Exactly. Very interesting time generally. Mixed in with big bands like Fleetwood Mac, Eagles and ABBA still influential. It was quite diverse.
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Yeah, definitely, will give it another spin on Sunday Arvo, will chuck in some extra tracks to make it a full show. 
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I like what thefreshmix digs up, but I find it a little too random at times (and for me, that’s saying something). Would you consider going back to the ‘4X4’ decades format that your previous station ran with? Then you could have feature weekends and feature programming to complement this such as your Leed Lemonade countdowns. Just a suggestion anyway. Keep it going!
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Let me know the time so I can tune in . The full top 40 is always good.
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It’s quite a contrast from the start of the decade, 1970, and 1971 were very ordinary years in music. Some of the good stuff started in 1972 1973, musically, things started coming together around 1974 and 1975 when countdown debuted on the ABC, and from there onwards it was up, and up, and up; yes, I do confess I’m a fan of disco, hense my bias, but again this could be taken as being rather subjective.
I know they are several people who believe the 60s and early 70s was the bees all and the ends all of music. Not saying this time period was bad, but I can’t listen to this era of music too long as it very quickly becomes a yawn fest.
Out of the 1960s, 1968 and 1969 were the best years, when flower power, psychedelic, and bubblegum all converged to make what I thought was the 60s at its pure bliss. Think of the Electric Prunes, “I had too much to dream”. I don’t know what happened, did the music industry just shit it self during 1970 and 1971? I don’t know.
With the new setup, this will be somewhat tricky, i’ve morphed the old 2PR FM music archive, together with thousands of new aditions into a whole new library, basically the entire collection of tracks is now in one folder. It just seems much easier to administer, and to find stuff more quickly.
When I ran the beta version of the fresh mix in late 2019, the shear randomess of it struct me as being rather enjoyable, as in completely unpredictable. Funny how I say this as this is what I used to hate about commercial radio in the early 00s, (2SM when it still played music, and 2WS, when they mixed the decades on every song. As an early 80s teenager, I would always find the constant decade jumping rather jarring and annoying after awile.
This was the motivation behind 2PR FMs 4X4 system. It was fun for its eight years duration, but the format did get rather predictable after so long, and probably subconsciously was another reason I closed up 2PR FM during 2016.
My friend who operates the station from his end, still has the old 2PR FM library in it’s original form, so as for your suggestion about bringing back the older format, I’ll suggest it to my friend, we can most probably program it in on the weekends, and for the time being have it as a weekend thing.
I guess in the end, I’m not ruling anything out, but just aware that if I’m getting bored with something, then most probably chances are, listeners are too. Thus both of us are open to trying out various segments. He’s planning a Vintage Music weekend soon, heaps of stuff from the 20s, 30s, 40s, and early 50s. Pretty much a showcase of early boogie oogie, big band jazz, early blues, all that kind of stuff. So in the end we are just “mixing it up” in all its ways, both musically, and format wise for keeping it fresh with a sense of anticipation and unpredictability.
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Let’s see how KIIS 97.3 compares with B105 & Nova.
This is from the Monday just gone, given that Lava stopped recording its log since then.
KIIS 97.3 - Brisbane, QLD
“100% Hits from KIIStory To Now”
Monday 5th June 2023 - 10-11am AEST
“ABC (Nicer)” Gayle
“If You Could Read My Mind” Stars On 54
“Take Me To Church” Hozier
“When Doves Cry” Prince
“Eyes Closed” Ed Sheeran
“Bad Romance” Lady Gaga
“Break My Heart” Dua Lipa
“End Of The Road” Boyz II Men
“SexyBack” Justin Timberlake
“I Am Free” Tones & I
“Hurts So Good” John Cougar Mellencamp
B105 - Brisbane, QLD
“Hits You Love From Then To Now”
Monday 5th June 2023 - 10-11am AEST
“Wish You The Best” Lewis Capaldi
“Everywhere” Niall Horan / Anne-Marie
“Anti-Hero” Taylor Swift
“Let Me Blow Ya Mind” Eve / Gwen Stefani
“Miracle” Calvin Harris / Ellie Goulding
“(You Drive Me) Crazy” Britney Spears
“How Do I Say Goodbye” Dean Lewis
“Irrelevant” Pink
“I Want You” Peking Duk / Darren Hayes
“Signs” Snoop Dogg / Charlie Wilson / Justin Timberlake
“Daylight” David Kushner
“Where Did You Go?” Jax Jones / MNEK
“Eyes Closed (Lost Frequencies Remix)” Ed Sheeran
“Right Around” Flo Rida / Ke$ha
Nova 106.9 - Brisbane, QLD
“Fresh Hits & Throwbacks”
Monday 5th June 2023 - 10-11am AEST
“Miss You” Oliver Tree / Robin Schulz
“Wolves” Selena Gomez / Marshmello
“Green Green Grass” George Ezra
“Anti-Hero” Taylor Swift
“Heaven” DJ Sammy
“Eyes Closed” Ed Sheeran
“Apologize” OneRepublic / Timberland
“I Like You (A Happier Song)” Post Malone / Doja Cat
“Padam Padam” Kylie Minogue
“Head & Heart” Joel Corry / MNEK
“Last Night” Morgan Wallen
“Starships” Nicki Minaj
“Praising You” Rita Ora / Fatboy Slim
“Forget Me” Lewis Capaldi
“Die For You (Remix)” The Weeknd / Ariana Grande
“Remind Me To Forget” Kygo / Miguel
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Kiss and B105 aren’t too awful. Definitely a lot of overflogged songs but a good selection of them at least. Nova’s one is just pure snoozefest, but that’s standard at this point for those stations.
Kinda weird how all three of them played some variation of “Eyes Closed” in the same hour period but I guess Ed is a good artist for kind of those middle-of-the-road AC stations.
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This is exactly what I mean by them only playing over-flogged older songs.
“If You Could Read My Mind” Stars On 54
“Hurts So Good” John Cougar Mellencamp
I literally hear Hurts So Good every time I stray onto 97.3
Meanwhile, I am impressed they played Take Me To Church.
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Please refer to my last updated playlist posting a few posts above, I’ll be repeating my December 1979 special today between 14:00 and 16:00 hrs Australian eastern on the fresh mix dot com. Afterwards, my friend will present a yearly 1997 special, apparently tonight on the phone he noted that he is still preparing it, so expect to hear anything from all mainstream music to a heap of obscurities, with a heap of weird stuff between, he is rather quite adventurous with his taste, more so then me.
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They’re still playing the same over flogged songs that they were playing 5 years ago when I stopped listening to them 
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I wouldn’t be surprised if they still play Africa / Toto, which they seemed to play twice daily from when they launched 20 years ago.
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Commercial radio forever comfortable in it’s own little crappy eco-system, that will never change - the protective species.
Anyway. I have another chart mix coming up on Sunday from 14:00 hours Australia Eastern Time. For two hours, I’ll be playing random selections from my Leed countdown from the week ending Sunday 22nd June 1986, on The Fresh Mix dot Com.
Then from 16:00 hrs, my friend will be playing three hours of tracks from 1996.
01 - Erasure - Oh l’amour (Mute)
02 - Boys Don’t Cry - I wanna be a cowboy (Legacy)
03 - Crowded House - Mean to me (Capitol)
04 - Mint Juleps - Only love can break your heart (Stiff)
05 - Heart - These dreams (Capitol)
06 - Genesis - Invisible touch (special remix) (DJ Paul T vinyl master) (Virgin)
07 - Eurythmics - When tomorrow comes (RCA)
08 - Queen - A kind of magic (EMI)
09 - Billy Joel - Modern woman (CBS)
10 - Joe Cocker - Shelter me (Liberation)
11 - John Taylor - I do what I do (Parlophone)
12 - Lou Reed - No money down (RCA)
13 - Robert Palmer - Addicted to love (single edit) (island)
14 - ZZ Top - Rough boy (WEA)
15 - Laurie Anderson - Language is a virus (Warner)
16 - Big Audio Dynamite - E = Mc 2 (CBS)
17 - Sly Fox - Let’s go all the way (Capitol)
18 - Pseudo Echo - Living in a dream (EMI)
19 - Patti LaBelle - On my own (duet with Michael McDonald) (WEA)
20 - Call - I still believe (great design) (Elektra)
21 - David Lee Roth - Yankee rose (Warner)
22 - Baltimora - Living in the background (single version) (Columbia)
23 - Jackson Browne - In the shape of a heart (Elektra)
24 - Joe Jackson - Right and wrong (A&M)
25 - Van Halen - Why can’t this be love (Warner)
26 - Uncanny X Men - I am (CBS)
27 - Dan Seals - Bop (EMI)
28 - John Cougar Mellencamp - Rain on the scarecrow (Mercury)
29 - Madonna - Live to tell (radio edit) (Sire)
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I finally caught one at last! So far so good. 
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Great list…. And funny that, I’m currently listening to Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 on 2NUR FM from the same date and year, which has some of the songs you’ve listed.
Their list is here
https://web.archive.org/web/20150416132410/http://oldradioshows.com/at40/062186.html
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At the time, no Sydney station was syndicating AT40, as far as recently 2WS carried it up to about April, so I kind of assumed that after so long Casey Kasem had finally finished, Surprised to hear later that the show continued right up to August 1988.
Interesting list of tracks for that weeks AT40, Many of them had already been and gone from my chart, yet others, I wouldn’t hear until late July and August. The Kenny Loggins track from Top Gun for example, I wouldn’t hear until the end of August, when Triple M first aired it. “Highway to the Dangerzone” entered my top 40 on Sunday 21st Sep 1986.
Didn’t realise it at first, but most of the tracks were rather rocky, considering my taste of music was heavily oriented toward dance and euro-pop. Remember listening to Triple M often during this month. Number one for this particular week was Erasure’s “Oh lamour”.
Anyone listening now can tell my friends taste in music is… well… rather different.
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Just a short note that for the next two weeks at the fresh mix dot com, my friend and I won’t be doing any curated shows, due to both of us having family committments. I myself have had a rather rough week (two syndication proposals were knocked back). Need to take some time out for some space.
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You don’t hear this song often. You can always try Braidwood FM, I am just a listener but your curated shows would fit in well in my view.
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DXNerd offered, which was very much appreciated, still keeping it in mind as an option. The proposals covered “long form” overnight syndication formats, such as live six to eight hour feeds on 2OOO and 2RPH. ACMA and APRA gave the green light, but both stations managers gave the enphatic NO. So life goes on canvassing other options.
One door closes, another door opens, having interesting discussions with other people, things may get interesting in the AUstralian senate if Rowland keeps flogging her CRA horse, we’ll let that one play out “If” it does. Babyland might want to start up a financial year firesale if things get rocking with this one.
Got some time to kill this arvo, will be doing some spinning from our Sydney Studio’s from 16:00. Don’t have anything planned, but tune in, you’ll never know what surprises I’ll drum up. Will send the feed back to Wollongong about 22:00 hrs ish.
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Another spontaineously sparked special tonight, playing selections from my leed top 40 countdown from the week ending Sunday 28th June 1981. This was an interesting time for new music programming. Remember having to videotape countdown to watch on Monday night, as for Sydney’s 2WS, Ken Sparks presented “Rock around the World” every Sunday night from 6:00. Many great interviews and news events within the music industry, and often a record rep would come in to spin many of their new releases. So at the time, for a 12 year old kid, many sources for checking out new music, and what was happening on the pop scene.
01 - Jimmy Buffett - Chanson pour les petits enfants (MCA)
02 - Phil Collins - This must be love (Atlantic)
03 - John O Banion - Love you like I never loved before (Warner)
04 - Pointer Sisters - Slow hand (Planet)
05 - Bill Withers - Just the two of us (grover washington jr) (Warner)
06 - New Musik - Living by numbers (GTO)
07 - George Harrison - All those years ago (Warner)
08 - Elton John - Chloe (carla etude) (fanfare) (Rocket)
09 - Janis Ian - Under the covers (CBS)
10 - Kim Wilde - Kids in america (EMI)
11 - Nolans - Gotta pull myself together
12 - Loverboy - Turn me loose (CBS)
13 - Splitenz - Hard act to follow (Mushroom)
14 - Moody Blues - Talking out of time (Threshold)
15 - Bucks Fizz - Making your mind up (RCA)
16 - Ultravox - Vienna (EMI)
17 - Australian Crawl - Things don’t seem (EMI)
18 - Allen Foley - Shattered palace (CBS)
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Keep plugging away. It could be a good fit for stations that want something a little more interesting that an automated playout and aren’t in the position to set up their own programming and/or run the CRN feed overnight.
That said, you may encounter the odd station here and there that follows the BSA to the letter, and may have trouble justifying a syndicated stream where it could be difficult to prove said stream carries content of “local significance”.
Yes, it could be argued that an automatic playout may not be of local significance, but the counterargument is that if said playout was set up by members of the station - who are presumably locals living within the service area - it counts towards “local significance” in the programming rubric.
TCBLs might be another option, as the TCBL licencing conditions wrt programming tend to be more flexible than the conditions imposed on community stations with a permanent licence.
Having said all of the above… if you want to make a syndicated overnight program more attractive to community radio stations, load it up with Aussie music (well beyond the mandated 25% minimum defined in the CBAA Code), as some stations may appreciate the breathing space created so they don’t have to go quite as hard on their presenters to maintain the minimum.
Bear in mind the 25% minimum is across the whole broadcast week, not per shift… hence the opportunity to plug this gap with vintage Australian gear instead of throwing everything Amrap has at the overnight selection could be attractive for stations with an older demographic.
Making logs available would also be a huge help. Not that APRA week is really a thing anymore, but some stations (including all but one community radio station I’ve been involved with) keep music logs for audit purposes.
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