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WARM goes COUNTRY!!!

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yonkstur

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Okay, okay, calm down. Sorry to give you oldies fans a panic attack. But I'm looking to some old timers to confirm something for me. Back in early 1966, might have even been '65, but I know it was the winter, on Sunday nights WARM ran a Country and Western Top 10 show. Don't know who hosted it but I remember it was on at 10pm and lasted an hour. They ran it like the WARM countdown show of the top 40 which was on Saturdays from 1pm to 6pm. But this was only on for an hour. I remember being exposed to Buck Owens' "Buckaroo" (that fine instrumental) Sonny James, Johnny Cash, Del Reeves, Roger Miller and Eddie Arnold and Jeannie Seally and Loretta Lynn. I'm wondering why they did it, it didn't last very long though too. My two theories (and they are only that) are:
1. WARM wanted to get those listeners who were mainstays of WBGI's Country format.
2. It wanted to take advantage of the great country crossover at the time without giving a notch on its top 40 to a true C&W song.
Any ideas? Anyone remember this?
Yonkstur
 
Sounds strange that WARM would play a show that wasn't their format, but maybe the stuff they were playing were country "crossover" hits that showed up on both the country and non country stations???? Example "Abilene" By George Hamilton IV ...I remember hearing that one on WARM ( don't know how I could remember that as I suffer from CRS disease), or another example would be "last date" by Floyd Cramer. ;D

Always good to talk about the good old days, I miss 'em..... :'(

warm590 ;D
 
Dave...are you talking about the hootinanny? I don't know if I spelled that right.

Tom, maybe. I just remember it being on Sunday night at 10pm and someone doing a top ten count down of the top country hits.
I know WARM played crossovers but this was a tried and true c & w product.
Tell me what Hootenanny (and I'm not sure I spelled it right either!) was?

yonkstur
 
yonkstur said:
Dave...are you talking about the hootinanny? I don't know if I spelled that right.

Tom, maybe. I just remember it being on Sunday night at 10pm and someone doing a top ten count down of the top country hits.
I know WARM played crossovers but this was a tried and true c & w product.
Tell me what Hootenanny (and I'm not sure I spelled it right either!) was?

yonkstur





Dave...What happened was a lot of folk songs came out in that era...the protest songs were just starting to become popular because of the Vietnam war. Folk groups like The Wonder Who? and "Don't think Twice it's Alright"..Joann Baez "There but for fortune", The New Christy Minstreal, The Kingston Trio, Judy Collins Trini Lopez, The Roof Top Singers, the Village Stompers and ETC...I'm having brain overload. Most of these wern't protest songs but the groups that were doing them later recorded protest songs. I do remember it was sponsered by Stegmaier beer and I traveled to New York to cut the commercials at RCA. All the commercials were done with a Country Western Theme. There were C&W songs mixed in and most of them were crossovers.
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