{"id":19572,"date":"2017-03-23T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T08:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=19572"},"modified":"2017-03-23T12:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T19:13:24","slug":"radio-personality-song-outro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/radio-personality-song-outro\/","title":{"rendered":"RADIO DJs: Example of \u201cMaking Everything Your Own\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/greatest-radio-shows-on-earth-deluxe-collection\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18787\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/on_air_black_button_1600_clr_14930-320.png\" alt=\"Greaseman aircheck\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/on_air_black_button_1600_clr_14930-320.png 320w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/on_air_black_button_1600_clr_14930-320-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/on_air_black_button_1600_clr_14930-320-300x300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>In my radio talent seminars, I stress the importance of a personality on a music station \u201cmaking everything his own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Even though you don\u2019t select the music, even if everything you do on-the-air is prescribed by your program log, if you\u2019re a personality and not just an announcer you need to infuse those elements with enough of your own unique style to \u201cmake it your own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you do everything exactly as everyone else on your station and on your competitors\u2019 stations do, what\u2019s the point of having a live jock in the studio? Why not just have one person voice track everything?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I\u2019m not advising you to break format. I\u2019m encouraging you to do what you\u2019re supposed to do, but to do it your way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here\u2019s an example from many years ago. If you\u2019re not old enough to be familiar with \u201cLate in the Evening\u201d by Paul Simon, here\u2019s a line from the song:<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19572-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Late-in-the-Evening.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Late-in-the-Evening.mp3\">http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Late-in-the-Evening.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Here\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/personality-radio-song-intro\/\"><strong>The Greaseman<\/strong><\/a>, coming out of that record a long time ago, on a less than digital quality rendering of an AM signal in Jacksonville, Florida. (You&#8217;ll want to crank up the volume first.)<\/span><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-19572-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Greaseman-Late-In-The-Evening.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Greaseman-Late-In-The-Evening.mp3\">http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Greaseman-Late-In-The-Evening.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/>\nAs with many exceptional radio personalities, lots of people love The Greaseman; lots don\u2019t. I\u2019m among the people who \u201cdo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But \u201cdo you like this jock or not?\u201d isn\u2019t the point of this piece.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I heard him outro that record 3 decades ago. And to this day, every time I hear \u201cLate in the Evening,\u201d in my mind I hear \u201cGrease\u201d\u2019s voice saying, \u201cThe next time you step outside to light yourself a \u2018J,\u2019 as you so quaintly put it, you\u2019ll be looking at the back of a squad car&#8230;.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>That<\/strong> is an example of a jock making something as basic as a song outro his own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my radio talent seminars, I stress the importance of a personality on a music station \u201cmaking everything his own.\u201d Even though you don\u2019t select the music, even if everything you do on-the-air is prescribed by your program log, if you\u2019re a personality and not just an announcer you need to infuse those elements with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RADIO DJs: Example of \u201cMaking Everything Your Own\u201d<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I\u2019m not advising you to break format. 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