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Posted by Rob Sherwood   •   Monday, 2008-September-08 • 19:38
The great news is that I just finally might have some morning radio available. The station I listen to most has FINALLY replaced this very lame syndicated thing with something else and I can't wait to give it a chance. Some time I should comment on the other shows but like my mother said..."If you can't say something nice about a morning show...."....You know the rest.

Probably the most frequent comment I get mailed to me refers to U100 and those "great" days. Great days? Well.......I know I had fun. I know it was exciting. I know we broke some new ground and made some big mistakes...but the one thing I know is that Dylan Thomas was right....you can't go home. Someone said to me they wanted to recreate U100 and that 'it would probably be a success still today'...Not!

What would be recreated? Are they remembering Jethro Tull or Olivia Newton John? Is it "...sitting on a park bench..." or "...please Mr please don't play B-17...."....? (Or whatever B it was....)

I hate Classic Rock stations. KQRS-FM in the Twin Cities isn't the KQ of old. It's just a glorified oldies station. The music they play is the music U100 played while they meandered and whispered their way thru 'underground' radio.

The only thing U100 has to offer to the current radio scene is the sense of excitement and innovation that so many radio stations lack. What has kept KQRS in the game all these years is their consistency, personalities, and the myriads of people remembering something that never was...

I apologize to my many West Coast readers who don't know what (who) the hell I am talking about. It is just some somewhere over the rainbow shit where birds flew...for a bit.

R
  1. cindic wrote on 2008-September-09 20:54:09:
    Thanks a lot. I'm going to have that Olivia Newton John song in my head the rest of the night, even if I turn on Bay Area radio full blast on my drive home. "It was our song, it was his song, but it's over …"
  2. Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-September-09 22:26:04:
    It has been a while since I got any song stuck in my brain. And it wasn't one from ONJ.
  3. maxbetz2002 wrote on 2008-September-10 16:45:01:
    Funny how KFRC uses the old U100 jingle package 32 years later....Maybe a hard 60\70s personality driven format might just work! Get past your baggage Buffster...Maybe you can go home again...It made Tom Barnard a millionaire.
  4. Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-September-10 18:18:05:
    Playing 60-70's music? That's an oldies station....! (Shudder) I'm all for personality driven formats...but for god's sake...it's 2008! I think in my comment I complimented Tom Barnard.....more power to him. Lucky for someone who once told me he ...."didn't do formats".....

    And KFRC...They make their sales goals and are satisfied. But is playing "How gentle is the rain...." by the Toys 5 times a week a wonderful nod to the Golden Age?

    Now I must pack my "baggage" and head to NYC for the Met Opening. Grand Opera...the ultimate oldies but goodies.
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