tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post7500335806632171193..comments2024-03-28T14:41:03.787-04:00Comments on PowerPop: Boys Don't Lie: Radio EditionNYMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-16805132949870117802012-05-22T21:20:24.488-04:002012-05-22T21:20:24.488-04:00Congrats! Can't wait...Congrats! Can't wait...Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13372496375739714441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-29198402085420627092012-05-21T12:05:07.979-04:002012-05-21T12:05:07.979-04:00Congrats on your hard work!
TreyCongrats on your hard work!<br /><br />TreyTMinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07221261635305430323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-35571028712866268432012-05-21T09:16:52.679-04:002012-05-21T09:16:52.679-04:00Totally fair!
FWIW, I'm getting a lot of my a...Totally fair!<br /><br />FWIW, I'm getting a lot of my analysis from this guy named R. Serge Denisoff: he was a sociologist who attempted something like an analysis of the culture of the record industry. His first book was called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Solid-Gold-Popular-Record-Industry/dp/0878555862/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337605919&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Solid Gold</a> (1975), and looked at the music industry in the 50s and 60s; <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tarnished-Gold-Record-Industry-Revisited/dp/0887386180/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337606051&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Tarnished Gold</a> (1986) considered the 70's and early 80's; and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/R.-Serge-Denisoff/e/B001K8PNGW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1337606134&sr=1-1" rel="nofollow">Inside MTV</a> (1988) looked at the forces that founded that channel. Interesting, if wonky.NYMaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-81940672273280603972012-05-21T09:04:49.195-04:002012-05-21T09:04:49.195-04:00Mary:
Yes, that is what I meant by the slicing and...Mary:<br />Yes, that is what I meant by the slicing and dicing--the Radio Doctors who inflicted the narrow cast format on the radio world. Oldies stations became Sixties stations (or 70's,etc) and had a playlist of 600 or fewer songs, picked by computer algorithm rather than programmed by people.<br /><br />What were disagreeing on is the invention of the hamburger vs the McDonaldization of the world;>edwardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-85138314007094885212012-05-21T08:59:27.950-04:002012-05-21T08:59:27.950-04:00edward,
I guess some major markets had them, but t...edward,<br />I guess some major markets had them, but the mass movement came only after Lennon's death. In the same time period, labels started releasing greatest hits records from 60s bands like the Doors instead of investing in new music, new bands.<br /><br />I wouldn't really oversimplify to say that it was JUST Lennon's death, but there's no question that as the 80s dawned, all sectors of corporate America shifted to the fast-profit model, and hey, say what you will, but greatest hits album or oldies radio or whatever don't need any groundwork laid. The audience already knows what they're getting.<br /><br />Another factor playing in right in this period was the rise of the "radio doctors"--they claimed to be able to calculate, mathematically, what songs would bring listeners to your station. And oldies were a solid market draw. <br /><br />A lot of historians attribute the rise of MTV and college radio to just this kind of backward-looking stagnation.NYMaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10863355110457910935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-17193178200155071962012-05-21T08:56:43.295-04:002012-05-21T08:56:43.295-04:00Brown Shoes Don't Make It, but Black Vinyl one...Brown Shoes Don't Make It, but Black Vinyl ones do?buzzbabyjesushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375127662096374324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-67455331518699910552012-05-21T08:55:13.714-04:002012-05-21T08:55:13.714-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.buzzbabyjesushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09375127662096374324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-65334395126029122382012-05-21T08:51:06.686-04:002012-05-21T08:51:06.686-04:00Congratulations,hope you have abundant sales.
How...Congratulations,hope you have abundant sales.<br /><br />However, I really would like to hear the explanation for this claim:"I, for one, never realized that "oldies radio" was almost completely invented in December 1980"<br /><br />We had an oldies station in the DC area (WMOD) all through at least the early 70's. And I interned at a radio station in Milwaukee in 1975 that had an automated oldies station on it's FM side, indicating that the industry was already well into the mass marketing of oldies pap.<br /><br />Maybe you mean the fine slicing and dicing and era wide segregation of oldies which mimics the whole narrowband horror that radio is today, but Oldies radio, even corporate Oldies radio, certainly predates John Lennon's death.edwardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8921382.post-46050352974132537842012-05-21T08:00:32.102-04:002012-05-21T08:00:32.102-04:00Well, I have my Tuesday evening's schedule tak...Well, I have my Tuesday evening's schedule taken care of.<br /><br />"Who Listens to the Radio?" indeed.<br />:-)The Phantom Creepnoreply@blogger.com