The Infinite Dial

A few odds and ends from this week's listening that didn't prompt a separate post:

* 4KQ Brisbane, Australia: This Australian Classic Hits station's "Friday Night Fever" has become appointment listening for me (on Friday morning, since its 6p-Midnight running time is 4-10 a.m. here). 80% of what 4KQ plays could be on any gold-based AC here, but the remaining 20% is pretty intriguing for Oldies fans. Here's the last hour of this week's show:

Lipps Inc., "Funkytown"
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, "Summer Nights"
Billy Thorpe, "Most People I Know Think I'm Crazy" (early '70s Country rocker from the guy known here for the harder-rocking "Children Of The Sun", Keith Urban has covered it)
B.A. Robertson, "Bang Bang" (unusual 1979 U.K. hit from the eventual author of "The Living Years")
Irene Cara, "Fame"
Eagles, "Already Gone"
Go-Go's, "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Lynyrd Skynyrd, "Sweet Home Alabama"
Diana Ross, "Upside Down"
Christie Allen, "Goose Bumps" (early '80s pop that would be sorta like hearing Sheena Easton's "Telephone" here)
BTO/You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Billy Ocean/Caribbean Queen
Marcia Hines/Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees (R&B vocalist with a string of '70s/'80s hits)
Rolling Stones/She's So Cold
Blondie/Denis
Vicki Sue Robinson/Turn The Beat Around
Eric Burden & War/Spill The Wine

* KPLV (the Party) Las Vegas: With the devastating success of "Pick Your Purse" at female-targeted radio stations in recent years, it was inevitable that shoes would be next, as seen in this Rhythmic AC's "Heel or No Heel."

* CIDC (Z103.5) Toronto: I've already brought them up this week, but two other things stood out during my listening this week. One is that Z103.5 actually frontsold a record by noting that it had been a No. 1 record in the U.K.--something that I haven't heard any American station do in years. The other was an ad for Trojans--something you hear a lot more on Canadian CHR radio--that I won't quote here but which seemed a little explicit, no matter how many American morning shows one listens to. And elsewhere in Toronto...

* CHWO (AM740): Broadcasters always talk about going more aggressively against print, but this Adult Standards' on-air promos aimed at selling advertising time end with, "Don't leave your advertising on the curb with yesterday's crash." Wonder how sales departments are going to retool this one as on-line advertising becomes the competition.