, if they're going to.
 
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