Wow. My shelf life as a listener, a DXer and a DJ certainly has moved on.
I had been fortunate enough to've worked for 26 years straight at : Beautiful Music, Top 40, and 1970-ish 'AC" before needing work desperately enough to take a job at a Progressive Rock station.
I hated the format; the music, the image and the pay. I wanted to do some AC work in the town, maybe some B/M, I made several audition tapes.
Well, the Prog Rock station shot up either #1 or #2 in all dayparts. Some tweaks had been made, and the unofficial name for the genre became 'Pop Progressive'. It would not be called AoR for another year or two.
I spent seven years at two AoRs and came to appreciate the music, the phone response and the agenda. I had been won over by this newer version of the FM Progressive Rock format.
Out of radio altogether by 1993, I look now back what my influences had been.
Frank Chacksfield & The Jackie Gleason Orchestra
Three Dog Night and the Beach Boys
The Fifth Dimension and Spanky & Our Gang
Jethro Tull and Mountain
By 2000 or so, I started to enjoy Grunge (not because it was a groundbreaking art form genesis but because I thought some of it was funny -- and they'd occasionally tear off a good riff, too).
What I'm saying is : having lived and worked in and listened in the car to all of those forms of music, I still hold a cockeyed allegiance and a modicum of nostalgia vis-a-vis some of those Eighties songs.
Hec -- at present I'm retired and uncomfortably out of even the classic *rock* format, never mind the Oldies scene!
For music from that last era -- The Five Discs and Chiffons and Beatles and Rydell and the 4 Seasons -- well, as Bruce NY says : there's the internet.
I had been fortunate enough to've worked for 26 years straight at : Beautiful Music, Top 40, and 1970-ish 'AC" before needing work desperately enough to take a job at a Progressive Rock station.
I hated the format; the music, the image and the pay. I wanted to do some AC work in the town, maybe some B/M, I made several audition tapes.
Well, the Prog Rock station shot up either #1 or #2 in all dayparts. Some tweaks had been made, and the unofficial name for the genre became 'Pop Progressive'. It would not be called AoR for another year or two.
I spent seven years at two AoRs and came to appreciate the music, the phone response and the agenda. I had been won over by this newer version of the FM Progressive Rock format.
Out of radio altogether by 1993, I look now back what my influences had been.
Frank Chacksfield & The Jackie Gleason Orchestra
Three Dog Night and the Beach Boys
The Fifth Dimension and Spanky & Our Gang
Jethro Tull and Mountain
By 2000 or so, I started to enjoy Grunge (not because it was a groundbreaking art form genesis but because I thought some of it was funny -- and they'd occasionally tear off a good riff, too).
What I'm saying is : having lived and worked in and listened in the car to all of those forms of music, I still hold a cockeyed allegiance and a modicum of nostalgia vis-a-vis some of those Eighties songs.
Hec -- at present I'm retired and uncomfortably out of even the classic *rock* format, never mind the Oldies scene!
For music from that last era -- The Five Discs and Chiffons and Beatles and Rydell and the 4 Seasons -- well, as Bruce NY says : there's the internet.
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