Re: Radio Disney in Boston

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@wavewizard.com>]

At 11:19 PM 3/11/00 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>At 07:16 AM 3/11/00 -0500, Marc Lemay wrote:
>
>
>>As a parent of a 6 year old - I would like to hear Radio Disney on an FM
>>stick in Boston.  I thought of that while listening to Brittney Spears'
>>heavy bass drowned out and muddled by AM the other day.  Songs like We Are
>>The Champions by Queen (I assume) sound better because they were produced
>>with AM in mind, because that's where they were originally played in the
>>60's and 70's.  But todays "hitmakers" like Spears and numerous other "boy
>>bands" are produced with Hi Fi in mind.
>
>I suppose anything's possible, but I never thought that music was ever 
>produced with AM or FM sound contours in mind.  In fact, I thought most 
>older music was produced with live performance in mind.
>



I don't think any music has been produced with AM specifically in mind
since the mid-late 60s.  Legend has it that Berry Gordy required the final
mixdown of Motown songs (at least the single mix) done thru a 5" speaker
since that's the way most people would hear the song.  Given the amout of
effort mixing down the stereo album versions of most 60s pop songs compared
to the mono single mix, I'd say AM radio was a concern...however by the
mid-70s when the Queen song came out, FM was well established, and was
winning listeners away from AM in droves.  And Queen was considered more of
an "FM act" than an "AM act" anyway.