#top 40 radio

[junkdrawerbrain]

Boss Radio 66: Aircheck Of The Week

Some called him the original shock jock. Joey Reynolds was known for pushing the envelope of what you could get away with on the radio in 1964. Here he is with over an hour on Buffalo’s WKBW.

BTW, here's some background on the news story at 21:41 and 47:46 about Dean Torrence (of Jan & Dean) and the Frank Sinatra Jr. kidnapping:

https://jananddean-janberry.com/mysterious-financier-dean-torrence-and-the-kidnapping-of-frank-sinatra-jr/

#audio link #aircheck #top 40 radio #1964

[andoutofharm]

happy saturday Saturday from pete

#he hosted the american top 40 radio show today and this is from that! #i . love him #pete wentz #fall out boy

[thebreakfastgenie]

My mom texted me yesterday that she listened to Taylor Swift for the first time and wasn't into her music but I have no idea which songs she listened to.

#first conscious time #i'm sure she's heard her in stores and stuff but she doesn't pay attention #and she doesn't listen to top 40 radio or anything like that #just her niche stations on sirius xm #i did suggest she try folklore and evermore #also my mom likes taylor lol she just doesn't care for her music

[rose-n-gunses]

idk how popular of an opinion this will be but i think that take me home tonight by eddie money would be one of Eddie's guilty pleasure songs

#i am an Eddie Is Not A Music Snob truther #i have this distinct vision of him (pining over chrissy) dropping her off at home #and instead of switching radio stations he leaves it on the top 40 #and that song comes on and he drives home like. windows down beating on the steering wheel screaming the song #(to be fair that feels like the only appropriate way to listen to that song. so. maybe im projecting) #its a shame the song came out in august of 1986 #i think about this all the time btw #eddie munson #eddie munson headcanon #eddie munson headcanons #hellcheer #hellcheer headcanon #eddissy #eddissy headcanon #stranger things #stranger things headcanon #stranger things headcanons #just r's thoughts #r's sick beats

[c-rowlesdraws]

Yo yo what's up cool cat! I'm just wondering if I could make a volus oc using your volus anatomy as a base? I think they're very cute

lmao cool cat, what an opener. Yes of course you may! I’m glad you like them. 👍😎

(if you mean “as a base” as in a literal base, like tracing a drawing of mine and just changing some details, please credit my blog if you post the art, though!)

#catie talks #ask #mass effect #volus #first ask I’ve ever gotten from a top 40 radio DJ from 1995

[perrieskarma]

SO PROUD OF HER! 🩵

#perrie edwards #forget about us #big top 40 #bbc radio 1

[singlesablog]

Singles

Forward

The Worst Taste in Music

There was a time when I believed my whole emotional life was wrapped up inside the sleeves of a 45 inch record: a pop song, a single.  This was a time, starting in the early 70s, when FM was still new, and not having any actual money to buy a record, I was constantly absorbing the songs they played on the radio, Top 40, which meant these where the mainstream records, with little snatches of a counter culture, and race, slipping in here and there, and the subtle winds of change that blew in from California, or Nashville, or Detroit, or England.  Having virgin ears is a beautiful, unacknowledged gift; because the radio was free, and for everyone, few people around me discussed music with any kind of seriousness.  If the Bee-Gee’s appeared with a brand-new format in “Jive Talkin’”, no one really remarked upon the fact that they had brazenly entered into soul music so successfully; instead, they danced to the record because it was so good.  Hearing these songs everyday kept me on a very dreamy wavelength; some of my deepest memories are the feelings surrounding a tune which will then open up to the place, and then the people in my life at that juncture.  Once I was driving in my Ford Fairmont at around age 21 with my older sister Diane (who will feature later in these essays) and Anita Baker’s “Sweet Love” came on.  That Ford had awesome speakers (even with one of the 4 of the 5 crackling in and out) and I turned it up, completely enthused.  “Isn’t this song beautiful?”, I said, to which she grimaced.  “Oh, Mark,” she said, “you’re just like Momma—you have the worst taste in music!”.  I looked at her in astonishment.  Anita’s was a really important new voice in radio, I knew, because she was charting with real soul music on both the R and B and Pop charts simultaneously.  Instead of telling her so, I simply slipped back into my emotional world, the one that had served me so well all of these years, and silently asked myself the question do I have the worst taste in music?  My life on AM and FM radio had always been so rich it had never occurred to me.  The truth is I just moved on—everyone’s favorite pop songs are sly, masterful tricks of the novelty business, and I am sure some of her very favorites could be challenged just as easily.  The difference between us at that moment in my ugly brown four-door was the fact that I was still deep inside my most impressionable age span, which I believe ends in your early 30s.  These are the years where songs really inform how you are living, and, like the trend for album covers in the 80s, wash over crisp black and white photographs with the subtlest patinas of color, superimposing a bright faraway fantasy element to the reality of the time.  I still think of that moment in the car, and my taste in music, but I don’t believe I am any closer to knowing if what she said was true.  Music for all of us represents a certain time, a certain place, a certain way of growing away from or toward something, and like those subtle patinas on the albums of the 80s, the constant among all of us for a favorite song is that it has colored you forever, and the merest snatch of a piece of music will forever be a conduit, a dream tunnel, a quicksilver path to this part of your life: mysterious, yet permanent.

#radio #music #top 40 music #memoir

[disregardcanon]

so on sunday mornings when i'm driving i like to listen to a local radio station play old broadcasts of casey kasem's american top 40. today's was from 04-23-1977 and it was the first time EVER that foreigner was featured on the countdown. casey always made a big show of talking about new artists popping up and this one was no exception.

foreigner's first song on the charts? it feels like the first time. friends. COUNTRYMEN! when i tell you i cackled, it is not an exaggeration. i thought that was just. the funniest thing

#personal nonsense #casey kasem and the american top 40 #me and my parasocial relationship with this long dead radio host

[junkdrawerbrain]

Boss Radio 66: Aircheck Of The Week

What do we know and believe? “Tina Delgado is alive! Alive!!” And in January, 1969, so was The Real Don Steele, deep in the heart of the neon fun jungle that was KHJ in Los Angeles. This week’s aircheck is dedicated to the memory of Shaune Steele.

#audio link #aircheck #top 40 radio #1969

[manticoreimaginary]

my god, I haven't seen this in at least a decade and it's the most early 2000s video. what a pure time capsule

#the GRIP linkin park had on teenage me #linkin park; aqua; destiny's child. my three teen musical obsessions #what can i say? i was a basic bitch radio teen #diving at the record button to tape it when they came on the top 40 even though i already had all the CDs and singles #music #Youtube

[the-busy-ghost]

Will never understand why Spotify keeps trying to advertise Top 40/UK Charts playlists to me, like who tunes into Spotify specifically to listen to a playlist of Top 40 music? You mean the same Top 40 music that is on every radio station 24/7? The same Top 40 music that is forced into your eardrums ad nauseum, to the point where even if you liked the music to begin with, it very soon becomes meaningless and also oddly rage-inducing? The same Top 40 music I trip over on my way out of the house every morning? The same Top 40 hits that break into my brain and beat my sub-consciousness into submission if I so much as LOOK at a device capable of playing music? That Top 40 music? Who on earth needs it to be advertised to them? The sort of people who need a signpost to tell them they're on planet earth?

#This being tumblr I'm sure there's someone somewhere who does think they need it #But like #If you're going to advertise anything I don't understand why you would advertise Top 40 hits #It's like advertising the concept of breathing #All I'm saying is they're not exactly hard to find I don't understand why someone would need to be TOLD that spotify has Top 40 playlists #Also like unless you're a music writer or reporter who has to keep up to date with this stuff #I don't entirely understand the interest in keeping up to date with chart toppers anyway #If you like the music you like it if you don't you don't #Why would you listen to it solely because it's number 39 on some entirely arbritrary chart #But that's beside the point even assuming that you WERE in need of a playlist of Top 40 hits #Surely you woudn't need to be told that spotify has that in abundance #If you even go to spotify for it at all #Surely you know where to find it #I.e. everywhere #This is the 2020s top 40 hits are in the fucking air we breathe #Also yet another thing to file under: reasons I am glad I no longer work in a shop #Loved the work hated the same 5 hits that are permanently engrained in my memory because management tortured us with pop radio

[nancywheeeler]

girls on spotify will say they're making a '50s housewife playlist and then the first song on there is by the beatles (it's not me. i am not girls. my '50s playlist is painstakingly researched)

#tapping a sign that says 'the supremes didn't release a single until 1961 and didn't have a top 40 hit until 1963' #a shout into the void #i do think it would make for a fascinating twilight zone / black mirror throwback episode #a 50s housewife turning on her radio and hearing like...the velvet underground lol #or turning on her tv and seeing the mary tyler moor show #i'm sure a concept like this has been used before

[butchniqabi]

cassettes are so fun like sometimes you get a little booklet and theres lots of fun sounds when it starts and the whir when you rewind the tape so the next time you listen you dont have to sit through it and can just go in and listen and my copy of joni mitchell's "blue" is LITERALLY BLUE!! i promise im not being like a weird romanticizing the past person i just genuinely love owning and using a cassette player afgwbejekek

#it doubles as a radio so i can even listen to top 40s if i want to hehe

[firemourn]

what genre of music does ur muse listen to most often/prefer

#i thought long and hard about this and in modern verses he has 3 moods. 1. popular classical 2. vocaloid 3. top 40 hits #1 he doesnt even like classical like that 2 the cats love vocaloid and it helps him study/work 3 ke can turn the radio on in bckrnd #delete later

[swarnpert]

if you look at the wikipedia page for one hit wonders (at least for the US) the list ends at 2017 with no songs listed for this decade. do you think this has something to do with the tiktokification of music/the music industry right now with pretty much all songs on the radio being from already established artists and new & upcoming (and potentially one hit wonder) artists seem to have more success with just having their songs on tiktok instead?

#i'm just throwing thoughts out there i don't know anything about music on tiktok #and i don't listen to pop or top 40 radio stations either #but any radio stations that do put out new music seem to only be from already established artists #or artists that didn't get their fame directly from tiktok] #i could be wrong tho i basically live under a rock

[xcziel]

currently cranky that kpop is never played on the radio??

i am old and i just want to hear txt's tinnitus while i'm driving home from work without like having to hook up a phone playlist

why are radio stations so stupid?

#like i guess only an old petson would care #but i miss being able to accidentally discover new shows or music by just camping on a channel and seeing what comes up #i don't want to deal with spotify or internet shit i just want one of the like five stations that play 80s tunes #in town to goddamn diversify or something #i don't want to purposefully search for a new song i want to just catch something casually #there are plenty of bands i will never sit down to listen to every song they make or search up playlists #but i might stay on the radio station to listen to a song all the way through if i hear it by surprise #this grumbling brought to you by me getting in the car after work and for once turning on the radio and flipping through channels #and ending up with come on eileen wake me up before you go go and let's go crazy at the same time on separate stations #the rock station was doing fleetwood mac and the adult contemporary station was doing some bland top 40 thing #like in way i'm pleased to be catered to? but it is just mfucking idiotic that there's no chance of a stray kids or less serrafim #track ending up in the mix on the contemporary stations is all i'm saying #i want a station that just plays all the songs people love to use for tiktok edits actually how about that?