Re(11): Bob-FM TO KC Posted on November 20, 2024 at 01:39:16 AM by just sayin
I agree abt the penalty of overplay, especially by back in the day when Music Directors gave too much weight to Billboard's Hot 100. Hit songs get burned out long before they fall off of Billboard.
Everybody in so called top 40 radio knows when that is...when they turn off the studio speaker everytime they come up on the A rotation.
Some sure come to mind, Bridge by S&G, a hit for 42 weeks! And Ballad of the GReen Beret, a propaganda song from DOD, and my personal song that sends me out of the room Tie a Yellow Ribbon.
Good programmers pay em often the first couple weeks they up there with a top 10 bullet but then back off so as not to ruin them. There were so many radio ran into the ground. Even Queen! And the Beatles, and the Stones, Big Bad John, so many, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, and more recently Piano Man. Of course I'm dating myself...you have yours too.
Same with spots that were funny the first ten times but after that, we reached for the button. I think now everyones onto radio consultant memos on the clock when all the stations now cluster their spots to game the quarter-hour ratings.
So many choices now, that doesn't work, where all the teenyboppers listend to two white rock stations or the market's R&B, or a couple country stations.A
I just never got into most ALT Rock but I was raising babies then, and knew the lyrics to Saturday morning TV songs and of course the soundtrack from the first Annie, and later Lion King.
I was so burned out of radio, when I got into TV I totally quit listening to pop radio for several years. Especially when I could put faces and personalities to all the voices who cut most of the local spots.
The only time I worked where we played everything, Country in the morning, easy listening at the dinner hour, Alt Cali after dinner, and my pop requestiline after 8. That was American Forces Radio, the only English speaking US playing music, the "Voice of Home" was the jingle package. We didn't like it.
When some young Lt at the headshed tried to make us mix formats in the same hour we hated it and fought it because too many genres just didn't sound good together. So there's THAT! Replies: