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« Reply #120 on: August 14, 2005, 08:08:59 PM »
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Today on the Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue (hey, it's "local radio" to me) I heard, for the first time, Stevie Wonder's original version of "Until You Come Back to Me," as well as the original recording of "Worst That Could Happen."  Done by ... wait for it ... THE FIFTH DIMENSION!  I had no idea.  Sounds VERY similar to the Brooklyn Bridge hit version, only not so legato.


Tell me you liked the Stevie -- Oakland's KDIA used to play it regularly (first place I heard it). I guess it was orig a B-side (?) and ended up on an LP later.

as to the 5-D it certainly makes sense (Jimmy Webb connection). 2nd big hit they missed out on -- "Love Hangover" being the other.
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« Reply #121 on: August 15, 2005, 08:15:23 AM »
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Today on the Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue (hey, it's "local radio" to me) I heard, for the first time, Stevie Wonder's original version of "Until You Come Back to Me," as well as the original recording of "Worst That Could Happen."  Done by ... wait for it ... THE FIFTH DIMENSION!  I had no idea.  Sounds VERY similar to the Brooklyn Bridge hit version, only not so legato.


Tell me you liked the Stevie -- Oakland's KDIA used to play it regularly (first place I heard it). I guess it was orig a B-side (?) and ended up on an LP later.

as to the 5-D it certainly makes sense (Jimmy Webb connection). 2nd big hit they missed out on -- "Love Hangover" being the other.


TANC: Jimmy Webb's birthday is this week, and Little Steven actually did a salute to him Sun nite -- a very out-of-character set that included the 5D's "Carpet Man", "Highwayman" by Cash/Nelson/Jennings/Kristofferson (I never knew that was Webb composition) and "MacArthur Park"!

LS's show was followed by Joel Selvin's, in which Mr Selvin hung out with Booker T for an hour. Very cool, even tho' I was nodding out about halfway thru.
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« Reply #122 on: August 15, 2005, 03:59:51 PM »
since it is Mr Webb's B-Day, I went looking for the lyrics to "MacArthur Park"... note the editorial comments by the person who transcribed them for the Top40 db:

MacArthur Park

Artist: Richard Harris (peak Billboard position # 2 in 1968)
Words and Music by Jimmy Webb
Disco version by Donna Summer charted at # 1 in 1978
MacArthur Park is located on the west side of Wilshire Boulevard between
downtown LA and Santa Monica.


Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

CHORUS
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

CHORUS

[relatively brief instrumental interlude]

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.

[extended (1:24) up-tempo instrumental interlude that rivals anything done by  Chicago or even "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams]

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh NO!! [upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change]


Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
ronhontz@worldnet.att.net with help from his buddy, Paulo
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« Reply #123 on: August 15, 2005, 06:06:55 PM »
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[extended (1:24) up-tempo instrumental interlude that rivals anything done by  Chicago or even "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams]

Oh NO!! [upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change]


Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
ronhontz@worldnet.att.net with help from his buddy, Paulo


nice work, ron and paolo! :)

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« Reply #124 on: August 15, 2005, 07:49:19 PM »
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Oh NO!! [upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change]


As opposed to a reversible gender change ... ?

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« Reply #125 on: August 17, 2005, 12:55:57 PM »
Meant to post this earlier. A friend of mine has what's becoming a regular podcast on KYOU (1550 AM) that some of us might dig. He's a big record collector and calls his segment "Crate-digger's Holiday"--a reference to his many hours spent digging thru crates of vinyl at various record stores, garage sales, etc. It's very eclectic, and features tracks from all over the place, usually somewhat to very rare or obscure.

He had a segment that ran yesterday, and amazingly, they're re-running another one today, at 12:29 (guess it's in progress as I type this) and 8:29 tonight. Here's his blurb about it:

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The show airing today is episode 9, and features the following tracks:
 
Ray Charles / I Don't Need No Doctor
Led Zepplin / Hots On For Nowhere
The Time / Grace
Supercat / My Girl Josephine
 
Christopher Guest & National Lampoon / Mother Goose's Wine
Dixie Chicks / Stand By Your Man
The Robins / White Cliffs Of Dover
 
The start time on the website says 12:29pm and 8:29pm...but these are approximate. The show on before me is called The Nashville Nobody Knows, and spotlights a number of singer/songwriters from the Nashville circuit.
 
So if you find yourself by a radio around these times, I hope you can tune in.
 
Thanks,
Tim


The one that ran yesterday included The Jam, Jan & Dean, Traffic, George Torrence and the Naturals, the Pixies, Bic Runga, and Allen Toussaint.
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« Reply #126 on: August 27, 2005, 11:29:47 AM »
Woke up to KPIG this morning; they never fail to surprise with the stuff they pull out: first it was a live cover version of the Allmans' "Jessica" by the Dixie Dregs; then later they played the Austin Lounge Lizards wondrous bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "The Lunatic" (which predates that bluegrass PF tribute album by a number of years) and Run-C&W's bluegrass "I Second That Emotion" -- first time I've EVER heard anything from either of their 2 delightful LPs on the radio.  And as I write, here's a band called Old School Freight Train (?) doing "Superstition".  Just amazing.
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« Reply #127 on: August 27, 2005, 02:56:08 PM »
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Woke up to KPIG this morning; they never fail to surprise with the stuff they pull out: first it was a live cover version of the Allmans' "Jessica" by the Dixie Dregs; then later they played the Austin Lounge Lizards wondrous bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "The Lunatic" (which predates that bluegrass PF tribute album by a number of years) and Run-C&W's bluegrass "I Second That Emotion" -- first time I've EVER heard anything from either of their 2 delightful LPs on the radio.  And as I write, here's a band called Old School Freight Train (?) doing "Superstition".  Just amazing.

On my way to O'Connell High this noon, I had KPIG on, and was inspired, and touched by "The Revolution Starts Now" segueing into the Airplane's "Wooden Ships."  It was a good way to start the day.
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« Reply #128 on: August 27, 2005, 08:56:10 PM »
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Woke up to KPIG this morning; they never fail to surprise with the stuff they pull out: first it was a live cover version of the Allmans' "Jessica" by the Dixie Dregs; then later they played the Austin Lounge Lizards wondrous bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "The Lunatic" (which predates that bluegrass PF tribute album by a number of years) and Run-C&W's bluegrass "I Second That Emotion" -- first time I've EVER heard anything from either of their 2 delightful LPs on the radio.  And as I write, here's a band called Old School Freight Train (?) doing "Superstition".  Just amazing.

On my way to O'Connell High this noon, I had KPIG on, and was inspired, and touched by "The Revolution Starts Now" segueing into the Airplane's "Wooden Ships."  It was a good way to start the day.


Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.
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« Reply #129 on: August 27, 2005, 10:42:30 PM »
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Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.


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« Reply #130 on: August 28, 2005, 11:36:26 AM »
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Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.


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« Reply #131 on: August 28, 2005, 01:00:36 PM »
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Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.
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Aw shucks, I'm blushing. (A bright shade of... purple, of course.)

When I saw the Starship do this at the Shrine in '74, before Marty rejoined, David Frieberg sang the line "You must try some of these puple tablets..."  I probably told this story before here, but since we're talking about purple berries, I thought it was worth repeating.
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« Reply #132 on: August 29, 2005, 10:03:26 AM »
Got this from the NRBQ listserv & immediately thought you guys should read it.  This isn't exactly local radio, but it may end up affecting us.

>>LITTLE STEVEN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS RADIO & RECORDS CONVENTION 2005 - JACOBS
>>MEDIA SUMMIT
>>Date: Thursday, July 23, 2005
>>Place: Renaissance Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio
>>Audience: 250 Program Directors
>>
>>Fred Jacobs introduces 4-minute video bio.
>>At its conclusion the Dovells' "You Can't Sit Down" explodes from the
>>speakers as 5 Go-Go girls come out of the wings surrounding Fred, much to
>>his discomfort.
>>Little Steven enters to thunderous applause.
>>He cuts off the music with a wave of his hand, leans into the microphone
>>and says "Ladies and Gentlemen, Fred Jacobs."
>>The music returns as the girls exit. A stunned audience applauds wildly as
>>Fred, very uncharacteristically, dances off with them.
>>
>>Little Steven: Well that was worth the price of admission alone.
>>
>>(more applause and laughter)
>>
>>(paces with the hand held mic for a minute, and then . . . )
>>
>>I Love Radio!
>>
>>(applause once again erupts)
>>
>>And I feel nothing but love in this room because as I look around, I see
>>only two kinds of people.
>>
>>Our beloved affiliates . . . and future affiliates.
>>
>>(laughter)
>>
>>So now matter what happens in this next half hour, remember what I just
>>said. It's just family talking.
>>
>>And without any further disclaimers let me ask the only important question
>>that is on my mind, and I'm sure you've been thinking about it also,
>>especially lately.
>>
>>(pause)
>>
>>WHEN DID THE FUCKING PUSSIES TAKE OVER?
>>
>>(applause and laughter)
>>
>>When?
>>
>>Don't you look forward to the day when your grandson is on your knee and
>>he looks up and says,
>>
>>"Grampa weren't you in radio once?"
>>
>>"Yes, Grandson," you'll reply.
>>
>>"Could I ask you something," he'll say.
>>
>>"Of course, my love, anything," you'll say.
>>
>>"Grampa where were you WHEN THE FUCKING PUSSIES TOOK OVER?"
>>
>>(more laughter)
>>
>>Where were we?
>>
>>What happened?
>>
>>Things are out of line and we're not leaving here today until we
>>straighten it out.
>>
>>(applause and laughter)
>>
>>Now I was going to wait for this but we might as well get right to it
>>since it is all everybody's talking about.
>>
>>I have come to praise JACK not to bury him.
>>
>>(laughter - uncertain applause)
>>
>>The guys at Infinity are friends of ours, as is everybody else, we got
>>nothing but friends you all know that.
>>
>>And I've gotta say I'm proud of these guys for having the balls to shake
>>things up. Things needed shaking up. And history will remember them in a
>>very positive way when looking back at this world changing moment.
>>
>>Having said that . . .
>>
>>Replacing 33 year old New York oldies institution CBS-FM with JACK is like
>>replacing the Statue of Liberty with a blow-up doll.
>>
>>(eruptions of laughter and applause)
>>
>>But again, change is good. And necessary.
>>
>>With a little bit of luck JACK will last 10 or 12 months because it is
>>obvious people want something different, they are hungry for something,
>>anything.
>>
>>So it could be 6 months before anybody actually listens to JACK.
>>
>>Once they do it is doomed for 3 obvious reasons.
>>
>>At the moment it is replacing oldies formats but it is not an oldies
>>format in the true sense of the word.
>>
>>It's mostly 80's, some 70's, some 90's.
>>
>>Now it must be said that the oldies format is vulnerable because over the
>>last 5-10 years it has, in a word, sucked.
>>
>>It has sucked for a very simple reason, somebody had the brilliant idea to
>>eliminate the 50's and replace it with the 70's.
>>
>>This was done by somebody uniquely stupid and deaf and ignorant and a bad
>>businessman on top of it all.
>>
>>So naturally, everybody copied it and the 50's disappeared virtually
>>overnight.
>>
>>Now let's digress and examine this oldies thing for a minute.
>>
>>Assuming you accept the fact that those overseeing the oldies format these
>>last 5 years - 10 years - are, in fact, stupid, deaf, ignorant, and bad
>>businessmen, let's deal with it.
>>
>>As far as stupid, deaf, and ignorant, when it comes to decades that
>>matter, that matter historically, in terms of influence, importance, and
>>never-to-be-heard-again-quality - that is the 50's and 60's.
>>
>>Everything we do, everything we are comes from those two decades.
>>
>>You're gonna throw one away?
>>
>>You're gonna replace Elvis, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran,
>>Johnny Burnette, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Lloyd Price, and
>>Fats Domino with, all due respect, Donna Summer and the Bee Gees?
>>
>>You're gonna replace primal, vital, timeless, forever cool rock and roll
>>pioneers with disco?
>>
>>Disco?
>>
>>You wanna know what disco is good for?
>>
>>Disco is for when you're drunk at a wedding with your old lady and you
>>want to act like an idiot and be John Travolta for an hour or two.
>>
>>That's where it belongs.
>>
>>Not on radio.
>>
>>And to the issue of oldies being bad business - all you hear - I'm
>>assuming from sales people - is we must lower our demo's.
>>
>>The oldies demographic are getting too old - that's the rationale for
>>replacing the 50's with the 70's.
>>
>>Now if all there was to sell in the world were Fruit Loops, Play Stations,
>>and sneakers - they might have a point.
>>
>>But I got a little secret to share.
>>
>>You know that age group - 35 to 65 - that nobody in sales seems to care
>>about?
>>
>>THAT'S WHERE ALL THE FUCKING MONEY IS!
>>
>>(laughter, applause)
>>
>>I mean ALL the fucking money.
>>
>>35 to 65.
>>
>>Memo to sales team - SELL THEM SOMETHING!
>>
>>And, by the way, if you want younger people listening, you can get that
>>done. And I mean kids, if you want them.
>>
>>Who is cooler?
>>
>>Early Elvis or Elton John?
>>
>>What appeals more to kids, Gene Vincent's black leather attitude, Eddie
>>Cochran's teenage frustration, Little Richard's cry of liberation, and
>>Dion's total Soprano's coolness - or the Eagles?
>>
>>You want wild? Put together the Sex Pistols, Audioslave, and the Wu-Tang
>>Clan - they aren't as wild as Jerry Lee Lewis in his prime.
>>
>>But you have to explain that.
>>
>>Show it, illustrate, educate, sell it.
>>
>>Alright - digression over - so JACK isn't oldies so it must be some kind
>>of classic rock/pop hybrid.
>>
>>But JACK doesn't address the two biggest problems of classic rock.
>>
>>15 years ago I said we're chasing all the personality out of rock radio
>>and into talk and sports.
>>
>>And the ratings went with it.
>>
>>We need more personality, not less, and JACK has none. No DJ's means no
>>personal relationship with the audience. Eventual apathy is inevitable.
>>
>>The other big issue classic rock must consider is it must start playing
>>new music again.
>>
>>I've suggested it to my own affiliates and I'll keep saying it every
>>change I get.
>>
>>We've got a big problem.
>>
>>Look around.
>>
>>Pearl Jam does some business.
>>
>>Dave Mathews - if he's rock at all - does well.
>>
>>Maybe Oasis breaks this year in the U.S.
>>
>>Maybe Coldplay - if they're considered rock.
>>
>>But in a real sense, the last big band through the door was U2.
>>
>>That's 25 years ago.
>>
>>Has anybody stopped to consider that.
>>
>>Basically when our generation stops touring, it's over.
>>
>>That's one reason why we started the Underground Garage format.
>>
>>New Hard Rock, Hip Hop, and Pop can be heard in various places, new Rock
>>and Roll had nowhere to go.
>>
>>We have played more new bands in 3 years than anybody since the 60's.
>>
>>We average 30 new bands a year.
>>
>>That's how many are out there.
>>
>>And we are very picky out of respect to our classic rock affiliates, we
>>know we need to keep the quality level high and we do.
>>
>>But we can't sell records with 2 hours a week.
>>
>>Someday somebody will have the balls to put the Underground Garage format
>>on 24-7 on broadcast radio but until then, we only have 2 hours a week.
>>
>>We need your help.
>>
>>Rock and Roll is not just that museum down the street.
>>
>>It's a living, breathing animal that needs to be fed.
>>
>>With new blood.
>>
>>And I'm not saying you need to do as much as we do, we're about 40% new
>>and the rest from the entire 50 years of history.
>>
>>And by the way everybody told us you can't combine old with new but of
>>course you can.
>>
>>As long as you're making your decisions based on musical experience, good
>>taste, and an effective, coherent emotional communication.
>>
>>As opposed to your Ipod on shuffle.
>>
>>(laughter, applause)
>>
>>When you properly combine old and new the old records give the new ones a
>>sense of depth, of belonging to an eternal continuum, carrying the flag
>>forward.
>>
>>The new records give the old ones relevance, keeps them vital, connected
>>to the next generation.
>>
>>And all testing and computer analysis and surveys don't tell you that.
>>It's all bullshit. When are we going to learn that?
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>All that shit tells you is what people think they want right now.
>>
>>Well that's not the way great radio happens, or great anything.
>>
>>You don't do a survey before you write a song, or make a record.
>>
>>We are drowning in an ocean of mediocrity because sometimes you gotta have
>>enough historical perspective, and vision, and balls to say we have to
>>combine short term want with long term need.
>>
>>And yeah you gotta sell it.
>>
>>If you're playing cool stuff make sure the audience hears it right - in
>>the right context. That is everything.
>>
>>If to a punky consciousness the Ramones are sugar and the Ronettes are
>>broccoli you play the Ramones into the Ronettes and, because Joey learned
>>to sing from Ronnie and you can hear it, the Ramones become hollandaise
>>and it works.
>>
>>(laughter, applause)
>>
>>There is an art to this shit.
>>
>>You know that.
>>
>>It's the corporate bosses that forget that fact.
>>
>>But it's not just music - we have this problem plaguing every aspect of
>>our culture.
>>
>>Yes content needs work, yes marketing needs work, but it is the sales
>>teams that need to be re-educated and motivated and inspired and creative.
>>And it's not happening because they are being led by business oversight
>>guys.
>>
>>Content guys should be running companies, marketing guys should be running
>>companies, who put business oversight guys in charge?
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>Wall Street that's who.
>>
>>Wall Street continues to love and reward and worship short term success
>>for some reason. As the culture and the economy and all our fathers' and
>>grandfathers' and hundreds of years of hard work get trashed in a
>>generation or two.
>>
>>The tail is wagging the dog.
>>
>>Wall Street should not be calling the shots.
>>
>>When did Wall Street ever write a song? Paint a picture? Make a movie?
>>Play a song on the radio that changed somebody's life?
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>Where are the music people?
>>
>>I see lawyers, accountants, test marketers running the world.
>>
>>Where is the emotional connection?
>>
>>Where is the passion?
>>
>>This ain't about JACK or BOB or Moe or Larry or Curly.
>>
>>It's about you.
>>
>>Everybody in this room.
>>
>>You are here because you are connected emotionally.
>>
>>This ain't Harvard Business School.
>>
>>It's fucking Rock and Roll!
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>These Wall Street cats couldn't have gotten us here. They react - they
>>don't create.
>>
>>They didn't build this industry.
>>
>>We did it.
>>
>>And you're not here because it was a smart business decision.
>>
>>I know what you make.
>>
>>(laughter)
>>
>>(pauses - slows down)
>>
>>You're here because you loved it once.
>>
>>And we've got to find a way to love it again.
>>
>>And communicate that love to our audience.
>>
>>I am determined - together we will find a way.
>>
>>The Revolution is on.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>(standing ovation - thunderous applause)
>
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Re: Little Steven's call to arms (long)
« Reply #133 on: August 29, 2005, 10:45:32 AM »
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Got this from the NRBQ listserv & immediately thought you guys should read it.  This isn't exactly local radio, but it may end up affecting us.

>>LITTLE STEVEN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS RADIO & RECORDS CONVENTION 2005 - JACOBS


great stuff, his disco-bashing notwithstanding.

I was just discussing with Gaz this weekend that the hot rumor in town is that KFRC is switching formats -- possibly very soon. Meanwhile MAX is dying with their version of JACK.  -- they're down to a 1.0 in the latest ratings book.
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Re: Little Steven's call to arms (long)
« Reply #134 on: August 29, 2005, 10:49:40 AM »
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Quote from: "urth"
Got this from the NRBQ listserv & immediately thought you guys should read it.  This isn't exactly local radio, but it may end up affecting us.

>>LITTLE STEVEN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS RADIO & RECORDS CONVENTION 2005 - JACOBS


great stuff, his disco-bashing notwithstanding.

I was just discussing with Gaz this weekend that the hot rumor in town is that KFRC is switching formats -- possibly very soon. Meanwhile MAX is dying with their version of JACK.  -- they're down to a 1.0 in the latest ratings book.


Yep I meant to add that I'm not in total agreement with every word of it--specifically the BeeGees and Donna Summer refs. What is this, 1979 all over again? (Although if you went by the Drive and KFOG 10@10s today, it indeed was. Briefly.)
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