40's channel -- who has the biggest playlist?

[Tock]

XM or Sirius?

Last time I checked (a few years ago), XM seemed to have a broader playlist
of 40's music. Since that's pretty much all I listen to all day long,
that's what is most important to me.

Has it changed any?

[Lowdown in Lodi]

> XM or Sirius?
>
> Last time I checked (a few years ago), XM seemed to have a broader
> playlist of 40's music. Since that's pretty much all I listen to all day
> long, that's what is most important to me.
>
> Has it changed any?

XM, by a mile.

[stamplaw]

And the demographic is dying off to the tune of a 100 people a minute.


Lowdown in Lodi wrote:
> > XM or Sirius?
> >
> > Last time I checked (a few years ago), XM seemed to have a broader
> > playlist of 40's music. Since that's pretty much all I listen to all day
> > long, that's what is most important to me.
> >
> > Has it changed any?
>
> XM, by a mile.

[Lowdown in Lodi]

> And the demographic is dying off to the tune of a 100 people a minute.
>

So, what's you're point? There are a ton of people who continue to be
interested in music of that era -- the fact that Sirius doesn't have it
speaks volumes about the lack of diversity in their lineup. People who
appreciate Folk music aren't near death, yet Sirius doesn't have a Folk
channel, either.

If your only interests are Howard, HipHop or Headbanging, Sirius can keep up
with XM; for anything else, XM just runs off and leaves Sirius.

[Bill Kraski]

stamplaw wrote:

> And the demographic is dying off to the tune of a 100 people a minute.

If you refer to those who listened to '40s music when it came out, you
could be at least partially right. Unless you start comparing that to
accident & drug related deaths in those from other decades. ;-) And,
if you're referring to those born in the 40s, then you're saying that
100 people per minute die who are in the age range of 57-66 years old?
That's not really old anymore.

Of course, there's also the waning interest in the music style. Let's
see - an Ella remix doing well on a number of the Chill/Ambient
stations, the Natalie Cole remix of one of Nat's songs that was a cross
genre hit several years ago, a number of Trance/Chill groups emulating
Billie Holiday's sound from the 40's. Shall I keep going? :-)

--
Bill K

[Lowdown in Lodi]

I sure hope the music of the 40s (& before) doesn't disappear just because
it got old.

As I sit & listen to Beethoven Piano Concertos at this instance, I would
hate to think interest in these works might have died because Stamplaw
thought the listeners were "old and dying" at the rate of 100 a day at some
point.

[Tock]

"Lowdown in Lodi" <Lodi@lowdown.com> wrote in message
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>> And the demographic is dying off to the tune of a 100 people a minute.
>>
>
> So, what's you're point? There are a ton of people who continue to be
> interested in music of that era


Ya, and most of the folks who hear it in my business really seem to like it.
It's upbeat without being frantic, and it has a sort of elegance that makes
ya feel good. Most folks (and that includes the under 40 crowd) like that
the vocalists don't scream and shout like current singers do.

Given a chance, Big Band Jazz could make something of a comeback. Probably
not the over-commercialized Big Band stuff, but the music like the Casa Loma
Orchestra and etc . . . Some clubs in Dallas already play swing and have
jitterbugging classes (or so my neighbor tells me) . . .

[Von Fourche]

"Tock" <tock@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Lowdown in Lodi" <Lodi@lowdown.com> wrote in message
> news:QiRBg.4846$9T3.1752@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
> >> And the demographic is dying off to the tune of a 100 people a minute.
> >>
> >
> > So, what's you're point? There are a ton of people who continue to be
> > interested in music of that era
>
>
> Ya, and most of the folks who hear it in my business really seem to like
it.
> It's upbeat without being frantic, and it has a sort of elegance that
makes
> ya feel good. Most folks (and that includes the under 40 crowd) like
that
> the vocalists don't scream and shout like current singers do.
>
> Given a chance, Big Band Jazz could make something of a comeback.
Probably
> not the over-commercialized Big Band stuff, but the music like the Casa
Loma
> Orchestra and etc . . . Some clubs in Dallas already play swing and have
> jitterbugging classes (or so my neighbor tells me) . . .



You can do a XM song search here -
http://www.xmmonitor.com/played/search

I think Sirius has a song search but I don't have the link.

[John Smith]

"Tock" <tock@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Lowdown in Lodi" <Lodi@lowdown.com> wrote in message
> news:QiRBg.4846$9T3.1752@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>>> And the demographic is dying off to the tune of a 100 people a minute.
>>>
>>
>> So, what's you're point? There are a ton of people who continue to be
>> interested in music of that era
>
>
> Ya, and most of the folks who hear it in my business really seem to like
> it. It's upbeat without being frantic, and it has a sort of elegance that
> makes ya feel good. Most folks (and that includes the under 40 crowd)
> like that the vocalists don't scream and shout like current singers do.
>
> Given a chance, Big Band Jazz could make something of a comeback.
> Probably not the over-commercialized Big Band stuff, but the music like
> the Casa Loma Orchestra and etc . . . Some clubs in Dallas already play
> swing and have jitterbugging classes (or so my neighbor tells me) . . .
>
>

There are still lots of us listening to music from the 40's. Glen Gray
played with my father's band before he started the Casa Loma Orchestra, and
I'll take Bunny Barrigan anytime over the crap that is called "music" these
days. I just finished dance classes for the fox trot, jitter bug, and
waltz. When the classes were announced the organizer thought there would be
about 5 or 6 couples that would attend - word got around, and we ended up
with over 30 couples, most being in their 30's. There were couples driving
over 40 miles just to take the classes. I don't think the popularity of
music from the WWII era will go away any time soon.

One of the reasons I chose XM was because of the 40s, 50s, and 60s channels.
If those went away I would probably drop my subscriptions.

--
"Anybody who deliberately propagandizes with lies should be held up to scorn
and ridicule" - Al Franken



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