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Don K. Reed

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Several people announced the passing of Don K. Reed on Facebook. Since several people made this announcement, I must sadly believe it is true. He is best known for hosting the Doo Wop on Sunday nights from 7 PM-Midnight. He certainly kept alive this genre of music that was very popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He left WCBS-FM when it flipped to the dreaded Jack format in 2005. When WCBS-FM was relaunched in July 2007 Don came back to host the radio greats show on the last Sunday of every month. He also appeared on internet oldies radio stations and hosted concerts.

I'd also like to comment on announcing passings on social media. Announcing the passing should state the source of information. Citing a family member or a publication would be appropriate. I am not accusing anyone of malicious intent, but please be careful if you announce a passing.
 
andreaj10 said:
leave it to David Hinckley (former Daily News writer) to make sense out of this - very sad..... :(
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The article, unfortunately gets history wrong talking about the 1972 flip of CBS-FM to oldies:

"...take a gamble on something radio had never thought could be a real format: oldies."

WMOD in DC was oldies in 1969. So was suburban WEEL. There were "golden oldies stations" in many markets by 1970.

That clarified, it is indeed sad that we are now constantly losing the people who gave us great variety in radio as the 70's opened up FM and many more signals to fill with content. In many markets prior to then all we had were Top 40, varieties of MOR, R&B and a few early Spanish language stations.

As the 70's opened up, people like Don Reed and other format pioneers gave us oldies, true "Beautiful Music", AOR, AC, formatted country and a number of transitory formats like disco. Those innovators gave us decades of fun radio.
 
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