Bobberman
Well-Known Member
Very true and there are a few online radio services offering Easy Listening today but i preferred having the actual music in my collection on CD and Download and i will say there has been far more of it availible for download than on CD and thankfully I was able to obtain them because now some of them Have Disappeared. I consider myself fortunate. Some radio stations when changing from easy listening would go either country Hard Rock or oldies. One in particular closer to me did their format change in stages they went NAC for about a year and a half then switched to Soft rock ( or as they called it continuous soft hits) after a decade they did some stunting with something called Quality rock ( whatever that is ) then a few years later went Modern Country and they still are today. Sadly these soft hit stations used to play Herb alpert's Rise but none of his other tunes Radio Had Long ago Abandoned Herb and most of the classic A&M artists sad days we live in it seems.What's humorous about this is that today, you won't find any bar, grille or restaurant playing any instrumental music such as this. Many use a satellite service for music now, as the royalties are rolled up into their monthly cost.
As for "too loud," I wish I had not been working afternoons at the office back in the early 80s. One of the local easy listening stations (and this one was a real snoozer) had changed over to a hard rock format overnight. I would loved to have seen the secretary's face when she turned the radio on that morning.