rustydj
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Post by rustydj on Feb 23, 2013 22:16:17 GMT -5
WVTK 92.1 started last week's 1976 AT 40 at 9:15pm est.
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Post by MrGeno502 on Feb 23, 2013 22:21:34 GMT -5
I live in Louisville, so I listen to AT 40 The 70's on WGTK over the air. Everything lines up fine that way. And I love hearing the shows in mono The thing I don't like is that the show is interrupted almost every week by Bellarmine basketball during basketball season. I have listened online and the previous comments are correct. It can be a mess sometimes. I guess that WGTK has extra ads online to pay for the streaming. Here's an interesting fact. WGTK used to air the old "History Of Rock And Roll" shows in that time slot before signing up for AT 40 The 70's.
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Post by mga707 on Feb 23, 2013 22:24:50 GMT -5
I live in Louisville, so I listen to AT 40 The 70's on WGTK over the air. Everything lines up fine that way. And I love hearing the shows in mono The thing I don't like is that the show is interrupted almost every week by Bellarmine basketball during basketball season. I have listened online and the previous comments are correct. It can be a mess sometimes. I guess that WGTK has extra ads online to pay for the streaming. Here's an interesting fact. WGTK used to air the old "History Of Rock And Roll" shows in that time slot before signing up for AT 40 The 70's. Thanks for the on-site report. Interesting to know that it's just the online stream that screws up the show with extra ads, and that it runs as it should over the air.
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Post by mkarns on Feb 23, 2013 22:33:00 GMT -5
WKIX will play 1977. KHLA played 1972 today, and presumably will do so again tomorrow.
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Post by michaelcasselman on Feb 24, 2013 3:52:35 GMT -5
Coming up on Smooth 70's playing the 1977 show in just a few minutes...
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Post by Showman on Feb 24, 2013 4:32:31 GMT -5
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Post by artsmusic on Feb 24, 2013 8:08:00 GMT -5
WLS= 1977
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Post by rgmike on Feb 24, 2013 14:19:16 GMT -5
Iowa's KMCH running '72 right now. Day-um, this is a fabulous chart -- loaded with forgotten hits. The English Congregation's "Softly Whispering I Love You" -- gorgeous.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2013 19:03:13 GMT -5
WGHN is doing February 19th, 1972 right now!
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rustydj
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Post by rustydj on Mar 11, 2013 4:36:47 GMT -5
Interesting observation! Not sure I qualify as a "music guru", but I'll chime in with comments based on working in radio at that time... By 1977, the charts had started to splinter. It was common until then to have country and even what we would consider "elevator music" today mixed in with The Beatles and Rolling Stones. We began to receive promotional "Disco" singles on 12" vinyl in addition to traditional 7" vinyl singles. Of course, the disco versions were longer. There were often 3 or more versions of many pop songs--a single version, album version and disco version. Songs like Peter Brown's "Dance With Me" and even "Baker Street" are examples of this.
An exception that comes to mind from 1972 was "American Pie" Our station didn't own the album, just the single. So before someone recorded both sides on tape and then spliced it together, the second half of "American Pie" rarely got played.
Most country songs continued to be 3 to 4 minutes in length for another decade or so until the "line dance" era began--think "Boot Scootin' Boogie" But by the late 80s there was very little country music on the pop charts.
Also, I think there was a belief that the length could limit the commercial success of pop music. During morning or afternoon drive with a heavy commercial load, a four or five minute song would be less likely to be played.
There also may be a technical limitation in play. Even though you could cram 7 minutes or more onto one side of a 45--with the heavy tracking stylus common to radio stations (and jukeboxes) until the 1980s--these microgroove promotional singles on low quality vinyl would have worn out quickly.
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