Best Intro to Oldies Song

[CTListener]

My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.

A great song for sure (a CCR soundalike) but man did that tune get old in the late 90s when oldies radio ruined it by playing it like every other hour. Kind of like what PDs did with MONY MONY and MY GIRL.

It gets very old after awhile just selling vanilla ice cream.

Most oldies stations have boiled the Hollies' entire catalog down to "Bus Stop" and "Long Cool Woman." Maybe "The Air That I Breathe." When's the last time you heard "Stop! Stop! Stop!" or "On a Carousel"?

 

[radiofriend1]

My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.

A great song for sure (a CCR soundalike) but man did that tune get old in the late 90s when oldies radio ruined it by playing it like every other hour. Kind of like what PDs did with MONY MONY and MY GIRL.

It gets very old after awhile just selling vanilla ice cream.

yer in radio. U don't hear things or listen the same way listeners do

 

[DougD]

My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.

A great song for sure (a CCR soundalike) but man did that tune get old in the late 90s when oldies radio ruined it by playing it like every other hour. Kind of like what PDs did with MONY MONY and MY GIRL.

It gets very old after awhile just selling vanilla ice cream.

yer in radio. U don't hear things or listen the same way listeners do

Nope. Wrong again. I USED to be in radio in 1980 (high school) and 1985 (immediately after college, in news, before going to TV news).

I USED to listen regularly to oldies radion late 80s- early 90s until it became too repetitive with all the same songs, lack of variety, etc.

I really haven't listened regularly to the format in years, primarily because of

(a) incessant repitition
(b) the wholesale repudiation of the "first born" of oldies, the abandonment of each and every song from 1955-1966 really hurt the format.

Trust me, pal, listeners know when they hear a song too many times.

 

[ixnay]

When's the last time you heard "Stop! Stop! Stop!" or "On a Carousel"?

I hear each every once in a while on the satellite speaker in my office.

ixnay

 

[FRR]

No doubt about it....Ask The Lonely -Four Tops-1964

 

[FRR]

Also, Take Me For A Little While, by Vanilla Fudge... GREAT openings

 

[TheFonz]

Since I'm not in the music industry, I'm not sure of the correct term. However, what do you think is the best intro--lead in--on an oldies song that DJ's talk(ed) over.

My choice is the intro to "A Long Cool Woman (With a Black Dress On) by the Hollies c. 1972.

Angel Baby...........................Rosie & the Originals.

 

[Tom Wells]

Man, I LOVE the sax solo in the middle of "Angel Baby"! The 3rd note he plays goes flat, and it's just Wonderful.
My brain does something crazy when I hear that part.

Some of my favorite intros...

"Venus" by Shocking Blue.
"Gimme Gimme Good Lovin" by Crazy Elephant.
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" by The Ohio Express.

Who did "Susie Darling" ( "I thought you knew, you were all the world to me, all my dreams come true.")

 

[TheFonz]

Who did "Susie Darling" ( "I thought you knew, you were all the world to me, all my dreams come true.")

The best known version is by Robin Luke (#5-1958). Tommy Roe also did it in 1962 (#35).

 

[DougD]

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That's not an oldies tune. 70s hard rock.

 

[radiofriend1]

typical radio geek myopia

 

[Tom Wells]

Music geeks on this board.
My radio geekness is exercised on other boards here.

 

[RadioMan203]

Most oldies stations have boiled the Hollies' entire catalog down to "Bus Stop" and "Long Cool Woman." Maybe "The Air That I Breathe." When's the last time you heard "Stop! Stop! Stop!" or "On a Carousel"?

Tell me about it! I play both "Stop! Stop! Stop!" as well as "On a Carousel" not to mention more their sleeper hits like "Long Dark Road" and how about "Stop, In The Name Of Love" - which I believe is their only charted hit in the 80's (with a fairly decent intro for a talk-up, too).