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WROR all Beatles for today at least

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raccoonradio

A co-worker told me about 1 am tonight that WROR was doing all Beatles. Sure enough, on my way home a short time later it was Drive My Car, Lovely Rita, Ob La Di, I'm Happy Just To Dance with You, etc. No
sign of rarities or cover versions, just Beatles catalog. Prob. just for today; file under The Fool On The Air.
 
I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but Paul Perry has been doing weekend afternoons at WROR for the last few weeks... (after getting let go from afternoons earlier this year) Glad to hear him again. (No joke!)
 
L&W did so many male anatomy jokes with Mike Gorman this morning, he sounded like he wanted to hang up. Playing "hold me tight" at 8:30pm.
 
WROR.com is calling WROR "Boston's Beatles Station".

And WROR.com's on-air schedule does in fact list Paul Perry for weekends: 3-7 on Sat, 1-6 on Sunday.

Dominick Indindoli is, apparently, the odd man out.

JC Haze and Stella Mars remain listed for afternoons and evenings. Mauzy, JC, Kristin, and Huggy remain listed for weekends.
 
Beatles station ended at 12:04am with the end of "Carry that weight", followed by E.John "Don't let the sun."
 
With all the solo works and stuff from the "Anthology" series, and covers by others, there would be a rather large playlist for a station. If the played all the stuff and not just rotate the numbers1 tunes. I woould have that station on my preset. Might even forgive a pirate.
 
They did play some solo stuff from each Beatle and also did some rarely heard tunes like "Not a Second Time". But yes some rarities etc would be welcome
 
Even if they didn't include solo/sideproject stuff there would be over 300 songs to rotate. If they included all related projects it would probably hit 500. That's more than enough. I say they should do it. Oldies is playing more and more of WROR stuff anyway, may as well change it up. Sure some people may leave, but those who stay would increase time spent listening a TON I'd bet. It would change someone like me from a once a month for 5 min listener to a daily listener.
 
As a format it is not viable - even if there were 500 songs.
Remember that most of those songs are fairly short - they
would burn through material in no time flat. The first week or two
might start out strong, but would burn out quickly, as repetition sets in...
As a special presentation (example - on a holiday weekend) it could work out
great, however...
 
Oh I realize that going by all the written and/or unwritten rules it doesn't "work"

But I think if they tried it....it would work....it's a hunch sure and will never happen, but I think if it did it would work and would be strong more than a couple weeks.

As songs really started to burn they could start to include side-projects, covers, bands heavily influenced by them, etc and still be "boston's beatles station" even with some stuff mixed in.

Also it could be dayparted to stretch it out more and have less burn. Normal morning show, then Beatles all day....or just Beatles on nights/weekends....

I know what you are saying....but I still think, in at least some way/shape/form that it would work.
 
well said theo; today on breakfast with beatles,chachi played Working Class Hero and I Found Out from John Lennon's first solo album.. I wasnt suprised that Working Class Hero was edited but thought that I Found Out could be played unedited. Didnt think the line "Some junkie sitting there with your **** in your hand." would be over the line.
 
mgpt6 said:
I wasnt suprised that Working Class Hero was edited but thought that I Found Out could be played unedited. Didnt think the line "Some junkie sitting there with your **** in your hand." would be over the line.
Click to expand...

The line is "Some of you sitting there with your..."

The word "junkie" appears in the song only in the line "I've seen through junkies, I've been through it all..."

Besides, many heavy "junkies" are too numbed out to be interested in doing the activity described in the censored line....
 
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