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| Name: | Joe |
| E-mail address: | JT@passtheword.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.WCRT1260.info |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | To all the Radio Conglomerates (Clear Channel et al): Please bring back beautiful music to broadcast radio! We'd rather pay $13 a month to hear "Escape" on XM radio which offers the format than listen to what's currently being offered by your stations for free.
Beautiful music listeners: I found this stream a few days ago. It's for KAHM radio in Prescott, AZ, just north of Phoenix. They've been playing beautiful music since they came on the air in 1981. It's very similar to the beautiful music format we used to hear back in the 70's and 80's. I think it sounds even better than Jones College's station in Jacksonville, FL, WKTZ. Try it out. Here's the link to their website. http://www.KAHM.info Also, for a good selection of beautiful music online, try going to amazonmp3.com and type in "Ray Hamilton Orchestra" in the search. These are some new recordings of beautiful music which were released in 2006. They're more upbeat and updated versions of pop hits from the 80's and 90's era. I downloaded three of these and burned them to CD's. They're great! It's well worth the time and money you'll spend! |
| Name: | John Wise |
| E-mail address: | jwtechnician@epix.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Hi,
I have been a listener of B/EZ for over 35 years. We use to have a number of stations on FM to listen to years ago, you could not find a rock-n-roll format on FM back then. Now all you find on FM is mostly some form of rock, hip-hop, or country, with maybe a classical, or smooth jazz station thrown in. I have a baseball cap and two licence plates of the last B/EZ station WNCE we had here in south-central PA. The last out of state large coverage area B/EZ station WWMD, was saddly sold out and an another country format was put on the air in it's place, like we needed another country station when there was aleast three other country stations in the same listener area. I would like to participate in helping to bring back B/EZ format to FM. We currently can only get the B/EZ music format off of XMradio via DirecTV, but we have to pay to get it while rockers and country can get their formats for free. |
| Name: | Ray Meyers |
| E-mail address: | jrmeyers@bellsouth.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.justbeautifulmusic.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Anyone interested in beautiful music, check out www.justbeautifulmusic.com Listen for free and when you hear something you would like, you may order it right off the site. |
| Name: | Steve Walker |
| E-mail address: | Steven_Paul_622@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I too am a subscriber to XM radio and find myself listening to essentially two stations all the time. XM 73 which is called Frank's Place (High Standards) and XM 78 which is Escape (EZ Listening). This is definitely the music of my life. I grew up listening to this music and format and have been in love with the sound since my childhood in the late 50's and all growing up through the 60's. I love the music of Lex de Azevedo and John Fox in particular. Does anyone know where or if any of their music is available for purchase? I've been looking for at least 20 years. |
| Name: | Sue |
| E-mail address: | renonana@clearwire.net |
| Name: | Jack Davidson |
| E-mail address: | requests07@kablradio.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.kablradio.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Clear Channel has licensed KABL in San Francisco to the Bay Area Radio Museum, which is operating the station with a Nostalgia theme -- Big Bands, Easy Listening and Beautiful Music.
You'll hear Mantovani, 101 Strings, Percy Faith, Henry Mancini and others, along with Sinatra, Sammy, Glenn Miller, Count Basie and more: http://www.KABL960.com |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Hi I'm back.If your looking for beautiful music and have dish network tune to channel 973.They play all instrumental music mostly lush but with a couple of piano tunes thrown in.You'll here Percy Faith,Mantovani,Gleason,Hampton Strings,Mauriat,Andre Previn and so many more.Also they frequently add new music to this channel when new b/ez albums come out from Aldrich,Mantovani,Farnon etc.They play a lot of the new Vocolion releases.973 is owened by Muzak and they play it like the Schulke b/ez music style.Another great site for beautiful music is Escape on Xm programmed by Marlon Taylor.I listen to this channel all the time.Music Choice is a 3rd alternive. |
| Name: | Alvaro from Guadalajara, Mexico |
| E-mail address: | elcaifo at gmail . com |
| Homepage URL: | http://blog.arrobba.com.mx/ |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Here in Guadalajara, we used to have a station called "Stereo Juventud". Sadly, the station was sold in 1994. The new owners destroyed it with a bad programming, and finally they switched to another crappy format.
Thanks god we have Internet!! All you Beautiful music lovers, check www.klux.Org, a station from Corpus Christi, TX, that keeps our beloved format alive, and streams the signal to the internet! Let's support them with a donation, so they can keep going!! |
| Name: | Paul Artman |
| E-mail address: | carolandpaul@dependmail.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I owned and operated an easy listening station in a small city (WBAQ-FM, Greenville, Mississippi) for some 40 years. Listenership grew year by year until it was achieving top county ratings every year. Ultimately I sold the station (regrettably)to a local group that is continuing the format. But what will eventually destroy listenership is that their policy to carry every type of remotes and special programming imaginable. What made the station so successful was the devotion to the music. The focus HAS to be on the music with a very minimum of talk. Football, farming, etc. must be left to other formats. Hopefully, easy listening will return to the air widespread in the future...for beautiful music is eternal. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Most of you probebly know by now that when Clear Channel took over Sunny on Xm they changed it over to soft rock but Escape on Xm is just as beautiful as Sunny use to be and plays a lot of Percy Faith,Jackie Gleason,Hollyridge Strings etc. |
| Name: | Jonathan A. Whitehead |
| E-mail address: | bib6640@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | It will be great to have a B/EZ radio station in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area. |
| Name: | michael salmons |
| E-mail address: | salmonsm@missouri.edu |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I'm about to turn 42 so, wasn't around for the classic era of beautiful music (at least the era that I like the most, mid to late fifties), but I find as I grow older I appreciate an interesting melody and deft hand with arrangement more and more appealing. And this is coming from someone who listened to punk rock in my teens (and still do to some degree). Anyone noticed Ben Vaughn's new album, Designs in Music? It's inspired, in a non-ironic way, by beautiful music of past years. It sounds like a great record. His label is Soundstage 15, maybe they would be interested in a new Hollyridge strings album. Frankly, with the way so-called "Lounge" music has grown in popularity over time, I'm really surprised to hear he can't find a label. He really ought to consider independent labls for this, maybe somelike Sundazed or Rhino, both of which have re-released hundreds of out of print titles from the classic beautiful music era. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | If anyone's interested in beautiful music Xm is about to get a second b/ez channel called Escape.It will be programmed by none other then Marlon Taylor.They will still have Sunny which will continue to be beautiful music.Sunny is on 24 and Escape will be on 78.Escape dayviews Sunday April 17th at Midnight. |
| Name: | Gord Bibby |
| E-mail address: | gbibby@shaw.ca |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.shaw.ca/gbibby/ |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Hi there - me again. Sorry, I don't want to turn this into a blog but I just had to make a sad commentary on the state of affairs with our music: I was fortunate to spend an afternoon with Stu Phillips who arranged and conducted most of the Hollyridge Strings albums in the 60's (check out his website at www.stuwho.com). He managed to secure the Strings' rights from Capitol (the folks there figure the Strings are a dead property) and has been looking into the possibility of releasing a new album. The problem: he can't find a label to promo and distribute it. He has even gone as far as to offer to pay the studio time on his own. I'm checking things out with some labels here in Canada but does anyone out there have connections??
Gord |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I'm 39 and I love listening to beautiful music.I listen every day and night.I have over 1300 b/ez songs on my ipod and also enjoy listening to Sunny on Xm 24.They play it just like FM use to.Another place I listen to b/ez music is dishnetworks channel 973 programmed by muzak.Between my Ipod,Sunny on XM and Dish 973 I have a lot of choices but I'd still welcome it back on FM.Incidently b/ez fans taragon is about to release both of Percy Faith's japeneese albums on 1 or 2 disc one of which was Koga Melodies.It releases sometimes in April keep watching amazon.com and other online retailers for the official date and preorder info.This album is a must and long sought after for Faith fans. |
| Name: | Diane |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I don't know how old you guys are, but I didnt think anyone liked "Easy Listening" anymore. I have read through your coments and I am glad to find the easier style is not dead! You are the ones that can bring back a gentler time, I sure hope you succeed! I grew up with this music, I love it and I would love to turn on my radio and once again hear beautiful music, god knows there hasn't been any lately!!
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| Name: | Bill |
| E-mail address: | audiobuff7@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Yes, I too feel that easy listening should be brought back. I am 37 but every now and then I feel a need to listen to relaxing music in this fast paced world. I did not realize that so many people still wanted to listen to this genre.
Let's work together to show the radio stations and record companies who's boss! |
| Name: | Gord Bibby |
| E-mail address: | gbibby@shaw.ca |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.shaw.ca/gbibby/ |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Hello fellow easy listening lovers. Like you I have been a devoted fan of the genre all of my life. Fortunately I have an opportunity to live a dream and host a program called Elevator Club on the airwaves courtesy of a small community FM station located on Canada's west coast every Sunday evening from 9:00 PM to midnite local time. It's an oasis in a desert of drek and much appreciated by a small, but loyal, following. If you're interested, the station (CHLY-FM) is streamed at www.chly.ca. Check if you have a community or campus station in your area and put in a program proposal. Let's keep the music alive!!
Gord |
| Name: | Dave |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I am 35 and LOVE the Beautiful Music format. It is like the Genny Cream Ale of music -- you say you don't drink it - but you do! Beautiful Music, I love it. |
| Name: | Dan Pieslak |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | You 40 year olds think you're the youngest listeners, ha. I'm 26 and used to listen to this stuff in the 80's when I was 5 years old thanks to old gramps introducing it to me. No stations around here play it anymore in the bay area; the last was KABL who went off the air in 2005. I've got quite a collection of B/EZ on vinyl, 8 track and on open reel tapes. Looks like it's time get XM. By the way, KABL is still on the Internet.
http://www.kablradio.com/main.html |
| Name: | CW Manios |
| E-mail address: | cmanios@mcloudteleco.com |
| Name: | Matthew H Constant |
| E-mail address: | cajundweeb@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I REALLY miss this format on radio. We don't have any sucn stations in New Orleans, and it would be one damn good way to chill after a ho-hum day in the cube farm. |
| Name: | WNAR-AM 1620 Recreation Radio |
| E-mail address: | wnarradio@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.wnar-am.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Old Time Radio ReCreation Station WNAR-AM
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN! OLD AND NEW RADIOS ARE HUNGRY FOR OLD RADIO PROGRAMS! Please provide a link to our not-for-profit historic old time community radio Re-Creation station: www.wnar-am.com Great Hollywood stars, stories, drama, adventure, plays, music, mystery, history. Theatre of the imagination. Descriptive narration is especially useful for the visually impaired. Any cross promotion would be appreciated. Contact information is on our website. Listen for FREE and please spread the word! Thanks, Rich Franklin wnarradio@yahoo.com Website and streaming audio: www.wnar-am.com |
| Name: | martin g. matsil |
| E-mail address: | matsil1953@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | just keep, the faith,and keep praying,and some day soon,maybe sooner we may just have an easy listening tation back, here in the big apple.God bless,all.ciao. |
| Name: | Tony Myrick-Narrations and Voice Overs |
| E-mail address: | tmyrick@houston.rr.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://us.imdb.com/Name?Myrick,+Tony |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | It's a shame that when all of the mergers and take-overs of broadcasting today by no-nothings like Clear Channel and CBS/Infinity have ruined the good name of radio and broadcasting.
The Beautiful Music format is a lost art. The Schulke format was the best. The art of formula Top-40, Heavy-Metal, and Top-40 R&M recording is gone. Needless to say people in the radio/TV/broadcasting arena today are mindless making the listners mindless as well. The CIA MK ULTRA program is working at its best.... Sincerely, Tony Myrick Bring Back Beautiful Music Radio Sucks Big Time in Houston, Texas as well as the Rest of the U.S.S.A. (Remember "Back in the U.S.S.R.?" It's the Red Dawn of Broadcasting in the U.S.S.A.!!! |
| Name: | Russell Jones |
| E-mail address: | Russell93j@aol.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I became a true fan of "Beautiful Music" as a high school senior back in 1978. That makes me 45 years old now. While I liked many of the instrumentals; it was the vocal harmony group versions of pop songs and standards that appealed to me most. My hometown (Louisville, KY) stations were WVEZ-FM and WCSN-FM, programed by Bonneville and SRP. Those stations' formats changed around 1985 and morphed into "Soft Rock/Adult Contemporary." I was crushed!
I went on a personal crusade to find as much of this music as possible. So, after 25+ years I believe I may (arguably) have one of the largest collections of easy-listening vocal group albums in the country...singing groups such as Anita Kerr Singers, Johnny Mann Singers, Norman Luboff Choir, Pete King Chorale, Joe Reisman Chorus, Henry Mancini Chorus, Hank Levine Chorus, Living Voices, Midas Touch, Serenade Singers, Geoff Love Singers, Jack Halloran Singers, Frank de Vol Chorus, Richard Alden Chorus, Liz Damon's Orient Express, Billy Vaughan Singers, Enoch Light Singers, Mike Sammes Singers, Ray (Conniff & Charles)Singers(over 30 groups)all played on "Beautiful Music" stations. I'm deparately searching for those custom vocal group recordings by Neil Richardson Singers (aka Schulke Voices or SRP Singers) and Johnny Douglas Singers from 1981. So, if any of you guys out it "EZ Land" can steer me in the right direction, drop me an e-mail. Before I close, let me say that as a middle-age African-American I completely despise rap/hip hop music. However, there are a few of you on this site who have chosen to associate this format with one particular group, which is not only unfair, it's stupid. I work with teenagers from many diverse backgrounds who seem to love it. It's true that most everything today is marketed towards our youth. None of us will ever change that because it's all about the $$$$$. We just need to find our own niche and a way to co-exist because they're not going anywhere (but neither are we). We may not like what they're listening to (and we don't), yet we must acknowlege their right to listen to it. Besides, most of them could care less what we "oldsters" think anyway. I just got this PC the other day and I'm discovering a whole new world. You see, I don't know one other person in my town who loves and appreciates easy-listening...not one. Hopefully, I'll make some new friends on this site. To Mr. Matsil I say, place the blame for the demise of EZ-FM radio where it belongs: A changing world and greed, not a former president and his wife, nor any one ethnic group. P.S. I believe that God has bigger concerns than easy-listening radio stations. Until next time, take care. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | You make a good point.I too got tired of rock,hip hop,country and r and b on FM and no b/ez station.
Fm drove me to get Xm for Sunny their beautiful music station on channel 24.Marlon Taylor programs it like the old bonniville days and best of all no commercials and you can pick it up anywhere you go.I don't mind paying 9.99 a month for the music I love.I have the car hookup and also the boombox so I can hear it in my house.Xmradio also has a standards channel called Frank's Place that plays Bennett,Sinatra etc at channel 73.Some walmarts and bestbuys have a boombox with a skyfi hooked up so you can listen before you buy.Before I bought my xm radio I went to 24 and listen to sunny and I got hooked.You can also go and see what their playing at xmfan.com.I know I talk about Sunny a lot on this board but it is a relaxing station.One of their station Id's is Sunny America's Number 1 Stress Reliever.Also they play some music that is out of print today.Most everything you heard on b/ez stations on FM is played on Sunny.One last thing is that with XM you get artist and track info so you know the name of the b/ez song and the artist as well.The newer skyfi 2 also has a stock ticker and sports scores on it so you can see them scrolling under the artist and song info.Xmradio now offers online music for 7.95 a month for non xm customers.Right now they have a 3 day free trial.Just go to xmradio.com scroll down and highlight the now on your desktop.You can listen to Sunny that way.The reciever sound is better thou.Sometimes on the online service you will expeirence dropouts because of net congestion this isn't the case with the receivers. |
| Name: | Francis Anthony |
| E-mail address: | onthewaterfont@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I don't intend to offend anyone here, however,I am sick and very tired of going up and down the sliderule and unable to find anything worth listening to. All we get here in Miami,(Banana Republic)Florida, is loads of loud & frenetic hispanic music and rap and hip-hop, What the heck ever happened to easy listening, classical and lite rock? I am 43 and have seen radio, as well as TV, go on a downward spiral to Hades and no signs of coming back. I grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey and remember the good ole days of WPAT Easy 93, WRFM The Difference is the Music, etc... now, I just do not know. I want my EASY LISTENING back, as well as CLASSICAL music radio stations. Case in point, Miami's ONLY classical FM station WTMI was taken over and turned into a Party Station....where's the culture man? No really folks, I also strongly believe that easy listening is desperately needed back on the dials, and I do wish the FCC would restrict the hours of play of Hip-Hop and Rap, it's all about prostitution, disrespecting women, making money ILLEGALLY, breaking people's faces at will, killing at will, Gangbanging and other things I won't mention, all in the name of what? If I am wrong or sound prejudice here, please, let me know and I accept your constructive criticizm, however, when nine year olds are shaving their heads, sporting handguns and talking about "bitches and hos" that scares me. Not to mention that many youth today have little or no regard for others! I think the bottom line is "crap in, crap out". I am not an angry old oaf or anything, but, I am fed up with the status quo of radio today and its impact on our society, it's just pure garbage and indecency we can all do without. BRING BACK EASY LISTENING! Thank you all, and GOD BLESS!!! |
| Name: | Dean Kwarta |
| E-mail address: | dkwarta@pacbell.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | When flying combat aircraft over North Vietnam in war, I would listen to "Elevator Music" I had tape recorded and feed it into My earphones. It was the only thing that kept Me sane. |
| Name: | martin g.matsil |
| E-mail address: | matsil1953@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | do not give up,but have fait that the f.c.c.,if pressured enough,will do the right thing and return easy listening music back to the greatest city, in the world,namely,New York,and abolish hip-hop,and rap, both garbage,and pray to God for guidance,and you will prevail. God bless. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Here is another reason to get xm radio.Their beautiful music channel 24 called Sunny is going all Christmas starting Thanksgiving Day till Close to New Years 24/7.They will be playing the beautiful Christmas music instrumentals you don't hear on Fm anymore.They play holiday music from Percy Faith,Lex De Azevedo,Mantovani,The Romantic Strings and others.These same artist are played on their regular b/ez format too.They will also occasionally play holiday vocals by Bennett,Mathis,Sinatra and others.If you want to enjoy beautiful music year round and beautiful christmas music during the holiday season get xmradio for Sunny.It is only 9.99 a month and less if you go with the 5 year plan.You can take Sunny with you where ever you go and you won't have to worry about it fading out.I listen to Sunny as much as 8 hrs a day sometimes. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Here is some beautiful music cd's that's out online that you may not know about.Some of these are only available thru yestermusic.com and ccmusic.com.
1)Twilight Time-John Fox under the name Starry Night Orchestra.Only available at yestermusic.com this is a 2 cd set 24 songs by Fox.Most of these were played on b/ez stations in the 70s and 80s and still get played on Sunny Xm's b/ez station.I have this 2 cd set and it is so relaxing.Even the song endings are beautiful.It goes on to state in the cd booklet that the songs off of this cd were played by John Fox on b/ez stations. 2)Sounds Of Romance-Frank Chacksfield A 2 cd set with a lot of b/ez music.This is only available at yestermusic.com. 3)The Mantovani Sound/The Mantovani Scene-Mantovani This is only available thru ccmusic.com and contains many songs that got played on b/ez stations such as both sides now,a man without love,honey and others. Yestermusic also has some 2 cd sets from Andre Kostelanetz and the Melachrino Strings. Here is some new beautiful music cds coming out Nov 9th. Percy Faith Columbia Singles Volume 2 1952-1958 Some songs on this cd arn't b/ez as some of the early years were before Faith started doing b/ez however some of them are such as the lush version of Somewhere which is more lush then the same song on Broadway Bouquet.This is a different early arrangement of this song when Faith started doing b/ez.Note some songs on this cd are in mono and some in stereo. Percy Faith I Think I Love You Most of the tracks are with his female chrous but this cd features 6 instrumental bonus tracks. Tony Bennett-The Art Of Romance This standard album features a 65 piece orchestra and Tony Bennett's beautiful voice.This is a must have if your a Bennett fan.This is all new material from Bennett. With the Christmas Music season coming up I recommend these titles. Percy Faith Christmas Is Jackie Gleason Merry Christmas James Last Holiday Album Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer.Although this is by Burl Ives he only does 11 of the tracks.Tracks 12-19 are done instrumently and lush by Herbert Rehbein.Rehbein's version of a Holly Jolly Christmas got played off of this album in the 80s on b/ez stations. |
| Name: | Joseph Shurtleff |
| E-mail address: | jlslms@comcast.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I live near Boston, Ma. Nothing around here. I just got
Comcast digital and Music Choice has an easy listening station #528. I'm addicted! |
| Name: | The Original Larry |
| E-mail address: | theoriginallarry@graffiti.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | There are alternatives on the web. The best is WKTZ-FM 90.0 Jacksonville, FL out of Jones College
http://wktz.jones.edu/ And just for the record, B/EZ started being phased out in 1986 in favor of "lite" adult contemporary or NAC (which is today's Smooth Jazz format.) So Bill Clinton cannot be blamed for this one. As the Republican supported deregulation of the industry prevailed and more and more stations began being owned by larger and larger corporations (up to 8 in a city) they change formats to increase listenership or change them to eliminate competition. B/EZ was the most dropped format because of this trend. They felt the B/EZ listeners were getting too old and set in their ways. More money could be made by targeting younger, more spendy audiences (and if you will remember, not a single Republican Congressman-not even Newt Gingrich went to bat in support of the B/EZ format. So they are not entirely innocent in this one too.) In closing, if you want B/EZ, the best place to look in the future might be the AM dial as FM is being used for more profitable formats...... |
| Name: | martin g. matsil |
| E-mail address: | matsil1953@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | the f.c.c.,must be made aware,that "hip-hop",and rap,are from the devil,which was from the clinton era.(both "slick willie,and hanoi hillary,are both devil worshipers,and should not be trusted.)but like a said in my last transmission,keep, pressure,on the f.c.c.,and maybe they will license a new easy listening station.not to mention a new country/western station.but under no circumstances should you give up.and you will prevail.God bless you all.and ez/beautiful music.by, for now.! |
| Name: | martin g. matsil |
| E-mail address: | matsil1953@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | i have recently moved to valley stream,but may be moving back to good old brooklyn my beloved hometown,but to keep the pressure on the f.c.c., might just be the ticket to bring back,easy listening,beautiful music, at least one station.i was the lucky recepient of a gracious person, from dallas,texas,and he sent me a copy, of an album i have been looking for.amazon did me wrong, but the people from texas,are a gift form God.do not give up.and you will prevail.God bless,!:-) |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | To anybody that loves beautiful music amazon.co.uk has a cd by Manuel & the Music Of The Mountains called Mountain Fiesta.It has a lot of songs that was played on b/ez stations in the 70s.One of those songs is called al di la and chances are many of you heard this song and didn't know the name of it or who it was by.Every song on this cd is heavy lush strings and many of these songs off of this album have been played on b/ez stations as well as Sunny XM'S beautiful music station.Just type mountain fiesta in the search at amazon.co.uk and it will take you right to it. |
| Name: | Chris C. |
| E-mail address: | strapshoechris@wmconnect.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I would like to call on the FCC to hurry up and grant the modification permit for KSIR FM so they can get back on the air with more e-z! We miss that station here in the Denver area. I'm now 42 and grew up as a kid listening to the likes of AC/DC, Queen, and even some of that headbanger metal during the daytime, but when bedtime came, I always turned the dial to the stations playing the "elevator" stuff. Easy listening (especially instrumentals of popular songs) made me sleep better that popping pills, and I am saddened this formatt is now almost nonexistent. |
| Name: | Jennifer Richarsdon |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.seasidefm.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | There's a beautiful easy listening in the Metro Halifax area of Nova Scotia Canada, 94.7 SEASIDE-FM! They have been on the air now for two years and they offer such a great variety of music!
They also are mostly live on the time, which is a added treat! Please check out their web site! I'm sure they would appreciate any easy listening music that you may have to offer! |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Here is somemore ways you can enjoy listening to beautiful music like they use to play on FM.If you have b/ez cds burn them to your computer harddrive.Musicmatch is the best and can be downloaded off of the internet but you can use windows media too.Usually both of these come with new computers.On Music match and Windows media you can play the artist back to back for example Ronnie Aldrich followed by Percy Faith.If you want to take it with you the ipods are great for this purpose.I have the Creative Nomad Zen Extra 30 Gb Jukebox.You can tranfer your music to this from the computer using a 2.0 firewall connection and it is very fast.Also on this jukebox you can get over 500 hrs I'm guessing 2000 songs or more in mp3 and 1000hrs using wma.On this ipod jukebox you can see song,artist,album and gendre all at the same time if your in now playing mode.The Apple ipod is similar.Ipods play your music the way you program it and the transition between songs is quick.Also if you have selected songs to play and you want to change it you can have it shuffle or delete all songs from the special playlist and put in new selections.It's that quick.It's just like listening to a radio station.If your like me and fed up with Fm just get one of these so you can here beautiful music on the go.You can hook ipods to your car thru either a cassette adapter or a wireless FM Transmitter which arn't much above $19. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | XM'S Sunny Channel 24 Beautiful Music Station Rules.FM just doesn't get it they need to take a lesson from XM.I would still welcome beautiful music back on FM even thou I have XM I would have even more bm choices.Dish Network has a relaxing beautiful music station too on channel 973.I'm in heaven on earth when I'm listening to XM Channel 24,Dishnetwork Ch 973,Jones.edu Wktz and over 200 beautiful music cd's I have bought online over the years.To all you FM programmers that may be reading this you had better bring beautiful music back to FM or it will lose so much money you will go broke on various stations.You just don't get it do you?People are getting XM satellite radio so they can hear Sunny and dishnetwork so they can hear channel 973.Their also selling beautiful music cd's online hotley and wktz is no 1 ratings in Jacksonville Florida.If you don't get bm/ez back on FM you are going to lose out to XM.I'm willing to pay only 9.95 a month(and it's less than that if you sign up for 5 years of xm)for the music I want to hear with no commercials mind you than I am for the 5 top 40 rock stations and 6 country stations you have in my area that play the same thing are boggled with repeative playlist and peppered with too many darn commercials.I did have 1 jazz station in my area and they changed it over to country so now we have 6 country stations in my are instead of 5.Why not have made it ez/bm.That is the only fomat missing on FM. |
| Name: | martin g. matsil |
| E-mail address: | matsil1953@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | remember be persistent,and you will percerver,do not quit,and you will return to the best music.God bless. |
| Name: | Roger Fielding |
| E-mail address: | rogerfield@aol.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I live in the Miami Lakes area in Dade County Florida. Depending on the time of year/atomospheric conditions, I listen to WAVV every chance that I get. The station's format suits me to a "T" and I just wish that the broadcasts could be picked up on the internet. I am planning to relocate elsewhere within Florida and Ft. Myers is high on my list, in no small part due to the WAVV. |
| Name: | Armando Iazzetti |
| E-mail address: | armandoiazz@adelphia.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | There is so much great music that is missing from the airwaves; we had a WGAY for years here.
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| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | While FM radio essentially has no beautiful music stations XM does.They have a music channel called Sunny on channel 24 that plays beautiful music by John Fox,Nick Ingman,Percy Faith,Mantovani,Hollyridge Strings,Frank Chacksfield,Frank Pourcell,Geoff Love,Manuel,Lex Deazevedo,Botticelli,Dick Baker,Paul Mauriat,James Last,Johnny Douglas,101 Strings,Ronnie Aldrich,Syd Dale,Skitch Henderson and so many other bm artist I can't list them all.They also play an occasional vocal by Bennett,Strisand,Mathis and others but there mostley instrumental.Fm needs to take some lessons from Xm and get and put beautiful music back on the dial.They have now lost me to XM.After sending emails to Cumulus Media and FM radio stations and repeatly getting no replies I had no choice but to go to XM for their bm/ez station and they have artist and song info you can read on the unit.I am now enjoying XM in my home and in my car listening to channel 24.I encourage all of yall to invest in XM too and show the am/fm radio corporations your not going to take their tight playlist,5 or more formats that are essentially the same thing and all of the many commercials.Xm's music channels don't have commercials. |
| Name: | Aaron Schuelke |
| E-mail address: | ASchuelke@new.rr.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Bring back B/EZ radio!
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| Name: | Peter Fabris |
| E-mail address: | sandmanpaf@earthlink.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | My E-Mail Address: sandmanpaf@earthlink.net |
| Name: | Tom Spencer |
| E-mail address: | tspencer2000@hotmail.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | I'd like to know if any of the automation tape libraries survive; if so, whose and where can I get a set? They can be on the 10" reels; I have machines to play them; or they can be CD copies of the reels. Specifically, looking for Shulke or TM - 1000 reels (yes, I know TM is still in business; the closest they have available readily is the adult standards format. |
| Name: | Jeff Carter |
| E-mail address: | jeffcarter28@alltel.net |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | Great news beautiful music may be available in the whole country soon.A radio station Wbba in Tampa Florida has gone back to beautiful music and they are going to be programing it by sattelite leaving it open for radio stations across the country to pick it up.They are calling themselves Escape Radio and they will have an extensive selection of over 12,000 beautiful music songs and artist played on two Sony cd player jukeboxes which will hold over 300 cds a piece.They eventually plan to add up to 25,000 and there saying you won't here the same song for over 5 months.They are burning lp's and cassettes to cd and they will also use cd's of beautiful music that's in print.They won't be using a hard drive like most radio stations.Chuck Harder is the guy that is programming it.This station use to play beautiful music before than someone bought them out changed formats and there ratings dropped and they lost money so they are going back to it.The web address is www.moneypumptv/id3.html if you want to read it.They instruct radio stations how to get this.They say history has a way of repeating itself so finally maybe just maybe this music will pop up all over the country again with this sattelite station.Email your radio corporations and let them know about this web site for instance cumulus media,clear channel etc since most stations are unfortuanly owned by radio corporations.Cumulus can be reached at cumulus.com and clear channel at clearchannel.com.I'm sure there are a lot of other names but these two are the only ones I know of. |
| Name: | martin g. matsil |
| E-mail address: | matsil1953@yahoo.com |
| Bring Back Instrumental Easy Listening Radio!: | you never know what will happen next, maybe God will bless n.y.,with another e-z station.God bless. |