{"id":25281,"date":"2020-04-27T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=25281"},"modified":"2020-04-27T14:00:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T19:00:02","slug":"songs-radio-avoid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/04\/27\/songs-radio-avoid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Are there songs radio should avoid during pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25283\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/04\/27\/songs-radio-avoid-pandemic\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25283\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-25283\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-1024x698.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-1024x698.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-300x205.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-768x524.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-500x341.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-150x102.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-1200x818.jpg 1200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-400x273.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-800x546.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts-200x136.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Seals-and-Crofts.jpg 1884w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/a> Jim Seals and Dash Crofts<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It occurred to me over the weekend when \u201cGet Closer,\u201d the 1976 yacht rock standard by Seals and Crofts, came on: There may be some songs that radio\u00a0<em>shouldn\u2019t<\/em> be playing during a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>So I reached out to an old friend, Rick O\u2019Dell, program director of <a href=\"https:\/\/metv.fm\">Me-TV FM,<\/a> the Weigel Broadcasting soft-rock oldies station at WRME 87.7-FM, for advice on other songs to add to the list.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are the titles he suggested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\"Touch Me\"<\/strong> - The Doors<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"I Want to Hold Your Hand\"<\/strong> - The Beatles<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Come a Little Bit Closer\"<\/strong> - Jay and the Americans<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand\"<\/strong> - Diana Ross<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Touch Me in the Morning\"<\/strong> - Diana Ross<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu\"<\/strong> - Johnny Rivers<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"My Little Town\"<\/strong> - Simon &amp; Garfunkel<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Stand By Me\"<\/strong> - Ben E. King<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"The Closer I Get to You\"<\/strong> - Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Be Near Me\"<\/strong> - ABC<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Close to You\"<\/strong> - The Carpenters<\/li>\n<li><strong>\"Touch Me When We're Dancing\"<\/strong> - The Carpenters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_25282\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/2020\/04\/27\/songs-radio-avoid-pandemic\/rick-odell-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25282\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25282\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-25282\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-150x150.jpg 150w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-300x300.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-768x768.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-500x500.jpg 500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-400x400.jpg 400w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-200x200.jpg 200w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-57x57.jpg 57w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-72x72.jpg 72w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-114x114.jpg 114w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell-144x144.jpg 144w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Rick-ODell.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick O'Dell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>O\u2019Dell said he hasn\u2019t taken any of the songs out of Me-TV FM\u2019s rotation, although he did receive complaints from listeners for airing \u201cMy Little Town,\u201d which includes the grim lyrics: \u201cNothing but the dead and dying back in my little town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he suggested I challenge his competitors to come up with similar lists for their formats.<\/p>\n<p>So . . . what songs would you add to the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me over the weekend when \u201cGet Closer,\u201d the 1976 yacht rock standard by Seals and Crofts, came on: There may be some songs that radio\u00a0shouldn\u2019t be playing during a global pandemic. So I reached out to an old friend, Rick O\u2019Dell, program director of Me-TV FM, the Weigel Broadcasting soft-rock oldies station... <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2020\/04\/27\/songs-radio-avoid-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&#8594;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25281"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25309,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25281\/revisions\/25309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}