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WAS KRZ THE ORIGINAL "JACK"???

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yonkstur

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During the last few weeks and into the month of October, Shadoe
Steele is doing a series on the 25 anniversary of KRZ. The series
will culminate in one big show in late October 2005 on the very night
KRZ signed on the air. The series that Steele is doing is remarkable.
(Just like all of his great work with music and news events). This series
focuses in on KRZ and how it sounded back then. What is stunning to me is
the long list of businesses no longer existing. But when listening to the
tapes and airchecks he collected and is now airing, at least in the early
80s, KRZ was playing a unique blend of music from the Stray Cats, to J. Geils,
to the Police to Kenny Rogers and Barbara Streisand. I think they were doing
"Jack" before "Jack" was even a glimmer in someone's eye.
The show is on every Saturday night at 8pm and it was so compelling that
I stayed in the driveway until it was over and he was on to his next
segment. Now, granted, it doesn't take much to compel me, but listening to it
is like going back in a NEPA time capsule.
Yonkstur
 
I always thought that a station doing 4 new cuts per hour, listener requests and the dj's favorites would be the best Jack format, as there would never be the same hour (or even day) programming ever repeated.

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> 80s, KRZ was playing a unique blend of music from the Stray
> Cats, to J. Geils,
> to the Police to Kenny Rogers and Barbara Streisand. I think
> they were doing
> "Jack" before "Jack" was even a glimmer in someone's eye.

> ....It wasn't JACK my good man it's called Top 40 radio....just to add to
a former post or two about diversity in the Top 40...Louis Armstrong knocking the Beatles out of number 1 in 1964.This didn't stop in the 60's...Wayne Newton
and Alice Cooper in the top 10 together in '72...Kenny G, Lisa Lisa,The System, U2 all in the top 10 together during the summer of '87..late 90's hip hop and Faith Hill and Shania Twain and Celine Dion etc all together....still happening now!The more things change, the more the stay the same, BROTHER!
 
> >
> > > ....It wasn't JACK my good man it's called Top 40
> radio....just to add to
> a former post or two about diversity in the Top 40...Louis
> Armstrong knocking the Beatles out of number 1 in 1964.This
> didn't stop in the 60's...Wayne Newton
> and Alice Cooper in the top 10 together in '72...Kenny G,
> Lisa Lisa,The System, U2 all in the top 10 together during
> the summer of '87..late 90's hip hop and Faith Hill and
> Shania Twain and Celine Dion etc all together....still
> happening now!The more things change, the more the stay the
> same, BROTHER!
>

Dear Bro Lou;
You are so correct...."Jack" IS TOP 40. That sure will "Jack Off" some radio exec's when they are found out!

The RoyD
 
> Trust me KRZ was not the "original" "Jack".
At the speed things change here in NEPA it probably started 3 years ago.
 
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