Another thought on Oldies

[Oldiesgal]

I used to come to Noo York during the heydays of WABC and WMCA. I remember WNEW AM and all had jocks who really sounded like Noo York in their voice and delivery. Nobody could have been better than Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie. I remember when ABC objected to Brucie's use of calling the audience "Cuzzins". Brucie answered something like New Yorkers are the corniest people in the world.
Just as real jazz, swing, and big bands have found homes on public radio, maybe thats the place where oldies will finally wind up. Cousin Brucie on NPR or Pacifica is not such a strange concept anymore. Where is bluegrass? On country stations? Not a chance. Its on NPR and Pacifica. Here in Tampa, WMNF plays Bluegrass,raggea , jazz, and oldies. You can count on knowing that when a format is considered too out of it for FM, public radio finds a place for it.

 

[Dondd]

I used to come to Noo York during the heydays of WABC and WMCA. I remember WNEW AM and all had jocks who really sounded like Noo York in their voice and delivery. Nobody could have been better than Dan Ingram and Cousin Brucie. I remember when ABC objected to Brucie's use of calling the audience "Cuzzins". Brucie answered something like New Yorkers are the corniest people in the world.
Just as real jazz, swing, and big bands have found homes on public radio, maybe thats the place where oldies will finally wind up. Cousin Brucie on NPR or Pacifica is not such a strange concept anymore. Where is bluegrass? On country stations? Not a chance. Its on NPR and Pacifica. Here in Tampa, WMNF plays Bluegrass,raggea , jazz, and oldies. You can count on knowing that when a format is considered too out of it for FM, public radio finds a place for it.

I have become a regular WMNF listener.
It's a great station.

 

[Steve Green NEPA]

Most likely, I have a few weeks on most of you folks here.
Okay. Like maybe 4500 weeks.

Our teen DXing group grew up in between the Greaser era and the Beatles tenure.
We had no choice ; we were neither style. It was quite a challenge in 1963, trying to impress a Queens neighbourhood girl by coming off looking as tough and menacing and bad, as a Beach Boy. But we somehow all got through it the culture changes. Jan & Dean helped, as did the Brill Building and the original roots of Motown.

But no radio station in the Milky Way plays that music anymore. Heck -- we're now closer to the hit music of 2050 than we are to 1950.

So now it;s all internet sources for nostalgia rock and roll, OldiesGal. Those sources have been all there've been here for ten years, in fact. ....... Top Shelf Oldies, Memory Lane Oldies, Rewound Radio, Oldies & More and a few others here in the 'favourites' folder are real delights. Some of them can sound wincingly amateurish at times, but the music is terrific. A lot of them have chat rooms, too.

Best!
Steve Green and his $200 laptop, cassettes, victrola and 8-tracks



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[luperm]

Fun fact...you're responding to a 16 year old thread.

 

[semoochie]

Most likely, I have a few weeks on most of you folks here.
Okay. Like maybe 4500 weeks.

Our teen DXing group grew up in between the Greaser era and the Beatles tenure.
We had no choice ; we were neither style. It was quite a challenge in 1963, trying to impress a Queens neighbourhood girl by coming off looking as tough and menacing and bad, as a Beach Boy. But we somehow all got through it the culture changes. Jan & Dean helped, as did the Brill Building and the original roots of Motown.

But no radio station in the Milky Way plays that music anymore. Heck -- we're now closer to the hit music of 2050 than we are to 1950.

So now it;s all internet sources for nostalgia rock and roll, OldiesGal. Those sources have been all there've been here for ten years, in fact. ....... Top Shelf Oldies, Memory Lane Oldies, Rewound Radio, Oldies & More and a few others here in the 'favourites' folder are real delights. Some of them can sound wincingly amateurish at times, but the music is terrific. A lot of them have chat rooms, too.

Best!
Steve Green and his $200 laptop, cassettes, victrola and 8-tracks



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In fewer than four years, your statement will be true of the '70s!