PS- I removed the "Alphabetical by Track" and "Alphabetical by Artists" Source Playlist pages from the Weebly website's navigation. The new sortable "Expanded Playlist" page takes the place of those two pages. You'll see that as a subtab under the main Source Playlist tab toward the top of this page.
A few more statistics, this time on the "OtC" local music collection. Yesterday, I crossed the 225,000 track threshold. Quite a difference between now and when I started casting almost 6 years ago. The music files themselves consume 1,542 GB and would take 592 days to play in their entirety. (I really need to get that new back-up drive hooked up!) Almost all my files are of the mp3 variety. I know lossless is better, but to my ears, with few exceptions, FLAC or APE files don't sound enough better to justify the extra MBs per track. Thanks again to everyone who listens, watches, and chats in my webcasts.
PS- I removed the "Alphabetical by Track" and "Alphabetical by Artists" Source Playlist pages from the Weebly website's navigation. The new sortable "Expanded Playlist" page takes the place of those two pages. You'll see that as a subtab under the main Source Playlist tab toward the top of this page. I've added a new page to the "Gil's Playlist" Weebly website. Now you can see a list of all the past OtC themes - the good, the bad and the ugly. You can access the page on the "Past Themes" subtab under "Channel Info". Or you can click this link: http://gils-playlist.weebly.com/past-themes.html .
Looking back at the themes, I see there have been some really sucky ones. I remember viewers being perplexed by "Unbelievably Small" and "Ain'ts and Saints", just to name two. Happily, I think there have been more good themes than bad ones. Another thing I noticed is that some of the older themes were really broad. "Guy Names", for example. Or "Love". I attribute that to my smaller music collection at the time, plus fewer viewers, and fewer musically astute viewers back then. Heck, the host was less musically astute. I've broadened my musical knowledge considerably over the past five or six years. I'd be interested to hear what themes you particularly liked and/or would like me to do again. I try to keep the cast fresh, but there's no reason we can't redo a theme from two or three or four years ago. Just don't ask for a repeat of "Ain't and Saints"! That one will never see the light of day again! While preparing for tonight's cast on the theme of "Worry", I became curious as to how many themes we've done here on Off the Charts. Here's what I came up with.
Tonight will be the 232nd official OtC webcast. Sixteen casts had no theme. Most of these were early in the history of the program. Nine themes were done for two consecutive casts. One theme (Psychedelia) was done 3 weeks in a row once and 2 weeks in a row another time. (I admit, I love that Psychedelia!) Some themes have been done multiple times, non-consecutively. One theme (Jazz) has been done 6 times in this manner. "Summer" has been done 4 times. Three themes have been done 3 separate times (Psychedelia, Autumn, and Saxophonics). Several themes have been done twice. So if you subtract all the casts where there was no theme or where a theme was repeated in some way, I come up with 178 different themes in Off the Chart's history, from inception through May 4, 2015. I still have a lot of new, never-been-done themes in the works. I hope you all continue to enjoy the themes and the cast. Update May 9, 2015: My counts were off by a little when I first posted this. I've updated the numbers. |
AuthorGil is the host of the "Gil's Channel" webcast on Vaughnlive.tv. References
These sites are particularly helpful when it comes to learning about and tagging music. Some are blogs. Others are labors-of-love reference sites. And to be complete, I'm including the well-known sites I use often.
45 RPM Records of the Ohio River Valley 45cat (7" vinyl database) 45worlds (non-7" singles db) The "A" Side (informative blog) Album Liner Notes (reference) Allmusic ASCAP Repertory Search (db) The "B" Side (informative blog) Billboard Hot 100 (historical) Blues & Rhythm (magazine) BMI Repertoire Search (db) Both Sides Now Publications British Dance Band Encycl'p'a Bullfrogs Pond - #1s by Date. Bullfrogs Pond - Artists. Bullfrogs Pond - Yearly Chart. Classic Jazz Online. Classic Urban Harmony. The Cosimo Code. The Database of Popular Music. Dave's Music Database. The Dead Rock Stars Club. Discogs (database). Donald Clarke's Music Box. The Doo Wop Society of So Cal FAU Recorded Sound Archives. Garage Hangover (60s 45's) HeyPally's 78 rpm Page. It's Psychedelic Baby (blog) The Jazz Archive Site. JazzBiographies.com Jazz Discography Jazz Downloads (1917-1955) JazzStandards.com Jeff's 78 Labels Label Discographies Lyrics.net (searchable lyrics) Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebook Music VF (US & UK hits db) Noal Cohen's Jazz History The Online (78) Discog. Project Rhythm & Blues 50s Oldies Man Rock & Country Encycl & Discog Second Hand Songs SESAC Repertory Search (db) Sir Shambling's Deep Soul Hvn So Many Records, So Little Time Songbook (Doc's Songbook) Soulful Kinda Music Spectropop Express Spirit of Rock Webzine Tony's Rock & Roll Links Traditional Music Library (ref) Tredwells Music Centre The Vocal Group Harmony Site Wikipedia YouTube Archives
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