WPYO ORLANDO dancin again

[SmashTim]

Re: WPYO ORLANDO dancin (back then)

> Yeah, who knows what I listened too back then. It likely was
> 95.3 because this all was after they went on the air in
> 1998. For some reason I thought they only went on the air
> around 2001, I guess not. Oh and I read some article that
> said when they debuted it was all dance music.
>
> BTW, Major, I still miss the good old days where the chart
> was all dance. I've been having some fun the past few hours
> listening to some of the tunes listed in the chart in its
> early dance period. I found quite a few that I had never
> heard before.
>

Party 95.3 signed on in 1999 (forget the date, but it was 99) shortly after cox purchased the station. As stated above the station was never all dance, may have been a bit more than 50% dance as others stated above, but always had a decent amount of hip hop. it was molded after party 105 on Long Island which signed on a year earlier in 1998. In fact "Vic the Latino" now at KTU played a major role in the sound Party 95.3 and he came to the party directly from Party 105 on LI<P ID="signature">______________
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[SmashTim]

"S.O.S(Rescue Me)" I would consider a dance song. I wouldn't consider the other two dance songs, though I can understand the argument.


> > Having lived in Orlando from the infancy of this station
> in
> > early 2000, it was never purely dance but mainly
> > dance....sometimes the word dance is way to broad though
> > because anything having an uptempo beat say over 100bpm+
> can
> > be classified as dance, as many would classify say Bubba
> > Sparxxx-Miss New Booty as a dance song these days...i
> > wouldn't but some will as many clubs play hip hop and yes
> > you can dance to it, so i guess that's where the argument
> > lies.
>
> I see your point. I considered (last year's) "Lose Control"
> by Missy Elliott, Ciara, & Fatman Scoop as a dance song
> (because of the way that it

sounded), but I would not
> consider "Ms. New Booty" as a dance song (because it's too
> slow). I consider "S.O.S. (Rescue Me)" by Rihanna, "Hips
> Don't Lie" by Shakira & Wyclef Jean, and "Pump It" by The
> Black Eyed Peas as dance songs. Other dance fans may not
> feel the same as I do about them. 'Dance Music' is a broad
> term, and everyone's viewpoints are different as far as what
> it is to them.
>
> > WVYB Daytona Beach 103.3 VYB was an awesome CHR back when
> it
> > came on the air in 97 now more mainstream...Florida back
> in
> > the 90's and early 2000's was the place to be for radio,
> > both central and south...it certainly has gone downhill to
>
> > nearly zilth these days.
>
> You know what was a really awesome station back in 1993 and
> 1994 - and they played a tremendous amount of Eurodance
> music at the time - 107.1-WA1A out of Melbourne (Florida).
> That's when I really started to get into the entire European
> dance music scene. There was so much great music from back
> then on the radio.
>
> THE MAJOR
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[pvdboi728]

in fact tonight i almost fell on the floor when i heard WJMN Boston Jamn 94.5 end the last hour of their sunday night throwdown with freestyle


> > Well in a round about way. Former 953Party WPYO Orlando,
> > now POWER953 the New #1 for Hip Hop is having a freestyle
> > extravaganza weekend. They are promoting and giving away
> > tickets for the upcoming Freestyle Extravaganza Concert
> > featuring Stevie B, George Lamond, Lisa Lisa, Lisette
> > Melendez and Judy Torres among others. I just find this
> > amusing, i didn't see how Hip Hop and Freestyle fit
> > together, but maybe they do
> >
>
>
> A big size of the freestyle audience has moved on to Hip Hop
> or Latin music.Orlando has a sizeable population of former
> New Yorkers who grew up on freestyle especially if they are
> of Hispanic heritage between the ages of 25-40.This is part
> of Party's target audience.Btw,the Freestyle Extravaganza
> tour kicks of in NYC on 4/20 and they are promoting the
> concert on KTU, Mega(Spanish)and Mix(adult dance).That's a
> broad stretch of musical taste.
>

 

[The-Major]

Re: WPYO ORLANDO dancin (back then)

> Yeah, who knows what I listened too back then. It likely was
> 95.3 because this all was after they went on the air in
> 1998. For some reason I thought they only went on the air
> around 2001, I guess not. Oh and I read some article that
> said when they debuted it was all dance music.

We're still getting posters on here who state that it was never a 'Pure Dance' station, so I must have caught it on one of their 'Pure Dance' weekends in 2002. Ironically some state that it was (at best) only a 50% dance station while others state that - NO - it was more than 50% at the start. We'd probably all agree that it was a pretty good station back in its early days (despite its whisper of a signal).

> BTW, Major, I still miss the good old days where the chart
> was all dance. I've been having some fun the past few hours
> listening to some of the tunes listed in the chart in its
> early dance period. I found quite a few that I had never
> heard before.

Are you referring to MY chart or another chart ? Are you one of my loyal fans ?

YES - I miss my own 'Pure Dance Chart'. It was a cool era for my web site.

THE MAJOR

 

[SirNigel]

Re: WPYO ORLANDO dancindancin (back then)

> We're still getting posters on here who state that it was
> never a 'Pure Dance' station, so I must have caught it on
> one of their 'Pure Dance' weekends in 2002.

I think that's when I heard it the same time too. I guess it's all solved now.

> Are you referring to MY chart or another chart ? Are you
> one of my loyal fans ?

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[The-Major]

Re: WPYO ORLANDO - The Conclusion

> > We're still getting posters on here who state that it was
> > never a 'Pure Dance' station, so I must have caught it on
> > one of their 'Pure Dance' weekends in 2002.

> I think that's when I heard it the same time too. I guess
> it's all solved now.

All solved. Allow me to put a suitable nightcap on this interesting discussion that I started a few days ago by stating that Orlando's '95.3-PARTY' (1999-2004) was never a 'Pure Dance Station', but perhaps it was at one time a 'Mostly Dance Station' (according to a few on here) or even a 'Half Dance Station' (according to a few more on here). I think that we all agreed that we wish that it were still around.

> > Are you referring to MY chart or another chart ? Are you
> > one of my loyal fans ?

> Yeah, your chart. When it was dance it was pretty good.

I get a lot of comments like that - particularly from Europe. A lot of my loyal fans were sad to see it go, but then I gained a lot of new loyal fans when I flipped the format over to CHR-POP.

I still add dance hits occasionally to the MASSIVE Memories (my Hall-Of-Fame). For example on this week's edition (online now) you'll find that I added "The Real Thing" from The World Wide Message Tribe and "Can U Feel It" from 3rd Party. I'm adding a few more dance hits to this weekend's hot new edition. It's the least I can do for my loyal (dance) fans !

THE MAJOR

 

[nd2023]

Re: WPYO ORLANDO dancin (back then)

I remember going to Disneyworld back in 2001, and I heard pure dance on 95.3. I was only 12 years old then. I recently went to Disneyworld again last month, and I missed 95.3 Party. Maybe it could dance again on its HD2, since I heard IBOC hash on 95.3.<P ID="signature">______________
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[rhaney]

Re: WPYO ORLANDO dancin (back then)

> I remember going to Disneyworld back in 2001, and I heard
> pure dance on 95.3. I was only 12 years old then. I
> recently went to Disneyworld again last month, and I missed
> 95.3 Party. Maybe it could dance again on its HD2, since I
> heard IBOC hash on 95.3.
>

We must all have 2 very different view points of what Pure Dance means. When I think of a Pure Dance Station, I think of Party 93.1 in Miami... I Never heard ORIGINAL Hip-Hop edits on that station.. Hip-Hop remixes YES, but not original Hip-Hop edits... 95.3 Party in Orlando had ALWAYS played ORIGINAL Hip-Hop edits.. which is not Pure Dance. 95.3 Party was a CHR-RHY Dance Leaning station... never a Pure Dance station.

Proof from 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20011024175727/953party.com/includes/nowplaying/songlist2/

http://web.archive.org/web/20020306005657/953party.com/includes/nowplaying/songlist2/2t.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20020306005657/953party.com/includes/nowplaying/songlist2/3t.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20020306005657/953party.com/includes/nowplaying/songlist2/4t.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20020306005445/953party.com/includes/nowplaying/songlist2/5t.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20020306005445/953party.com/includes/nowplaying/songlist2/6t.html

Heavy on Dance... JayLo, Fat Joe, D-12, Busta, Fabolous, Jay-Z, NSync, Ludacris, Ashanti, etc all in the playlist.... and I remember them being Original edits... not Dance edits

In fact... I still remember them using this sweeper: Hip-Hop, Dance, and Romance. The Beat of Orlando......

Without a doubt, my all time favorite station to listen to.

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