And yet the Jackson 5 gets played all the time. When was the last time you heard the Osmonds?
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Carly Simon is classic rock?
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So you heard Chuck Berry, then?
I think so.
About the last time I heard the Jackson 5. I can't name a radio station in Northern California that would have played a Jackson 5 record in the last ten years. Michael Jackson's 80s solo stuff, yes, though even that has largely disappeared.
Okay, in fairness---it's probably been 30 since I heard an Osmonds record on the radio. Still.
The Good Time Oldies station I hear in the car (not the one I was listening to today) plays them all the time.
I'm scared to ask what you were listening to between 1970 and 1976 (when the Carpenters were popular).
That said, I understand why a standards station these days would play Carpenters records. They first hit when I was 14 and I'm 66, so---yeah. But the guitar (which I'm fine with) is just not going to mesh with the rest of the playlist, so I don't know why they wouldn't just skip "Goodbye To Love".
I thought you said it was 50s and 60s.
And I am apprehensive. That means "curious, but really should not even want to know".
You need to read it again. There are two oldies stations in my area, but the one with Chuck Berry is farther away.
I can remember a station that might be described as adult contemporary playing "Knock Three Times", and I also remember hearing "High Hopes" by Sinatra and some kids. I also listened to a country station. I liked "beautiful music" but we didn't have a radio with FM until maybe 1977. And my parents liked that format.
There was a station, after we moved, which might be called "soft adult contemporary", before anyone used the term. I remember James Taylor, and some lighter disco. Later that station went all talk and I started listening to the regular adult contemporary station, which also had disco, Stevie Wonder, Chicago, James Taylor and Olivia Newton-John. I know now some of the songs I heard were by The Carpenters but I didn't know that then. I remember "Baker Street" didn't end with a guitar solo.
I don't understand it myself, and some of the stations I've listened to don't play the entire guitar solo at the end.
My error. Still, I'm surprised. 1969-74 has faded away for most stations---and the Jackson 5 records ("I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save", "I'll Be There", "Mama's Pearl", "Never Can Say Goodbye", "Sugar Daddy", "Dancing Machine") went away earlier than some out here.
Most of those are on the Good Time Oldies station. I haven't heard "Dancing Machine" since that station was Unforgettable Favorites (which, ironically was soft AC, though the station owner's son played REO Speedwagon and .38 Special so it might have been something he played). And that station changed to America's Best Music when Stardust and Unforgettable Favorites were replaced with Timeless Favorites and there were other Timeless Favorites stations in the area.
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She also got a brief royalty boost in 2001-02, when the US Postal Service used her "Let the River Run" in an ad that ran on TV during the anthrax scare.
Twenty years ago.
And it turns out that Carly is not as well-off as we'd thought. She says her dad (who died in 1960) got only $1 million for his share of the company and left her $60,000:
Suing Her Label, Not Retiring: Carly Simon Won’t Go Gently (Published 2009)
Broken trust, men misbehaving, women trying to recover — these sound like themes from a Carly Simon song. But this time Ms. Simon was telling a story about her most recent record.
....and Carly lost the lawsuit against Starbucks mentioned in the Times piece----twice:Twenty years ago.
And it turns out that Carly is not as well-off as we'd thought. She says her dad (who died in 1960) got only $1 million for his share of the company and left her $60,000:
Suing Her Label, Not Retiring: Carly Simon Won’t Go Gently (Published 2009)
Broken trust, men misbehaving, women trying to recover — these sound like themes from a Carly Simon song. But this time Ms. Simon was telling a story about her most recent record.www.nytimes.com
Carly Simon loses in court to Starbucks again
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A federal judge has rejected singer Carly Simon's lawsuit against Starbucks for a second time.
www.reuters.com
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Carly had made millions on her own until she trusted a crook named Kenneth Starr. He stole a fortune from her.
...and others, including Paul Simon.
Pleaded guilty, could have been sentenced to 45 years, was out in five, with half of that served in a halfway house:
All The Best Victims
Financial adviser Kenneth Starr stands accused of swindling as much as $59 million from Uma Thurman, Al Pacino, and other celebrity clients.
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Bernard Madoff got 150 years for his similar Ponzi scheme. That really stinks.
Different Ken Starr from the one who nearly took down President Clinton, of course....and others, including Paul Simon.
Pleaded guilty, could have been sentenced to 45 years, was out in five, with half of that served in a halfway house:
All The Best Victims
Financial adviser Kenneth Starr stands accused of swindling as much as $59 million from Uma Thurman, Al Pacino, and other celebrity clients.www.vanityfair.com
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