Posted by Craig on August 08, 2007 at 08:48:11:
Yes, I understand today's WCBS-FM can't sound like yesterday's WCBS-FM. Yes, we won't have the same music mix. Yes, some of the previous DJs won't be part of this staff.
Yet.....
I don't think Bobby Jay's style sounds dated or old. I don't think a younger listener tuning into WCBS-FM for the first time would say to himself, gee, Bob Shannon and Dan Taylor and Pat St. John sound great. But that Bobby Jay sounds like a throwback to an earlier era.
Whenevr I heard Bobby Jay on the station, he sounded happy and upbeat. He made me feel happy and upbeat... enthusiastic about the music and the city I live in. It might be the 1000th time I am hearing "You Make Me Feel Brand New." But Bobby Jay could tell me something about the song or the artists that could be brand new to me.
He knows the artists on a first name basis. Would Rick Stacy know the names of each member of the Spinners? No knock on Rick Stacy but he (and the rest of us) could be sitting next to a member of the Spinners on the subway and not recognize him. Bobby Jay knows these all these artists and can talk about them like no other DJ I know of.
And don't tell me that's old. If you're playing the music of the Temptations, don't tell it's too old to KNOW the members of the Temptations. Don't tell me the DJs on the new WCBS-FM should play the Beatles but be too young to remember the Beatles.
In a newspaper interview before WCBS-FM re-debuted, PD Brian Thomas said Bobby Jay "would be in the mix."
I was so pleased to hear that. So where is he? Even if he has some other obligations before re-joining WCBS-FM, why not tell us that he'll be coming back on WCBS-FM in a few weeks?
Craig
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