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Soon Yi CIV.V
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This time, they've gone too far! No way this would have happened if 97.5 hadn't flipped!
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Ummmmmmmm, B has been playing said Lou Bega song since, at least 2001-2. It apparantly tests well with females and is still extremely popular some 9 years after its release. (Jesus, it came out in 1999! Wow, how time flies...). Certainly, far from reactionary.
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Soon Yi CIV.V
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Weird. I have never, ever heard "Mambo #5" on B101. But then again, I can't stomach them for very long stretches anymore so that might explain it.
Whether or not it tests well, I can't help but wonder how many P1's tune out when that song comes on. It is violently outside of the format, IMO. LOL.
Whether or not it tests well, I can't help but wonder how many P1's tune out when that song comes on. It is violently outside of the format, IMO. LOL.
What he said! Sounds more akin to Hot AC, or Mainstream CHR....Soon Yi CIV.V said:
Okay, now comein' up after Lew Vega, You'll hear Air Supply..." um.? right. What format is this again? No wait, Air supply doesn't even play on this station, try, um.... "See You In September" by Earth Wind And Fire!, that's it.Yeah, that.... that.
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I've heard it plenty of times over the years, and don't see how it fails the format test. "AC" doesn't mean the entire audience wants ballads all day. If it tests well in the target demo, so be it--it's just an up-tempo ditty from a few years back. That's the epitome of AC. 
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Soon Yi CIV.V
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"Mambo #5" just feels so "niche-y." Like, if "Macarena" tested well, would B101 play that too?!
I feel like formats like CHR and Rhythmic or Hot AC can get away with this sorta thing better than Mainstream AC can. I don't know if I'm just nuts (verdict is still out! haha) but it seemed acceptable to me when Wired 96.5, with its obvious urban lean, couldn't deny the popularity of some mainstream pop tracks (Gwen Stefani comes to mind) or when M/CHR's across the country started dabbling in crossover country. If My 106.1, pretending to be a Rhythmic AC, feels like a current ballad by someone like Beyonce can't be ignored because it's a smash at M/CHR and M/AC, I feel like Okay. Whatever. I just don't get the impression that the plain old AC audience is as willing to roll with the punches that way. It seems they'd be turned off more easily. Maybe because it's a format whose audience seems to enjoy boring, complacent radio. LOL. Like I said, I could be crazy. It just seems like "breaking format" won't affect listeners at other formats the way it would at M/AC.
I feel like formats like CHR and Rhythmic or Hot AC can get away with this sorta thing better than Mainstream AC can. I don't know if I'm just nuts (verdict is still out! haha) but it seemed acceptable to me when Wired 96.5, with its obvious urban lean, couldn't deny the popularity of some mainstream pop tracks (Gwen Stefani comes to mind) or when M/CHR's across the country started dabbling in crossover country. If My 106.1, pretending to be a Rhythmic AC, feels like a current ballad by someone like Beyonce can't be ignored because it's a smash at M/CHR and M/AC, I feel like Okay. Whatever. I just don't get the impression that the plain old AC audience is as willing to roll with the punches that way. It seems they'd be turned off more easily. Maybe because it's a format whose audience seems to enjoy boring, complacent radio. LOL. Like I said, I could be crazy. It just seems like "breaking format" won't affect listeners at other formats the way it would at M/AC.
Soon Yi CIV.V said:
Probably none. Jerry Lee doesn't spend bundles of money on research to do the opposite of what it says.
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Ah, I don't see it as breaking format, really. On the one hand we complain about constraints on playlists, but when something broadens the scope a bit (seriously, it's not like we're talking Guns n Roses here), it's suddenly breaking format. Maybe some holdovers from years past would dislike a Mambo #5 (or La Vida Loca, which they also play), but the core audience today isn't what it was 20 or even 10 years ago. AC has long had a pretty wide grasp to include some crossover songs, and that's where I see Mambo #5 fitting in to the mix, kind of like Green Day or Pink or some of the other songs that get played today.
To those who say AC isn't what it was before--um, yeah, that's the point. The "C" means something!
To those who say AC isn't what it was before--um, yeah, that's the point. The "C" means something!
RoscoeBrowning said:
That's the bottom line: Jerry Lee has been king in this town FOR A REASON! Plus, this isn't "your Dad's, or even grand dad's, 101.1FM". They made great strides over the past 17 years to shed the old fashioned AC designation, while at the same time being the default AC station. Again, B plays it coz it tests well, end of argument. Besides, again, do we really need an umpteenth thread about B101, since the original poster obviously has a WBEB vs WNUW fetish?
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Soon Yi CIV.V
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Oh, Robbie. Up to your old tricks, I see. There's no fetish involved here. I would explain to you why I'm discussing B101 on a Philadelphia radio message board but it's pretty obvious so I'll just save myself the time. Thanks for your once-again stellar addition to the thread!
"End of argument." LOL
"End of argument." LOL
AC has evolved over the years. Take Hartford for example - Lite 100.5 has had REM's Losing My Religion in rotation for the past year or so. They also play No One by Alicia Keys even while it was in heavy rotation on sister hip-hopper HOT 93.7 FM. And on a couple occassions I've heard "Keep Bleeding" on Lite 100.5, which is another song in rotation on HOT 93.7 I've also heard "Keep Bleeding" on WE-BE 108 one of two AC's targetting Bridgeport, CT.
96.5 TIC-FM in Hartford which is classified as HOT AC has been playing some questionable songs too. Just the other day I heard "It wasn't Me" by Shaggy on that particular station. I remember when that song came out. It was in heavy rotation on the AM hip-hop station in Hartford. (This was prior to the FM hip-hopper launching).
96.5 TIC-FM in Hartford which is classified as HOT AC has been playing some questionable songs too. Just the other day I heard "It wasn't Me" by Shaggy on that particular station. I remember when that song came out. It was in heavy rotation on the AM hip-hop station in Hartford. (This was prior to the FM hip-hopper launching).
Rockin Rob said:
Even my old aunt Mary likes that one. Yeesh.
Ya think that terrestrial radio is fading fast, when clamoring over the evolution of the music on B101 becomes a major topic of observation? Ya think? Or maybe it's just that 10 shares of Citadel stock will just about get you a Big Mac. Without the fries.
Mambo #5 goes back further than 1999. Pérez Prado had a hit of that song around 1955. You can hear it on a CD at your local Borders music store (Cherry Pink and Apple Blossum White CD by Perez Prado). It contains a bunch of his hit songs.
Obviously many songs get remakes over they years to become "new" songs to a new generation. The song "My Prayer" the hit by the Platters was a big hit during WW2 for Glenn Miller. I like both the Platters and Glenn Miller's music, but the Platter's version was far superior, in my opinion.
So as I've not heard the 1999 version of Mambo #5, I'll have to find this version (at Borders) and compare it to Prado's.
Obviously many songs get remakes over they years to become "new" songs to a new generation. The song "My Prayer" the hit by the Platters was a big hit during WW2 for Glenn Miller. I like both the Platters and Glenn Miller's music, but the Platter's version was far superior, in my opinion.
So as I've not heard the 1999 version of Mambo #5, I'll have to find this version (at Borders) and compare it to Prado's.
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Soon Yi CIV.V
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I'll go out on the limb a little and "assume" that the Prado version may have been better. If he has any other hit records to his name, it will reinforce my assumption since Lou Bega's version planted him firmly in the garden of one-hit wonders.
Toward the end of the remake's popularity as a current, I went to a Q102 concert (I think it was a Jingle Ball) and Bega was one of the performers. He did five songs, if I remember correctly. The first was "Mambo #5" and everyone was pretty happy to hear it. He then did three songs no one had ever heard of and the crowd politely humored him. His fifth and final song: "Mambo #5."
Toward the end of the remake's popularity as a current, I went to a Q102 concert (I think it was a Jingle Ball) and Bega was one of the performers. He did five songs, if I remember correctly. The first was "Mambo #5" and everyone was pretty happy to hear it. He then did three songs no one had ever heard of and the crowd politely humored him. His fifth and final song: "Mambo #5."
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Reminds me of David Spade going to see Laura Branigan in concert: "She'd better open AND close with 'Gloria', and also do it a couple of times in between."
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