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Flashback: WW1 Adult Standards playlist sample from 1999

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ChrisInMI

Courtesy of a Chicago Sun-Times article from 1999 about WAIT 850 AM which was running the format at the time, here is a playlist sample from then covering three hours. For those of you longing for the way this format used to sound before the playlist was overflooded by soft rock in the early 2000s, you may enjoy this trip down memory lane.

Roberta Flack/Peabo Bryson - Tonight I Celebrate My Love
Rosemary Clooney - Give Me The Simple Life
Floyd Cramer - Last Date
Four Knights - Oh Baby Mine
Jerry Vale - Old Cape Cod
Dionne Warwick et al. - That's What Friends Are For
Ray Charles - Born To Lose
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Jennifer Warnes - Right Time Of The Night
Frankie Laine - Moonlight Gambler
Al Hibbler - Unchained Melody
Tony Bennett - Once Upon A Time
Fleetwoods - Come Softly To Me
Johnnie Ray - Cry
Barbra Streisand - If I Loved You
Ferrante & Teicher - Exodus
Dean Martin - You're Breaking My Heart
Somethin' Smith & The Redheads - It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
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Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It
Ray Charles Singers - This Is My Song (was this the Petula Clark song?)
Bobby Vinton - I Love How You Love Me
Ames Brothers - You, You, You (this is one of the older songs that Dial Global has re-added over the past year or so)
Les Baxter - The Poor People Of Paris (ditto Ames Bros. song)
John Denver - Calypso
Frank Sinatra - All The Way (anyone remember when MOYL played the Sinatra/Celine Dion "duet" version of this song?)
Michael Crawford - Stormy Weather
Gordon Lightfoot - Carefree Highway
Keely Smith - The Sunny Side Of The Street
Nat King Cole - Love Letters
Buddy Holly - That'll Be The Day
Ray Conniff - S'Wonderful
Carpenters - Sing
Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix
Johnny Mathis - Stranger In Paradise
Tymes - So Much In Love
David Rose - Holiday For Strings
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Dusty Springfield - The Look Of Love
Tony Bennett - The Best Is Yet To Come
Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem
Chordettes - Mr. Sandman
Andy Williams - The Days Of Wine And Roses
Frankie Valli - Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Brook Benton - Rainy Night In Georgia
Lettermen - Hurt So Bad
Anne Murray - Shadows In The Moonlight
Spitfire Band - Saturday Night Is The Loneliest Night Of The Week
Bobby Darin - Dream Lover
Henry Mancini - The Way You Look Tonight
Julie London - Cry Me A River (another older song DG resurrected in the past year although they're playing Susan Boyle's version more frequently now)
Jerry Vale - I'll Get By
Simon & Garfunkel - Scarborough Fair
Frank Sinatra - How Little We Know
Matt Monro - Somewhere
Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Petite Fleur
 
"Julie London - Cry Me A River (another older song DG resurrected in the past year although they're playing Susan Boyle's version more frequently now)" I thought you were going to say they were playing Joe Cocker's version!
 
Chris, do you have the specific name of the article and the specific date? I'd like to put that list on Wikipedia.

It's not all that different from what's being done now.
 
ChrisInMI said:
Hey VChimp, sorry, I just saw your reply now. I sent you a PM. Let me know if you don't get it.
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Oh, sorry. I got the email with the PM text, but I only go to the site once a week.

Look at the Wikipedia article and see if I did everything right.
 
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