K-frog 95.1 airing Throwbacks on Thursday

[Dr. Sound]

I've always assumed a "Throwback" was an R&B or Hip Hop dance oriented song from at least going back to 1988 or so. I'm just wondering how far back a Country Music song would be to be considered a "throwback"?

Also, are there any Rock stations that have "Throwback Thursday"?

 

[davideduardo]

I've always assumed a "Throwback" was an R&B or Hip Hop dance oriented song from at least going back to 1988 or so. I'm just wondering how far back a Country Music song would be to be considered a "throwback"?

Also, are there any Rock stations that have "Throwback Thursday"?

With folks posting pics on Facebook and Instagram on their own Throwback Thursday I'd say that the term "throwback" has pretty much entered the mainstream vernacular for any format's partisans.

Each station in each format can define what a Throwback is... how old, what artists and whatever else determines the selection.

 

[Art Landing]

According to the Free Dictionary website, citing the American Heritage Dictionary, the term initially referred to music "that has characteristics of an earlier time: a song that is a throwback to the big-band era," kong before 1988. I remember Andy and Virginia Mansfield in the fifties doing a program on KFI and armed forces radio (AFRTS) called "Turn Back the Clock" that featured songs from the thirties and forties. Obviously, as David notes, the original focus on the big band era has been greatly modified over time.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/throwback

Here is link to an archival copy of the AFRTS version of the program from 1958.

http://afrtsarchive.blogspot.com/2015/12/andy-mansfield-1958.html