These seem to be the stations to which all others trying a classic-leaning soft AC approach are compared.
I keep forgetting to look at their playlists, and I know I shouldn't be concerned about going to the sites that provide this while at home, but I do limit where I go at home to a few select sites.
The reason I ask this is that at the times I listened, WEZV Myrtle Beach, SC, while still playing the artists ignored by most ACs--Neil Diamond, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck, etc--played only a few songs this year that would be considered standards. Some sites list it as soft AC but I still don't think that's an accurate description. Sinatra was played, but only in a duet with his daughter. Nat King Cole was played only in one of those manufactured duets. Michael Buble also sang a standard, and I heard "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" at least once. I have this memory of hearing the Lettermen while sitting at a very long stop light, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that correctly. I know Percy Faith played it, which is unusual because I had not heard an instrumental on WEZV in years, and this year I heard a smooth jazz one too.
I don't think WDUV or Easy 93.1 play new songs, and WEZV plays a few. Someone on this site commented that Easy 93.1 had backed off from songs not respected by AC, while WDUV had not. I thought "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion was newer because it is so contemporary-sounding and annoying, but the one site I'm willing to go to at home to research this said it was recorded in 1993, if it is in fact the song with the lyrics "I am your lady". I thought there was a version recorded by a man with the lyrics "you are my lady" but this was the only thing I could find. Anyway, I do not care for the pounding drums in this one. I was so relieved when songs like that seemed to disappear. Soft songs should also have soft drums.
I keep forgetting to look at their playlists, and I know I shouldn't be concerned about going to the sites that provide this while at home, but I do limit where I go at home to a few select sites.
The reason I ask this is that at the times I listened, WEZV Myrtle Beach, SC, while still playing the artists ignored by most ACs--Neil Diamond, Glen Campbell, Engelbert Humperdinck, etc--played only a few songs this year that would be considered standards. Some sites list it as soft AC but I still don't think that's an accurate description. Sinatra was played, but only in a duet with his daughter. Nat King Cole was played only in one of those manufactured duets. Michael Buble also sang a standard, and I heard "Theme from 'A Summer Place'" at least once. I have this memory of hearing the Lettermen while sitting at a very long stop light, but I'm not sure I'm remembering that correctly. I know Percy Faith played it, which is unusual because I had not heard an instrumental on WEZV in years, and this year I heard a smooth jazz one too.
I don't think WDUV or Easy 93.1 play new songs, and WEZV plays a few. Someone on this site commented that Easy 93.1 had backed off from songs not respected by AC, while WDUV had not. I thought "The Power of Love" by Celine Dion was newer because it is so contemporary-sounding and annoying, but the one site I'm willing to go to at home to research this said it was recorded in 1993, if it is in fact the song with the lyrics "I am your lady". I thought there was a version recorded by a man with the lyrics "you are my lady" but this was the only thing I could find. Anyway, I do not care for the pounding drums in this one. I was so relieved when songs like that seemed to disappear. Soft songs should also have soft drums.