Rock Radio Scrapbook
AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of
December 25, 2011
Weekly issue #661
Subject:
AN OLD-FASHIONED CHRISTMAS with
SAM WARD
Station: audioldies.net
Date: Christmas, 2011
Time:
1:00:17
Every year in mid-November, numerous radio stations go to an all-Christmas format, a ploy that never fails to get great ratings. Problem is, most of these stations rotate the same 300 or so songs ad nauseum, neglecting the thousands of great Christmas songs that have been recorded over the decades. It gets boring real fast.
Sam Ward of audioldies.net takes an opposite tack in his 2011 "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" show. Sam plays a wide variety of rarely-played Yuletide favourites from the first half of the 20th century and even some from as far back as 1898 - the very dawn of recorded music. You won't believe what he's found!
Enjoy Hour 1 of Sam Ward's 2011 "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" here.
(Courtesy Sam Ward, audioldies.net. Used with permission)
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