Oldies and Oddities Playlist (Feb 27, 2008)

Playlist for Oldies and Oddities 02-27-08
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COMBINATION OF THE TWO - Yuya Uchida and The Flowers
BAD JOKES - Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly
BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN - Burl Ives
PSYCHO CHICKEN - The Fools
VEHICLE - The O'Henry Intermediate School 70 Stage Band
IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA - Goddard High School Stage Band
LIVIN' THING - Dondero High School A Capella Chorus and Band Ensemble
DYER MAKER - Dread Zeppelin
BABA O'REILLY - Those Darn Accordions
POLKAMON - "Weird Al" Yankovic
IT MIGHT AS WELL RAIN UNTIL SEPTEMBER - Carole King
LIKE A ROLLING STONE - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
CHEESE AND ONIONS - The Rutles
YESTERDAY'S HERO - The Bay City Rollers

The Wires (Feb 27, 2008)

LPFM activists storm the Capitol. It's a week of heavy lobbying on radio issues, and hundreds of low-power FM activists are in the halls of Congress pushing for passage of The Local Community Radio Act. It would abolish third-adjacent channel protections. Free Press calculates that could create thousands of new LPFMs.

Sirius subscribers hit 8.3 million. The satcaster's subscriber base grew 38% last year, largely due to a growing number of in-dashboard installations by automakers. Sirius added 654,309 customers in the fourth quarter. More customers mean more revenue, yet losses continue to mount with another $327 million for 2007. Sirius' merger with XM remains in regulatory purgatory, but CEO Mel Karmzin says "We are optimistic that we will hear favorable information from them in the near future."

Feedback: KGB, KPRI, Sophie, XXs (Feb 26, 2008)

I really hope that 105.7 doesn't drop the 1090 simulcast. Of course, I am being completely selfish here, but when the Padres play during the afternoon, (spring training games especially), I love to listen to them while I am at work. AM radio stations are impossible to pick up in are building, but Fm stations come in fine.

as for KGB, I wish they would do more stuff like the "no repeat January" that they did this year. That was awesome! I heard songs during that month that I hadn't heard in 25 years. I don't think that KGB needs to go away -- I just think they need to widen the playlist.

KPRI is not a threat to KGB -- even with their improved signal. they are too soft. they play way too much lilting acoustic music for my taste. I'm not saying that they need to go all hard rock or anything, but if they truly want to be "rock without rules" they need to play more actual rock.

I still don't understand CBS's decision to launch this ridiculous Sophie format. they did so many things right in so many other cities after Dan mason took over that I just don't understand how the Sophie thing happened in SD. As best as I can figure, somebody local really must have given somebody a real snow job about this format. Sophie doesn't fill any hole in the SD market. You can tune into four other stations and hear most of the same songs.

Now again, I am being selfish, but I would love to see 103.7 flip to classic hits. KRTH is fun to listen to, but it dies once I get about five miles south of Mira Mesa.

From Jay:

KGB needs to expand their playlist to match that of XM's three rock channels on 40, 46, and 49. Simple as that. They can do that without encroaching on sister station Rock which plays harder and younger rock. Clear Channel has lots of money to spend on records but they don't do that.

KGB's second biggest threat is KPRI because both are aimed at the rock and roll listener like you who grew up on the original KPRI (106.5) and the same old KGB back in the 1970s. KPRI has a wider playlist than KGB, yet KPRI tends to be more like Smooth Jazz level rock at times and I flip the dial to another station.

It all depends on how they're programmed, but my thinking goes that KGB is too corporate, but KPRI doesn't play harder rock like AC/DC or Van Halen. Star, er, I mean Jack, plays mostly middle of the road rock that KGB and KPRI doesn't touch, so the real threat to KGB is really Jack and not KPRI.

If KPRI wants to be a real threat to KGB, they need to rock harder but not at the country punk level 91X plays, get Dave, Shelley, and Chainsaw over there, and give KGB a real run for the ratings.

The Wires (Feb 26, 2008)

KurtHanson: Free, On-Demand Streams, Plus Major Promotion, Power Big Growth For Last.Fm. Leave The Music Player, Take The Online Streams? The End Of The Music Industry As We Know It. Distributing Music Over Communications Network Not A New Idea

NY Times: The FCC will act on delaying or slowing down of broadband traffic.

Happy Hare: I had a chum named Frank Sinatra, and kept it to myself. It isn’t that I wasn’t proud of our friendship. I just knew that repeating anything he said or did, anything, meant death to our relationship. I kept it tucked away for many years, and it was worth it. I have told you about him in staggered vignettes during this two year Happy Hare series, but had not thought about compressing my times with Frank until recently when several of his devotees asked to see them in a more manageable sequence. First, the initial meeting. The Sinatra I begin with here isn’t the god-like Frank Sinatra that you have heard about in countless allegories, but the “scandalous” Sinatra of the early 50’s. The scandal was: Frank deserted his wife, Nancy, in the latter 40’s, and took up with Ava. Gardner, considered by many as the most beautiful woman in Hollywood

Rabbit Report: From Jimmy Rabbitt -- On this date in 1998, they should have been playing Shirley Ellis' "The Name Game" at the ceremony at Buckingham Palace when Reginald Kenneth Dwight aka Elton John became Sir Elton Hercules John. Queen Elizabeth II knighted the five-time Grammy, one-time Academy Award-winning English singer, composer and pianist. As his mother and stepfather looked on he was was introduced as Sir John Elton. The mistake was quickly corrected, and there was no mistake the next day when Sir Elton John won a Grammy for Best Vocal Performance for “Candle in the Wind 1997.” In a four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in music, especially during the 1970s Editor's Warning: Don't try the Name Game with the names "Chuck" and "Art."

Inside Music Media: From Jerry Del Colliano -- Lost in all the cutbacks, firings and cost adjustments that consolidators have been making the last few months is the demise of the morning radio show. The morning slot is responsible for up to 50% of a radio station's total revenue yet that apparently means nothing to consolidators desperate to make their latest poor quarter look a little better. Clear Channel is the leader in dismantling morning shows but CBS is not far behind. They are the biggest, but they're not alone (read more - Inside Music Media)

Oldies and Oddities Playlist 2-20-08

Theme: Hooray for Hollywood!

PROUD MARY - Leonard Nimoy
SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - Bill Cosby
ITSY BITSY TEENIE WEENIE YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI - Buddy Hackett
DRINKENSTEIN - Sylvester Stallone
HEARTACHES BY THE NUMBER - Jack Palance
IT KEEPS RIGHT ON-A HURTIN' - Joey Bishop
LITTLE OLE WINEDRINKER ME - Robert Mitchum
LIKE A ROLLING STONE - Sebastian Cabot
ROOM FOR A BOY NEVER USED - Burt Reynolds
I KNOW HOW IT IS TO BE YOUNG
  (BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW IT IS TO BE OLD) - Orson Welles
CAN YOU FIX THE WAY I TALK FOR CHRISTMAS? - Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent
MY BABY LOVES LOVIN' - Kurt Russell
GEORGY GIRL - Ed McMahon
DA DO RON RON - Cindy Williams and Penny Marshall
STAND BY ME - Muhammad Ali
TO REMEMBER ME - Wink Martindale

Sean Hannity's Music Warning (Feb 24, 2008)

So said radio talker and Fox News host Sean Hannity this week at Arbitron's consultant fly-in.

"In five years when every car has an iPod connection and you can listen to anything you want, what is music radio going to do?"

I have long argued (and many others have likewise taken up the cause) that what's between the records becomes more, not less, important as our sound-alike competition multiplies and new channels of distribution make their way into home, work, and car - populated by content that is not owned, produced, sold, licensed, or monetized by anyone in the radio industry.

Sean is dead right on this point.

Within five years we'll see diminishing ratings on sound-alike music- oriented FM's. And radio will enter a new age of non-music programming.

Not necessarily talk. But not particularly music.

Read the rest of the post at hear2.com

Top 5 Stories of the Week (Feb 18-24, 2008)

4. HD DVD Dies.

3. New episode of Saturday Night Live returns after an extended break due to writers strike.

2. NBC schedules an all Law and Order Sunday night, showing that the network is out of ideas!

1. Satellite is shot down by a U.S. missle.

Stuff Happening For Upcoming Week (Feb 25-Mar 2, 2008)

Feb 29-Mar 2: MARSCON 2008 - Bloomington, MN (Twin Cities). More information at http://www.marscon.com/

Feb 29. Leap year day.

Feb 29. Padres spring training season officially begins. Visit http://www.padres.com/ for more information.

Feb 28. The Equimas shopping season officially begins. Equimas day is March 20 (for Milliean calendars on leap years and year after leap years, March 21 other years) or March 21 (for Gregorian calendars)

Feb 27. Sarah turns 28. Wish her a happy birthday at http://www.myspace.com/sarahvox

Feb 27. The Monthly "Weird Al" Day. Visit him at http://www.weirdal.com/

Feb 26. David Tanny offically releases "Stupid Audio 5.0" CD at http://www.davidtanny.com

Feb 26. Valerie Bertinelli releases her tell-all book "Losing It and Gaining My Life Back One Pound at a Time" available at Valerie Bertinelli on DFS at http://valerie.davesfunstuff.com/