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WJIB Rocks - how about the Goldfinger format

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Varulven

Hearing Shirley Bassey's essential GOLDFINGER on WJIB today made it clear that both Oldies 103 and WZLX could add popular titles no matter what year they were made (or became popular) as they have elements that work for all these stations:

a)They have a popularity that spans the ages (Goldfinger being among the most recognizable Bond themes/titles)

b)They have a hipness about them (a la Space Age Bachelor Pad music which has renewed interest in
Ferrante & Teicher, Esquivel and other cool instrumentalists and 50s/60's vocalists

Just as songs like "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" sound marvelous on Oldies stations (though you might have to tune in to Northshore 104 to hear such a great song), they can also beef up stations like WZLX which need to pull out a nugget every once in awhile to make people pay attention. Goldfinger would make people stand up and take notice - it's just so awesome - thank you Bob Bittner for playing such a superb tune (sing MOON RIVER to the melody as one local label president reminded me...)

Thus I propose the GOLDFINGER FORMAT and have some evidence from my research.
Play songs that are timeless on Oldies, Talk, Classic Rock, Jazz, songs that span the genres, the ages, and remain popular - or just sound so good that it doesn't matter what age or audience is listening.

The Goldfinger Format - Music as Timeless as The Beatles


Shirley Bassey THIS IS MY LIFE
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3nftxqykldse

And I Love You So
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfixqe5ld0e

Esquivel See It In Sound
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dxftxqwkldfe

Ferrante & Teicher Getting Together
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:avfexqt5ldse

Sounds Orchestral
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gifixqu0ldje
 
Sounds like a good idea..wondering if some of the music Bob played during the WWEA Earth Radio period, could be mixed in?

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
How about SOUL COAXING? or perhaps ARTHUR'S THEME by Christopher Cross? ???

argytunes
 
Bond themes... yes I'll give you Goldfinger is " recognizable Bond" but really, most of them really stink.

McCartney's " Live or Let Die" is crap, but anything McCartney does turns to gold so it is probably the most successful. Carly Simons "Nobody Does It Better" IMHO is the best of them.

"For Your Eyes Only" by Sheena Easton and Duran Duran's "View To A Kill" get an instant station change.

Rita Coolidge and Madonna did themes that are never heard on radio, not even on the lost 45's.

"Madonna's theme for "Die Another Day", despite being the best-selling Bond theme in nearly 20 years, was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song (2002) in addition to a Golden Globe for Best Original Song."

The Bond theme music that I like best is the "James Bond Theme" itself, that jazz peice that is used in almost every movie at one point or another, and is the intro to the Beatles " HELP!" I'd love to find a copy of "HELP!"
with that intro. I can't find it on CD anywhere.
 
Some other stuff to add to the format..."Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric, "Midnight in Moscow" by Kenny Ball,"I was Kaiser Bill's Batman" by Whistling Jack Smith also come to mind.

Dave Gardiner

WVCH 740/WNWR 1540

Philadelphia
 
WJIB plays them all...... AND the flip side of "Midnight in Moscow", which is a really jumpy jazzy-big-band version of "American Patrol"
 
While not a huge fan of Audioslave's You Know My Name from the latest Casino Royale, I rather liked the instrumental version of it that's sprinkled throughout the movie.

Of course, the movie itself kicked so much ass, maybe the theme music improved just by being there. ;D
 
Keep in mind, the song has to have an element of "coolness" to span the ages. "Goldfinger" and "Classical Gas" have it, "Arthur's Theme" does not.

"Cast Your Fate To The Wind" has it while "Live & Let Die" is overplayed and not the best McCartney composition. It gets play because of the McCartney/Bond combo but Charlie Farren's rare "The Living Daylights" that didn't get into the Bond film of the same name ( a-ha got it instead, though Charlie was asked to write a theme) would've been the song to break Farrenheit... and it is hip enough to play despite its rare status (WCGY is probably the only station in the world that played it).

http://www.jamesbondmm.co.uk/title-themes/tld-theme.php
 
Varuleven...

Are you thinking like a listener or a broadcaster?

There's a major difference when it comes to what songs LISTENERS like---as opposed to what BROADCASTERS can tolerate?

I happen to know several listeners who enjoy ARTHUR'S THEME and aren't sick of LIVE & LET DIE! (despite their 28 and 34 years of age)! :p

argytunes
 
As a broadcaster. The James Bond theme is cool. I happen to like Arthur's Theme, but it is not hip at all.
It is Middle of the Road. "Goldfinger" is hip. Now you can have a "middle of the road" sound, but it has to have elements of hipness, a la Ferrante & Teicher with their dueling pianos. Arthur's Theme and "Live & Let Die" are both overplayed and have too much of the "schmaltz factor". "Cast Your Fate To The Wind" does not.
 
I just wish I could hear the station Period.You Lucky People north of Scituate.
 
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