Radio FM – Press Release
Generous swabs of Barbra Streisand, with or without a Gibb brother, interpretations by Mantovani of everything, journeys via strings to Paris, Rome, Austria and Hawaii:
Radio FM has trawled through the lot of it and is ready with a 24 hour launch broadcast-a-thon.
It’s off season, but James Brown’s Christmas plea, ‘I'm begging you Santa Claus,
Go straight to the ghetto’ sounds more soulful than ever, just as saccharine promotional jingles by Lesley Gore and Roy Orbison for Coca-Cola will leave you with a furry tongue.
Join us 0900 till 0900 aboard the good ship Radio FM where such cargo is yielded from the Elsewhere collection.
There’s a handsome new display unit full of 45s. This is where the treasure is that makes up our unique playlist:
The best of Stax, some with great chunks bitten out, but mostly just as scratchy as an old jukebox demands. Just fabulous. Donna Summer on the hour, Melba Moore’s album tracks, the Pointer Sisters’ solo efforts (Bonnie) are all here.
It’s a family show, folks. Not a parental guidance explicit lyrics warning ruining the LP covers to be seen. We just have to hope that our highly prized disc jockeys keep it strictly PG-13.
What better way to move from those stolen remnants of Saturday Night (well Sunday morning) to Monday morning? Have us in bed with you at 9 – and don’t feel lonely that it’s just Radio FM and your breakfast under the sheets. And if you’re entertaining – we’ve got the love songs to keep you under the covers.
Still lonely? Stay with us as we move into the Heartbreak Coma hour, playing the splintering anthems that you crave when real life isn’t enough to make you cry.
Hungry? It’s Lunch Club between 1 and 2 at Radio FM, we go off air and leave you to listen to the best food anthems, uninterrupted for an hour.
We catch up with singing stars who have defied trends and continued throughout their lifetimes recording - how could Andre Williams comeback I wanna be your favourite pair of pajamas be in the top 10 alongside Cher’s Believe? And Lee Hazelwood’s Cake or Death is our featured album. We’ll politely skim past the Eddie Izzard references, so do stay with us.
After midnight, slip into something red, shiny, lacy and synthetic because we have Sexy Bad Music hour. Might last an hour, might be considerably less – who’s to say?
Let the music, fun and chat keep you company until the Monday morning rush to work.
Don’t forget your sandwiches, your bus pass or some anecdotes about your weekend to share at the water cooler. Can’t think of any? Why not tell the temp on the front desk about a great new radio station…
Radio FM: a case for radio, a place for radio, a face for radio.
16th September 2007
