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Kroeger Media Seeks to Altar Classic Rock - radioinsight.com/blogs/30445…
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Which of these describes the way you feel about hearing Sabrina Carpenter's "Espresso" on the radio now?
33%Love as much as ever
30%Burnt, but leave it on
20%Liked, but punch out now
17%Never liked to begin with
54 votes • Final results
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You can sing "Stay" to the verses of "Overnight Sensation." Maybe that's what inspired Jackson Browne a few years later. #AT40
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I didn't have access to #AT40 in fall '74. I'm not positive I've ever heard Brownsville Station, "Kings of the Party" before. There are other songs in the top 20 this week that I knew, but never heard at the time, too.
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I'm impressed that reading poetry to his dates worked so well for Neil Diamond. It probably helped that he *was* Neil Diamond. #AT40
Longfellow Serenade is ponderous Neil Diamond with polka bass. That’s the only way I can describe it. #AT40
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Four hours ago, I wrote an article expressing surprise that nobody else was doing the Magic/Miami format of English-language oldies/Spanish-language jocks. Now it's in Orlando.
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This is definitely a station that some of my Saturday #AT40 crowd would enjoy. A slightly different version of '60s and '70s than anybody else.
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"You can tell from Shazam what the hot radio station is in the market ... playlists should be perfect (for music radio) because of the data points you have." @colbycolb #NABShowNY
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"The broadcast radio personality is the original influencer." iHR's @JeffCuch #NABShowNY
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There aren't more podcasts making their way to broadcast radio in part because iHR's @JeffCuch, Audacy's @LeahReis_Dennis are "not looking to foist" their shows onto stations. #NABShowNY
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When Ted Nugent was just another hard rock artist in 1977. how did you feel about "Cat Scratch Fever." #AT40
44%Liked It
42%Didn't Like It
14%Didn't Know It
50 votes • Final results
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"Isn't She Lovely" was never a single, so Stevie Wonder's "Another Star" is the one we're hearing on #AT40.
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"I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" has a similar groove to Steely Dan's "The Fez," a year earlier. But "Black Cow" (a month or so later on Aja) sounds like Alan Parsons. #AT40
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Just noticing how much Wings' "Arrow Through Me" sounds like Robert Palmer's "Every Kinda People" from about a year earlier (typical incubation time for being influenced by what's on the radio). #AT40
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Followed by a directly Robert Palmer related song in Moon Martin's "Rolene." (Author of "Bad Case of Loving You" now scoring a hit for himself with a similar rocker.) #AT40
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"I Know a Heartache When I See One" was a better country-soft rock single than Linda Ronstadt made that year. Also, you can hear echoes of it in a recent Country #1. (Listen to the first two lines of the chorus.) #AT40 youtube.com/watch?v=qpMOx2Ul…
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Okay, it's a technicality, but with True Oldies Channel on 92.3-HD3, "WINS" is playing "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by the Animals for the first time since just before its format change in 1965. @ScottShannonDJ
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As far as "Graffiti/Grease-era" pastiche hits go, "Street Singin'" is far better than "'65 Love Affair," not the least of which because it sounds like it actually could be from that era. #AT40
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