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had hundreds of the piled in boxes racks lin- the walls snd in every crev- JThe carts were the guts of ttg sound containing music promos commercials and BEN TORRES JRThs Post The clutter of the olckime radio station has given way to the sleek look of the alkllgttal one at the Clear Channel complex From IB The B-side of the single was the opposite feel a ftinky spirited tune Want Your After getting local airplay Reece recorded an album with he teen talent The Two single from it charted modestly on the Billboard top-40 charts Including her gospel-tinged cover of Made Me So Very Happy" Suddenly the Mike Douglas Show was calling: Could the 17- ear-old come to Philadelphia? After that appearance it wu David show that called asking her to come to New York mom had to go with Reece said couldn believe the tity I was so young it was like people sleep I also met Sammy Davis Jr (also on the show) uid he helped me get over my But often happens in pop music the big record deal never followed She performed at the annual atadium jazz festival clubs and events around town before getting on with work" She would marry Reece who became a prominent Cincinnati advertising and public relations consultant They have three children including Alida vice mayor of Cincinnati Then at age 40 Barbara was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis I went Reece said slowed me down to the point where in a wheelchair It took me a long time to get used to it" This year Reece was encouraged to aing again Miller asked her to rehearse with his band after they were teamed up by a mutual friend Cynthia Dye the long-time host of local music show who featured Reece's story on her show got thinking do I do Reece said reluctant at first 52 and I cant stand up But everyone said no got it and no reason she be out performing got a lot of soul" said Miller not easy to rekindle your vocal chops after that many years She's a brave lady and quite an undertaking for her to get back to show Barbara realizes performing again is more than nostalgia everything else you heard There if not a cart machine to be found in the new Kenwood complex I Everything is built on digi- tal storage The only nod to analog Is one reel-to-reel just in esse And WEBN jocks Eddie Fingers and Jay Gilbert lobbied 4 and got turntable for the main Studio to play the odd comedy prjnusical bit that never made I it to CD 5 '3n the WLW studio for ex- ample there are six computer screens a console and it The sleek mixing boards brushed stainless steel and subdued lighting make for an I Aesthetically elegant and I soothing ambiance in the stu- dies- --It is the feel of the cool 1 calm high-tech nerve centers 2 koine think the government se-! cfetly runs somewhere 2 looks like something they show on television or in 1 the movies I never worked at 2 anything this said Jerry Thomas a 42- year radio veteran "1 was amazed when I heard 2 they were buying everything new I said But they Thomas chuckles when he remembers his first radio job in Paris Ky that had a studio ver the town drug store I swear when they rang the cash register we lost 50 1 4Qiomas said 2 For me been going from the Wright Brothers to a it all mean for the of any of the eight sta-Sihs? Probably not much Dig-Jstil editing does allow for gjuftker quicker more profes-f sional sound MELVIN GRIERTha Post Barbara Howard Reece In rehearsal there is a touch of therapy finally got to place in life where I said if you do things this way you may slow down the disease trying to do things that make me happy Singing makes me happy Other good things happened this spring too Out of nowhere a London-bued label that specializes in obscure '60s American and ftink music discovered the 34-year-old Howard-Reece collaboration Want Your It has been released on a compilation CD called Funk" Her husband also re-released Barbara one and only album that has actually been selling around town as nostalgia piece for those who remember the Taft High teen sensation lot of people didn't believe it was Reece says with a laugh Reece says she feels for the young talent these days who go through the supercharged pop competition of IdoL" She went through it too in her own small way in that long-ago talent competition is a lot more pressure They want you to suddenly be a national singer and when you paid your dues you are taking a short she said Barbara Reece will perform with Dangerous Jim and the Slims at 7:40 pm Saturday at the Red White and Kaboom Celebration Village Green Amphitheater Fairfield and at 5:30 pm Sunday at the Serpentine Wall for the All American Birthday For information on the re-release of songs wwwreeceontherealsidecoin The new complex also will facilitate voice tracking with four studios dedicated to the practice pioneered by Clear Channel The strategy permits DJs to record their breaks and banter into computers with software integrating it into the musical format A proficient jock can lay down a four-hour radio show in a half-hour Currently Cincinnati air talent voice-track shows are heard in such diverse markets as Evansville Ind Syracuse NY Atlanta Tampa and San Diego Voice tracking is a controversial by-product of radio consolidation that Clear Channel detractors say has led to the homogeneity of radio It has likely eliminated hundreds of radio jobs giving Clear Channel the economy of scale it needs to financially justify a 1200-station empire Advocates say it lets smaller markets get big-city talent Mike Kenney Cincinnati Clear Channel market manager argues that the practice is no different than newspapers using quality writers from wire services noting most local news-papers employ a big enough staff to generate all the copy needed a testament to the talent Clear Channel inherited in this market that Cincinnati stations are mostly exporters of shows rather than importers The layout of the studios in the new complex is also symbolic of Clear corporate mantra where all stations are equal interconnected cogs when it comes to sales and programming "The building is a perfect graphic demonstration of what the about said WEBN creative services director Joel Moss a 20-year veteran of the station studios Each one nearly identical created to be comfortable for anyone working in it reflects the nature of how consolidation is playing out For Clear Channel it makes perfect sense for a vision of eight connected radio stations as opposed to the vision of eight individual stations that used to compete against each Corporate dimate aside Jerry Thomas says he detects a more upbeat sound already on the air from personalities on several of the stations since the move like when you get a new car You feel looking at you You feel like fills is first not like when you work out of a closet which is what most of us were studios With all the studios integrated through computers tied to the WLW newsroom and variety of national Audio sources there is incredible access to newsmaker sound we need to call up a sound bite to set up a talk segment it takes about five Kopp said is linked together you can get sound from other stations around the country the days I was doing news (at WEBN) you just have that source material at your fingertips The move probably means the most to Clear Channel as the San Antonio-based media giant has been building similar broadcast complexes across the nation where it has large clusters of stations in one market The company is the largest owner of radio stations with some 1200 It went on its buying binge in the late when Congress relaxed radio ownership rules It can be a huge cost-cutting measure to put stations under one roof sales marketing and production staflk Indeed Cincinnati Clear Channel in anticipation of the move has eliminated more than two dozen jobs in the last year in sales programming and office staffing well-trained ear will notice a (Srisper signal from the new.