Okay, let me see if understand this correctly - people still pine for KOY (a station that still plays Lawrence Welk and Perry Como) to be back on 550, yet many of those same people rip on the current occupant of 550 because it's too "old"? Am I to believe that KFYI needs its own soccer mom/bunco mom on her soapbox lecturing the listeners about how they're supposed to feel about news issues? Really? How would 550 no longer be the "get off my lawn" station if they're playing The Andrews Sisters? ???
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why is KOY "good" but some talk stations "bad"?
- Thread starter indieradioguy
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indieradioguy said:
I don't get your comparison. KOY (1230AM & online in stereo) is something of a cross between Adult Standards and Oldies (with some iHeart junk tossed in from time to time). They play a very wide playlist which is mostly soft pop. This is essentially what Bill Heywood and the other DJ's played in their "Heyday" (pun intended) in the 70's and 80's (although they were a bit more current in those days). I very rarely hear Welk or Como on KOY. They do, however, play too much Sinatra (the world's most overrated super singer).
The current inhabitant of 550 (KOY's old location) is a tawk station appealing mostly to the "keep off my lawn" types.
My personal hope is that the audience of KFYI will go away sooner rather than later and KOY will be restored to it's historical place on the AM dial. An FM translator wouldn't hurt either.
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The old "55KOY" was a full service cross between MOR and "chicken rock".
lt is right, I tune there now and then and I hear Michael Buble, Spencer Day and Yuna along with the Climax and England Dan. Have never heard Patty and LaVerne. Sinatra yeah-but he's always in good taste
pattiwacki said:
Never heard (of) Spencer Day and Yuna. Bubble is overplayed as well (since when is a cover better than an original?).
pattiwacki said:
Me either (but what happened to Maxine?).
pattiwacki said:Sinatra yeah-but he's always in good taste
Oh Ms Wacki, you are off your meds again.
landtuna said:pattiwacki said:Sinatra yeah-but he's always in good taste
Oh Ms Wacki, you are off your meds again.
If the Chairman of the Board is good enough for Lumberyard 14~Forty, he's good enough for Crackhouse 12~Thirty! Ms Wacki is right, Ol Blue Eyes is always in good taste.
dooby dooby doo....
Dr. Akbar said:
Aha, a new target whipping boy station is emerging should Lumberyard 14~Forty get a whole lot less interesting under Hubbdumpsky rule!
landtuna said:pattiwacki said:
Never heard (of) Spencer Day and Yuna. Bubble is overplayed as well (since when is a cover better than an original?).
pattiwacki said:
Me either (but what happened to Maxine?).
pattiwacki said:Sinatra yeah-but he's always in good taste
Oh Ms Wacki, you are off your meds again.
"...since when is a cover better than an original?.."
It's a matter of musical taste.
This is apples and oranges to the original discussion, but Jimmy Buffet's live cover of Crosby, Stills and Nash "Southern Cross" puts the song in a whole new category as does Southern Pacific's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". I think both are equal if not superior to the original.
Again, it's all musical taste.
desertskies said:
Of course "it's musical taste" but I was referencing an artist covering a song within the same genre (Buble singing Sinatra for instance). In my lifetime I haven't heard more than a half dozen covers of this type in which I liked the cover more than the original. Some singers, such as Buble, add nothing to their covers IMHO.
Southern Pacific always sounded like a typical Friday night bar band and other than loudness I don't think their sound is better or worse than Springsteen's but then Pink Cadillac would be a button pusher on my radio anyway no matter who played it.
desertskies said:landtuna said:pattiwacki said:
Never heard (of) Spencer Day and Yuna. Bubble is overplayed as well (since when is a cover better than an original?).
pattiwacki said:
Me either (but what happened to Maxine?).
pattiwacki said:Sinatra yeah-but he's always in good taste
Oh Ms Wacki, you are off your meds again.
"...since when is a cover better than an original?.."
It's a matter of musical taste.
This is apples and oranges to the original discussion, but Jimmy Buffet's live cover of Crosby, Stills and Nash "Southern Cross" puts the song in a whole new category as does Southern Pacific's cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". I think both are equal if not superior to the original.
Again, it's all musical taste.
It's also a matter of what's profitable for a for-profit station to be playing. There's a reason KOY was moved from 550: you don't want a "get off my lawn" playlist to be the face of this market. I don't know anyone NOT eligible for AARP who willingly listens to it.
The same can be said of KFYI. Apples and oranges again.
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