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3WS Oldies Diner

No oldies on JPA tonight so we had 3WS on. We heard it, I agree. It was around 745pm, couldn't get WZUM in Steubenville at that hour.
 
"The Ballad of The Green Beret" was played later in the show. Second time I heard it on the Diner. First time was a 1966-themed show and this one was songs with colors in the title.
 
Each week I check out the entire playlist for that particular week's Diner Show. These are the songs that 3WS should be playing all week. hought the song list this past week was great. You're right, RD never would have played "Love Is Blue", but remember, the theme this week was songs with "color" in the title. So what is wrong with that. BTW, "Love is Blue" was a #1 hit for 5 weeks back in 1968. They also played "Colour My World" by Chicago from 1971. That also was not a Diner-type song, but it keeps with the theme of the night. It's better than hearing non-stop Billy Joel & Elton John all week long.
 
db59 said:
the theme this week was songs with "color" in the title. So what is wrong with that.
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What's wrong with that it is doesn't fit the theme of the Diner, which is theoretically meant to be a show for "roots" records and Pittsburgh-centric hits. It's not for syrupy MOR instrumentals....or S/S Barry Sadler's greatest hit.

If you can't be true to the show for three hours a week, shut it down and let it die with dignity.
 
3WS has not been an Oldies station for some time, nor have they used the word "Oldies" on the air in
quite a while ... not even in the name of the "Diner." I accepted their change in format emphasis and
moved on.

For a pretty good '60s and early '70s Oldies station, try 97.5/770 KFB, when the automation turns on
at 5 PM Mon-Thu, 8:45 PM Fri-Sat, or 3 PM Sunday.

C.
 
cingram said:
3WS has not been an Oldies station for some time, nor have they used the word "Oldies" on the air in
quite a while ... not even in the name of the "Diner." I accepted their change in format emphasis and
moved on.

For a pretty good '60s and early '70s Oldies station, try 97.5/770 KFB, when the automation turns on
at 5 PM Mon-Thu, 8:45 PM Fri-Sat, or 3 PM Sunday.

C.
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I know they're not oldies, I know they haven't been for a long time. I moved on. I don't listen to them 165 of 168 hours per week I take them at their word that the "Diner" is a three-hour throwback in a non-essential time slot. It still is in some ways -- they play things like "Whip It On Me" by Billy Guy, "'Til" by the Angels, "Try Me" by James Brown and Sandy Nelson's "Let There Be Drums."

This doesn't have to do with the "oldies" label, it's about playing music that doesn't fit in what the Sunday Diner purports to be.

If the Sunday Diner is no longer viable without Paul Mauriat and Chicago, just admit that it's evolved into something else and repackage it.
 
Boss Radio said:
This doesn't have to do with the "oldies" label, it's about playing music that doesn't fit in what the Sunday Diner purports to be.

If the Sunday Diner is no longer viable without Paul Mauriat and Chicago, just admit that it's evolved into something else and repackage it.
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The Diner has changed, just has 3WS has changed. I don't think the changes are for the better, but I
am an old radio guy and I'm out of the demo. 3WS continues to do very well in the ratings and make
money.

IMHO, the Diner should have passed when R.D. did, but it had very good ratings and I guess they did
not want to simply discontinue the show. I think that would have been better than this voice-tracked
mish-mosh we have now.

C.
 
I loved listening to RD and the Diner. But remember, at the time, 3WS was still playing mid'60's & '70's music during the week and spotlighting '50's & early '60's music on Sunday nights. As they phased out most '60's music weekdays, they expanded the Diner to the years 1955-1970 (and even beyond at times). So, RD"s version of the Diner is no more, just as the weekday 3WS format has changed from what I call oldies to 70's & '80's "classic hits". If it wasn't for the Sunday Diner, there would be no version at all of what 3WS used to represent to us that love oldies music ("50's & '60's). Maybe my opinion is frowned upon by some, but if the Diner wants to play all genres of top 40 songs (pop, rock, MOR, country/pop, instrumental, Pittsburgh oldies, soul, Motown, Bubblegum, etc) from '55-'70, that is fine with me. Back when these songs were actually on the charts, you had the Beatles, the Supremes & the Stones sharing the Billboard charts at the same time with Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Glen Campbell, & Herb Alpert, to name a few. Why does everything have to be so separated now when it didn't have to back then. Not that I don't miss RD, but I enjoy having a wide variety of songs played on Sunday Nights, and if that includes Love Is Blue, that's fine with me.
 
Not for nuttin', but we are talking about songs that were in that 3 plays for a dime <until inflation hit us at 3 plays for a quarter> Seeburg jukebox that sat on the end of every table in the diner. It's diner music.
 
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