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Topic History of: Tony Blackburn is a playlist hypocrite.
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Simon |
I couldn't believe it on Sunday night when Tony kicked off his "Golden Hour" playing Uptight by Stevie Wonder yet again. He just can't stop playing this track lately and it's becoming tedious. He plays it constantly on both his shows on Radio 2. I know he loves Stevie Wonder but he has a huge discography to pick from from just that artist alone but keeps it so narrow and unimaginitive.
Tony would be most at home on Smooth Radio or the other restrictive alternatives commercially. I'm aware he's made comments about that station in the past so it's remarkable what he's up to on Radio 2 at the moment. I think he has such high respected "status" that he is being allowed to play his own choices entirely, which I don't mind one bit, but seems to have become remarkably over indulgent and stuck in his ways. Not exactly surprising at 81, even a young at heart music loving 81. There are dozens of tracks now on endless quick rotation.
It's not just the music either, it's the jokes too. I listened to a couple of his shows on Sounds broadcast a couple of weeks apart and he told the same joke on both of them. |
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Tommy |
Tony has indeed been vocal in the past about restricted repetitious playlists on Smooth Radio and others like that on commercial radio so I'm surprised he is playing a narrow selection of tracks with frequent repetition on the BBC where there is far more freedom, supposedly. |
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Rich |
I've just been listening to Tony's recent bank holiday Monday soul music show that went out at lunch that day on Radio 2.
Great music choices, a lovely listen, but.....
He said, now going back to the 60's with Reet Petite by Jackie Wilson. Oh dear, it came out in 1957, and was the big hit of Christmas 86. Didn't touch the 60's.
He also played Diana Ross I'm Still Waiting, a track he's rightly proud of and every time he plays it he mentions how he got it released as a single, where it went to No1 in the summer of 1971 in Britain. But the trouble is he said it on this show and has said it before, that it went to No1 in both Britain and America and this is simply untrue, and I'm sure JK as an American charts officianado you will know this. Infact in the States the single barely registered and made only 63 on the Hot 100. I'm not sure why Tony keeps insisting it was an American No1, something he keeps repeating on radio. Actually, despite having a string of solo American No1 hits, the two that Diana Ross got here in the UK, I'm Still Waiting and Chain Reaction did next to nothing on the American Chart.
I do wish someone would set him straight on it. I love the song but I'm Still Waiting could count as another Tony tends to play to excess far too regularly. |
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Stella |
He is indeed, but I don't think he knows it. I'm sure he has said he picks his own music.
I like his work ethic though and the tracks he plays, that he actually turns up to do live radio no matter what time of day it is. Quite right. A few more presenters could learn a thing or two there, including one or two in his league who I think should know better - yes you Johnnie Walker, who got well and truly caught out recently when the death of his close mate Steve Harley was announced on Sunday morning and he was on air on Sunday afternoon and made no reference to it at all, and had to apologise the following Sunday. Why is it so hard to broadcast your show live in the middle of Sunday afternoon anyway, when Tony gets up in the middle of the night to drive in for 6am on weekends. |
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Green Man |
Kevin wrote:
Green Man wrote:
It seems to be the norm on the oldies station's. A lot of these American ones are the same. INXS,BTO, Kinks,Golden Earring, Steely Dan, Animals, Byrds all seem to be loops on several stations.
Radio is all the same to me these days.
Even disco and soul music gets the same treatment.
I think that BBC should be held to a very different and much higher standard to all those. A naive thought maybe. |
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