Fwd: Pop Instrumentals

["Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>]

 I make an audio tape of "On The Media" from NHPR, while listening to  LTAR; 
I haven't played it back yet, but the segment you just described was on
"On the Media" earlier this year.  This isn't the first segment to be
repeated...they recently ran a fine piece on people, who upon being chased and
arrested or otherwise behaving badly, sign waivers to allow their antics to be 
shown on TV, and this was a repeat too.  Late fall into the holiday season
must be the periods when they go into reruns.  Strange, CNN's "Reliable Sources"
and Fox's "News Watch", although half-hour shows, plus Emily Rooney's  "Beat the Press" on channel 2 find plenty of subject matter!
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DATE: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 18:03:54
From: Richard Chonak <chonak@yahoo.com>
To: boston-radio-interest@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu

WNYC's (NPR) "On The Media" has a fun feature this
week on the
disappearance of instrumentals from pop-music radio. 
From
"Tequila" to "Telstar", these songs were a staple of
the surf era, and
the category survived into the disco era ("TSOP") but
what was the last
instrumental to break through as a hit?   "Music Box
Dancer"?





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