Admittedly, it's easy to throw caution to the wind when you program all the music you play on a radio station. Looking back at the playlist I assembled for a May 2, 1992, 1-4 p.m. KCOU shift, the eccentricity of this set stands out to me:
- Roll The Bones-Rush
- Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out-Shel Silverstein (mixed with Blood Of The Sun-John Klemmer)
- Greene Street-Grover Washington, Jr.
- The World I Used To Know-Rod McKuen
While each track has merit individually, I asked a lot of the audience with that set. Essentially, I was programming for four different audiences. In listening to the John Klemmer track now, I wonder how on Earth I thought it would underscore Shel Silverstein's poem. I wish I had a recording to see which segment of that avant garde piece I used to warp Silverstein's reading. I hope I played at least one promo between songs to signal an abrupt change of genre. In retrospect, it's telling that prior to that set, I had received and played song requests that afternoon. After that set, I didn't.
