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jimjamuser 04-23-2022 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by MartinSE (Post 2087161)
Okay, well...

My parents loved crooners, I find them boring. My parents hated the Beatles, I loved them.

Tastes and times change. But I do think it weird that a radio station dedicated to seniors would not do market research and tailor their playlist to be acceptable to the majority of their market. Maybe they did - I don't know.

I understood the point the author was making, I didn't understand the reason for the post. I don't mind it. I don't object to it. Just curious if they are just venting or want to get the station to change - I just don't know.
It is a result of a changing of the guard. The people that were born in the 1940s are being replaced by those born in the 1960s. That is a difference of 20 years. So, the radio station needs to move its programming somewhat towards song trends of around 1975 or 1980, when those born in 1960 were at their impressionable (music-wise) peak
.........Basically tastes change as we age. I never listened to instrumentals when I was age 15 until just a few years ago - now I like them and have them on right now.
.........There is (or was) an AM local station that played the Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin era. Incidentally, I MUCH preferred Dean to Frank ( I was always an outlier). I even preferred Blondie to Madonna. And I preferred Joan Biaz to Bob Dillon. So, go figure??????

jimjamuser 04-23-2022 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by GpaVader (Post 2087170)
Maybe it was Blonde's RAP song...
"He eats your head ,.....and now you're IN the man from Mars" .......I loved Blondie!

jimjamuser 04-23-2022 12:56 PM
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Originally Posted by New Englander (Post 2087185)
Rap is Crap barf
Rap is crap
.......drink from the tap
........slide off the map
........don't be a sap
........duck from her slap
........touch 110 volts
.........get a zap
.......open her snap
........or a flap
........avoid the marriage trap

jimjamuser 04-23-2022 01:02 PM
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Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2087248)
Old School Rap? Some really good stuff back then...

Remember, as time marches on, the likes and dislikes of people in TV changes. They're adding in the music the "Newer Villagers" grew up on...

That's why Katie Bell's closed. The newer residents had no interest in an "old fashioned" dance hall...

Even if it was still open, I doubt I'd ever step foot inside. The only constant, is change...
Had some good times at Katie Bell's. "Those were the days ....my friend.....we'd sing and dance ......forever and a day"

John Mayes 04-23-2022 01:04 PM
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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 2087676)
why is everybody jumping on other users? it's getting personal in some cases. everybody take a breath & just discuss opinions in a positive way. our differences make it interesting
Good advice.

Laker14 04-23-2022 01:07 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2087686)
Had some good times at Katie Bell's. "Those were the days ....my friend.....we'd sing and dance ......forever and a day"
"Once upon a time, there was a tavern, where we used to raise a glass or two..."

One of my mom's favorites. Another example of a Top 40 to "Adult Pop" crossover hit.

Did Mary Hopkin ever have another hit?

OhioBuckeye 04-23-2022 01:10 PM
Ohiobuckeye
 
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Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2087154)
The Villages radio station used to be something we totally enjoyed. We would look forward to coming to our Villages home and be able to hear the great music we grew up listening to. Much of the music was stuff we couldn’t find on other stations. Over the years the music selection has steadily gone downhill, as more crap like Michael Jackson and Disco became part of the playlist. Despite that, we have remained loyal and continued to listen to the station. Today at approximately 1:44 PM that all changed. Something happened that I never expected from the Villages radio station, they played RAP. For us, that’s a game changer, it brought back bad memories of the Super Bowl halftime show. We refuse to listen to a station that broadcasts noise pollution instead of music. By by WVLG!
Unless TV hired a very young disc jockey to run TV radio station! Yea, you’re right though who wants to hear rap music that every other word is F_ _ _ , to us older seniors never or most of us listen to this crap because it doesn’t sound like music that you can dance to. I understand because I said the same thing to my parents & my grandkids make fun of what I listen too. But mostly I blame society in general, times & America is slowly going closer to looking like a end of the world look.

jimjamuser 04-23-2022 01:16 PM
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 2087310)
The song Rapper's Delight hit the airwaves in 1979. It was one of the most popular disco songs on the radio and in clubs. It is now an oldie and most modern rappers have never heard of it, even though it's one of the biggest influences that led the way for the rap they have now.

I am not a rap fan, at all. Didn't like it then either, and I was at the discos competing in Latin Hustle contests at the time. Rapper's Delight at least had a good danceable beat and wasn't just a subwoofer blow-out bass.

The song (by the Sugar Hill Gang) was actually considered part of the Funk genre.

Just because you don't like the music of the younger generation, doesn't mean the younger generation doesn't have a say in what gets played on the local radio. Especially when your generation is dying off, and being replaced by theirs.

I'm inbetween generations, born in the last years of the Boomer generation. Plus working in retail for the bulk of the last 40 years, I spent more time with people in their 20's and 30's than I did with my own age, even when I turned 50. So I spent my adulthood listening to their music.

I also grew up with an appreciation for opera and classical music. But I definitely would not want to hear Der Meistersinger or Stravinsky on the local radio.
The Flight of the Valkeries ....by Wagner would be pretty cool!

jimjamuser 04-23-2022 01:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2087320)
there might be some people who like it more than they like some of the old songs. Do the older Villagers have some special rights that the newer Villagers don't have when it comes to determining what music will be played, and whose tastes will be catered to?
I was swimming at Miona the other night and the speakers were blasting Barry Manilow. I hate Barry Manilow. But it was one song.
I managed to get over it.
I also hate Barry Manilow. There should be a club in TV Land to join to express that hatred. Maybe we could break things and scream!

Laker14 04-23-2022 01:21 PM
I remember my family all together watching The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show one Sunday evening. My parents were unimpressed, but seemed to realize it was the way of popular music, and just the normal passing of the torch from one "teen age" fad to the next. My dad related to us how when he was in high school and in the Army during WWII, the young girls would scream and faint at the sight and sound of a young Frank Sinatra, and how the same phenomenon occurred in the '50s with Elvis.
I remember my mom thought the Beatles were "meh", and needed haircuts. A few weeks later The Stones were on and my mom said something like "Well, they make that other group seem pretty clean cut."...The music missed her by a mile. Of course.

I had a friend whose mom, same age as my parents, always made a point of letting us know how much she loved "The Stones" and "Zeppelin"...(never referring to them by their full band names), and it just came off as weird to us. It's jut not natural. We kids kind of had an attitude like "this is our sh!t, go listen to Jerry Vale".

John Mayes 04-23-2022 01:24 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2087694)
I also hate Barry Manilow. There should be a club in TV Land to join to express that hatred. Maybe we could break things and scream!
Wow…..I think we finally found something that both of us agree on…LOL!!! When’s the 1st meeting?

jimjamuser 04-23-2022 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2087327)
Yep. You nailed it. The views of the original post express exactly the resistance to cultural diversity that the typical documentary about the Villages will convey. You know the documentaries I'm talking about, right? The ones that treat us so unfairly.
I actually think that this place is humorous. You could make a good comedy about the pomp and ceremony oozing out of the pores of TV Land.

Laker14 04-23-2022 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2087694)
I also hate Barry Manilow. There should be a club in TV Land to join to express that hatred. Maybe we could break things and scream!
"Oh Mandy, Oh Mandy..." (reach for the barf bag...)

Just kidding folks, I don't like his music, but I recognize others do. It's a big world and there is room in it for music I don't care for without insulting it, or insulting the people who like it.

Laker14 04-23-2022 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by jimjamuser (Post 2087702)
I actually think that this place is humorous. You could make a good comedy about the pomp and ceremony oozing out of the pores of TV Land.
a good sense of humor and a few grains of salt are handy to have around in this place.

justjim 04-23-2022 01:33 PM
There could a Rap song or two that I could handle but I haven’t heard it yet. When we first moved to The Villages (several moons ago) we listened to WVLG a lot. That said, I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first is to be flexible at all times. Now, we listen to WVLG occasionally. It’s a fact our type of music is now only played occasionally. To each his own.


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