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CBS-FM Artists A to Z Countdown

oldies76

oldies76

CBS-FM does it again!! Another wonderful specialty with some rarely heard songs played all Thanksgiving week!! Anything to increase ratings even more! :)
 
DeBarge to Deep Purple to Rick Dees to Def Leppard to Desmond Dekker. Love to hear a train wreck sound effect between songs (except when they played The Cars)
 
Deep Purple and Def Leppard on CBS-FM???? They've gone overboard with the AOR. Although I'll let them slide on Deep Purple if it was "Hush" that they played since it was a single in 1968, but both of these bands were considered heavy metal at one time.
 
I've heard if that, but why not add some artists to appear on the playlist of "A to Z Countdowns" including Hootie & the Blowfish (featuring singer Darius Rucker), Atlantis Morrisette and a few others to CBS-FM. I don't see the station adding a few 90's music, but it's not gonna happen anytime soon. 90's would be a great fit to have on a greatest hits station, but it's not happening for the next few years. WBPM played a few 90's songs in the "Classic Hits/Rock" station on 92.9.
 
since when are heavy metal bands not allowed to have top 40 hits/ don't go all 'rick sklar' on us;
soul artists,jazz artists, country artists have enjoyed Top 40 pop hits through the decades,and so have heavy bands; a hit is a hit!
 
disney fanatic said:
90's would be a great fit to have on a greatest hits station, but it's not happening for the next few years. WBPM played a few 90's songs in the "Classic Hits/Rock" station on 92.9.
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Music of 1990 is 20 years old now, just like in 1990, music of 1970 was 20 years old. Music 20 years old should be considered oldies / classic hits and played on CBS-FM, as long as it fits the format as pop oldies or classic hits. Nothing wrong with 1991's "Set the Night to Music" by Roberta Flack & Maxi Priest or "Crazy" by Seal mixed in.

On the other hand, I wouldn't air "Baby Got Back" after "Hey Jude" :)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
 
I have one small gripe with the segment I heard today: I heard a song by Gary U.S. Bonds followed by Bon Jovi. It should be "Bon" followed by "Bonds". Unless they were going with the actual spelling of the singer's name (John Bongiovi).

By the by, while I was in the B's, guess which 90's song I heard that raised my eyebrows? "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown.
 
DToTheJ said:
while I was in the B's, guess which 90's song I heard that raised my eyebrows? "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown.
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#1 in Jan. 1989, close enough.
 
Both of you are right - and I should have known better, because why else would there have been a reference to "Beetlejuice" in the lyrics (in the pre-Howard Stern's Beetlejuice era)? ::)

The song still sounds a little out of place on CBS-FM, though...
 
the R.E.M. track was a huge NY hit, via 77WABC's heir, Z100...thereby, it's a Top 40 hit that should eventually be on CBS FM...
for that matter, so too should "Come On Feel The Noize" by Quiet Riot(since the original 1972 Slade record was ignored or worse, boycotted in USA during the great glam rock shut out of 1972 by Rick Sklar & Co.)
 
Sorry. Not time yet for 90s tunes on CBS-FM. Discussion for this should happen in 5 years when it'll be time to jettison all the 60s.
 
it'll never be time to jettison the 60s...that would be a fatal mistake....
museums in paris aren't throwing out Da Vinci and Mattisse because of 'testing' ,and replacing them with something from 20 years ago;
well, The Beatles and The Supremes are the Da Vinci and Mattisse of 'pop culture' and you f*** with them at your own peril!!(generation after generation cling to these songs as much if not more as contemporary hits; how dumb could a programmer possibly be?)
 
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