Bruno Mars covers the 1969 hit More Today Than Yesterday during a 2011 radio appearance in New York. Here's the original song from Spiral Staircase: Oh, and things seem to have worked out for that Bruno Mars fellow. Five years later, here he is on show with a wider reach than WPLJ-FM in NYC. My buddy Scott Shannon, now the morning man at WCBS-FM, has seen immense talent roll through his New York studios over the years, but no one more gifted than Bruno. Glad to see he loves refurbishing classic pop songs.
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Bill Bailey, Louisville & Lexington radio, and the birth of the disc jockey
History of the term disc jockey History of radio stations in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky. Bill Bailey (WAKY & WKLO) was Louisville's greatest radio personality of all time. Parody of Paul Harvey -- "So God Made a Deejay"
You owe a dollar if a melody gets stuck in your head
Satellite music services are under the gun from multiple directions as artists withhold music and companies withhold royalties. Radio station companies, too, continue battling record companies over the value of free airplay versus royalties payments to songwriters and artists. We can all agree that the charity songs like Band Aid's 30th anniversary of Do They Know It's Christmas deliver assets to affected parties. This year it's West Africa to eradicate the ebola crisis. The original R-E-S-P-E-C-T doesn't get any from music streamers. Isn't it time? For most old school musicians, it's all a rat race.
aircheck WNEW-FM (1982) — A cautionary tale
Here's a terrific inside studio look at New York City's legendary progressive rock station WNEW-FM. The station ruled New York's album-oriented rock audiences from the late 1960s through the 1980s. These videos show the creative nature of the radio station in its heyday. Deejays picked their own music and crafted shows for the mood of the moment. By 1998, the station had gone through a litany of management changes, reliance on heavy research, and a dictation of rigid airplay rotation. Naturally, WNEW-FM saw its ratings evaporate. No creativity = no listeners in music radio Legendary deejay Scott Muni and his cast of popular colleagues were all fired by the late 90s. New York radio has never seen another station
Grant me the serenity
Howard Stern pays respect to Bob Grant on his first retirement from radio in 2006. Grant eventually returned to radio for a few years. Stern told Grant that he holds him "in high regard" and that he never understood why Grant's career didn't break open nationwide like Rush Limbaugh's. Great radio chatter here. Bob Grant died in January 2014 after a phenomenal career in the nation's #1 market.