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Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by gosub100 »

criddell wrote: post #20

It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

That's so stupid when these rights disputes come up! Think of how many people will stream or buy the songs legally after (re) discovering them on an old show.

And think of how few people will watch the show solely because it features copyright music.

It should be the other way around, i.e. Stranger Things should send the record company a bill for the resurgence of "Running up that hill".

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by gosub100 »

pwg wrote: post #29
criddell wrote: post #20

It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

The solution there is to not bother with "streaming services" and just download the readily available alternative captures, which include the original music.

I did this for Married With Children.

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Post by WalterBright »

criddell wrote: post #20

It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

The most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable.

Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watching it. In contrast, the soundtrack to The Hobbit sounds completely generic and boring, and the result is unwatchable.

Another example is Star Wars. The first two movies had amazingly good soundtracks. The later sequels had boring music, and whaddya know, the sequels were boring.

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Post by technothrasher »

tanseydavid wrote: post #34

Shout out to Bailey Quarters. I'm still waiting for your call.

I was always going to name my daughter Bailey after Bailey Quarters. But I never had a daughter, and my wife wouldn't let me name our son that. So the dog got the name.

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by bombcar »

WalterBright wrote: post #43
criddell wrote: post #20

It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

The most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable. Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watch…

I don’t know if perfect soundtracks would save your examples; I’d argue that the malaise infects everything: you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie.

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Post by technothrasher »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #36
bityard wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The last episode of WKRP was 44 years ago. What age do you believe people die or go into a nursing home?

I saw it in passing as a kid. It was clearly for adults, so by now, yes most are either in nursing homes or at least senior living communities.

I was a pre-teen when it came out and I loved it. We all used to watch it as a family.

Re: Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station

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Post by WalterBright »

bombcar wrote: post #45
WalterBright wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable. Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watch…

I don’t know if perfect soundtracks would save your examples; I’d argue that the malaise infects everything: you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie.

> you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie.

I'm having trouble coming up with an example, but my dad told me that "Warsaw Concerto" was composed for the movie "Dangerous Moonlight". The movie was bad, but was popular because people really liked "Warsaw Concerto".

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Post by QuesnayJr »

ghaff wrote: post #23
mauvehaus wrote: post #12

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They can, but they don't gain altitude so good. I had one fly across the road at top-of-windshield level. Since I figured it would just clear or just glance off, I did nothing to avoid it. Unfortunately, I had a roof rack on. Fortunately, I was able to find replacement parts for the rack on eBay. The turkey didn't appear to be harmed. After tumbling ass over teakettle to the ground, it walked into the field on the si…

Turkeys are one of the animals in that general category that, knowing what we know now, you look at them and you're like "How could smart scientists not look at them and not see that they are obviously a form of dinosaur?"

The idea that birds are descended from dinosaurs is nearly as old as evolution itself, first being proposed by Thomas Huxley in 1868 (Origin of the Species dates from 1859).

The only reason there was a competing evolutionary theory is because it was erroneously thought that birds have a clavicle and dinosaurs don't, so instead it was proposed that birds and dinosaurs have a common ancestor, and that dinosaurs lost the clavicle. Now that they have excavated many more bones paleontologists have since discovered therapod clavicles.

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Post by bombcar »

WalterBright wrote: post #47
bombcar wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t know if perfect soundtracks would save your examples; I’d argue that the malaise infects everything: you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie.

> you can’t make a great soundtrack for a mediocre movie. I'm having trouble coming up with an example, but my dad told me that "Warsaw Concerto" was composed for the movie "Dangerous Moonlight". The movie was bad, but was popular because people really liked "Warsaw Concerto".

I think an amazing song or piece could come from or certainly be used in a crappy movie, but I don’t think you can have a definitive entire soundtrack for a bad movie.

I could probably be proved wrong( I don’t think it’s entirely causal but more “they won’t pay for good music if they won’t pay for a good script” kind of thing.

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Post by jghn »

WalterBright wrote: post #43
criddell wrote: post #20

It's a bummer that the show will never play with original music on some streaming service due to (as I understand it) music licensing problems.

The most horrible example is the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Early commercial VHS tapes of it have the original music. Later tapes, and the DVDs, have all the music replaced with just awful generic music. That bad music just makes it unwatchable. Music is an enormous factor in movies, I wonder why nobody mentions it. For example, the Lord of the Rings soundtrack is spectacular and adds greatly to the pleasure in watch…

Beavis & Butthead. The best part was the music videos with their commentary.
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