Re: WDRC-FM request show (was: WODS Music Screw Ups)

[hmglaz@webtv.net (Howard Glazer)]

Larry Weil wrote:

>At 11:45 AM -0500 3/24/02, Howard
> Glazer wrote:
 
>>Has 'ODS ever put a rejected-request
>> call on the air? Ron Sedaille does it
>> almost every week at WDRC-FM. Poor
>> lady calls up for "Diamonds and Rust"
>> by Joan Baez. "Uh, no, we don't have
>> it." Then she asks for "On a Bus to St.
>> Cloud" by Trisha Yearwood. "Nope, try
>> again." She finally comes up with a
>> song he has, but Ron decides it's not
>> "hot rockin'" enough for a "Hot Rockin'
>> Saturday Night" and plays something
>> else! Now that's radio!
 
>No, that's just plain rude. It's making fun
> of someone's musical ineptitude on the
> air.

"Ineptitude" is too strong a word. Those are two fine songs, but they
weren't pop hits. (The Yearwood song charted country, the Baez I don't
think was ever a single.) The caller was just ignorant of the
limitations of the oldies format. I suppose Sedaille was rude, but
chances are that listener wasn't hearing anything she really liked on
the DRC show anyway. He pulled the same thing on someone who called for
"Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" a few weeks ago.

On the other hand, he always obliges callers, no matter how stupid,
drunk, or both, who request obscurities that rock a bit. Case in point:
"Shame, Shame" by the Magic Lanterns, just last night. And there's a guy
who sounds intoxicated who's always calling for "Hot Rod Lincoln" and he
always gets his song on the air, too.

Is this better than keeping the callers who phone in obscure requests
off the air, totally unacknowledged, as I'd imagine WODS does? Maybe
some of the DRC rejectees take the putdown with a smile and come back
the next week with a request that makes the cut.

Howard