[Dixielandjazz] The 100 most important American Songs of the 20th Century

[David Richoux]

How about Jack Teagarden's "I Swung the Election!"


anyway, the 300 songs they chose from are not too bad:
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/300list.html

As for what we really want in American radio (not just Public Radio) 
are stations that have local content, music and information of the real 
community - not something that comes from some national Robot DJ and 
news feeds from some unknown national pundit or source. (why does my 
spell checker say souse?)

I have been listening to American radio for about 50 years ( I started 
at the tender age of 5) . I have heard many years of outstanding San 
Francisco Bay Area radio - 1950s Rock and Roll/R&B, pop and news 
stations that really caught the needs of their audiences (young or old, 
traditional or rebels) all the way to free-form, experimental, local 
commercial to totally non-commercial, spectrums of punk/new wave to 
trad jazz to alternative country & western focused stations, and 
everything in-between. I have also heard many stations crash and burn 
because they were either  too good for the general public (or general 
ad salesman) or because they fall in to the trap of following advise 
from "music consultants" and other such malarky.

I have been part of a significant radio revolution called KFJC FM for 
over 20 years - my love of radio as an "art form" and seeing that it 
can be more than just a commercial tool to flog the big record company 
product  has kept my interest and energy strong. The fact that I am a 
small "jazz voice" on a station that is known world-wide for playing 
extremely different and difficult types of music is also important to 
me - I am providing a bit of education and continuity in the story of 
popular American music (with a world-wide flavor.)

I have heard stations al over the world now, thanks to the internet 
(and a few band tours) and it is a good thing to keep radio going, 
especially if it is of value to both the local community or other 
outsiders that might want to hear something like Serbian Brass Bands or 
Brazilian Jazz Bands.

or OKOM


Dave Richoux
The Jazz Parade
www.kfjc.org


On Sep 13, 2004, at 2:18 PM, Jazzjerry at aol.com wrote:

> Just had a look at the list and in general it would seem an excellent
> selection covering a pretty wide spectrum of music. It seems to be a 
> better
> reflection of 'important' American Music than some of those farcical 
> lists published to
> 'celebrate' the millennium a few years ago.
>
> No doubt we could all suggest omissions even those of us who are not
> Americans but a pretty good stab methinks.
>
> Incidently although whilst I do not want to get into a political 
> discussion
> we have Bill Horton having a petty and rather unnecessary rant against 
> probably
> the only decent radio stations I have heard during my Stateside visits 
> and
> just a few days ago we had Tom Wiggins having a go at radio stations 
> owned by
> large, presumably capitalist, corporations. As an outsider I am 
> fascinated to
> know exactly what sort of radio stations are wanted by the American 
> contributors
> to this list?
>
> I would rather spend my time listening to the list on the NPR site 
> than the
> mindless and boring elevator music broadcast by the commercial smooth 
> jazz
> stations I turn off during my touring the USA?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jerry
> Norwich
> U.K.
> P.S. If we are going to get plitical how about "Down with the Old Bull 
> Of
> Bush" as a campaign song for somebody.
>
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