My log from yesterday on Braidwood FM. A ‘yacht rock’ theme.
Michael McDonald- Sweet Freedom
Steely Dan- Time Out Of Mind
Robbie Dupree- Hot Rod Hearts
Sherbet- Silvery Moon
King Harvest- Dancing In The Moonlight
Lake- Letters Of Love
Little River Band- Emma
Matt Finish- Short Note
Heart- Dog & Butterfly
Nicolette Larson- Lotta Love
George Michael- Careless Whisper
Troy Newman- Whisper
Definitely a Mechie Show influence on that playlist 
They should call that ‘Smooth Moves’.
That’s 75% of their daily playlist.
I heard they did also played Sing It Back and Macarena on Smoothfm.
My log from today:
2BRW Braidwood FM
The Billy Bob Show
1300-1500
Roger Waters- Radio Waves
B52’s- Channel Z
Headless Chickens- Cruise Control
Madness- Driving In My Car
Nervous Norvus- Transfusion (Wrong Song)
Alan Parsons Project- Urbania
Icehouse- Taking The Town
Frank Sinatra- Theme From New York, New York
Boston- Don’t Look Back
Noiseworks- Take Me Back
CCR- Looking Out My Back Door
Elton John- Healing Hands
Chilliwack- Watcha Gonna Do
Zinc- The Morning After
Taxiride- Everywhere You Go
The Click Five- Just The Girl
Gong- Heavy Tune
Dire Straits- Heavy Fuel
Skid Row- 18 & Life
FM- Bad Luck
Napoleon XIV- They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Ha
Beach Boys- Little Deuce Coupe (timing reasons)
I will try to log in next week! The audio quality is pretty good (online).
Better than listening to a dying 2CH! Although probably best to enjoy that while you still can…
Gordon (station manager) is an IT professional so it’s no surprise that the stream is high quality. It can buffer a bit at times, though. There were 10 listeners online during my programme (I can see them on the monitor). Was going to upload the show but my stream recording conked out half an hour in. I may get it direct off the log later.
That reminds me of the old 97.3 Saturday Night Party Shuffle.
Would I call that weird? Not really.
If anything at least 80-90% of it fits into a rhythmic oldies format, one of which I’d imagine would do reasonably in some cities here, however is somewhat common in the US, especially in California.
For Australia, probably the closest comparison is Dance Super Digi (if it’s still alive) on digital in Sydney, otherwise, it’s pretty much an untapped market.
Sure, it’s a bit of a odd choice for Smooth, but as Smooth seems to be leaning toward a soft AC these days, nothing is really weird anymore, unless they start playing heavy rap or punk rock.
Green Day is a punk rock band but they also do ballads like Good Riddance and Wake Me Up When September Ends.
Agree it’s rhythmic oldies and is quite similar to many US stations these days. I don’t mind it.
To find out, let’s look at an hour for SWR & how it compares to some of the commercial FM stations from within the Sydney metro area from within the same hour this afternoon.
SWR Triple 9 - Blacktown, NSW (Sydney’s West)
“70s to Now”
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 - 2-3pm AEST
Icehouse - Crazy
Badloves - Lost
Nea - Some Say (Felix Jaehn Remix)
Eagle Eye Cherry - Are You Still Having Fun
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Justin Timberlake - Say Something (ft Chris Stapleton)
INXS - Disappear
Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now
Fall Out Boy - The Takes Over, The Breaks Over
Dragon - Young Years
Everlast - What Its Like
Topic - Why Do You Lie To Me (ft Lil Baby)
Creed - My Sacrifice
C91.3 - Campbelltown, NSW
“Rock, Pop & Beats”
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 - 2-3pm AEST
Jonas Brothers - Only Human
Usher / Will.i.am - OMG
Nea - Some Say
Genesis - Invisible Touch
George Ezra - Shotgun
Baby Animals - One Word
Guy Sebastian - Standing With You
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever
Maroon 5 / Christina Aguilera - Moves Like Jagger
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Pete Murray - Found My Place
Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket
101.7 WSFM - Sydney, NSW
“Better Music & More of It”
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 - 2-3pm AEST
Dave Dobbyn / Herbs - Slice Of Heaven
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
Simply Red - Stars
The Police - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hangin’ On
John Legend - All Of Me
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
Heart - Alone
Janet Jackson / Luther Vandross - The Best Things In Life Are Free
Martika - Toy Soldiers
The Black Sorrows - Chained To The Wheel
smoothfm 95.3 - Sydney, NSW
“Sydney’s Feel Good Station”
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 - 2-3pm AEST
Starship - We Built This City
Sonia Dada - You Don’t Treat Me No Good
Bee Gees - Stayin’ Alive
Cher - The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Rufus / Chaka Khan - Ain’t Nobody
Jackie Wilson - Higher And Higher
Martika - Love… Thy Will Be Done
Giorgio Moroder / Phil Oakey - Together in Electric Dreams
Jamelia - Superstar
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free
Huey Lewis & The News - If This Is It
104.1 2DayFM - Sydney, NSW
“Get That Feeling”
Tuesday 22nd September 2020 - 2-3pm AEST
Dario G - Sunchyme
Katy Perry / Snoop Dogg - California Gurls
Guy Sebastian - Standing With You
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
The Weeknd - Can’t Feel My Face
The B-52’s - Roam
Keith Urban / Pink - One Too Many
Pandora - A Little Bit
Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
Maroon 5 - Memories
Destiny’s Child - Jumpin’, Jumpin’
Ava Max - Sweet But Psycho
Kygo / OneRepublic - Lose Somebody
DJ Sammy / Yanou - Heaven
Roxette - Fading Like A Flower (Every Time You Leave)
Interesting song on WS. I don’t think I heard it before. 
I don’t think I’d listen to a full hour of any of those stations. SWR probably is the pick, maybe, with WS second.
I sort of have a soft spot for that song. 
Another 2013 song on WSFM/Gold 104.3? First we had Riptide, then Geronimo and now this?
It was briefly used in a Smooth FM TV ad campaign in 2014, before they reverted back to the Michael Buble commercials.
