I picked this up out of the $1 clearance bin recently simply because I listened to 106.1 FM when I lived in the Dallas area in the late '80s. Looks like I already had many of these tracks on other CDs, so I'm betting the rest are of a similar ilk. Let's see.
I could find no evidence of the release of a Oasismusic2 sequel.
Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: Did not chart
Tracks:
Pleasant "new-to-me" cuts were Through The Test Of Time by Patti Austin, Hope by Kevin Eubanks, and The Chief by Gary Burton which was written by Pat Metheny and features him on a fine solo.
Oldies but goodies: Minute By Minute by Larry Carlton and Alexandra from Spyro Gyra.
The rest work well in this sampler context; nothing I want to skip.
Personal Memory Associated with this CD: I've mentioned KOAI "The Oasis" a few times already on this blog, but it was the first commercial New Age/smooth jazz station I'd ever heard. Sadly, it was only on the air from 1987-92 (I left Dallas in summer 1990). Currently, 106.1 in Dallas is the Top 40 station that produces the nationally syndicated Kidd Kraddick Morning Show (which my wife loves) and a Phoenix soft rock station uses the KOAI call letters as well as "The Oasis" moniker.
I still get a kick from early GRP releases that include the info "Digital Master" because I remember how special that was back then. Now I've probably got more digital mastering capabilities on my smartphone.
There used to be an Oasis smooth jazz station here in the Sonoran desert though I believe it was in the late Nineties. We have two local stations 97.5 and 104.1 that have undergone probably more than a dozen collective format/callsign changes over the past three decades.
ReplyDeleteMy only memory of the station is one day I went to the dentist and it was playing and then the next day I had doctor's appointment and they were also playing the station. There was a distinctive soothing female voice with wind chimes doing the station ID: "The Oasissss"