Comments on: Report From The Country, Part Ten: Disco Goes The Country http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Mon, 14 May 2012 21:17:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Peter http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-27754 Peter Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:48:47 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-27754 <p>Indeed. Anyway thanks for sharing the country treasures that AM radio brought to the world.</p> Indeed. Anyway thanks for sharing the country treasures that AM radio brought to the world.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-27729 Derrick Bostrom Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:39:19 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-27729 <p>You'd be surprised what I can accomplish once I put my mind to it.</p> You’d be surprised what I can accomplish once I put my mind to it.

]]> By: Peter http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-27728 Peter Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:31:38 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-27728 <p>Yeah we could do that. But I humbly think the loss of AM radio has something to do with the loss of a whole middle swath of American society. I don't think you can pin all of that on Reagan.</p> Yeah we could do that. But I humbly think the loss of AM radio has something to do with the loss of a whole middle swath of American society. I don’t think you can pin all of that on Reagan.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-27522 Derrick Bostrom Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:30:36 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-27522 <p>How about if we just blame Ronald Reagan and call it a day?</p> How about if we just blame Ronald Reagan and call it a day?

]]> By: Peter http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-27516 Peter Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:56:30 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-27516 <p>Derrick, I've enjoyed all of your reports from the country. Thank you. Why do you suppose country music dead today? Could it have something to do with the decline of AM radio? AM stations used to have the best country music. Now they just have talk programs or foreign language cultural news.</p> <p>So maybe Nashville says, we got to make records that sound like rock to get on the FM stations (?)</p> <p>Pete</p> Derrick, I’ve enjoyed all of your reports from the country. Thank you. Why do you suppose country music dead today? Could it have something to do with the decline of AM radio? AM stations used to have the best country music. Now they just have talk programs or foreign language cultural news.

So maybe Nashville says, we got to make records that sound like rock to get on the FM stations (?)

Pete

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-9866 Derrick Bostrom Thu, 31 May 2007 16:15:38 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-9866 <p>As a lover of pure pop sounds, I can't help but celebrate those traditionalists who made the supreme career sacrifice of chasing the "latest and loudest." It may have robbed them of some of their "credibility," but it gave some of my favorite cheesy pop songs a distiguished home!</p> As a lover of pure pop sounds, I can’t help but celebrate those traditionalists who made the supreme career sacrifice of chasing the “latest and loudest.” It may have robbed them of some of their “credibility,” but it gave some of my favorite cheesy pop songs a distiguished home!

]]> By: Rev. Keith A. Gordon http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-9848 Rev. Keith A. Gordon Thu, 31 May 2007 15:00:14 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-9848 <p>Tommy Overstreet is an inspired choice! I lived near the Overstreets outside of Nashville back in the early-to-mid-70s and got to know the family. TO was always very friendly and open, even at the brief commercial peak of his career. In retrospect, he seemed a "man out of time," a traditional Country singer forced into the role of the "new" Kenny Rogers, both in image and sound, chasing whatever pop-oriented trend that the label thought would sell that week. I think that he's doing Gospel in Branson now, which is closer to his heart, I'm sure....</p> <p>Could La Costa have had a career in any decade but the '80s? An eerie foreshadowing of the Shania to come, or merely a studio-created farce to file alongside Sylvia once the hits stopped coming?</p> Tommy Overstreet is an inspired choice! I lived near the Overstreets outside of Nashville back in the early-to-mid-70s and got to know the family. TO was always very friendly and open, even at the brief commercial peak of his career. In retrospect, he seemed a “man out of time,” a traditional Country singer forced into the role of the “new” Kenny Rogers, both in image and sound, chasing whatever pop-oriented trend that the label thought would sell that week. I think that he’s doing Gospel in Branson now, which is closer to his heart, I’m sure….

Could La Costa have had a career in any decade but the ’80s? An eerie foreshadowing of the Shania to come, or merely a studio-created farce to file alongside Sylvia once the hits stopped coming?

]]> By: Jery Foster http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-1703 Jery Foster Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:06:21 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-1703 <p>Most anything Ronnie Milsap has done is great! I was shocked to not see any Donna Fargo or Charlene Mandrell on the list though!</p> Most anything Ronnie Milsap has done is great! I was shocked to not see any Donna Fargo or Charlene Mandrell on the list though!

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-1667 Derrick Bostrom Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:42:02 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-1667 <p>I like BJS as well, though I have to admit that on sheer cheese points alone, I gotta go with Carver.</p> I like BJS as well, though I have to admit that on sheer cheese points alone, I gotta go with Carver.

]]> By: Andrew http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/comment-page-1/#comment-1666 Andrew Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:45:48 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/10/25/report-from-the-country-part-ten-disco-goes-the-country/#comment-1666 <p>Amazing country songs. Billie Jo Spears is my favorite.</p> Amazing country songs. Billie Jo Spears is my favorite.

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