Re: Protest music on radio (was "Country music"...)

[Tony Randazzo <nova828@yahoo.com>]

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> >That there will be no protest songs because the
> corporate powers that be 
> >who own almost all radio stations won't put them on
> the air. I haven't
> >noticed any oldies stations playing Bob Dylan or
> Pete Seeger of Joan Baez, 
> >either. I haven't even heard protest songs on our
> handful of small 
> >independent stations -- with one exception.  About
> a month or so ago, I 
> >heard those wonderfully eccentric folks on WATD on
> Saturday afternoon play 
> >"Come and Sing a Simple Song of Freedom."

John Mellencamp has a new protest song, called "To
Washington" (he has it on his website if you want to
hear it) and WKIT in Bangor played it once, during the
afternoon last week sometime. I doubt it will ever be
played again, but its good that it got played once...
At WKIT we have the advantage of not being owned by a
big corporation that calls the shots, and each DJ has 
some freedom to play different things.  About a month
ago on my overnight show I did a whole hour of "War
and Peace" songs, most of them protest songs.


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