New Music Added
70'S R&B And Prog Rock 45 RPM Records Added from:
7th Wonder
Archie Bell and the Drells
Double Exposure
Jesse Johnson
Cactus
Renaissance
Lake
Roxy Music
Plus Australian Prog from Company Caine and The Wild Cherries, R&B tracks from Norman Feels, plus classics from Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Kinks, plus much more . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Updated 05/23/2007 - Early Rock 'n Roll, Psych and R&B 45's Added
New Music Added
Early Rock 'n Roll, Psych and R&B 45's Added from:
Johnny Burnette
Don Cash and the Flames
Freddie Cannon
Gene Bua
Five By Five
The Lemon Pipers
The Clique
The Merry-Go-Round
Major Lance
Young Hearts
Garland Green
Plus classics from The Kinks, Tomorrow and Jimi Hendix. And rare Psych tracks from The Index, Graf Zeppelin and Kaleidoscope, plus much more . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Early Rock 'n Roll, Psych and R&B 45's Added from:
Johnny Burnette
Don Cash and the Flames
Freddie Cannon
Gene Bua
Five By Five
The Lemon Pipers
The Clique
The Merry-Go-Round
Major Lance
Young Hearts
Garland Green
Plus classics from The Kinks, Tomorrow and Jimi Hendix. And rare Psych tracks from The Index, Graf Zeppelin and Kaleidoscope, plus much more . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Internet Radio Station Discovers Treasure
While awaiting the outcome in Congress of the Internet Radio Equality Act, many Internet Radio programmers are getting creative. Counter Clock Radio, a station utilizing the Live365 network, plans to show just what will go missing without the freedom and reasonable fees now enjoyed by Internet Radio broadcasters. One usually imagines recitations of "Mother Goose" when one hears the term - public domain. However, the Internet has made available an ocean of material that resides in the public domain. It can't all be boring. There's treasure down there somewhere.
One treasure, at least in Counter Clock Radio's opinion, is the full broadcast day of radio station WJSV on September 21, 1939. A radio station serving the Washington DC area in the 1930s and 1940s, WJSV recorded the entire broadcast day of September 21, 1939 to transcription records and donated them to the Library of Congress. The key feature of the broadcast is President Roosevelt's Address to Congress. Britain and France had declared war on Nazi Germany, and Roosevelt is asking for the repeal of the Neutrality Act.
The initial hours of the broadcast are hosted by Arthur Godfrey, who fills the time with small talk, birthday announcements, commercials, delivered with what sounds like a bad cold. Then in what would have been the late morning, a number of soap operas begin. These end at 1:30pm with the beginning of the news broadcasts that fill up the afternoon, before and after the address to Congress. Then there is a Washington Senators baseball game, followed by news, plays and music programs for the remainder of the evening. Counter Clock Radio will broadcast the complete day on May 15Th, May 16Th and May 17Th. The broadcast will refresh each day at 6:00am PDT. The The complete day's broadcast will last approximately twenty-one hours each day.
The computer audio files as they were originally downloaded from a public domain source suffered from low audio quality. The entire twenty-one hours has been remastered, and will be made available to websites that offer public domain material.
Remastering and broadcasting historical content like this is what the semi-professional and hobbyist Internet Radio programmer does best, and would be made more difficult, burdensome and expensive under the new CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) rules. While public domain content is not charged for royalties, the new CRB rules demand a $500 per year fee per station. This fee, as well as the higher rates, will ghettoize such content and the creativity that goes into it. The vast majority of programmers utilize the services of such companies as Live365 to pay a flat fee for royalties for a set number of listeners. This frees the programmer to mix content regardless of royalty consideration. Such freedom, and the variety it fosters, is in the best traditions of the Internet.
May 15, 2007 was to be the "day the music died". CRB royalty increases would have silenced thousands of Internet Radio Stations. Two weeks ago, The Copyright Royalty Board pushed the collection date forward two months until July 15Th. Execution has been stayed. Congress now considers the Internet Radio Equality Act, and the fate of professional, semi-professional and hobbyist Internet Radio Stations and DJs hang on this legislation. What's to become of the Internet's first baby - Internet Radio?
One treasure, at least in Counter Clock Radio's opinion, is the full broadcast day of radio station WJSV on September 21, 1939. A radio station serving the Washington DC area in the 1930s and 1940s, WJSV recorded the entire broadcast day of September 21, 1939 to transcription records and donated them to the Library of Congress. The key feature of the broadcast is President Roosevelt's Address to Congress. Britain and France had declared war on Nazi Germany, and Roosevelt is asking for the repeal of the Neutrality Act.
The initial hours of the broadcast are hosted by Arthur Godfrey, who fills the time with small talk, birthday announcements, commercials, delivered with what sounds like a bad cold. Then in what would have been the late morning, a number of soap operas begin. These end at 1:30pm with the beginning of the news broadcasts that fill up the afternoon, before and after the address to Congress. Then there is a Washington Senators baseball game, followed by news, plays and music programs for the remainder of the evening. Counter Clock Radio will broadcast the complete day on May 15Th, May 16Th and May 17Th. The broadcast will refresh each day at 6:00am PDT. The The complete day's broadcast will last approximately twenty-one hours each day.
The computer audio files as they were originally downloaded from a public domain source suffered from low audio quality. The entire twenty-one hours has been remastered, and will be made available to websites that offer public domain material.
Remastering and broadcasting historical content like this is what the semi-professional and hobbyist Internet Radio programmer does best, and would be made more difficult, burdensome and expensive under the new CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) rules. While public domain content is not charged for royalties, the new CRB rules demand a $500 per year fee per station. This fee, as well as the higher rates, will ghettoize such content and the creativity that goes into it. The vast majority of programmers utilize the services of such companies as Live365 to pay a flat fee for royalties for a set number of listeners. This frees the programmer to mix content regardless of royalty consideration. Such freedom, and the variety it fosters, is in the best traditions of the Internet.
May 15, 2007 was to be the "day the music died". CRB royalty increases would have silenced thousands of Internet Radio Stations. Two weeks ago, The Copyright Royalty Board pushed the collection date forward two months until July 15Th. Execution has been stayed. Congress now considers the Internet Radio Equality Act, and the fate of professional, semi-professional and hobbyist Internet Radio Stations and DJs hang on this legislation. What's to become of the Internet's first baby - Internet Radio?
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Updated 05/09/2007 - Early Rock 'n Roll and Blues 45's Added
New Music Added
Early Rock 'n Roll and Blues 45's Added from:
Carl Perkins
Count Morris
Ned Miller
Sticks McGee
Lloyd Price
Eddie Vinson
Bill Doggett
Plus classics from Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and Jerry Lee Lewis. And rare Psych tracks from Centuries and J.L. and the Three Wise Men, plus much more . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Early Rock 'n Roll and Blues 45's Added from:
Carl Perkins
Count Morris
Ned Miller
Sticks McGee
Lloyd Price
Eddie Vinson
Bill Doggett
Plus classics from Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and Jerry Lee Lewis. And rare Psych tracks from Centuries and J.L. and the Three Wise Men, plus much more . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
A Stay Of Execution?
One of the silliest utterances overheard at the initial CRB Internet Radio hearing was a board member overheard saying "It's not my job, man!". Supposedly this was in response to comments about small webcasters "living or dying" because of new royalty rates. Note that this came inside the overall flavor of the board mindset that its not their job to keep webcasters in "business".
Internet media of every kind is more of a conversation than a business. Bride Ratings published a survey last month that showed that 140 million Americans have streamed audio or video content at one time or another. Now couple that with the very likely possibility that there are 140 million different radio stations, podcasts and videos on the internet, and you get the idea.
That's what it was all about no too long ago. Unabrigded opportuntity for content. Seems to have met the measure of the wildest of dreams.
So then, is it now time for regulation to begin fostering a weeding out, a game of survival of the fittest? Not yet. The dogs don't have to eat each other this month. Today, the CRB pushed forward the date for collecting new rates two months to July 15th. This gives legislation introduced in Congress a chance for debate and politicking.
The evolution of the web (what some are nausiatingly calling Web 2.0) may still occur in a continuing bloodbath of regulation, lawsuits, intimidation and other ugly behavior. However, as Digg.com learned, sometimes the bad guy's number is just up.
Internet media of every kind is more of a conversation than a business. Bride Ratings published a survey last month that showed that 140 million Americans have streamed audio or video content at one time or another. Now couple that with the very likely possibility that there are 140 million different radio stations, podcasts and videos on the internet, and you get the idea.
That's what it was all about no too long ago. Unabrigded opportuntity for content. Seems to have met the measure of the wildest of dreams.
So then, is it now time for regulation to begin fostering a weeding out, a game of survival of the fittest? Not yet. The dogs don't have to eat each other this month. Today, the CRB pushed forward the date for collecting new rates two months to July 15th. This gives legislation introduced in Congress a chance for debate and politicking.
The evolution of the web (what some are nausiatingly calling Web 2.0) may still occur in a continuing bloodbath of regulation, lawsuits, intimidation and other ugly behavior. However, as Digg.com learned, sometimes the bad guy's number is just up.
Updated 05/02/2007 - R&B and Doo-Wop 45's Added
New Music Added
Doo-Wop and R&B 45's Added from:
The Tunderbirds
The Federals
The Du-droppers
The Five-Stars
The Pretenders
Plus R&B mid-sixites covers from The Who and Small Faces . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Thanks for all the thumbs-up / thumbs-down last week. It really helps me choose the music.
Doo-Wop and R&B 45's Added from:
The Tunderbirds
The Federals
The Du-droppers
The Five-Stars
The Pretenders
Plus R&B mid-sixites covers from The Who and Small Faces . . . over 90 minutes of new music added.
Thanks for all the thumbs-up / thumbs-down last week. It really helps me choose the music.
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