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Countrypolitan station recommendations?

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Hey all! can anyone recommend any good Countrypolitan stations? It’s can be mixed with American Standards/Beautiful Music but it should predominantly play music from the 50’s,60’s,70’s. Thanks in advance!
 
This isn't what you're looking for but serenade-radio.com (standards) plays a lot of Jim Reeves and that sort of thing. It's surprising how much country-sounding music the stations plays.
 
vchimpanzee said:
This isn't what you're looking for but serenade-radio.com (standards) plays a lot of Jim Reeves and that sort of thing. It's surprising how much country-sounding music the stations plays.
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I discovered Lee Hazelwood, Eddy Arnold, Ray Price and other great singers from the period listening to American standards/beautiful music stations. So I want a direct source to discover other hidden gems.
 
kevtronics said:
1100 WGPA in Bethlehem, PA calls its music format "Ameripolitan".
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Although this station is great it’s not what I’m looking for. “Ameripolitan” is completely different from “Countrypolitan”. I’ll still keep WGPA in rotation. It’s one of the better stations out there.
 
Bongwater said:
'Countrypolitan'

I honestly haven't heard that term in decades.
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Very true, but the opportunities to blur genre boundaries are greater now than they've been in decades. All indications are that Gen Z, with TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms, are discovering tunes they like and start boosting them regardless of how the older folks would categorize them.

As another example, I've never heard Liveline, but I've read much of what Mason Kelter has written, which seems very much in-line with this phenomenon. It could be that the era of rigidly enforced, siloed formatic boundaries is coming to a close. The PDs who think they can conduct business the way PDs did in 1985 are in for a rude awakening, I believe.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Very true, but the opportunities to blur genre boundaries are greater now than they've been in decades. All indications are that Gen Z, with TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms, are discovering tunes they like and start boosting them regardless of how the older folks would categorize them.

As another example, I've never heard Liveline, but I've read much of what Mason Kelter has written, which seems very much in-line with this phenomenon. It could be that the era of rigidly enforced, siloed formatic boundaries is coming to a close. The PDs who think they can conduct business the way PDs did in 1985 are in for a rude awakening, I believe.
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That’s not exclusive to music. Gen z and people in general are blurring information which is very troubling.
 
I heard "Born to Lose" by Ray Charles on a 50s/60s oldies station yesterday.

Another country song was "Wake Up Little Susie" which is quite different.
 
Even in its heyday, the "countrypolitan" sound was only one element of most country formats, especially after the mid-'70s, when artists like Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris started to make twangier, more organic country music acceptable even in "sophisticated" Northern markets. Of course, stations in the South and Midwest were playing those Ray Price and Jim Reeves hits along with the more rural songs.
 
CTListener said:
Even in its heyday, the "countrypolitan" sound was only one element of most country formats, especially after the mid-'70s, when artists like Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris started to make twangier, more organic country music acceptable even in "sophisticated" Northern markets. Of course, stations in the South and Midwest were playing those Ray Price and Jim Reeves hits along with the more rural songs.
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It’s a good genre to open up the market just like what ‘indigo’ is doing now.
 


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