Doesn't really matter, Thomas Dolby is 1983, Big Bopper is 1958, really, both are old songs, good songs and both can belong on an oldies / classic hits presentation. Not a trainwreck, just a station showing off their full, unadulterated playlist. Good for them, the way radio should be, as I've said xxx times already. Enjoy them while they last. Beats the monotony of big city radio.
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Classic Hits Stations Still Playing 60s & 70s But No 90s
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Doesn't really matter, Thomas Dolby is 1983, Big Bopper is 1958, really, both are old songs, good songs and both can belong on an oldies / classic hits presentation. Not a trainwreck, just a station showing off their full, unadulterated playlist. Good for them, the way radio should be, as I've said xxx times already. Enjoy them while they last. Beats the monotony of big city radio.
Yes, while they last. They will have changed format, sold or gone silent within a year.
Obviously, to you, reality sucks. Get over it.
When I started this thread, I was interested in finding out if there was still a significant number of Classic Hits stations still playing some 60s and early 70s, but no 90s. I got a couple of responses but nothing from a top 50 market. As stated, I thought it would give me an idea of how widespread it is, so I could get some notion of when it might happen in Portland and other places, but I need a fair amount of feedback to determine this. Thank you. At this point, I still hear 1964 Beatles songs.
The smaller the market, the less reliant stations are for agency business. And they are able to find more local accounts that value older consumers, at least in particular lines of business.
So you will find some stations playing a 60's core in such markets... and others with liberal doses of 60's.
However, this is also often a result of inexperienced programmers who don't understand that nearly all the strong, sustainable and continued interest in 60's music is among those who were teens and young adults in that decade and who are in their late 60's and 70's now.
Not mention us war veterans to whom 60's (and some 70's) music mean something quite different.
In this particular case, I'm not talking about a plethora of 60s songs but apparently, most larger markets don't have any. I don't think the programmers at the IHeart cluster are inexperienced. Some of the best people in the country come here, often from the largest markets. I'm sure that it's just a matter of time before all the "agency intensive" markets throw out 60s and add 90s. I just wanted to get a sense of when that might be, based on what was happening in other such markets.
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Actually in San Antonio, where I live KONO-FM 101.1 our classic hits station has added some 90’s songs over the last couple of months. The first 90’s I heard was MC Hammer U Can’t Touch this from 1990 and they’ve added more, they’ve even gone all the way up to 1999 and play Smooth by Santana regularly.
Other songs I hear regularly are It Must Have Been Love (Roxette), Nothing Compares to You (Sinead O Conor), Poison by Bel Biv Devoe, (1990), Groove Is in the Heart Dee Lite (1990), Everything I Do Bryan Adams (1991), Black or a White Michael Jackson (1991), End of the Road Boyz II Men (1992), Life is a Highway Tom Cochrane (1992), Two Princes Spin Princes (1993), What is Love Haddaway (1993), Crazy Aerosmith (1993), Dreams The Cranberries (1994), I Could a Fall in Love Selena (1995), If It Makes You Happy Sheryl Crow (1996), Tubthumping Chumbawumba (1997), I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing Aerosmith (1998)
The oldest song that the station plays regularly is Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison from 1967, all the music from the 1960’s and early 1970’s that the station used to play is on their sister station KONO-AM 860.
Other songs I hear regularly are It Must Have Been Love (Roxette), Nothing Compares to You (Sinead O Conor), Poison by Bel Biv Devoe, (1990), Groove Is in the Heart Dee Lite (1990), Everything I Do Bryan Adams (1991), Black or a White Michael Jackson (1991), End of the Road Boyz II Men (1992), Life is a Highway Tom Cochrane (1992), Two Princes Spin Princes (1993), What is Love Haddaway (1993), Crazy Aerosmith (1993), Dreams The Cranberries (1994), I Could a Fall in Love Selena (1995), If It Makes You Happy Sheryl Crow (1996), Tubthumping Chumbawumba (1997), I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing Aerosmith (1998)
The oldest song that the station plays regularly is Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison from 1967, all the music from the 1960’s and early 1970’s that the station used to play is on their sister station KONO-AM 860.
WZKY where I live says the music they play is from the Stone Age. And from even before the Rolling Stones.
And thanks to comments on online comics strips, I can say that if they were recording the song right now, the Stones would be singing, "Hey! You! Get offa my lawn!"
And thanks to comments on online comics strips, I can say that if they were recording the song right now, the Stones would be singing, "Hey! You! Get offa my lawn!"
That's very funny! Thanks for the LOL.
That's funny Chimp. My wi-fi can pick up one of my neighbor's broadcasts. He named his network "Get offa my cloud!"
Hey, I'm not the one making it suck. Lighten up.
Stop living in the past, they tell us.
But the music was so much better then.
But the music was so much better then.
Said almost everyone......
... over a certain age, as the generation before that said of its popular music.
Want proof? Log onto Youtube sometime and look at the comments of the music videos of 60's and 70's. You will find overwhelming approval for those songs and usually with a negative stab at today's pop music. Frequently the commentor will disclose his/her age and it is not unusual for them to be under 30.
Those comments come from a very few people.
The most viewed music video ever has 6.6 billion views just on one site and is just a few years old at this time.
There are exceptions to all the "normal" rules... I like plenty of hip hop songs and artists, and hate just as many. I still like some 50's songs, but don't want to hear most of them ever again.
For radio, it's not as much about age or era of songs as whether a specific station's listeners want to hear each individual song on the radio today.
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I've seen thousands of comments positive of Oldies but not one single one promoting currents. Now that may be just an anomaly but there are other platforms with similar results. Yes, it corresponds with my personal opinion - I think everyone here knows that - but I am not looking through this with rose colored glasses. And yes, I also realize the kids of today listen to the currents just as we did way back when. But none of that has any bearing on those three decades of innovation, experimentation and variety which are sadly missing from popular music today.
Your opinion about older songs and "never" wanting to "ever" hear them again, is odd. Most people love their oldies and enjoy the memories of days gone by. I can enjoy Lizzo, Dance Monkey or Post Malone "Circles" for today's draw, but forgetting most of the music one grew up with is unusual. Maybe you are the outlier afterall.
I don't care what so-called research suggests, most people, especially those in their golden years, long for their classics, not hip hop and it's disgusting lyrics.
I enjoy, as I said, some of the songs. Namely, ones that were both favorites at the time and which still sound good.
But the vast majority of songs I do not want to hear. Top 40's in the early years (1955-1965) played an awful lot of songs I did not like at all. About one out of every three I hated, another third were not great to me and just a few were real favorites.
But people in their 40's and 50's don't want to hear 50's and 60's music and even a lot of earlier 70's stuff. A few may like some of the songs. Most don't.
This kind of forum mostly appeals to those in older demos and those with a more curious interest in radio.
The younger demos are on Facebook and similar places. They spend infinite time talking about artists and songs that you, likely, have never heard or heard of.
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