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New Pop Standards channel on iHeart

KilowattKat

KilowattKat

I just recently discovered this live music channel on the iHeart app called ..The Great American Songbook. The playlist consists of the biggest pop standards from the 50''s through 70's. Personally, I prefer a more "adventurous" playlist, like the long gone "The Standard" channel, but others might enjoy this. Here's a sample playlist...

The Vogues - Five O' Clock World
Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Bobby Hebb - Sunny
Neil Diamond - I Am...I Said
The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
Eric Carmen - All By Myself
 
KilowattKat said:
I just recently discovered this live music channel on the iHeart app called ..The Great American Songbook. The playlist consists of the biggest pop standards from the 50''s through 70's. Personally, I prefer a more "adventurous" playlist, like the long gone "The Standard" channel, but others might enjoy this. Here's a sample playlist...

The Vogues - Five O' Clock World
Bobby Darin - Mack The Knife
Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Bobby Hebb - Sunny
Neil Diamond - I Am...I Said
The Drifters - Under The Boardwalk
Marvin Gaye - How Sweet It Is
Cat Stevens - Wild World
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles - I Second That Emotion
Eric Carmen - All By Myself
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In the old days, I would have called that playlist oldies, perhaps adult oldies of the kind and style that KOOL-FM used to play during the 1970s with the only difference being that KOOL-FM would have added some lesser-known (but still top 40) artists and titles in to the mix.
 
I don't like "Wild World", but pretty good. I would not call it "The Great American Songbook".

iHeart used to have "The Standard" on my TiVo. I gave up on it because there were too many Sinatra songs and I heard "Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles.
 
iHeart screwed up with the name of this channel. The playlist is not from The Great American Songbook. These are pop standards being played. Big difference. The channel should be renamed "The Pop Standard", or "Pop Standards". Here is the definition of GAS..

www.britannica.com

The Great American Songbook | Songs, Composers, & Foundation | Britannica

The Great American Songbook is a term given to a canon of American popular songs and enduring jazz standards written mainly during the first half of the 20th century. It includes songs by such lyricists and composers as George Gershwin, Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, and Duke Ellington.
www.britannica.com www.britannica.com
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't like "Wild World", but pretty good. I would not call it "The Great American Songbook".

iHeart used to have "The Standard" on my TiVo. I gave up on it because there were too many Sinatra songs and I heard "Hard Day's Night" by The Beatles.
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The Standard had a wider, more interesting playlist. The live channel was ended, however it does live on as a channel that has maybe a few hours of the playlist archived.
 


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