"Goldfinger" on CBS FM

[lalumia]

man,they're playing everything but the kitchen sink this week of "Library records"; Fabulous!!

 

[radioman148]

GREAT!! Not the usual cookie cutter stuff.

 

[lalumia]

Good Lord! "Islands In The Stream"; the MOR period of Top 40, just before MTV and Z100 NY came to the rescue...
after all this time, I'm actually enjoying this...lol

 

[kevinsealy]

lalumia,

It was also great to hear Joe Causi play the Carpenters, "Hurting Each Other".




Thanks,
Kevin L.Sealy

 

[lalumia]

and the 70's Supremes (when Diana Ross left and Jean Terrell took the lead spot) are well represented with "Up The Ladder To The Roof",Stoned Love",and the "River Deep Mountain High" duet with the Four Tops!

 

[CTListener]

Good Lord! "Islands In The Stream"; the MOR period of Top 40, just before MTV and Z100 NY came to the rescue...
after all this time, I'm actually enjoying this...lol

MOR, country crossovers and disco, that's about all Top 40 radio would play from 1978 to 1980. Remember what a kick in the pants "My Sharona" was when it started getting airplay amid all that dross? It's a period of pop history that radio now ignores, even on satellite, where most of the hits of 1980 and early 1981 -- pre-MTV -- just don't get played on the '80s decade channel. Of course, the fact that Sirius XM pays MTV's has-been VJs handsomely to sleepwalk through a day's worth of voicetracked patter from their homes whenever they have the chance may have something to do with that.

 

[lalumia]

there was an unspoken campaign to eradicate rock from Top 40; remember 77WABC  AM not playing "Jesse's Girl" and "I Love Rock & Roll"?..and they wondered why they had lost listeners; through the 70's, Top40 AM fled from glitter/glam rock, NY punk and new wave, clinging to John Denver and Helen Reddy,Kenny Rogers and Air Supply(ugh!) for dear life...
Thank you, Jesus, for MTV!

 

[oldies76]

It's a period of pop history that radio now ignores, even on satellite, where most of the hits of 1980 and early 1981 -- pre-MTV -- just don't get played on the '80s decade channel.

Radio tends to avoid anything that will cost them $$$....oh well......Thank God for 690 Pueblo. Heard "Nine to Five", "Give Me the Night" & "Just the Two of Us" last week. Its when radio cares about it's listeners, when the true results come out.