the consolations of oldies radio

Who makes these decisions?

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the uncanny frankie valley

― mark s, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 5:57 PM (4 minutes ago)

thanking you

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.

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.

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.

in another 30 years, the "nuggets from the archeological dig" songs are gonna be like limahl solo tracks.

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!"

45 at 5: i gotta feeling!

haha that wasn't so much a complaint about TODAY'S MUSIC as lamenting my inevitable and inexorable slide into decrepitude

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, 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.

"Hey Baby" by Bruce Channel

Now we can lock thread, as perfection has been posted.

i was really glad to hear "they're coming to take you away" tbh
ha ha hee hee

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, 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.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWN
GO AWAY I'M NO GOOOOOOD FOR YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU

i think it's Valli btw

sorry, that was annoying
but not as annoying as hearing 80s songs on the oldies station

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.

x-posts - I wonder if cousin brucie is still on WCBS

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.