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When I grew up at the Jersey Shore, the go-tos for this sort of music were usually WPAT (EEEEaaasy 93!) in Paterson or the even more local WADB in Point Pleasant (actually Lake Como). But it is terrific to hear the New York area’s OTHER Beautiful Music station preserved! Radio didn’t know what they were giving up when they kicked this format to the curb. People NEED music that chills them out, especially in today’s post-pandemic world!
I was just having a flashback to the house I grew up in on Long Island. My mother ALWAYS had WRFM playing low on the stereo system housed in an old Victrola cabinet. Thank you for this, it brings back memories of happier days in my family before we fell apart.
I used to study for my college courses to WRFM. Many of the vocal tracks it played once every fifteen minutes or so got me into folk rock! :-D They played a lot of Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, Don McLean, and Gordon Lightfoot. I have Lightfoot's 'Don Quixote' album thanks to WRFM because it played "Beautiful" from that LP. I also discovered Ray Price through WRFM, and I remember artists such as Ed Ames and the Brothers Four. I also heard interesting covers. The Carpenters covering Herman's Hermits' There's Kind of Hush? Barbra Streisand performing John Lennon's "Love" from 'Plastic Ono Band'? Who'd'a thunk? :-)
By the time of this aircheck, you could tell the station was moving to a more contemporary direction. This is probably the period when WRFM was being programmed by Dean Landsman.
I wonder how many Session musicians relied on this genre to earn their living ? They did this type during the day and came back at night to play with The Wrecking Krew.
These were all professional musicians based in NYC and California that worked scale. They were from another generation and had experience in the big bands, nightclub scene, Broadway shows and society bands. My dad wad one of them.
@@pressureworks 35 years. He picked up the trumpet at age 13. He was in an army ground force band during World War 2. Then he came back to Philly for awhile. Then on the road for a couple of years with the Elliot Lawrence Orchestra. Then back to Philly for the night clubs, theater and society bands. He did a lot of session recording work for Cameo-Parkway and others.
Please know many radio programs in England Play a lot of The Camio-Parkway R&B etc Records aka Northern Soul as that genre is still popular there. So your Father is getting airtime !
@@RoadTripTelevisionNJ Bonneville International Corporation is a media and broadcasting company, wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its for-profit arm, Deseret Management Corporation.
This is from less than a month before they dropped the BM format. I wonder if they knew at this time that it was going to happen, or if it was just a very sudden switch.
Major market radio station format changes back then were typically planned out over a few weeks to a month or more, depending on how massive the change was. And since the B/EZ format was commercially aging out demographically with youth-crazed ad agencies in the mid 1980s, it was certainly planned. In fact, WRFM's flip set off a domino effect across the country of B/EZ radio stations flipping to other formats. If the format can't survive in New York, it was a taken as a sign of the times.
Larry Waldbillig The format certainly died quickly in Detroit. We went from having four of these kind of stations to just one in the span of just a few years, between 1980 and 1982.
@@CrowTRobot-ni7zu I know. I think it was the harbinger. You're also right about the oversaturation at the time. Most markets realistically could barely handle one, let alone four or five of these signals. There just wasn't enough revenue to go around in a format that was essentially the last holdover from the earliest days of FM.
@@pressureworks: I know that, I just meant that the song "done up in this style" that you referred to was not a Who song but a solo Roger Daltrey song.
@@stevenmaginnis1965 having just listened to that song, i can hear how it's quite suitable for such treatment. Having just racked my memory, The Who song i heard done up so was: Tommy.
@@pressureworks: I just remembered: WRFM also played Johnny Douglas's orchestrated instrumental version of Kiss's "Beth." It's actually more energetic than the original Kiss record! :-D
And Bohack. Since this music has been salvaged I would love to see a reaction, if any, of customers in a supermatket, Clothing store, 99 cents store. etc, if this was played in the background today. Would shoppers subconsciously be aware? Would they, God forbid, be calmer snd more civil ? What an entertaining fantasy. Where's Endora Stevens when you need her to play a trick on people?
@@sgnmath1234 Can we please get this music in my ShopRite? Maybe if they played this and not their usual adult contemporary mix it would be less of a shopping cart demolition derby.
@@sgnmath1234 Dear God, please play this music in my local Shop Rite. It would be lovely to not have it be a shopping cart death match demolition derby.
*Thanks for tuning in for your drive on this rainy day here in Gainesville, Ga. It's 37 minutes after the hour and we're still listening here in 2023 so we hope you keep listening...*
When I grew up at the Jersey Shore, the go-tos for this sort of music were usually WPAT (EEEEaaasy 93!) in Paterson or the even more local WADB in Point Pleasant (actually Lake Como). But it is terrific to hear the New York area’s OTHER Beautiful Music station preserved! Radio didn’t know what they were giving up when they kicked this format to the curb. People NEED music that chills them out, especially in today’s post-pandemic world!
I was just having a flashback to the house I grew up in on Long Island. My mother ALWAYS had WRFM playing low on the stereo system housed in an old Victrola cabinet. Thank you for this, it brings back memories of happier days in my family before we fell apart.
Thank you Jeanette. I hope these memories lead to your family back together and things get better.
From the heart thanks for posting, I’ve found peace of mind again
very nice to hear again, the little bit of static makes it so much more heartwarming to me
I have literally dozens of cassette tapes of that station. It's a real shame their gone.
I used to study for my college courses to WRFM. Many of the vocal tracks it played once every fifteen minutes or so got me into folk rock! :-D They played a lot of Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, Don McLean, and Gordon Lightfoot. I have Lightfoot's 'Don Quixote' album thanks to WRFM because it played "Beautiful" from that LP. I also discovered Ray Price through WRFM, and I remember artists such as Ed Ames and the Brothers Four. I also heard interesting covers. The Carpenters covering Herman's Hermits' There's Kind of Hush? Barbra Streisand performing John Lennon's "Love" from 'Plastic Ono Band'? Who'd'a thunk? :-)
March 26, 1986 was a Wednesday but the DJ says Saturday.
I like the song that's being played at the beginning of this aircheck. It sounds bouncy and upbeat.
"Sunny" by Lex DeAzevedo
By the time of this aircheck, you could tell the station was moving to a more contemporary direction. This is probably the period when WRFM was being programmed by Dean Landsman.
31:35 what a great TOH!
7:06 Billy Joel right into Reo Speedwagon.
31:56 An easy listening version of Chuck Mangione's "Feels So Good." Seems kind of redundant, doesn't it? 😉
how did you limit splatter from WDAS 105.3?
I used a directional rooftop antenna and a rotor.
I wonder how many Session musicians relied on this genre to earn their living ? They did this type during the day and came back at night to play with The Wrecking Krew.
These were all professional musicians based in NYC and California that worked scale. They were from another generation and had experience in the big bands, nightclub scene, Broadway shows and society bands. My dad wad one of them.
Thanks. How long was your dad a working musician?
@@pressureworks 35 years. He picked up the trumpet at age 13. He was in an army ground force band during World War 2. Then he came back to Philly for awhile. Then on the road for a couple of years with the Elliot Lawrence Orchestra. Then back to Philly for the night clubs, theater and society bands. He did a lot of session recording work for Cameo-Parkway and others.
Please know many radio programs in England Play a lot of The Camio-Parkway R&B etc Records aka Northern Soul as that genre is still popular there. So your Father is getting airtime !
What's the name of the song at 23:05
It's an easy listening version of Roger Daltrey''s "Without Your Love."
An ad for the Mormon Church. Guess who owned WRFM!
Mitt Romney or The Osmonds ?
@@sgnmath1234 Good one!
Bonneville
Bonneville International Corporation.
@@RoadTripTelevisionNJ Bonneville International Corporation is a media and broadcasting company, wholly owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through its for-profit arm, Deseret Management Corporation.
This is from less than a month before they dropped the BM format. I wonder if they knew at this time that it was going to happen, or if it was just a very sudden switch.
Major market radio station format changes back then were typically planned out over a few weeks to a month or more, depending on how massive the change was. And since the B/EZ format was commercially aging out demographically with youth-crazed ad agencies in the mid 1980s, it was certainly planned. In fact, WRFM's flip set off a domino effect across the country of B/EZ radio stations flipping to other formats. If the format can't survive in New York, it was a taken as a sign of the times.
Larry Waldbillig The format certainly died quickly in Detroit. We went from having four of these kind of stations to just one in the span of just a few years, between 1980 and 1982.
@@CrowTRobot-ni7zu I know. I think it was the harbinger. You're also right about the oversaturation at the time. Most markets realistically could barely handle one, let alone four or five of these signals. There just wasn't enough revenue to go around in a format that was essentially the last holdover from the earliest days of FM.
"Smooth jazz" became the Baby Boomer version of beautiful music.
The last BM station we had in NYC was Easy 93..WPAT which changed to Latin music in 1993.
5:25 Horns punched in not too subtly.
It probably overlapped with 105.3 (WDAS).
Believe it ! There is a Who song done up in this style.
Technically, solo Roger Daltrey, his ballad "Without Your Love" from 'McVicar.'
@@stevenmaginnis1965 no... I meant the muzak people took a who song and adapted it into the beautiful music style.
@@pressureworks: I know that, I just meant that the song "done up in this style" that you referred to was not a Who song but a solo Roger Daltrey song.
@@stevenmaginnis1965 having just listened to that song, i can hear how it's quite suitable for such treatment. Having just racked my memory, The Who song i heard done up so was: Tommy.
@@pressureworks: I just remembered: WRFM also played Johnny Douglas's orchestrated instrumental version of Kiss's "Beth." It's actually more energetic than the original Kiss record! :-D
THE MUSIC FROM K MART
And Bohack. Since this music has been salvaged I would love to see a reaction, if any, of customers in a supermatket, Clothing store, 99 cents store. etc, if this was played in the background today. Would shoppers subconsciously be aware? Would they, God forbid, be calmer snd more civil ? What an entertaining fantasy. Where's Endora Stevens when you need her to play a trick on people?
@@sgnmath1234 Can we please get this music in my ShopRite? Maybe if they played this and not their usual adult contemporary mix it would be less of a shopping cart demolition derby.
@@sgnmath1234 Dear God, please play this music in my local Shop Rite. It would be lovely to not have it be a shopping cart death match demolition derby.
6:29 Brian Wilson would have the drums a little louder.