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[MsMusicRadio]

top 40 used to play the carpenters and the stones

 

[badjef]

top 40 used to play the carpenters and the stones

back to back with Charlie Rich, Steve Miller and Doobie Brothers.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

(1000)

 

[gamefreak]

top 40 used to play the carpenters and the stones

I may not be old enough to remember but I love that music. ;D ;D

 

[jmtillery]

top 40 used to play the carpenters and the stones

back to back with Charlie Rich, Steve Miller and Doobie Brothers.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

(1000)

WOW... That is going WAY back in the Top 40 radio... I remember when those selections, with the exception of Chralie Rich, were considered hard rock...

 

[badjef]

top 40 used to play the carpenters and the stones

back to back with Charlie Rich, Steve Miller and Doobie Brothers.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

(1000)

WOW... That is going WAY back in the Top 40 radio... I remember when those selections, with the exception of Charlie Rich, were considered hard rock...

Remember when Carol King was considered "hard rock"?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

 

[DToTheJ]

...Merge "The Bone" and "The Eagle" together.

Well, Cox did kill off a failing alternative format in Houston to simulcast classic rock "Eagle" in the same market not too long ago...

 

[gamefreak]

...Merge "The Bone" and "The Eagle" together.

Well, Cox did kill off a failing alternative format in Houston to simulcast classic rock "Eagle" in the same market not too long ago...

True, but 97X isn't failing. However I do believe 106-9 The Zone could have possibly been successful. It was only 2 Months since Cox went Modern Rock on KHPT. Before that it was nothing more than luke-warmed 106-9 The Point.

Not to mention the signal was plagued by its format before "The Zone". It takes a while for listeners to forget about a poorly managed format Especially if the format was there for over 10 Years.

 

[jmtillery]

top 40 used to play the carpenters and the stones

back to back with Charlie Rich, Steve Miller and Doobie Brothers.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

(1000)

WOW... That is going WAY back in the Top 40 radio... I remember when those selections, with the exception of Charlie Rich, were considered hard rock...

Remember when Carol King was considered "hard rock"?

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!

As in the song "Hard Rock Cafe'"? Yes, I remember. That was when beautiful music and easy listening consisted of the 101 Strings, Peter Nero and Ray Conniff. Now Carol King would be considered easy listening.

 

[Frank Ferreri]

Perry Como was actually played on top 40 stations along with Al Martino and others of that ilk. Charlie Pride, Merle Haggard, and Lynn Anderson had hits. When you stop and think about it top 40 stations presented quite a mix. You could hear Perry Como "And I Love Her So" and "Jumpn' Jack Flash" on the same station. Heck, while in Erie my station played Sister Janet Meade's "The Lord's Prayer" and ZZ Top in the same hour!

 

[jmtillery]

Perry Como was actually played on top 40 stations along with Al Martino and others of that ilk. Charlie Pride, Merle Haggard, and Lynn Anderson had hits. When you stop and think about it top 40 stations presented quite a mix. You could hear Perry Como "And I Love Her So" and "Jumpn' Jack Flash" on the same station. Heck, while in Erie my station played Sister Janet Meade's "The Lord's Prayer" and ZZ Top in the same hour!

Absolutely! I cut my broadcasting teeth on Top 40 radio which had a typical playlist as you described. And I think we can all agree that a beautiful music or easy listening station back in the 60s and 70s would never touch any of the songs now considered easy listening such as the Carpenters, Commodores, Neil Sedaka and others as these artists were considered MOR or borderline rock. The only Top 40 hit I have ever heard on a true beautiful music station is The Captain and Tennille’s Muskrat Love, and that was on a very conservative Bonneville programmed beautiful music station I once worked in 1978 and 1979. We did play Ray Conniff's version of If You Leave Me Now as the station management felt the Chicago version was too heavy for a beautuful music listening audience.

 

[flwfg]

When I worked at a local (Bradenton) MOR station in the early 70's we weren't even allowed to play most originals... Even the # 1 song of all of 1966... The Association's Cherish wasn't allowed... OK for Ray Coniff or Percy Faith's versions... but NOT the original... Go Figure....