CJ's Radio Olio's Top 50 Countdown on New Year's Weekend!

Starting Saturday Dec.30th at 10:00 pm US CST (Dec. 31st at 4:00 am UTC) CJ's Radio Olio will present The Olio Top 50 for 2006. These are the 50 highest-rated tracks from throughout the year, as rated by the Listeners to CJ's Radio Olio. As befits the eclectic nature of The Olio, music in the chart ranges from a march recorded in 1894 to songs from MySpace pages. Freeform for sure!
Following the Top 50 countdown will be a program with some of my favorite tracks of 2006 not to make the listener's list. You'll hear music from The Replacements, Bert Williams, Bikeride, Vladimir Horowitz, and Scott Walker, among others. If you love variety, and you want to enjoy cool music that you've never heard, catch the Top 50 of 2006 followed by my faves of 2006. It's five hours altogether, starting Saturday December 30th at 10:00 pm US CST (that's -0600 UTC), and repeating every 5 hours New Year's Eve & New Year's Day through Midnight US CST Monday night. Just come to CJ's Radio Olio's Live365 page.
A big Thank You! to The Olio's listeners for your time and support. And props to all the Musicians who created the music on The Olio: especially the bands & solo artists on MySpace who've responded over & above my dreams by making their music availible. To paraphrase Mr. Ellington,"I Love You Madly!".
Love & Peace, Clarence

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It's (past) time! So, CJ's Radio Olio's Top 25 tracks for November as voted by you Listeners) is now posted on the Top 25 page. This month, due to ties, there are 38 tracks in the list. As always, the top tracks are voted on by You, the Listeners. So keep voting for your faves!
And, on New Years Eve & throughout New Years Day, you can hear the top tracks of 2006 as voted by Listeners, along with a show consisting of some of My Favorite tracks of the year! Keep listening for more details (as I figure them out!).
Love & Peace, Clarence
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RIAA Claims Songwriters, Publishers Make Too Much Money

Yes, you read that right: article from Radio & Records site.
The RIAA, which has asked the US Copyright office to raise the Performance Royalties Live365 & most other legal webcasters pay to 30% of the webcaster's gross revenues, has now asked the Copyright office to CUT the Royalties paid to Publishers & Songwriters. The RIAA feels that publishers & songwriters made too much while recorded music sales fell.

(from article): "During the period when piracy was devestating the record industry, the RIAA argues, profits for publishers rose as revenues generated from ringtones and other innovative services grew."

Soooo...publishers & songwriters were not hurt by piracy (although they did not make a penny on all that pirated music), and the record companies have not seen "profits [grow] as revenues from ringtones and other innovative services [grow]". Let's see: 50 cents for every 99 cent track sold by iTunes, similar amounts from MSN, Yahoo!, plus whatever from the subscription plans from Napster & Rhapsody, along with half a Billion dollars from Microsoft to Universal Music (a part of General Electric, where 'Progress is Our Most Important Product')...

in other words "Just bend over, this won't hurt a bit..."

Love & Peace, Clarence

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CJ's Radio Olio Goes Underboard for Christmas

Now on CJ's Radio Olio: just a wee bit o' Holiday music! Only a wee bit because last year I went...er, somewhat overboard. "gulp"...
You may ask which Artistes made the xmas cut this time. And, I may answer: Amos Milburn - Bing Crosby - Bit Shifter - Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans - the Bomboras - Brenda Lee - Choir of Mount Angel Abbey - Chuck Berry - Darlene Love - David Bowie - Doris Day - Eddie Duchin and his Orchestra - Elvis Presley - Four Imperials - Frank Sinatra - Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Incubus - Jim'll's Brain - John Fahey - John Lennon and Yoko Ono - Kirov Theatre Orchestra - London Festival Choir - Marcia Ball - Merle Haggard - Ray Stevens - The Chipmunks - The Drifters - The King Cole Trio - The O'Jays - and the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
Here's hoping that you're comfortable wherever you are. And for those near the Equator & well south of it: wear your sunblock!
Love & Peace, Clarence

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Patience is rewarded! (who's she?) New Playlist on The Olio!

A new playlist with some new tracks are (finally) on CJ's Radio Olio! Who are the Artistes added to the mixture of Olio sounds? The rookies are: Agnes Malabey - Badfinger - Beatallica - BeeGees - Big Star - Billy Vera - B.J.Thomas - Blunt - Bob Newhart - Box Tops - Brook Benton - Firesign Theatre - Glen Campbell - Godfrey Cambridge - Guerino Et Son Orchestre Musette & Django Reinhardt - Iggy Pop - James P.Johnson - Jimmy Ruffin - Judy Garland w/ Barbra Streisand - Little Richard - Madeline Flash - National Lampoon - Pardon Me Boys - Planet of Women - Ray Charles - Robert Klein - Sam Cooke - Sheena Morris - Shoes - Soulhat - Steampacket - Switchblade Kittens - The Clash - The New Pornographers - The Raconteurs - The Sheds - Walking Wounded - Weird Al Yankovich - What Made Milwaukee Famous - and the Yardbirds.
I beg your indulgence for a moment. I've been fighting a particularly bad patch of Depression the last couple of months. I've been dealing with Clinical Depression for almost 40 years, & it's a process of surviving the lows with all the knowledge & perseverance you can muster. And you CAN come out of it. But it's a biotch when you're in one nasty funk, as opposed to listening to some nasty funk. ;-)
I'll try to do better.
Love & Peace, Clarence

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CJ's Radio Olio's Listener Top 25 for October

Howdy Howdy! Time once again for CJ's Radio Olio's list of the Top 25 tracks as chosen by The Olio's Listeners. These are the top rated tracks during the period October 1 through October 31, 2006. To see the full list, go to The Olio Top 25 page.
On the list, repeaters from last month are Otis Redding, Nina Gordon, Lotte Lenya, the immortal Slick Slavin, George Carlin, and a track from the National Lampoon Radio Hour. Artistes added in the last 31 days that made it into the Top 25 include David Rufin (from Meridian Missisippi, Ladies & Gentlemen!), Artesian, & the lead track from Tom Waits' new 3-disc collection. If this list isn't an example of eclecticism at it's finest, eclecticism doesn't exist!
Thanks as always to the Listeners of CJ's Radio Olio, who rated these tracks their faves. Want to experience music ranging from Tin Pan Alley to MySpace bands? Join the crowd & listen to CJ's Radio Olio!
Love & Peace, Clarence