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Time to bring back KOOL 105.3 ?

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with CBS FM jumping back to oldies 60's-80's, and WWL FM or WRNO FM not hurting anyone,why not bring the format back to a great oldies city like New Orleans?Don't even get me started on TIX FM and the dreaded Costello...RNO made a huge mistake when they trashed the real rock of New Orleans..
 
sorry but cool 95.7 wasnt even close to being wcbs 101.1. tix fm is better! as for wrno as long as clear channel owns it. it will suck!
 
If KOOl was brought back I would rather see it as it was when it first came on under Muniz. Lots of good New Orleans music and talent got tossed aside when corporate bought it.
 
WTIX-FM is unlistenable, nothing compared to a great oldies station, and not all that "New Orleans"-sounding.

I didn't care for KOOL in the Muniz era, either; tell me, what's oldies about "Boot Scoot Boogie" or "Strokin'" or "the Chicken Dance"? (And no, "its big in da casina when we do da remote" is not a good answer.) I used to vomit when Yer Oldies Sweethawt would come on and talk about "belly rubbin'" and "remebah when we used to go to dah Ol' College Inn and get dem erster loaves fah two dawwahs?" Perhaps there is such a thing as being TOO local.

Yet throwing out New Orleans music from a New Orleans oldies station is inexcusable. Playing New York street corner doo wop is why WCBS was a great station; that local flavor is essential to good oldies stations anywhere.
 
No.... I remember when KOOL 95.7 sometimes played "Strokin'" and once in a blue moon, played the long version of "Boot Scootin' Boogie." And these only played during the Friday Drive @ 5. It was like a dance party-themed show....
 
Wrong! I was the one on the air at that time from 3-7 and I *never* played Strokin' or Boot Scoot Boogie *ever* on oldies radio. I did keep the "5 O'Clock Hard Drive" completely upbeat with an hour full of fast music to release workday tensions while listeners were going home, but never in 41 years on the air did I play either of those songs on the air in PM drive.

Bob Walker
 
I'm afraid Clarence Carters' "Strokin'" did play on KOOL, but it was when Tommy Tucker did the 5 O'Clock Drive Home. I remember hearing it and wondering why they were playing that on there. ?? It was weird to me too! ???

When I worked at KOOL, Clarence Carter was in the library and so was Brooks & Dunn's "Boot Scootin Boogie." The thing is I don't ever remember that country song being played on KOOL! Not at any time day or night. But why it was in the library was beyond me. I know Andy Holt and I don't think he would've even allowed it to play.
 
Are you serious? I like Clarence Carter,especially Slip Away, But Strokin?and Brooks & Dunn.Hey it would not happen on Walker's watch..That Brooks & Dunn reminds me of the electric slide and the joke.Hey,what's 30 feet long and smells like Urine??The line dance at the Nursing home..Whoops ,sorry about that...I actually did mornings on a country station.all my radio pals gave me 90 days.Made it 89 before i got canned.Said i was too blue on the air,hell the phones went crazy with listeners loving the show...
 
Well I know The Oldie King never played those on his show.... Bob knows a lot about music, and line dance songs wouldn't fit the bill. I didn't mean to confuse anyone if I did.

Those songs were in the KOOL Dalet library along with a few other line dances. I think they were there just to take up space on the Dalet server. ;D ::)

Jeremy
 
I thought some of the line dance music was used in the late 1990s/early 2000s at some of the stations for commercials? The instrumental parts of "Boot Scoot Boogie" were used on a few commercials around that time if I remember.
 
1053 won't switch back until that other FM talk is gone I think. They (entercom) arent trying to win with WWLFM, just keep the other one down for no traction. If 995 ever switches then maybe oldies or a mix style comes but why wouldnt they look at going after a CC format since it's all about seeing who can pi** farther?
 
I think the "P" farther thing is "won and done." I think they (WWL) like the fact that "FM" talks to younger people... building new "WWL-ers." Can't stop "recruiting." Specifically with sports/Saints.
The AM for reach, the FM for fidelity.
IMHO.
 
RFLA said:
I thought some of the line dance music was used in the late 1990s/early 2000s at some of the stations for commercials? The instrumental parts of "Boot Scoot Boogie" were used on a few commercials around that time if I remember.
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anyone remember that 95.7 was once a country station? maybe thats when they play boot scoot boogie. (not boot scootin boogie ;D
 
Anybody remember when:
WTIX was a GREAT station at 690am?
Dawnbusters?
Nutt and Jeff?
"Beautiful Music" stations? (95.7, I think... or was it 97.1?)
Country music that wasn't really '70's "Southern Fryed Rock?"
"Chat radio?" (See Nutt and Jeff.) Yikes, I forgot about the new 990. A lucky moment.
When "Sound Tracking" was a mispelling of a cool TV show or a stereo store?
The "Rock of New Orleans..." when it really was?
When every station was owned by a different owner, even if they were idiots? (well, we do have Mikey and Mr. Buck, gosh bless them.)
When you'd lay in bed and pick up "Rock and Roll" stations from around the country after your parents made you go to bed... and there was only one TV in the house...
The "Day of Rock And Roll?"
The "Warehouse cocerts put on by Beaver" and the bar to the left of the stage and up the steps?
Old Man Rivers?
I could go on, but...
Dang, this would be a good thread all on it's own... Smash, with your last post, ya made me all "misty-eyed. "
 
I have fond memories of radio the way it was. I got my drivers license in 1976 and those teen years in Oklahoma were spent jumping back and forth between WKY and KOMA, the two AM top 40 powerhouses in OKC and KOFM 104.1. At night it was John Landecker on WLS. No problem hearing him at night in central Oklahoma. I really wanted his job!

A few years later it was KTSA 550 in San Antonio that I would listen to when driving to my overnight job at KOMA. And if you've never worked at a 50,000 watt clear channel (notice no caps) station you're really missing something!

Ah... the good ol' days. Gone forever I fear.
 
I do remember when 95.7 was "Y-96!" Many people hated the fact they flipped to country from beautiful music. Matter of fact, wasn't it the last commercial FM in N.O. to flip from that format? I still have a Y-96 bumper sticker! lol And while I worked at Entercom, Steve Suter (middays, Magic 101.9), mentioned to me he was the PD of 95.7 when it was "MIX 95.7 - The Right Mix of Hits & Oldies!" I brought it up one day when I noticed a MIX 95.7 keychain on his desk.

97.1 flipped from that format to a very short-lived disco format, before going Top 40 as B-97FM. Which it's been ever since with the FM sometimes thrown in and sometimes not. Not lately tho.... I guess sayin' "B-97FM" is too old school. But nevertheless, B-97 is not the same one that I grew up with. B-97 made 25 yrs. old while I was there, but Kaplan didn't care. "Anniversaries were something celebrated on country stations or maybe rock stations, but not on CHR's...." That's what he told me with a straight face. Honestly!

And Smashed, I hate to mention it, but Brooks & Dunn's song is called "Boot Scootin' Boogie." All others are imposters! :p

Jeremy
 
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