Genesis....on K-Hits?

[poops]

I know NOTHING! And I reveal nothing... other than the fact that yes we are playing more "new" music from the early 80s...you'll probably hear fewer of the 60s tunes.. its more or less a natural evolution...if you think about it.

When I started work at KLDE in 1989, we were playing the 50s and 60s, with only a few 70s songs. Still the music selections went back around 30 years max.... So here we are in 2008...almost 20 years later and the music is still going back about 30 years...actually more like 35 or so... Its just no longer called an "Oldies" station, because the songs we grew up listening to can't be old can they? No way.

By the way, we had been playing ZZ Top La Grange for quite a while, maybe a year or more, before the recent evolution. And I doubt most people would have a problem with the Billy Idol version of Mony Mony. I use it at my DJ gigs all the time, even in the middle of an "oldies" set... because its got a much more danceable sound... (is danceable a word????)

Thats it for me..

Kevinc

Kevin, I was hoping you'd weigh in and... not tell us any inside info... but just lead us in the right direction . Hey... ZZ Top is great since they were actively on the charts in the 70's (La Grange... 74ish), and actually I have no quarrels with 80's music as long as there is a good mix. It would however be nice to see the 60's stay in the mix as well for us old timers, simply because the pickin's are getting pretty slim for our group. KBGO kinda impressed me with their mix, and seemed to cater to the 30-60 crowd. Granted, I only listened to them for a couple of days while in Waco, and some on the web, but they seemed pretty fresh. I still listen to KLD... Dayum, I still can't get that right, sorry, K-Hits, but I have a sizeable collection of vinyl, cassettes, 8-tracks (can you believe it) and cds that I'm tranforming into mp3s so I'll have my music to listen to when they throw the 90's and 00's into the mix. By then... I'll either be fertilizer in a box or so old that I won't even know who I am.

BTW... "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol is okay with me as long as I get to hear Tommy James' version on occasion. Oh... and "danceable" works for me.

Thanks Kevin

poops

 

[sdh483]

Some good late 70s-early 80s music that would go good:

1978-79
Two Out of Three - Meatloaf
Fooling Yourself - Styx
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
FM (No Static At All) - Steely Dan
Kiss You All Over - Exile
I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vanelli
Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
No Tell Lover - Chicago
What A Fool Believes - Doobie Brothers
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Forever In Blue Jeans - Neil Diamond
Heart of Glass - Blondie
The Logical Song - Supertramp
Chuck E's In Love - Rickie Lee Jones
I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick
Is She Really Going Out With Him - Joe Jackson
throw in The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
After The Love Has Gone - Earth Wind and Fire
Don't Stop Till You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
Rise - Herb Alpert
Fins - Jimmy Buffet
This Is It - Kenny Loggins
Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles
Sara - Fleetood Mac
Time Passages - Al Stewart

1980-84
Head Games - Foreigner
Heartbraker - Pat Benatar
Second Time Around - Shalamar
Give It All You Got - Chuck Mangione
And The Beat Goes On - The Whispers
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Cars - Gary Numan
Any Way You Want It - Journey
I'm Alright - Kenny Loggins
Don't Ask Me Why - Billy Joel
Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
She's So Cold - Rolling Stones
Rapture - Blondie
Being With You - Smokey Robinson
Living Inside Myself - Gino Vanelli
Bette Davis Eyes- Kim Carnes
The One You Love- Glen Frey
The Stroke - Billy Squire
Elvira - Oak Ridge Boys
Waiting For a Girl Like You - Foreigner
Superfreak - Rick James
Don't Stop Believin - Journey
867-5309 - Tommy Tutone
Don't Talk To Strangers - Rick Springfield
Rosanna - Toto
Bad To The Bone - George Thorougood
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
Workin for a Livin- Huey Lewis & The News
I'm So Excited - Pointer Sisters
Mickey - Toni Baisl
Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Down Under - Men At Work
Look What You've Done To Me - Boz Scaggs
One On One - Hall and Oates
Seperate Ways - Journey
Billy Jean - Michael Jackson
Flashdance (What A Feeling) - Irene Cara
Jane - Starship
Whip It - Devo
Hard To Say I'm Sorry - Chicago
Gimme All your Lovin - ZZ Top
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
Tender is the Night - Jackson Browne
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Heart And Soul - Huey Lewis & the News
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Tell Her About It- Billy Joel
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project
Jump (For My Love) - Pointer Sisters
Jump - Van Halen
Glory Days - Bruce Springsteen
On The Darkside - John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band
Wake Me Up Before You GoGo - Wham!
Beter Be Good To Me - Tina Turner
Out of Touch - Hall & Oates
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
Hard Habit To Break - Chicago
Old Man Down The Road - John Fogerty

Just a thought. Keep it rock heavy w/ some disco and R&B mixed in. Throw in one or two country songs (think Urban Cowboy era). Nothing way too obsure or too electronic. My sample playlists seem to be large, just like my iPod playlists. would be cool to hear some early 80s stuff you don't hear too much. Seems like The Point focuses on 1984-89, you barely hear a lot of 1980-84 stuff.

 

[poops]

Hey Kevin,

I'm not only hearing some new 80's in the mix on K-Hits, but it seems that y'all have rotated some not normally played 70's too? It's actually sounding a bit better. Hope Cox is listening to the right people and let y'all expand the playlist some more.

Poops

 

[edriskill]

What we really need is an FM that would play '50's/'60's oldies on one channel, and smooth jazz on the other. That would work for the one-half of one percent of us who haven't caught on to any of the yankee formula formats we currently have.

I don't sound bitter, do I? (I'd have to clean my gun and polish up my bible). Guess I should just break down and go XM, too...

 

[sdh483]

Me thinking Houston radio was much better than the last town I lived in, it's all the same everywhere you go. Wasn't impressed with DFW, Austin is getting lame too, even NYC's radio list seems pretty dull. The only thing I listen to now is Jack and KACC. I've gone back to burning CDs and stashing a case of them for the car rides, digging out old tapes and hitting the record bins at Half Price. At home I put on Music Choice from Comcast or listen to Oxford's Jack FM online. I also plan on getting a deck for the car w/ an aux jack or find some way to add an aux input to a '07 Toyota Corolla factory radio.

 

[comptx]

It's a shame that the oldies format is slowly being killed off.  The morph of KLDE to K-Hits and the slow and not as obvious morph at KONO in San Antonio hurts not only the older folks but us younger guys who grew up listening to the oldies format back in the day.  Don't get me wrong, KONO still sounds good, but the higher rotation of latter-70's and lack of early to mid-60 is kind of a bummer.  I enjoy listening to the early years of motown and mid-60's rock.  I know times are-a-changing, but if I wanted to listen to 80's, I'd listen to Jack or The Point and even Mix.  We surely don't need more stations playing 80's.  If you still want to hear a good oldies station...KMXR in Corpus Christi still sounds good.  ;D 

I do have XM and really like "60's on 6"  but I like the variety of being able to hear "Baby Love" by The Supremes into The Delfonics "La-La Means I Love You, into "More Today than Yesterday" by Spiral Staircase into "The Air that I Breath" by The Hollies.