The Seabreeze

[vchimpanzee]

LOL! Living up your nickname Mr. Extremely Picky!

But if you didn't know before, that's where I got it. I sent the station an email and made a typo. That extra letter is an important part of my name, so please don't leave it out.

 

[passtheword]

Passtheword said... >>>As far as Glen Campbell goes, some of the broadcast "traditionally-based" soft ACs are refusing to air his music anymore, including our local "soft AC" here, WEZZ-FM "Easy 97.3" (why that is the case is beyond me...after all, Birmingham is in the south, and we're no strangers to country music). I do realize that Glen Campbell is more of a crossover artists (country and pop), but if anyone assumes that his music doesn't "fit" within a soft AC format, I'd like to point your attention to IheartRadio's "Sunny" station, which airs Campbell's music on a regular basis.<<<

Well, Glen Campbell has entered the "Adult Standards" category, along with Kenny Rogers, Anne Murray, John Denver, Olivia Newton-John, Ronnie Milsap and similar Pop/Country artists with numerous hits... and that's true in the South as well as other parts of the country. Dionne Warwick, The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, Tony Orlando, The Fifth Dimension, The Association, Petula Clark, The Captain & Tennille and Neil Diamond are also in this category (although some Soft AC stations do play Sweet Caroline due to its association with the Boston Red Sox). You won't hear any songs from these artists on Soft AC or Oldies stations anymore, not even AM Oldies stations or the VERY Soft AC stations, WDUV, WFEZ, KIFM, WEZZ, etc.

Someone decided their images are not cool. So even stations that play soft hits and oldies will not air them, not even their relatively uptempo hits. The only place you might hear them is on an internet station, or an Adult Standards format, such as America's Best or Music of Your Life.

Yes, I know a lot of the broadcast soft ACs are no longer airing those artists you mentioned (Campbell, Murray, etc). However, as I said, Glen Campbell's music must not be too out of the norm for soft AC because Iheartradio's "Sunny Radio" (WNIC HD2) is playing his music a LOT and I'd hardly classify "Sunny" as adult standards. btw, WEZZ does play Kenny Rogers, Olivia Netwon-John, Carpenters, Dionne Warwick, The Fifth Dimension, The Association, Captain & Tennille, Neil Diamond, and Barry Manilow...or at least they did the last time I checked. They don't air anything by Ronnie Milsap, Petula Clark, or Tony Orlando, however, but we do.

 

[Music Lover]

I wasn't referring to your board name.

 

[passtheword]

But if you didn't know before, that's where I got it. I sent the station an email and made a typo. That extra letter is an important part of my name, so please don't leave it out.

We fondly know him as "Chimp".