Earliest Oldies format Posted on June 8, 2021 at 03:09:43 AM by Nostradamus FM
Classical Music, locally, KXTR. Its the one where the audience doesn't die off.
I didn't think much of classical other than the pop melodies and famous movie themes ripped from the classical repertoire.
But I took a course in Music Appreciation as a required college Fine Arts elective, and decided I really like it.
If not too brassy and declarative, its great for sleeping. For example, its hard to sleep with the 1812 on. Soft piano's the best, and Clair d Lune the best of all. Even McCartney tried his hand at classical and it's good too.
Rock format MDs dont seem to know much about what's good music and what's not. They mindlessly go by the hyped record sales statistics from Billboard, etc. Some of it's good, lots not. Most of it's just familiar (read that: overplayed.)
They've been stuck in the 1960s method of deciding rock pop hits, long after young teens quit buying 49 cent 45's.
For years, Albums are the big sellers but pop MD's stupidly will only play the cuts that the producers decided to pull off as radioplay singles. Dumb. What song on a CSN&Y or Beatles LP isn't quality hit material? or Chicago. Or Elton. Or even MJackson? The problem with MD's (and I was one at an AC station for a short time) is that they dont get out of the studio often enough and when they do, they only listen to Top 40. I wonder if they actually KNOW anybody NOT in radio to see what THEY buy and play over the years!
Its this kind of discussion that some radio boards, and 60s Reminiscence sites discuss. Course the ones who can't think outside the Top40 consultant box retort that this discussion is only for people who've aged out of the targetted sales demographic.
Which is why, I presume, real grownups are willing to skip the free music and pay for it, either online or on the internet in some form or other.
I'm pretty impressed with the music providers who pay attention to what we listen to and then send us other cuts after analyzing our tastes. Thats way more sophisticated than what OTA radio stations program!
KInda waiting to see how many of the major radio station owners change their focus to internet like I Heart where they make it easy to stream their best stations in a variety of formats and cities to us all. I'd say I've learned more about radio from IHeart than all the years I was in it...simply because the incredible internet and its satellite delivery makes it graphically so easy to sample radio all over the country, not just the distance my AMFM radio picks up.
Remember when there were only five buttons on our car radios? Mine had WDAF-AM (aka Pushbutton One), WHB, KCMO, KPRS, and KUDL. And of course I switched mostly between button 2 and button 5 because I was an ignorant teenager whose concept of music was only whether I could lipsync the lyrics.
Today's younger listeners know vastly more about music that we did, and even liked rock from 60 years ago. No way we boomers would have listened to much Big Band stuff, just played right before we were born. (Tho my dau watched Swing Kids abt WWII music and got into tht for a little while.)
So Freq....Im discussing music in here. Your turn! Replies: