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60's Music Gone From WCBS-FM
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I did see "Mrs. Robinson" pop up today. Scott Shannon tends to play several 60s songs during his show. Today, he played "California Sun", "Do You Believe In Magic", "Devil With A Blue Dress On" and "Do Wah Diddy Diddy."
Hey, the day will come when they'll play P. Diddy!
Hey, the day will come when they'll play P. Diddy!
MTNProductions
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I have to gift them credit that CBS-FM occasionally plays 60's music, not all of it, but some in its rotation. Kevin Goldman posted a link to an article from the New York Times back on 6/19/05 which was two weeks after CBS-FM went "Jack". This is what it says:
The Day the Music Died
By KEVIN GOLDMAN
DANNY AND THE JUNIORS had it wrong. Rock 'n' roll, the 1950's and 1960's high-charging, gyrating soundtrack to a generation of baby boomers, isn't here to stay. It wore out its welcome, a victim of age discrimination and corporate greed.
On June 3, WCBS-FM, which since July 1972 had broadcast artists from the 1950's and 60's, including the Beatles, the Five Satins, Dion and the Four Seasons, abruptly switched its format from oldies to the latest craze in commercial radio, Jack. The Jack format is a hodgepodge of hits and album selections from the last 30 years. On the same day, WJMK-FM in Chicago changed formats after 21 years from oldies to Jack. Both stations are owned by Infinity Broadcasting, a division of Viacom, which had earlier switched another station, KCBS-FM in Los Angeles, which played album hits from the 1970's and 80's under the moniker Arrow, to Jack.
Oldies is just the latest music genre to disappear from the metropolitan region's commercial airwaves. In the largest radio market in the country, listeners cannot regularly hear Miles Davis, John Coltrane or Dexter Gordon because there isn't a commercial jazz radio station. Nor can they hear Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald or Tony Bennett because there isn't a radio station playing American popular standards. Nor can they hear Hank Williams, Dwight Yoakam or Trisha Yearwood because country music long stopped being programmed on any commercial station. And now, the volume has been turned off on first-generation rock 'n' roll.
And these formats will probably never be back. Once they disappear, they seldom return. For example, it's been at least six years since popular standards were silenced on commercial radio in the city. Since then, songs by the Gershwins, Richard Rodgers and Cole Porter, among others, have been heard only 12 hours a week on two noncommercial stations, WNYC-FM and WFUV-FM and a mediocre program in the wee hours of Sunday morning on WOR-AM.
The reasons the plug has been pulled from commercial radio are not entirely convincing. Advertisers are most eager to reach the group of listeners most likely to buy what's being advertised, and according to conventional theory, that is 18- to 49-year-olds. And, the theory continues, the music formats that have disappeared have done so because they cater to older people, who are too set in their buying habits to be influenced by commercials and don't have disposable income. But statistics don't necessarily bear this out: according to AARP, four million Americans turn 50 every year and last year consumers over 50 spent nearly $400 billion. A 2002 Roper ASW study reported that people over 50 are just as likely as younger consumers to change brands.
The fans of solid gold oldies are not taking the loss of their music lightly. A bulletin board on the Internet dedicated to the memory of WABC-AM when it was a top-40 giant has been flooded with so many protest messages that its moderator has been overwhelmed. The marquee D.J. of WCBS-FM, Bruce Morrow, has been interviewed by nearly every newspaper and many television and radio stations. Exactly one week after WCBS-FM switched formats, Cousin Brucie was signed by Sirius Satellite Radio for three shows a week beginning in July.
What's at stake is more than the memories these oldies provoke. Jack radio features no disc jockeys, but instead, at least in New York, a smart-alecky unnamed announcer. Jack may have attitude, but it has no soul.
When I was growing up in Brooklyn, there was a plethora of imaginatively programmed radio stations with smart, fun and entertaining D.J.'s, including powerhouse WABC and its all-Americans (Dan Ingram, Ron Lundy), top-40 WMCA and its good guys (Gary Stevens, Joe O'Brien), WNEW-FM (Pete Fornatale, Jonathan Schwartz), WABC-FM (Bob Lewis, Vin Scelsa), top-40 WOR-FM (Sebastian Stone, Steve Clark) and even WCBS-FM when it was pre-oldies (Gus Gossert, Bobby Wayne).
No more. Talented, creative on-air personalities have fled or, worse, been banished: Mr. Schwartz, for instance, to WNYC-FM and XM Satellite Radio and Mr. Fornatale to WFUV-FM and XM.
Slowly, corporate greed has ended the era of radio that mattered. Stations are now owned by a handful of large corporations - Viacom, Clear Channel and Emmis, among them - that are interested in bolstering the stock price. That's no sin, of course; corporations aren't to be faulted when a goal is to make money.
WCBS-FM, however, was no slouch when it came to profits. It was recently ranked the No. 11 top billing station in New York City with $34.1 million in advertising revenue (compared with the No. 1 billing station, WLTW-FM, or Lite FM, with $70.2 million). But $34 million clearly wasn't enough.
WCBS-FM was a radio station with a reliable sound, a fiercely loyal audience and a talented staff that had been in place for years (D.J. Bill Brown was with the station since October 1969).
Cousin Brucie will return to the airwaves soon, but what about the rest of the D.J.'s and what about the music? The city that was the first American host to the Beatles, the city where the legendary D.J.'s Alan Freed and Murray the K emceed rock 'n' roll shows at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater, has gone radio silent on an entire genre and an entire generation.
As Fats Domino would say, "Ain't that a shame?"
Kevin Goldman, a former advertising columnist at The Wall Street Journal, is the author of "Conflicting Accounts: The Creation and Crash of the Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising Empire."
And now, 9 years later, same thing happens when it comes to that. Like I said at the top, there are many oldies stations playing a lot of 50's and 60's including WMTR in Morristown, WGNY-FM "Fox Oldies" in Rosendale, NY and WROW "Magic 590" in Albany is where the station I listen to a lot which is way better than "Fox Oldies". "Magic 590" has Jay & Ben, and then Bob Green and of course "Saturday Night at the Oldies" and also "Rock, Roll & Remember" with the late Dick Clark as well as "Elvis Only" and "The Doo-Wop Stop" with Cool Bobby B. I would have to listen to it everyday and I have to avoid "Fox Oldies" because Van Ritshie sounds horrible and so does Buffalo Bob Corsino and Joe Manglass. They all sound horrible on the station. And let's not forget WEOK/WALL. They dumped Scott Shannon's TOC back at the end of June where they will remained as an oldies station competing with WGNY-FM and they're still playing 13,900 songs in a row commercial free since it was part of a promotion until the station become Good Time Oldies. I stopped listening to "Fox Oldies" since April and I have to listen to "Magic 590" and it sounds better. It has the best jingles like WCBS-FM did where they used the "Do It Again" and "Home of the Hits" packages and Ziggy does a great job with the imaging of the station from "Magic 590". Ziggy has been with CBS-FM for many years but he is on many of the stations elsewhere. I hope "Magic 590" will do better than that.
On Friday August 1 at 9:46 PM "WCBS" was playing I've Been Thinking About You by Londonbeat.
WOW! "WCBS" is now playing early 1990's music.
WOW! "WCBS" is now playing early 1990's music.
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WCBS played that as "Future Gold" in late 1990-early '91. They had gone with one current/hour since sometime in 1973 but eliminated currents in 1992. Personally, I felt this was a bad idea. There were still enough mainstream tracks that would appeal to the core audience of "CBS-f and it would ease the gradual change of emphasis that this format requires if you want to keep Mad-Ave happy.
At any rate, the earl;y nineties are now twenty years old so, yeah, they are "oldies".
Chan
I've heard KT Tunstalls "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" from 2005 a while back on the Scott Shannon show. Yesterday heard U2s "Beautiful Day" just after 6am. A few other cuts from the 2000s that fit the newer sound of CBS FM are thrown into the mix occasionally. At the same time Scott slips in more 60's cuts during his show then what are aired throughout the rest of the day. 90's music is being added slowly and carefully to blend into the current sound of CBS FM. A few 60's are still in rotation, mainly from 65 on. I don't think 60s music from groups like The Beatles and Stones will be eliminated at this point. A few times a day an "oh wow" song from the 60s and 70s will be in the mix. Although many songs remain in rotation everyday, probably to the point of burn out for some there are also a percentage of different songs rotated in every few days to try to keep things fresh. The overall upbeat sound of this station including the personality driven DJs is very appealing right now while other stations such as Lite FM and Q104 have become very stale. Its easy to complain about losing certain 60s songs however the current sound of CBS FM has driven it to #1
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For those of you have followed this discussion, let's go back to 2011 where the Daily Freeman covered the story about "Fox Oldies".
Oldies radio returns to Hudson Valley
By PAULA ANN MITCHELL
Think Beatles and Elvis. Think Four Tops and Shirelles. Think Chicago and Beach Boys.
In fact, think "Good Times and Great Oldies."
That's what you'll find on the Hudson Valley's newest spot on the radio dial.
Fox Oldies 98.9 FM is the place to hear all those songs that make you feel good and remember way back when.
You might even find yourself smiling and grooving to a memory wrapped around a forgotten song.
On Feb. 26, WGNY, owned by Hawkeye Communications, launched the latest musical format, targeting those between the ages of 35 and 64.
More specifically, it's for all you Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), who remember when John, Paul, George and Ringo first played to screaming crowds at Shea Stadium in 1965.
Or for those who witnessed the fashion turnover from bobby socks and poodle skirts to winklepickers and mini-skirts .
Or even for those who bopped to the hugely popular Motown sound founded by the legendary Berry Gordy Jr. out of Detroit, Mich.
Whatever your musical taste, if you like oldies, you're bound to hear the "greatest hits of all times" when you tune in, says Fox 98.9 FM's website www.foxradio.net.
"It's a real oldies station," said morning host Van Ritshie, one of the Hudson Valley's most recognizable and beloved broadcasters.
"And we've put the show business back into radio with real radio personalities. We're not card readers. We talk to our audience," he said.
Besides Ritshie, the lineup of on-air talent includes Bob (O)ldies each weekday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Buffalo Bob Corsino from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Joe Manglass from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.
Station officials said they count themselves lucky to have attracted talent like Ritshie, who had left the area to pursue other ventures in Florida.
"In May of 2009, I got a call by the pool," Ritshie said. "They asked me, 'How would you like to come back home?'"
Ritshie, who's been in the broadcasting field for 40 years, jumped at the opportunity to return to local radio.
"I look forward to going to work every day, and at my age (66), that means a lot to me," he said in his booming, baritone-bass voice.
Another extraordinary thing about the station is that it's owned by actress Kristina Klebe, a former Maxim magazine cover girl.
She is the first female radio owner in the Hudson Valley, according to station officials.
Klebe has starred in such movies as the Rob Zombie remake of "Halloween" in 2007; "The Accidental Husband" in 2008; and "Apocolypse of the Dead" in 2009.
She's also appeared in such TV series as "Law & Order," "CSI," "Criminal Minds" and "Rescue Me."
Her father, Joerg Klebe, operates Sunrise Broadcasting Corp., which manages Fox Oldies 98.9 FM.
"My family has always been in radio, so I grew up with radio," Klebe said in a recent phone interview with the Freeman.
"I've worked in radio, and I guess it's one of those things when you grow up with it, you realize the value of it," she said.
"Being an actress is so fleeting, and I feel like the one thing I've learned from radio is it's always there."
Even though Klebe is young, she said she's part of that population that finds oldies appealing.
"My first album that I ever owned was the Beatles' 'Help' and 'Yellow Submarine,'" she said.
"My parents would always listen to oldies, so I did, too. When we got to the 90s, I didn't even know who (the alternative American rock band) Nirvana was. I would like to make oldies cool for young people," Klebe said.
Ritshie doesn't think that will be too much of a stretch these days.
"One of the things that fascinates me is that you can go to any college campus and find a bunch of students singing acapella oldies," he said. "What's old is new again. It's come full circle."
Still, radio station officials haven't forgotten their base -- the Baby Boomers.
The core of the musical lineup is the decade of the 1960s, said Bob DeFelice, the market manager at Sunrise Broadcasting.
"We also play some choice late 50s and a lot of 70s," he said. "We are filling a hole that is in the market."
Indeed.
According to statistics provided by Sunrise, Baby Boomers in the Hudson Valley represent 40 percent of the adult population, translating to 270,400 people.
Baby Boomers overall spent $5.1 billion a year and were responsible for more than half of all consumer purchases between the period of 2006 and 2008, said the U.S. Census Bureau.
And they have access to more discretionary funds, political influence and financial power than any other group in the United States, notes the website www.boomersint.org.
That's one of the reasons station officials believe Fox Oldies will be a resounding success.
They're counting on advertisers to get on board to specifically target this affluent audience.
"We are filling a hole that is in the market," DeFelice said. "We reach that audience. They drive retail."
In addition to all the music and syndicated programs like Dick Bartley's "The Classic Countdown" show, the station will feature locally produced news, regular community calendar announcements and take part in live, local promotions.
Ritshie and the other on-air personalities will be a huge part of the local thrust.
"The big difference, as I see it, is we are local," Ritshie said.
"That's the magic word. We are local because we are here. There's nothing local about satellite radio, and that is the saving grace of local radio."
DeFelice couldn't agree more.
"It's relevant and that missing piece in today's world is the ability to be connected locally. Local radio is so viable, and you can get plugged in," he said.
Fox Oldies 98.9 FM's radio tower is situated in Esopus.
Its signal can be heard primarily in Ulster and Dutchess counties as well as parts of Greene and Columbia counties.
The studio is located in New Windsor.
Sunrise Broadcasting owns and operates five radio stations--WDLC and WTSX, serving western Orange and Sullivan counties, Pike, Pa., and Sussex, NJ.
It also owns WGNY-AM and WJGK-FM in Newburgh, serving Orange, southern Ulster, Dutchess and Sullivan counties.
This is what the station needs a lot of pre-1972 music, but it's not pre-1964, but I should call it pre-1972. A lot of die-hard fans of the old WCBS-FM (1972-2005) wants to hear "Fox Oldies" in the Hudson Valley. Or prefer WROW's "Magic 590" which I am listening to it now. I'm listening to Bob Green on "Magic 590" right now. This would play a lot of 50's and 60's music, the one that WCBS-FM used to play a long time ago. And BTW, there is a video about "Fox Oldies" is on the Daily Freeman site. This is why like I said a number of times I don't listened to "Fox Oldies" anymore. I have enough airchecks from 2011 until I stopped recording it back in April which is my last aircheck for a while. I will put a few of the "Fox Oldies" airchecks which is already posted, but I will put the scoped version of "Fox Oldies" on YouTube someday.
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20110311/oldies-radio-returns-to-hudson-valley-video
Oldies radio returns to Hudson Valley
By PAULA ANN MITCHELL
Think Beatles and Elvis. Think Four Tops and Shirelles. Think Chicago and Beach Boys.
In fact, think "Good Times and Great Oldies."
That's what you'll find on the Hudson Valley's newest spot on the radio dial.
Fox Oldies 98.9 FM is the place to hear all those songs that make you feel good and remember way back when.
You might even find yourself smiling and grooving to a memory wrapped around a forgotten song.
On Feb. 26, WGNY, owned by Hawkeye Communications, launched the latest musical format, targeting those between the ages of 35 and 64.
More specifically, it's for all you Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), who remember when John, Paul, George and Ringo first played to screaming crowds at Shea Stadium in 1965.
Or for those who witnessed the fashion turnover from bobby socks and poodle skirts to winklepickers and mini-skirts .
Or even for those who bopped to the hugely popular Motown sound founded by the legendary Berry Gordy Jr. out of Detroit, Mich.
Whatever your musical taste, if you like oldies, you're bound to hear the "greatest hits of all times" when you tune in, says Fox 98.9 FM's website www.foxradio.net.
"It's a real oldies station," said morning host Van Ritshie, one of the Hudson Valley's most recognizable and beloved broadcasters.
"And we've put the show business back into radio with real radio personalities. We're not card readers. We talk to our audience," he said.
Besides Ritshie, the lineup of on-air talent includes Bob (O)ldies each weekday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Buffalo Bob Corsino from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Joe Manglass from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m.
Station officials said they count themselves lucky to have attracted talent like Ritshie, who had left the area to pursue other ventures in Florida.
"In May of 2009, I got a call by the pool," Ritshie said. "They asked me, 'How would you like to come back home?'"
Ritshie, who's been in the broadcasting field for 40 years, jumped at the opportunity to return to local radio.
"I look forward to going to work every day, and at my age (66), that means a lot to me," he said in his booming, baritone-bass voice.
Another extraordinary thing about the station is that it's owned by actress Kristina Klebe, a former Maxim magazine cover girl.
She is the first female radio owner in the Hudson Valley, according to station officials.
Klebe has starred in such movies as the Rob Zombie remake of "Halloween" in 2007; "The Accidental Husband" in 2008; and "Apocolypse of the Dead" in 2009.
She's also appeared in such TV series as "Law & Order," "CSI," "Criminal Minds" and "Rescue Me."
Her father, Joerg Klebe, operates Sunrise Broadcasting Corp., which manages Fox Oldies 98.9 FM.
"My family has always been in radio, so I grew up with radio," Klebe said in a recent phone interview with the Freeman.
"I've worked in radio, and I guess it's one of those things when you grow up with it, you realize the value of it," she said.
"Being an actress is so fleeting, and I feel like the one thing I've learned from radio is it's always there."
Even though Klebe is young, she said she's part of that population that finds oldies appealing.
"My first album that I ever owned was the Beatles' 'Help' and 'Yellow Submarine,'" she said.
"My parents would always listen to oldies, so I did, too. When we got to the 90s, I didn't even know who (the alternative American rock band) Nirvana was. I would like to make oldies cool for young people," Klebe said.
Ritshie doesn't think that will be too much of a stretch these days.
"One of the things that fascinates me is that you can go to any college campus and find a bunch of students singing acapella oldies," he said. "What's old is new again. It's come full circle."
Still, radio station officials haven't forgotten their base -- the Baby Boomers.
The core of the musical lineup is the decade of the 1960s, said Bob DeFelice, the market manager at Sunrise Broadcasting.
"We also play some choice late 50s and a lot of 70s," he said. "We are filling a hole that is in the market."
Indeed.
According to statistics provided by Sunrise, Baby Boomers in the Hudson Valley represent 40 percent of the adult population, translating to 270,400 people.
Baby Boomers overall spent $5.1 billion a year and were responsible for more than half of all consumer purchases between the period of 2006 and 2008, said the U.S. Census Bureau.
And they have access to more discretionary funds, political influence and financial power than any other group in the United States, notes the website www.boomersint.org.
That's one of the reasons station officials believe Fox Oldies will be a resounding success.
They're counting on advertisers to get on board to specifically target this affluent audience.
"We are filling a hole that is in the market," DeFelice said. "We reach that audience. They drive retail."
In addition to all the music and syndicated programs like Dick Bartley's "The Classic Countdown" show, the station will feature locally produced news, regular community calendar announcements and take part in live, local promotions.
Ritshie and the other on-air personalities will be a huge part of the local thrust.
"The big difference, as I see it, is we are local," Ritshie said.
"That's the magic word. We are local because we are here. There's nothing local about satellite radio, and that is the saving grace of local radio."
DeFelice couldn't agree more.
"It's relevant and that missing piece in today's world is the ability to be connected locally. Local radio is so viable, and you can get plugged in," he said.
Fox Oldies 98.9 FM's radio tower is situated in Esopus.
Its signal can be heard primarily in Ulster and Dutchess counties as well as parts of Greene and Columbia counties.
The studio is located in New Windsor.
Sunrise Broadcasting owns and operates five radio stations--WDLC and WTSX, serving western Orange and Sullivan counties, Pike, Pa., and Sussex, NJ.
It also owns WGNY-AM and WJGK-FM in Newburgh, serving Orange, southern Ulster, Dutchess and Sullivan counties.
This is what the station needs a lot of pre-1972 music, but it's not pre-1964, but I should call it pre-1972. A lot of die-hard fans of the old WCBS-FM (1972-2005) wants to hear "Fox Oldies" in the Hudson Valley. Or prefer WROW's "Magic 590" which I am listening to it now. I'm listening to Bob Green on "Magic 590" right now. This would play a lot of 50's and 60's music, the one that WCBS-FM used to play a long time ago. And BTW, there is a video about "Fox Oldies" is on the Daily Freeman site. This is why like I said a number of times I don't listened to "Fox Oldies" anymore. I have enough airchecks from 2011 until I stopped recording it back in April which is my last aircheck for a while. I will put a few of the "Fox Oldies" airchecks which is already posted, but I will put the scoped version of "Fox Oldies" on YouTube someday.
http://www.dailyfreeman.com/general-news/20110311/oldies-radio-returns-to-hudson-valley-video
If you were to ask someone at WCBS, I think they'd say they're happy to let those boomers and fans of pre-72 music listen to the suburban stations. No problem. WCBS is not targeting 35 to 64. That should be fairly obvious.
Since nobody was slipping money to their on-the-take DJs to play anything other than the current songs that the labels wanted to become hits, I'd imagine they played only those songs.
MTNProductions
Banned
Really? If you want to read it again according to an article in the Daily Freeman back in 2011:
WGNY, launched the latest musical format, targeting those between the ages of 35 and 64.
This is what the station needs, 35 to 64, not 25 to 54. Remember when WCBS-FM used to play a lot of 50's and 60's on the station with the like of Harry Harrison, Ron Lundy, Bill Brown, Bob Shannon (Don Bombard), Don K Reed, Bruce Morrow, Gary Clark, Dan Ingram, Steve O'Brien, Dan Daniel, Dan Taylor, and the rest of the people who had been worked on the station along with Program director, Joe McCoy. Joe did a great job for the station for a long time, he had won many awards. He joined WCBS-FM in 1981 and Joe McCoy was riding high and went to become the #1 oldies station in New York City. He remained there until 2004 when he was let go from the station and replaced with Dave Logan and he stayed there until the end of its run in 2005 when the station went "Jack".
CBS-FM was the station for oldies that usually targeted 35 to 64. A lot of suburban stations that plays oldies like "Fox Oldies" at 98.9 in the Hudson valley area as WGNY, and then, WEOK 1390 and WALL 1340 are playing the same and it has been running commercial free since the end of June when WEOK/WALL pulled the plug on Scott Shannon's TOC for good, and now he is now doing mornings on CBS-FM. These two or three stations are not to support playing oldies, and WBPM has better music with a few 60's songs in place, but the station hasn't going into the 90's yet. Up in Albany, there's "Magic 590" which is WROW, they did a great job with the oldies format replacing the MOR format. They played the same music than "Fox Oldies" plays but it added some deeper 50's and 60's songs in-between with a lighter 70's songs in there, Jay & Ben did a great morning show, and so does Bob Green. He does afternoon drive as well. I have an aircheck of Bob Green as recorded off of "Magic 590" yesterday, but I will post it later this week.
And. I forgot to mention, there's Rewound Radio, they're now playing lot of oldies and forgotten 45's and it is run by Dr. Sniffen of WABC Musicradio website and the host of "Board Reflections" and does the request show every Saturday afternoon following the "DJ Hall of Fame".
These are part of the oldies format that still targeting 35 to 64 demos, but not on terrestrial radio anymore, except smaller market stations.
Yes I know. That's why I said WCBS is not targeting 35 to 64. So they're OK with a suburban station taking the 55 to 64 folks. No problem.
I think we've established that 35-64 was never a viable target in a rated market so I question if CBS-FM ever went after them. It was probably more like 35-54.
February 15, 1972, specifically. Why not, say January 1, 1972? What's the significance of 2.15.1972 in recording industry history relevant to the issue? Was it an arbitrary date?
ixnay
Good question. According to copyright.gov:
Congress brought sound recordings within the scope of federal copyright law for the first
time on February 15, 1972. It provided protection on a prospective basis, leaving recordings first
fixed before that date under the protection of state law.
So 2-15-72 was a start date, when the law was passed, from this time forward, all recordings are covered under federal copyright law.
Re lack of 60s music
Dick Bartley's Classic Countdown did an entire set on 1968 last night and 1969 a few weeks ago.
Also, if you want a 100% complete playlist from WCBS, I recommend Mediabase.
http://mediabase.com/whatsong/whatsong.asp?var_s=087067066083045070077
On the WCBS website you'll notice the songs they play for Turntable Tuesdays don't show up in the playlist, whereas it does appear on Mediabase. I know that both Dan Taylor and Broadway Bill Lee have been playing at least one 60s song the past few weeks, including a Yardbirds song that goes back to 1966.
So it's not entirely gone. Just more of a rarity.
Dick Bartley's Classic Countdown did an entire set on 1968 last night and 1969 a few weeks ago.
Also, if you want a 100% complete playlist from WCBS, I recommend Mediabase.
http://mediabase.com/whatsong/whatsong.asp?var_s=087067066083045070077
On the WCBS website you'll notice the songs they play for Turntable Tuesdays don't show up in the playlist, whereas it does appear on Mediabase. I know that both Dan Taylor and Broadway Bill Lee have been playing at least one 60s song the past few weeks, including a Yardbirds song that goes back to 1966.
So it's not entirely gone. Just more of a rarity.
MTNProductions
Banned
Don't you worry, WCBS-FM will play a little less 60's songs, but not a lot, because WGNY-FM's "Fox Oldies" in the Hudson Valley is still playing a lot of 1960's music mixing with 1950's music. I was at Dollar General today, they're playing "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, and that was the song that CBS-FM used to play, but not anymore, when I was out, we listened to "Fox Oldies" in the car, and they played "Traces" by Classic IV, "Da-Do-Run-Run" by the Crystals as well as "Wear My Ring Around Your Neck" by Elvis Presley, Elvis was the "King of Rock & Roll", and CBS-FM used to play Elvis songs a lot, because of the fans. Elvis was before Michael Jackson was the "King of Pop". Just to have a rundown "Fox Oldies" was playing the Temptations "All I Need", Hilltop Singers "Walk Right In" and a few others that "Fox Oldies" played that CBS-FM doesn't play them anymore.
True, this is a New York City forum. I'm from there originally -- Brooklyn, then Queens, then Long Island.
But it seems as though everyone aboard here (pro or con vis-a-vis adding or dropping songs on oldies stations) spends quite some time and AQH's daily on the computer.
So, for the AARP+ demo, already on the computer and looking for not just those lost tunes but every conceivable 50's and 60's pop tune ever pressed into a 45 disc, might I suggest Top Shelf Oldies?
Just google in that name. The first few listings on the screen are links to them. I'd post the link here but the session might time out while I snag it and copy/paste.
I have TSO ahead of every on-line music station on the 'favourites' bar.
TSO is live from 8PM to at least 11PM each night of the week, with a different jock each evening. Even when some of the live shows are pre-recorded playbacks, their terrific chat room is very much 'live', and by itself is a lot of fun to boot.
The rest of the broadcast day is automated, but is sprinkled with enough liners and custom PAMS jingles to sustain listenership very nicely.
(You may even get to hear me and my nasal, phony attempts at a Midwest accent doing a liner or two . Even though you're likely to be disappointed hearing those, you WON'T be disappointed at all with the music :- )
But it seems as though everyone aboard here (pro or con vis-a-vis adding or dropping songs on oldies stations) spends quite some time and AQH's daily on the computer.
So, for the AARP+ demo, already on the computer and looking for not just those lost tunes but every conceivable 50's and 60's pop tune ever pressed into a 45 disc, might I suggest Top Shelf Oldies?
Just google in that name. The first few listings on the screen are links to them. I'd post the link here but the session might time out while I snag it and copy/paste.
I have TSO ahead of every on-line music station on the 'favourites' bar.
TSO is live from 8PM to at least 11PM each night of the week, with a different jock each evening. Even when some of the live shows are pre-recorded playbacks, their terrific chat room is very much 'live', and by itself is a lot of fun to boot.
The rest of the broadcast day is automated, but is sprinkled with enough liners and custom PAMS jingles to sustain listenership very nicely.
(You may even get to hear me and my nasal, phony attempts at a Midwest accent doing a liner or two . Even though you're likely to be disappointed hearing those, you WON'T be disappointed at all with the music :- )
Sounds almost like a desperation move and not a very good one. The Beatles, Stones, Grateful Dead etc. are true classics.
My 17 and 18 year old sons listen to this music. This is beyond stupid.
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