When choosing the music for my shifts on KCOU, I took satisfaction in coming up with sets that flowed. In the Spring of 1992, I programmed what I thought was one of my best sets of three, in this order:
- Sunrise-George Duke
- Summer Chill-Grover Washington, Jr.
- Take Me Higher-Soul II Soul
I reasoned, "Why not play a song about the sunrise while the sun is rising? Then, why not segue it with a saxophone instrumental that illustrates how the current temperature feels? Once it fades out, why not segue it with vocals that command the listener's attention immediately while flowing gracefully after the melody before them?"
I wish every set I ever programmed on any radio station segued that well.
