AM radio update

(See earlier entry for full context)

The elusive quest for the perfect oldies/nostalgia station continues. The oldies AM radio station I wrote about so glowingly the other day has proved terribly disillusioning. Not only is it an all-computerized and disembodied digital feed from somewhere in etherspace, it has become cloyingly repetitive and inane. The ads are frightful.

I will continue to listen and hope for the best, but this morning and this weekend severely tested my stamina for this station:

1) If they play Wayne Newton singing “Danke Schoen” one more time, I will tear out the tuning knob on the radio.

2) I can’t take much more of their regular show “Frank (Sinatra) and Friends”. I am sorry for those who think he has one of the “great voices of the century.” Every single thing he sings sounds the same to me. Like listening to Celine Delon.

3) Ditto with the endless Barbra Streisand songs. Her repeititious wailing seems to have no end to it.

4) Forget about Saturday afternoons with this station. That’s when the whole program is given over the “NASCAR Live” !! Ackkkkkk.

I am trying to be a regular guy and appreciate what it is I am supposed to be enjoying on this radio station, but enough is enough.

However, I am going to try giving them another listen. Maybe Blue Velvet by Bobby Vinton will be playing.