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Mike,
Nice closing show. Nothing wrong with the music selection, although I didn't really know any of the songs. They fit the show perfectly.
I love that you played the DJ's commentary at the end. It's a shame great radio stations had to end, even if another one came along to take it's place.
There is an article in the current Rolling Stone magazine about rock radio and it's impending death. It's such a shame. The article is mainly about the death of rock stations that play new music. It would seem the only two formats available anymore are pop and country. Well, that's not entirely true. We still have hip hop. But seriously, the only rock station in Augusta is a classic rock station. Maybe part of it is my fault, because I subscribe to XM. But that's the only way I can hear new rock music in Augusta, Georgia.
It really all just stinks! But luckily we have great shows like yours and also what the members here at Classic Rock Bottom do to keep us loving current rock music as well as the jewels of the past.
I believe WAPP debuted in the summer of '82 and it was something along the lines of a commercial free summer. I left the east coast at the beginning of September and that's the last I ever heard of them. I think that folks lost interest after the commercial free run was over and then the station was no more.
Thinking back on this whole radio thingy, I did not listen to FM radio in the 70's when I was just a stupid young lad. No, I listened to AM radio. THere was a country station I listened to a lot (somewhere on the right of the dial) plus an AM station to the left of the dial that had Mets games plus Radio Mystery Theater which they ran every Sunday I believe.
Then I started to move away from country and I think it was WNBC and WCBS I listened to. Between them was maybe WINS? Don't remember exactly, but there were three station in the middle of the dial, my dad listened to the middle one because it always had news and traffic which was good since he had to drive to NY City every morning.
I don't recall how I "discovered" FM radio (maybe I got a radio that had FM?) but every Saturday night I would listen to WDHA when they had an oldies hour and were playing mussic from the 30's & 40's. Loved the old jazz and still do to this day.
Then my mind snapped and I discovered rock and the rest, as they say, is history.....
WNEW...that brings back memories but from the late 70's/early 80's. That station basically turned me onto rock as well as WDHA and WPLJ, if I remembering the call letter correctly.
In the early 80's, I was listening to a NY FM station, and they played a Black Sabbath song followed by Christopher Cross which I always thought was wild. Such a difference between the two, but to hear them back-to-back was amazing, at least to me. I don't think it was WNEW and, if I remember correctly, it was a little to the left of WNEW on the dial.
And then there was WAPP and that commercial free summer....
Great listen Mike!
Now theres my dream job, New Record listening sessions. Man! ... to get paid for that would be my personal American Dream.
Love Murry the K if no other reason than that parting shot!
Now theres my dream job, New Record listening sessions. Man! ... to get paid for that would be my personal American Dream.
I dont think I get the Joan Baez vocal style. Its maybe a generational thing, but I didnt really feel that tune.
If the radio station was playing the top 40 but only had 30 records then ... well, lets just chalk it up to execs decisioning logic, if such a thing exists!
Great Series!
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