Harvey Holiday’s Street Corner Sunday’s ends after 29 year

[John1]

Harvey Holiday signed a new contract with WOGL - I'd guess for at least a year. I'm sure he wasn't happy dropping SCS but he continues doing middays on a major market station at what is probably a good salary. He's not going to give that up. I don't know if he or the station owns the show name. There is no other major terrestrial station that would take the show - same as no one played 1890's music on the radio in 1960 when they were going after the boomers & post-war adults. As passionate as he may be about that music he's not going to give up the WOGL job to buy time on an internet station or fringe station. There are still opportunities for doo-wop & oldies music - all day Saturdays on WRDV & all the time on Philly Gold Radio among others. And Sirius/xm plays 3 hours of doo-wop in the same 9-12 time slot Sunday nights with Cool Bobby B who was 'the real' Don Steele on WRCP in the early 1970's. Maybe when/if HH retires someday he'll revive the show for fun on the internet somewhere.

 

[andreajesus]

I Hope So.....

So true! Wonder if any other station might pick this up?? Hmmm, Jersey 101.5 might be a good one on the weekends!

I would love to see that happen (I got friends over there.... - but I don't know if it would fit into Jersey 101.5's format (mostly a copy of WCBSFM......)

 

[cyber]

Of course those missing this kind of music can always go here at specific times:
http://www.wrdv.org/

 

[John1]

I would love to see that happen (I got friends over there.... - but I don't know if it would fit into Jersey 101.5's format (mostly a copy of WCBSFM......)

The show will not be picked up anywhere as long as Harvey Holiday is still working for WOGL doing weekdays. NJ101.5 did have a similar 50's-60's oldies show on Saturday & Sunday nights for many years with Norm Latham, back when they played oldies between the phone calls on weekdays & all weekend. When they went to the 'classic hits' route they dropped all the oldies shows many years ago. The demographic is too old now (I say that being 65) and they want to hold the under 55 audience so they will not go to oldies again, nor will any other commercial FM.

 

[TheBigA]

Maybe when/if HH retires someday he'll revive the show for fun on the internet somewhere.

"For fun" would be the only reason he'd do it. Certainly not for money, since internet radio is an expensive place to play music.

 

[John1]

"For fun" would be the only reason he'd do it. Certainly not for money, since internet radio is an expensive place to play music.

Exactly. I believe that the people on internet stations like Philly Gold Radio buy the time & sell their own commercials to stay on the air. Ron Cade couldn't find a station & ended up on PGR so he can keep the show going & promote his appearances. Same with former WPGR weekenders like Jimmy Parsons & King Arthur, etc. Tommy McCarthy was 'retired' by WOGL but I'm sure made a good salary as MD so you don't see him trying to find an internet show even though he enjoyed doing the fill-in on SCS for years & doing oldies shows way back on WPGR & WOGL-AM. I would guess HH will have a good retirement saved up from CBS & Entercom enough to not have to pay to do a show - 29 years was a great run but nothing lasts forever.

 

[John1]

Of course those missing this kind of music can always go here at specific times:
http://www.wrdv.org/

RDV weekends are a great place for classic street corner music - especially like the Sunday acappella show at 2 pm. The difference is Street Corner Sunday was a tight playlist of doo-wop hits and songs popular in Philadelphia that became familiar through repeated play over 29 years. RDV is more for the collector or people who enjoy hearing songs they haven't heard before or obscure recordings - great free-form radio but there are many people trained by commercial top 40 to only want to hear 'the hits' over & over.

 

[nd2023]

Maybe he could do his show on Cruisin 92.1

 

[andreajesus]

I Say That Too....

The show will not be picked up anywhere as long as Harvey Holiday is still working for WOGL doing weekdays. NJ101.5 did have a similar 50's-60's oldies show on Saturday & Sunday nights for many years with Norm Latham, back when they played oldies between the phone calls on weekdays & all weekend. When they went to the 'classic hits' route they dropped all the oldies shows many years ago. The demographic is too old now (I say that being 65) and they want to hold the under 55 audience so they will not go to oldies again, nor will any other commercial FM.

Sadly, I say that too - and i'm 58!!

 

[andreajesus]

John is right - I equal Harvey's show to Don K Reed's DooWopp Shop at WCBSFM in New York (back in the good old days) - BOTh shows played GREAT doowopp hits and Philly successes - and BOTH lasted for MANY years - happily, Philadelphia got to hear it for MANY more years than New York (in NY, the doowopps stopped in 2002) - and I will say this again what i said before - BRAVO to Harvey and to Philadelphia for keeping the music alive all these years!

 

[Gunsmoke]

and don't forget before Norm Latham in the early 70s, they had the late great Real Don Steele from 7 to midnight, who in my opinion played the best 'oh wow" cuts ever. He introduced me to High on a Hill by Scott English which sounded like a early doo wop but was actually from 1964, and the Clock from the Contenders same early sound which was done much later, these are gems he would play. Sadly he died in a plane crash and I think Norm took over.