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Young people don't know these songs

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vchimpanzee

Never thought it would happen. I was at the eye doctor yesterday and someone walked through the waiting room so happy to hear "Theme from 'Rocky'". The young woman sitting at the desk didn't know what that was or understand what it meant.

Before anyone asks, this particular office changes the music style every few minutes. I think it was AC when I went in, smooth jazz when I was being seen by people who weren't doctors, and classic R&B when the doctor actually saw me. As I was leaving I heard Madonna's "La Isla Bonita".

I've never asked where the music is coming from but I could hear talking, which may have been ads.
 
fordranger797 said:
A bit of a strange musical selection for a eye doctor's office (if I am being honest) lol
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I used to go to an eye doctor with Sirius/XM Mosaic (mainstream AC without very old or very new songs). But there were fewer older people. I went there because I was told only he would take my insurance. Then I had to change insurance companies because the company I had dropped coverage in NC.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I used to go to an eye doctor with Sirius/XM Mosaic (mainstream AC without very old or very new songs). But there were fewer older people. I went there because I was told only he would take my insurance. Then I had to change insurance companies because the company I had dropped coverage in NC.
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At last we have something in common, Chimp! I also had to change insurance companies because the one I had dropped coverage in VT. I haven't mentioned this before because I didn't think it had anything to do with radio. But now .... Ummmm, does it?
 
michael hagerty said:
The Theme From "Rocky" is 48 years old. It is as recent/relevant today as a song from 1929 was then.


"La Isla Bonita" is 39. As recent/relevant now as a song from 1947 was then.
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Not really the same thing. Pre-rock era music was largely gone from the radio by the mid 50s, or at least until Music Of Your Life came along. It's not uncommon for an AC station today to be playing 40 year old songs.
I can understand the Rocky theme being unfamiliar to someone who didn't live thru that era though, most instrumentals don't seem to age well.
 
Oldbones said:
Not really the same thing. Pre-rock era music was largely gone from the radio by the mid 50s, or at least until Music Of Your Life came along.
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Oh, no. Many stations, ranging from traditional WDOK in Cleveland. KMPC in LA, WGN and WIND in Chicago, and WOR in New York played a lot of the later years stuff from the so-called Big Band era. Not Benny Goodman, but Doris Day, the folks from the Rat Pack and their contemporaries.

It was not Lawrence Welk, but it was not rock 'n' roll either. It was the core of MOR stations until most died in the 70's as the "new" AC format adopted the more adult Top 40 songs as the new adult format.
 
Oldbones said:
Not really the same thing. Pre-rock era music was largely gone from the radio by the mid 50s, or at least until Music Of Your Life came along. It's not uncommon for an AC station today to be playing 40 year old songs.
I can understand the Rocky theme being unfamiliar to someone who didn't live thru that era though, most instrumentals don't seem to age well.
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Expanding on what @DavidEduardo said---old-school MOR stations survived playing a lot of pre-rock material until '73/'74 (it was the dearth of new music for the format that forced most to morph into Adult Contemporary).

So, at that point, you're only 3-4 years prior to "Rocky". And the year after "Rocky", a format called "The Entertainers" began to spread around the country---sort of a precursor to Music of Your Life.

And, when "La Isla Bonita" was a hit, standards was arguably at its peak, with stations like KMPC in Los Angeles, and KFRC flipping to the format as "Magic 61".
 
michael hagerty said:
Expanding on what @DavidEduardo said---old-school MOR stations survived playing a lot of pre-rock material until '73/'74 (it was the dearth of new music for the format that forced most to morph into Adult Contemporary).
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I had the pleasure of listening to a pioneer in that transition during my college years. WHEN Syracuse was bright, upbeat, professional (except for that infamous singing EBS warning) and always entertaining. WFBL soon joined the adult contemporary ranks. But stodgy WSYR was still playing Sinatra and Como and Bennett. I don't think that station ever did convert to AC; it transitioned to news/talk instead. WHDH Boston also opened up to more modern sounds in the mid-'70s after many years of MOR pop.
 


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