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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« on: September 02, 2018, 05:21:27 PM »Bill Withers' Use Me for Corona Premier beer.
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« on: September 01, 2018, 11:07:12 AM »
A snippet of The Flintstones theme song, followed by most of The Jetsons theme,
in a generic spot from the Volkswagon Group promoting electric cars.
in a generic spot from the Volkswagon Group promoting electric cars.
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Aretha Franklin, 76
« on: August 16, 2018, 02:29:25 PM »Aretha Franklin, universally acclaimed as the “Queen of Soul” and one of America’s greatest singers
in any style, died on Thursday at her home in Detroit. She was 76. The cause was advanced pancreatic
cancer, her publicist, Gwendolyn Quinn, said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/obituaries/aretha-franklin-dead.html
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The TV Thread: Networks, cable, shows on DVD.
« on: August 12, 2018, 01:23:51 PM »I just noticed that KCSM is no longer on our cable system. Upon investigation, I discovered
the TV station has been sold to Santa Rosa public broadcaster KRCB. The new call letters
will be KPJK, honoring the station's founder, Professor John Kramer. The article referenced
below says that KCSM dropped PBS in 2009, which I find confusing, as I have been checking
their schedule somewhat regularly for PBS music programs like Austin City Limits, Infinity Hall
Live, and The Artist's Den. The new station couldn't get PBS membership because PBS doesn't
want more duplicate stations in the same market.
http://padailypost.com/2018/08/01/kcsm-tv-getting-a-new-owner-new-name/
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Dan Ingram, 83
« on: June 27, 2018, 01:59:38 PM »As usual, the New York Radio Archive has lots of great material, including
this "scoped" Dan Ingram aircheck from 1967. It's very representative
of the era. Note the plethora of commercials, station ID jingles, and Dan
talking over the ads. I was still listening to WABC and Top 40 in 1967,
but in a year my family would purchase a couple of FM radios and after
that I never looked back.
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Dan Ingram, 83
« on: June 27, 2018, 10:25:09 AM »
As a wee sprat, I cut my radio teeth in the early 1960s listening to WABC out of NYC
on a pocket transistor radio. Dan Ingram was certainly one of the first, if not literally
the first, DJ that I ever listened to. (Even before Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow.)
I won't claim that Top 40 was the best thing ever, but it was all we had back then
and it forms an integral part of my memories, as it no doubt does for many greybeards.
on a pocket transistor radio. Dan Ingram was certainly one of the first, if not literally
the first, DJ that I ever listened to. (Even before Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow.)
I won't claim that Top 40 was the best thing ever, but it was all we had back then
and it forms an integral part of my memories, as it no doubt does for many greybeards.
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news
« on: June 15, 2018, 04:57:00 PM »60's Watch - The Bone played "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Sunday afternoon. They probably don't go back to '65 too often, but it does happen.
KUFX played The Animal's House of the Rising Sun (1964) this morning.
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Music & Advertising: 'interesting' combinations
« on: May 30, 2018, 10:32:10 PM »Nilsson's Jump into the Fire for IBM's cloud service.
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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / RIP Tom Wolfe, 88
« on: May 15, 2018, 02:29:07 PM »Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life
the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s moneyed status-seekers in
works like "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby," "The Right Stuff" and "Bonfire of the Vanities,"
died on Monday in a Manhattan hospital. He was 88.
His death was confirmed by his agent, Lynn Nesbit, who said Mr. Wolfe had been hospitalized with an infection.
He had lived in New York since joining The New York Herald Tribune as a reporter in 1962.
In his use of novelistic techniques in his nonfiction, Mr. Wolfe, beginning in the 1960s, helped create the
enormously influential hybrid known as the New Journalism.
[...]
From 1965 to 1981 Mr. Wolfe produced nine nonfiction books. "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," an account of his
reportorial travels in California with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters as they spread the gospel of LSD, remains
a classic chronicle of the counterculture, "still the best account -- fictional or non, in print or on film -- of of the genesis
of the '60s hipster subculture," the media critic Jack Shafer wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review on the book's
40th anniversary.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/obituaries/tom-wolfe-pyrotechnic-nonfiction-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-88.html
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The "Let's Enjoy YouTube While We Can" Thread
« on: March 30, 2018, 05:01:52 PM »Another rare jewel... While Phil Ochs is best known for his protest songs, here he turns
his wit and lyricism to social commentary. He keenly observes various attendees at a party,
and in the end, no one escapes his scrutiny.
Phil Ochs - The Party (8:00)
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The "Let's Enjoy YouTube While We Can" Thread
« on: March 17, 2018, 05:12:41 PM »A forgotten gem that adds to my opinion that 1971 was the best year for music. Back in the day,
the whole track would be played uninterrupted on FM radio.
John Sebastian - The Four Of Us (15:57)
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The "Let's Enjoy YouTube While We Can" Thread
« on: March 17, 2018, 05:03:45 PM »Just stumbled over Foxes and Fossils, a now-defunct Atlanta-area cover band.
Suite Judy Blue Eyes
Monday Monday
We Gotta Get You A Woman
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news
« on: March 07, 2018, 07:01:15 PM »Are there sources/web sites that list the songs spun on a particular station,Well, there's TuneGenie -- here's the link for The Bone: http://ksan.tunegenie.com/
either in downloadable or easy-to-screen-scrape format? It's amusing to
play '60s Watch, but if there's a way to get the last 24 hours (or more) in
one swell foop... Or do stations consider that information their competitive
advantage?
Ah yes, that works. It does take a little of the fun out of playing '60s Watch, but it
makes it easier to compile a more comprehensive report. Both KSAN and KUFX
appear to play at least a half dozen '60s songs every day. Under My Thumb (1966)
is still the earliest so far, but there are several from 1967. Conspicuously absent
despite their '60s stature: the Beatles. The Beatles could certainly rock, but I'd say
their best-known hits are more pop than rock. I have heard Revolution on KUFX.
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news
« on: March 07, 2018, 04:58:45 PM »Are there sources/web sites that list the songs spun on a particular station,
either in downloadable or easy-to-screen-scrape format? It's amusing to
play '60s Watch, but if there's a way to get the last 24 hours (or more) in
one swell foop... Or do stations consider that information their competitive
advantage?
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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news
« on: March 07, 2018, 04:51:38 PM »
So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch," checking in more frequently (but not necessarily
staying) with K-Fox (KUFX) and The Bone (KSAN) just to see if they're playing a '60s song. More
so in the car, when I might otherwise have left the radio off. (I have a short list that I anticipate
hearing.)
I guess you could say I did a double take today when both stations were playing Queen's
Another One Bites the Dust at the same time. Thought I screwed up the radio presets
at first. Amusing and sad.
Another simultaneous play on KUFX & KSAN this afternoon -- U2's New Year's Day.