New site up and running!
Posted by Radiocafé on 11 Jun 2007 at 10:46 am |
Category: 5. CDs, 6. Other Music, 4. Soul Sounds, 3. Light & Easy, 2. Vocal Gems, 1. General Music
The Campaign For Real Music website has been given a shake-up, not only with a new look and lots more content to come in 2009, but this time with a real drive to try and get some great music known to a whole new generation. We’re adding new content all the time (for the moment, only a small portion is available).
The reason for the campaign
We feel it is about time that there should be at least some alternatives on UK radio to the mainstream pop stations. For those of you who, like us, find that the current offering by the BBC and commercial radio falls short, the Campaign For Real Music aims to provide and promote the very best music ever made. We’d like to hear a greater variety being made available, rather than the same types of music over and over, or the same one or two tracks from the producers’ limited selection of albums.
Music facing exctinction
It may sound dramatic, but we are here to save a number of genre from disappearing altogether. Look for soul on any download site, or DAB/Reciva radio listing, and you’ll see Dance and R’n'B but the term soul - and all the great music it encompasses - are disappearing fast. As for the many great vocalists, these too get little to no airplay. But the area that is under most threat is light music - there are so many great items out there that simply will never be heard.
Our aim
So that’s why we are here. To introduce you to the music and the musicians behind it. We’re not out to sell you CDs or make a profit, but to raise the profile of the lost, forgotten, underrated and overlooked.
We can’t wait to launch the new site, and look forward to many of you joining us and helping the Campaign For Real Music gather momentum, until others start to listen and hopefully see (and hear!) what a wealth of great music there is out there…
What we’ll be bringing you
The new site features the forgotten best of five genre: classic vocalists, inlcuding some fantastic male and female volcalists, such as Vic Damone, Julie London and Mike Redway; light and easy tunes, from the great composers and arrangers such as Robert Farnon, Nelson Riddle and Neil Richardson; soul sounds, from the many overlooked and now forgotten 80s gems, such as Change, the SOS Band and Curtis Hairston; jazzy tunes, covering dance band and big band greats such as Tommy Dorsey and Harry James through to modern jazz icons such as Donald Byrd and Bob James. And, finally, we’ll be featuring others who are worth of the “Real Music”, title, from lesser known tracks by all time greats such as Steely Dan and Earth Wind and Fire, to more recent artists who aren’t getting the exposure they perhaps deserve, such as Sean Escoffrey and Steve Tyrell.
We truly wish you will enjoy the music we feature; but, more importantly, hope you will join us in our Campaign For Real Music.
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I whole-heartedly support your comment that musical taste is nothing to do with age -it is all a matter of upbringing and developing personal preferences. My own tastes are very wide indeed and, generally speaking, I am happy with anything which demonstrates quaility, sensitivity and craftsmanship. I have been retired for twenty years, which puts me in a pretty high age group, but the artists I still admire who are missing from today’s music scene are the likes of O.C.Smith, Smokey Robinson, Al Jarreau, Paul Simon, Manhattan Transfer and Helen Reddy.
I have every sympathy for Radio Stations across the country, who are all feverishly competing for our attention (hence the heavy accent on statistics), but the real danger lurking in the diet they serve up is that young people of today are deprived of the choice we had when we were younger and the big effect that had on the development of our musical taste.
I hope your new site can help repair this and I look forward to hearing it.
John - thanks so much for your input. We agree completely with your comments, and the list of artists you named epitomises what we are out to do. Take a group such as The Singers Unlimited - where do they feature on today’s radio? The artists in the list you mentioned are exactly the sort that are not given the attention and appreciation they warrant.
We really are being sold short by the BBC, who are not subject to the same commercial pressures as other radio stations. Although BBC local radio does deserve credit for some superb specialist shows, and on the whole, a better mix of music than national radio offers, with a few notable exceptions (such as David Jacobs who continues the same level of excellence he has given for half a decade).
We hope we can garner support from individuals like you and with a bit of effort maybe push things in the right direction.
Do keep in touch, and good to have you as part of the Radiocafe family!
Paul