that and the would-be four seasons station ids, with all the computer-enhanced harmonies
see oldies stations are really different, or at least used to be; i've almost never heard "band of gold" on chicago oldies radio
oldies radio is like a soggy old apple that has one good part left, if you're desperately hungry you can try to go for that one part
is it time to rehash the "what is 'band of gold'" about debate???
― !!!! (amateurist), Saturday, 13 March 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Saturday, 13 March 2004 19:14 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:35 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:39 (twenty years ago) link
"Who could have a problem," he says, "with hearing 'Baby Love' a little more often?"
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo MAKE IT STOP
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 22 March 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 March 2004 21:07 (twenty years ago) link
― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 22 March 2004 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 22 March 2004 21:15 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 22 March 2004 22:30 (twenty years ago) link
Can Pleasant Plains or any other past/present radio industry people point me to online info resources about companies that pump out formatted content via satellite?
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Monday, 8 November 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
bump
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Monday, 8 November 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"Good Time Oldies" radio has crept forward to 1987 -- heard "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" today.
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
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