Some time ago the association of authors and composers endeavored to collect a prohibitive fee from broadcasting stations for the use of their copyrighted compositions. They claimed that instead of helping the sale of their songs and music, the constant repetition of a popular hit served rapidly to make it unpopular. There can be no doubt that there is ground for the complaint. Every listener-in has been wearied by hearing over and over again on every program tuned in, the current hit of the day. As a means of protecting both their audience and a good song therefore, the broadcasting stations ought to follow the example of WBBM. This station maintains a “restricted list” and when it is found that a number is being featured on nearly every program at nearly every station, the studio director puts it on the restricted list and it may thereafter be rendered not oftener than once a week at the Stewart-Warner station.
In the once-a-week class now are the following:
“Could I?”
“Slave Song”
“That’s Why I Love You”
“Sweetheart of Sigma Chi”
“Valencia”
“I’m Looking at the World Through Rose Colored Glasses”
“I’d Climb the Highest Mountain”
“Doodle Dee Doo”
“My Bundle of Love”
“Song of Songs”
“Just a Wearyin’ for You”
“Her Beaus Are Only Rainbows”
“Do You Believe in Dreams?”
“Little Bit Bad”
“Cryin’ for the Moon”
“I’m in Love with You”
“That’s Why”
“Six Feet of Papa”
And the following are not to be sung at all until by general disuse they have recovered from overwork:
“Sweet Southern Breeze”
“Bye, Bye, Blackbird”
“Prisoner’s Song”
“Always Remember”
“Sweet Onion Time”
“At Peace with the World”
“Tamimiami Trail”
Here is a job the Broadcasters’ Association could well take up which would make greatly for the favor of Radio. Let this association establish a program exchange and limit the number of times any selection may appear, not merely on a particular station’s program but on any program. Do this and a host of listeners will rise up and give three cheers.
From the Radio Index “The Tuning Book”, page 5
www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radex/Radex%203-2%2026%2011.pdf
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