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Topic: Pop Music

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bornacatfan
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Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 9:02:32 AM

I have always been tuned into Music. Moving to Chicago at age 17 i found WXRT and over the years have found many music stations from WVUD at Dayton to anyone I could find. Like local craft beers I seem to seek out College stations....our local one here at WCRD in Muncie shows how far college stations have falled over the years in finding new and progressive music.

Not being a Athenian I wondered if OHIO had a true "College" radio station in years past. I know there were really good concerts and shows that some were mainstream but many were fringe and new so.... was there a radio station that had King Biscuit Flower Hour or similar? or that addressed the college music scene more than Power 105 does presently?

I have to admit the thought came to me reading pp 24 of the Now I See the Light thread... strains of a new young artist on WXRT way back echoing in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1NrQYXjLU I seem to have words of apros po music haunt my thoughts...

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:27:07 AM

When I was at O.U. in the mid 70's a lot of the dorms had "in house" radio stations.
I "DJ'd" for the radio station in GAM.

They were a combination of cable/over the air and didn't go very far.

The programming was at the discretion of the DJ and ran the gamut from hard rock to classical.
We also broadcast the news from WOUB every hour.

A lot of the communication majors worked as DJ's or station managers.

At that time WOUB was where communication majors aspired to go to.
As I recall it was pretty much music and news.But the station set the play list.
The lack of choice in play lists didn't go over too well with some of their DJ's.

OhioCatFan
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:53:34 AM

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 12:01:42 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

Bagpipes,music ?

I like an occasional bagpipe selection,Amazing Grace and Scotland The Brave come to mind.
But I couldn't listen to them for an extended period.

OhioCatFan
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 12:42:33 PM

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

Bagpipes,music ?

I like an occasional bagpipe selection,Amazing Grace and Scotland The Brave come to mind.
But I couldn't listen to them for an extended period.

I guess it must be an acquired taste. ;-)

rpbobcat
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 1:00:19 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

Bagpipes,music ?

I like an occasional bagpipe selection,Amazing Grace and Scotland The Brave come to mind.
But I couldn't listen to them for an extended period.

I guess it must be an acquired taste. ;-)

Kind of like haggis ?

OhioCatFan
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 1:12:25 PM

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

Bagpipes,music ?

I like an occasional bagpipe selection,Amazing Grace and Scotland The Brave come to mind.
But I couldn't listen to them for an extended period.

I guess it must be an acquired taste. ;-)

Kind of like haggis ?

That's a taste I never acquired, though I've been in Scotland twice.

rpbobcat
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 1:18:21 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

Bagpipes,music ?

I like an occasional bagpipe selection,Amazing Grace and Scotland The Brave come to mind.
But I couldn't listen to them for an extended period.

I guess it must be an acquired taste. ;-)

Kind of like haggis ?

That's a taste I never acquired, though I've been in Scotland twice.

Tried it once.

Never again.

As Groundskeeper Willie on the Simpsons once said "tastes as good as it sounds"

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 2:09:30 PM

bornacatfan wrote:

Not being a Athenian I wondered if OHIO had a true "College" radio station in years past.

Someone in the know will correct me with some of the details..

ACRN was the station in the late 70's. Very low power with transmitters covering each green. It was also carried by cable TV company then. We connected the cable hookup to the stereo turner to pick it up, as well as some of the Columbus stations.

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 3:18:17 PM

MedinaCat wrote:

bornacatfan wrote:

Not being a Athenian I wondered if OHIO had a true "College" radio station in years past.

Boy,does "cable T.V. company" bring back memories.

When I was at O.U.,cable was the only way to get any T.V. reception and then you only got a few stations.

At that time students weren't allowed t.v.'s in their rooms.
But some enterprising students found out how to "jack" into the cable boxes on poles and, by using a "resistor" connected to the T.V. antenna screws, you could have cable in your room.

A bunch of us got to watch the Winter Olympics one year that way.

Thing was,at that time, there were different types of resistors.
Pick the wrong one, and you blew out the T.V. or, in one case,short out the cable for entire East Green.

When that happened the guys who "jacked" into the system scrambled up the pole to get their wire out,before the cable guys showed up.

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 10:51:34 PM

Very interesting

I never thought of the problems with terrestrial signals. My wife being a Glouster girl and I have talked about the reception in "Redtown" but I never really put it together. Made sense that you had to be inventive. ACRN?

Talking about programming being at the discretion at the DJ is the very thing I always fing pulling me in to radio stations at colleges. Always have to coolest stuff. Northwestern and Northeastern Il, Loyola, NIU all had good stations. WVUD in Dayton, Hawaii, Athens GA, Boston....the stations had an edge and dug deep for music. I find it fascinating that the OHIO answer was to have stations in the dorms. That is novel and reflects the general tenor I have found particularly at OHIO...and with college students in general.

Thanks for the input.

WOuld love to hear more about the dorm setup and what kind of music Athens was listening to underground

OhioCatFan
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/18/2017 11:14:24 PM

OK, rpbobcat, you asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSH0eRKq1lE

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 12:28:28 AM

Bornacatcan, your wife is from Glouster? Right on!

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 7:49:32 AM

RPO R6V wrote:

Bornacatcan, your wife is from Glouster? Right on!

Yep after years of raising boys as a single father and having a blast going to see hoops anywhere/anytime, making sure they were on the right path and working hard at work my friends had taken to saying "if you don't find a woman in a basketball gym you ain't gonna find one" Lucky for me...there she was. Met through Ohio Basketball and her sons...oddly enough she elscalated communication by signing up for BA and PMed me... Life is good. Dyed in the wool Bobcat, Reds, Browns fan.... ah well...ya can't have it alll.....

Last Edited: 4/19/2017 7:52:34 AM by bornacatfan

Mike Johnson
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 8:25:51 AM

bornacatfan wrote:

WGAM got started during my mid-60s years in Gam. Our studio? A converted 4th floor utility closet. Among our listeners? The girls next door in Tiffin.

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Alan Swank
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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 9:15:49 AM

I had forgotten all about ACRN. For those of us from NE Ohio, coming to OU in the 70s was like coming to the radio ghetto. No WMMS. Lots of country in these parts then and now.

https://www.facebook.com/ACRNRockLobster /

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 10:13:14 AM

Mike Johnson wrote:

WGAM got started during my mid-60s years in Gam. Our studio? A converted 4th floor utility closet. Among our listeners? The girls next door in Tiffin.

When I was at GAM in the mid 70's,the "studio" was a converted storage room on the first floor.
As I recall, it was partitioned into 2 rooms.
One was the actual 2 turntable "studio".
The other room had the transmitter and other equipment.

Used to really enjoy taking requests from the girls in Tiffin.

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 2:07:29 PM

rpbobcat wrote:

Mike Johnson wrote:

WGAM got started during my mid-60s years in Gam. Our studio? A converted 4th floor utility closet. Among our listeners? The girls next door in Tiffin.

Even though the "studio" moved down from the 4th floor to the 1st, your description indicates a move up. :-)

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/19/2017 4:15:26 PM

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

rpbobcat wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I had a air shift on WOUB once during which I played bagpipe music. Boy did I catch hell for that! [I still like bagpipe music.]

Bagpipes,music ?

I like an occasional bagpipe selection,Amazing Grace and Scotland The Brave come to mind.
But I couldn't listen to them for an extended period.

I guess it must be an acquired taste. ;-)

Kind of like haggis ?

That's a taste I never acquired, though I've been in Scotland twice.

Tried it once.

Never again.

As Groundskeeper Willie on the Simpsons once said "tastes as good as it sounds"

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/21/2017 7:52:25 AM

James hall had a studio closet too. 1st floor. I remember that the dorm dj would get into some good music only to be preempted by ACRN. All Campus Radio Network I believe. Some memories dusted off out of the closet there.

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 4/23/2017 6:37:35 PM

Pretty good responses. Suffice to say that in spite of an awesome student body and an active music scene....there was not a really strong student radio station that introduced progressive and college based rock. That is interesting in it's absence but even cooler in the the fact that students found a way to provide music....and interesting that ACRN and Oak are truly OHIO based terms.

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 8/22/2017 1:25:39 PM

bornacatfan wrote:

Have to seek out craft beers? Seriously?

I was just up in the Finger Lakes area of Western New York on vacation and even though that area is famous for wine, there were like a zillion micro-breweries in that area between Rochester and Syracuse. Check it out:
https://fingerlakesbeertrail.com/content /

Last Edited: 8/22/2017 1:26:37 PM by greencat

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 8/22/2017 3:33:56 PM

bornacatfan wrote:

It's been a while, but figured I would throw in some anecdotal experience on this one.

I was at OU from 2007-12, and ACRN was always the station where you could find alternative/indie/hard-to-come-by-on-Power 105 music. What truly kept it from being a big part of campus during my time was 1)it was only online, so it wasn't across the airwaves, and 2) the prevalence of iTunes/iPods/etc. really made it hard to get people to listen.

I was a DJ for about a year in 2009, and we always received new albums from bands that fit the genres above. Some of my favorite memories of OU include showing up to the station in Baker Center after class an hour or so before my shift. I would sift through the entire music library to pick out tracks I wanted to play during my hour. I also did a pop culture talk show with my buddy--which I'm positive about 2 people listened to at any given time. Really wish I stuck it out and did more with ACRN now that I'm reminiscing.

EDIT: I really don't think being online-only kept it from being more popular. If anything, it made it readily available to a wider audience. I just don't think there was an appetite to listen to the station for a lot of students.

Last Edited: 8/22/2017 3:35:37 PM by Bobcat110alum

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 8/23/2017 11:59:03 AM

OhioCatFan wrote:

OK, rpbobcat, you asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSH0eRKq1lE

And this slightly different version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23ENPznbN4

Last Edited: 8/23/2017 12:00:18 PM by Ohio69

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RE: Pop Music

Posted: 8/24/2017 12:51:32 AM

Ohio69 wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

OK, rpbobcat, you asked for it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSH0eRKq1lE

And this slightly different version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f23ENPznbN4

More than slightly! ;-)

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