The AM Forum

The thread on interference a couple of weeks ago evolved to commentary about the (sad) state of broadcast radio.  I submit for your consideration, the broadcast schedule of my friend Mary, a DJ at the local 108 watt college station.  I don't like all of that stuff but it is interesting:

It's the month of Mayhem at KFJC, be sure to check out our calendar kfjc.org/mayhem

I will be on the air (all times Pacific):

Sunday May 2    6-9am        Kronos Quartet - 3 hours of their music and interview at 8am

Monday May 3   10am-noon  My shift during 24 hours of James Brown

Saturday May 8  5-6pm        My shift during "This is your railroad" - train music!

Sunday  May 9   6-9am        Arvo Part - 3 hours of his music and an interview at 8am.

Sunday May 16  noon-midnight   12 hours of surf music - live bands - I will be on the mic from 6-9pm

Ways to listen:

KFJC 89.7FM
-OR-
http://www.kfjc.org/netcast
-OR-
iTunes under Radio under Eclectic

Now we have broadcast archives that are up for 2 weeks after the show.  Look for the time and day on
http://www.kfjc.org/broadcast_archives/

Thanks for your interest.

"Cousin Mary"

thats too much soul even for the BJB. I'd have to run and hide.  :D

radio stations used to be fun to listen to, have personalities all their own.

I remember listening to WSGN in AL when I was a kid - they had the early 70's rock funk soul groove.

It was AMAZING how many music stations there were across the AM dial. It was just like Everclear said about it.

A great tune for sure. Phred

Better than 24 hours of Elvis, Beatles, anything after the 70's.

I could handle 24 hrs of James Brown mixed in with some Wilson Pickett, Little Willie John, and many other from that era.

Carl

I have no idea what an 'arvo' is.  But, hey, it's a college radio station.  They are just as likely to carry 12 hours of the sounds of a painters brush on canvas, with variations in oil, acrylic and water color.  :)

"Sunday  May 9   6-9am        Arvo Part - 3 hours of his music and an interview at 8am."

Arvo Pärt (born 11 September 1935) is an Estonian  classical composer. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs a self-made compositional technique called tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from Gregorian chant.

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I'll need to get me one of those medical Mary Jane permits before I tune in to that one.

The train song show seems like a great idea and fun, I'm thinking the Chatanouga, err, Chattanouga, err, that Choo-Choo song by Glen Miller. And the Atkinson, Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe song; Choo Choo Chaboogie by Asleep at the Wheel, The City of New Orleans by Chicago's Steve Goodman (RIP, dude), Engine Engine Number 9 and King of the Road by Roger Miller, Folsom Prison Blues by Mr. Cash..Driver 8 by REM..Last Train to Clarksville by the Monkees??
There's a zillion of them.

Actually, Bill, some of Arvo Pärt's music is quite easy to listen to, beautiful stuff, not  weird as you might infer from the description.

Night Train
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmDcZ939YzE

I'm a freeborn man,
My home is on my back.
I know every inch of highway,
Every foot of back road,
Every mile of railroad track.

There has been at least one radio station I know of that changed formats, and for publicity, played every recorded version of "Louie, Louie" consecutively, some 400 of them. Took a bit over 24 hrs.  8)

This thread got me to thinking, what's the American and Canadian fascination with train songs about? From rock to hillbilly.

Maybe we all have a case of wanderlust?

FWIW, a few years ago I rode Amtrak from Denver to Chicago. Had a sleeper car. It was an absolute treat. I didn't arrive all frazzled from airports or from driving 15 hours. Yes, it took overnight, but the staff treated everyone royally and with respect, even the food was good. We'd stop in little Iowa towns and whole families would be on the platforms with kids in the arms of their folks waving bye to their traveling relatives. You can see a lot of America that you never could from the interstate highway. I would love to take the Zephyr across Colorado to the west coast or the train across the Canadian Rockies to Alberta.

(Apologies for the thread hijack)

I don't know but I like train songs. Maybe because I traveled coast to coast on a train when I was 3 and developed a fascination for the machinery and the atmosphere. We had a room in a car with two fold down bunks and a water closet. That travel would cost a fortune today.

If you want to travel by train in style,

Amtrak will move your Private Car for $250 plus $2.10 per mile.

they do have good deals. Take your automobile and family and go from Wash DC to Orlando Fla for $19/person.  Nice.

Tickets include a LOT of amenities not found on airlines, like real meals, bottled water, semiprivate and private compartments, even the daily paper if on overnight trips.

Wish it was $19, it usually is just as expensive as flying.   Right now it is $116 per person one-way, coach seat with no car.   It is a great way to go to Orlando and can be worth it when you include car rental and air-fare.

If I were going to take a real train trip lasting more than a day or two, it would have to be private compartment to get the real experience. Otherwise I could as well drive it. I don't like flying. It has become an uncomfortable hassle.

It's been a very long time. How wide and comfy are coach seats on a train compared to aircraft sardine tin accommodations?