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What songs don't belong on classic country radio?

CTListener said:
As was Conway Twitty's "Rest Your Love On Me," but "Islands" got a Bee Gees-style production, especially on the chorus, while Conway simply made a song previously recorded by the Bee Gees into a country song.
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There was a period in the 80s when the Bee Gees were dead to the radio because of over-saturation thanks to Saturday Night Fever. So the guys wrote some songs that still found their way to radio via Kenny Rogers, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, and many others. The guys did versions of those songs in their later shows.
 
TheBigA said:
There was a period in the 80s when the Bee Gees were dead to the radio because of over-saturation thanks to Saturday Night Fever. So the guys wrote some songs that still found their way to radio via Kenny Rogers, Dionne Warwick, Barbra Streisand, and many others. The guys did versions of those songs in their later shows.
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Samantha Sang's "Emotion" might just as well have been a Bee Gees record. She was Australian, as were the Gibbs, and even sounded like one of them the way the record was produced. Dionne Warwick's Bee Gees collaborations were superb pieces of pop, both her US hit "Heartbreaker" and her UK top 10 "All the Love in the World."
 
CTListener said:
Samantha Sang's "Emotion" might just as well have been a Bee Gees record. She was Australian, as were the Gibbs,
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She was managed by their manager. That song was written by Barry & Robin, and Barry sang backgrounds. Dionne had a great stretch at that point, working with Barry on Heartbreaker, and a few years earlier Thom Bell on "Then Came You."
 
I was hoping never to hear Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls". It sounds too much like a rock song to me. The controversy about the song (or maybe it was just the video) led me to believe I wouldn't be hearing it, and yet I have.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I was hoping never to hear Garth Brooks' "The Thunder Rolls". It sounds too much like a rock song to me. The controversy about the song (or maybe it was just the video) led me to believe I wouldn't be hearing it, and yet I have.
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Originally recorded by Tanya Tucker. Is she classic country?
 
I heard "The Thunder Rolls" yesterday on WBRF, and "Shameless". One could argue that the steel guitar makes that second one country, but the way I felt back in the 90s was if you add steel guitar or banjo to a song, does that really make it country?

WBRF still plays some of the good older songs, but the newer songs are more common and don't sound quite as country.
 
TheBigA said:
There's nothing more country than the subject matter in The Thunder Rolls. Tanya Tucker also recorded it.

Women LOVE that song.
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That usually means that I won't like it.

In fact, that's true of adult contemporary radio too.

I consider WBRF to be a man's country station. Back in the day, they'd have more requests from listeners, and they were usually men.
 
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