Once JackFM came around, I turned that shit off, and preserved what was.
I compiled what I believe is every song from the oldies station I heard growing up in the '80s/early '90s. Essentially, a '60s playlist, but I realized this morning, it had stretched to 1975 with:
(1975) Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)(1975) Neil Sedaka - Laughter In the Rain
I also have a '50s oldies playlist from my '70s/early '80s childhood that stretched into 1965 with Elvis Presley's Crying In The Chapel.
Anything that was on the air when I was in high school is something I have no warm fuzzy feelings about.
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
There was some anti-oldies thread a while back but I can't find it right now.
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
FM oldies radio has completely focus-grouped out almost all of the 50s and much of the 60s, and the off-the-wall novelty songs and the one-hit-wonders that make that era so fascinating to me. Satellite radio, on the other hand, recently introduced me to Jo-Ann Campbell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFPak2lsrX0
― Blue Doggie Sweater (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
The "oldies" format as it still exists over the airwaves fascinates me -- carefully avoiding some genres until finally embracing them (disco), pretending punk never happened but bringing a fair lot of New Wave into play (no surprise there), relegating pre-Beatles stuff to some prehistorical ur-rock status and trotting out a track every couple of hours with "did you know this existed? Hear what we found on our latest archaeological dig!" Who makes these decisions? I'd like to be a fly on the wall in whatever conference room it's being done in.
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
wcbs-fm in nyc will be playing the frankie valley & 4 seasons every hour until the end of time
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
the uncanny frankie valley
― mark s, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
Who makes these decisions?
http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dj3000.png
― truth fact and correct (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
the uncanny frankie valley― mark s, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:57 PM (4 minutes ago)
― mark s, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:57 PM (4 minutes ago)
― Mayne of Fules (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
thanking you
― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
trotting out a track every couple of hours with "did you know this existed?
Really? I never hear this anymore. I used to work at a "Classic Hits" station in the late 80s that played mostly 60s/70s; they would pull out one obscurity each lunch hour, as voted by a listener. Once I pushed for "Precious Precious" by Jackie Moore, and was told it was too obscure. (#30, gold seller in 1971)
I haven't listened to oldies radio in a while, but last I checked there were no surprises whatsover. I used to hear a few oddities like "Hey Baby" by Bruce Channel and "Come On Down To My Boat" by Every Mother's Son in the rotation, but I think these have long since been eliminated.
― Blue Doggie Sweater (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
I heard "Smokin in the Boys Room" (i think that was the track? was definitely crue) on the oldies station here, and that was the last straw.Still, it has its charms -- there's nowhere else I could have heard "They're Coming to Take You Away" on the radio, and that song always amuses me.
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah driving to work every day in a car with no way to hook up an ipod has led me to listen to a lot of oldies radio over the last few months, and i've decided that i'm really not ready to hear shit i heard on contemporary radio as a child (in the mid 80s) showing up on oldies stations, even though i've been expecting it for a while now.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
in another 30 years, the "nuggets from the archeological dig" songs are gonna be like limahl solo tracks.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
That's not as scary as thinking about what's going to be on the oldies stations in fifty years time. "One from the dig: it's LMFAO!"
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
45 at 5: i gotta feeling!
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
haha that wasn't so much a complaint about TODAY'S MUSIC as lamenting my inevitable and inexorable slide into decrepitude
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:55 PM
Wiki on WCBS is fascinating--I remember that station being a weird 50s/early 60s holdout with very geriatric DJs a decade ago, apparently it had a failed Jack reboot a few years ago, and now does 50s all the way through the 80s.
― bentelec, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
"Hey Baby" by Bruce Channel
Now we can lock thread, as perfection has been posted.
― ███★★★███ (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
i was really glad to hear "they're coming to take you away" tbhha ha hee hee
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
This was the station my parents always had on in the car when I was a kid. So true. So much Valley. I can't even read WCBS without singing it the way the jingle does in my head.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN GO AWAY I'M NO GOOOOOOD FOR YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU
i think it's Valli btw
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, that was annoyingbut not as annoying as hearing 80s songs on the oldies station
― Yasmine Teeth (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
lol it totally is oops
Not annoying - I actually love him and probably know the words to more 4 seasons songs than I should. My bff has two sisters one named Dawna and one named Sherry.
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:31 (twelve years ago) link
x-posts - I wonder if cousin brucie is still on WCBS
― Juggy Brottleteen (ENBB), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
ha - Dawn not Dawna
Cousin Brucie is on satellite, on the Sirius XM 60s channel. I saw him on the subway a month or two ago. I said hello and he was pretty nice, don't think he thinks much of the current WCBS. I had actually seen him a few years ago on the subway, asking for directions. I asked him if he had ridden the subway before and he said yes, all the time, just not that particular line, so I guess this was a belated confirmation.
― band of uitsmijters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link