Nice weather in Durham today, and looks like that for the weekend. Storm season, but that was not the reason the station was off the air for a while Wednesday night, a power fialure on campus and the generator did not start (again). By the time I got over, it was running and we just had to bring stuff up again. Seems like we had had this problem before…
Of course our transmitter site does not have a generator, and that’s interrupted my evenings as well. Enough tech talk…
Check out the current playlist for what’s on the air this weekend, and scroll down for earlier playlists as well. It would be my goal to post these under the previous playlist page, but just can’t seem to find the time to get it done.
Anyway a better use of my time is digging through my library to find music that either hasn’t been played in as while, or stuff I’ve never played to put on the air today.
Sidney Joe Qualls has a real Al Green flavor to his music, sounds Southern (he’s from Ark) but recorded in Chicago. “How can you say goodbye” is a gem from one of his superlative albums.
I don’t believe I’ve played “Doggone Right” from 1969, even though it was top ten.
By the way, our fall fundraiser is coming up in October, please comment back to me with anything you think would make a good donor premium in the way of CDs of books.
Hour #2-Dux Femina Facti (Virgil’s Aeneid…) A Woman was the leader of the deed, in reference to Carole King, songwriter and singer, our offerings starting out the hour “Locomotion” from Little Eva which she wrote and “It might as well rain until September”, which she recorded as a demo, and then released it as a single. Another tune of her’s we play is “Oh Neil”, an answer to “Oh Carol” by Neil Sedaka. Worth a listen…
I enjoy digging into the novelty records of the era, particularly those that poke fun at the music. So this time around it’s Stan Freberg and “Old Payola Roll Blues part 1”. Part 2 get rather pedantic, and my copy of it isn’t very good sounding anyway. Both sides of Arbogast and Ross’s “Chaos” are worth playing, though some of it might be a little offensive (like shooting the engineer, the drunk driving traffic reporter and the parody of the recently deceased Richie Valen’s hit “Oh Donna” that get rehashed as the “new hit” through the record). But nevertheless it hits home to what Top 40 Radio was like, enough to get it banned from radio airplay.