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The ideal adult standards format

Along with Maurice Chevalier, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence, Danny Kaye and Richard Tucker. And the women were Eydie, Dinah Shore and Diahann Carroll. Eugene Ormandy on that album led an orchestra.
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Ah, you guys had the Goodyear albums too, huh?

I've been playing those quite a bit at work lately. They make a nice respite from the commercialfest on 103.3 MHz that passes itself off as a pale imitation of KKCW, that Big Boss insists on shoving down everybody's throats. I'm sure there's an L&I or OSHA violation of some sort to be found in that.
 
oldradiotapes said:
Ah, you guys had the Goodyear albums too, huh?

I've been playing those quite a bit at work lately. They make a nice respite from the commercialfest on 103.3 MHz that passes itself off as a pale imitation of KKCW, that Big Boss insists on shoving down everybody's throats. I'm sure there's an L&I or OSHA violation of some sort to be found in that.
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I have three. I guess they were Goodyear. I know we also had a Firestone album.
 
michael hagerty said:
It's not about the style of the music, vchimpanzee. It's an emotional attachment to the holiday memories of the songs that goes way back to childhood. The songs that get play in all-Christmas formats have pretty much never left the airwaves, so even people in their 20s grew up with them. It's a soundtrack, not a personal preference of musical style.
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I keep hearing Christmas songs with really great big band arrangements. I can't believe people don't learn to enjoy these songs just for their artistic value. If it's just about the songs being familiar, why have all those great brass sections? Why have those sax solos?

And I am NOT talking about something that sounds like Kenny G.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I keep hearing Christmas songs with really great big band arrangements. I can't believe people don't learn to enjoy these songs just for their artistic value. If it's just about the songs being familiar, why have all those great brass sections? Why have those sax solos?

And I am NOT talking about something that sounds like Kenny G.
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You can't believe people don't learn to enjoy the big band arrangements. Other people might wonder why you can't learn to enjoy what came after them.

We were all born in different times, in different places, with (slightly) different music playing. And we've all tailored our holiday experiences. My mom's favorite Christmas album was by the Frank Waring Singers. It played every year. Since I moved out on my own 46 years ago, I've never played it once.

I've played Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift For You" and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' Christmas Album every year since I went off on my own. My kids heard them every year. They're 27 and 29. I'd bet money neither of them plays either of those.

But there's a core group of Christmas recordings that, if they came on the radio, my mom (were she alive) my kids and myself wouldn't punch the button to tune out from. And that's why All-Christmas works as a format for one month out of every year.
 
michael hagerty said:
You can't believe people don't learn to enjoy the big band arrangements. Other people might wonder why you can't learn to enjoy what came after them.

We were all born in different times, in different places, with (slightly) different music playing. And we've all tailored our holiday experiences. My mom's favorite Christmas album was by the Frank Waring Singers. It played every year. Since I moved out on my own 46 years ago, I've never played it once.

I've played Phil Spector's "A Christmas Gift For You" and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass' Christmas Album every year since I went off on my own. My kids heard them every year. They're 27 and 29. I'd bet money neither of them plays either of those.

But there's a core group of Christmas recordings that, if they came on the radio, my mom (were she alive) my kids and myself wouldn't punch the button to tune out from. And that's why All-Christmas works as a format for one month out of every year.
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Correcting myself---although there was a "Frank Waring Singers", this was "Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians". The album was called "Now Is The Caroling Season" and it's been re-issued. I took a listen via YouTube. Very nice, very traditional and nothing I ever need to hear again (sorry, Mom):

 
Something I never noticed. This morning in the car I heard Barry Manilow in stereo. I'm not used to superior sound quality. My stations have been on AM or on FM stations that didn't have great signals, or online where my home speakers don't sound like the big AC stations. He doesn't sound that good after all. But I'm hearing him right now on my home speakers and he sounds fine and his orchestra sounds great.
 
michael hagerty said:
...which is why people started abandoning music stations on AM for music stations on FM in the 1970s.
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Given the choice of good music or perfect sound quality, I'll take good music.

I got my first HD TV and I can't stand how real people and things look. It's just there to connect to a DVR which is just for storing stuff for now. I'd rather watch my old TV where people look "normal".
 
vchimpanzee said:
Given the choice of good music or perfect sound quality, I'll take good music.

I got my first HD TV and I can't stand how real people and things look. It's just there to connect to a DVR which is just for storing stuff for now. I'd rather watch my old TV where people look "normal".
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Wow, people look too real on TV? FM sounds too good? Having a tough time getting my head around that concept. Wait; is that a horse and buggy in your garage?
 
vchimpanzee said:
I got my first HD TV and I can't stand how real people and things look. It's just there to connect to a DVR which is just for storing stuff for now. I'd rather watch my old TV where people look "normal".
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Then going to the movies must be a horrible experience...
 
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