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Hot Hits 98 - WOGL-FM

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EasyBakeOven

WOGL has started doing the Labor Day Replay.
They feature music from a different year each hour.
Today at Noon, the year was 1982.
Wow, it almost sounding like Hot Hits 98, WCAU-FM,
except the music wasn't pitched up 2%.

12pm:

The Cars - Shake It Up
Ray Parker, Jr. - The Other Woman
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock And Roll
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Bertie Higgins - Key Largo
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do
The Go-Go's - Vacation
Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Love Come Down
Paul Davis - 65 Love Affair
 
These are songs that could be added to their playlist soon. Outside of the Joan Jett song, most of them are AC-leaning, and fit the format. WIP played a few of them in 1982. Now, if WOGL had played songs like "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson, "Heat of the Moment" by Asia, "Do You Believe in Love" by Huey Lewis and the News, "Rosanna" by Toto, "Abracadabra" by Steve Miller, "Centerfold" by J. Geils Band, or "Only the Lonely" by the Motels, I would have been surprised. These were some of the better Hot Hits of 1982. I remember listening to all of these songs on WCAU-FM back then. Has it really been 26 years??
 
Would be nicer if they could/would use the old Hot Hits jingle package(s) in some matter, as a "tip of the ol' Stetson" to the late great CAU-FM.
 
Wow! The hour you listed sounds delicious. I'm definitely going to listen to WOGL this weekend. I hope they will hit up some good disco dance type music when they feature years from the seventies. Good job WOGL!
 
DFB said:
I hope they will hit up some good disco dance type music when they feature years from the seventies.
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There's no such thing as "good disco".
 
This labor day "special" reminds me of a Chinese restaurant that has one menu that they serve for lunch and dinner. They then put a sign on the door advertising a "special".It's the same dishes. The only difference is they are throwing in a free bottle of soda.The same with WOGL. It's the same crap 24/7. The only difference is THEY ARE PLAYING A DIFFERENT YEAR PER HOUR. BIG DEAL. YAAAAAAAWN.MAN O MAN, these cookie cutter corporate stations make me sick.No imagination, no ingenuity,no balls. Just the same ol' safe cookie cutter programing, playing the same ol' common cuts that you can hear on any fm dial in any city. Yeah, I'm excited.
 
doowopvault said:
This labor day "special" reminds me of a Chinese restaurant that has one menu that they serve for lunch and dinner. They then put a sign on the door advertising a "special".It's the same dishes. The only difference is they are throwing in a free bottle of soda.The same with WOGL. It's the same crap 24/7. The only difference is THEY ARE PLAYING A DIFFERENT YEAR PER HOUR. BIG DEAL. YAAAAAAAWN.MAN O MAN, these cookie cutter corporate stations make me sick.No imagination, no ingenuity,no balls. Just the same ol' safe cookie cutter programing, playing the same ol' common cuts that you can hear on any fm dial in any city. Yeah, I'm excited.
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Come on. When was the last time you heard "The Other Woman" by Ray Parker, Jr. or "The Other Guy" by Little River Band (coincidence? :))? You don't even hear those on satellite radio, let alone WOGL, the station famous for burning out the same songs over and over again.
 
That isn't what I'm talking about. Tens of thousands of Doo Wop, R&B and Rock n' Roll cuts we're recorded in the 50's. None are played on WOGL. Doo Wop alone, over 19.000 we're recorded.And don't give me the bull s... that they're is not a huge damand for them. in the 90's a poll was taken at WCBS. The majority of the songs requested, the songs people said they would like to hear on the station, we're Doo Wop and Rock n'Roll from the 50's. Leave it to the corporations to screw it up.
 
One correction before others jump on it. Yeah, they have Harvey Holliday's "street coner sunday". Big deal. 3 hours of common Doo Wop & R&B vocal group cuts. Out of the over 19.000 Doo Wop cuts, not counting the R&B vocal groups.What I was referring to was their playlist 6 & 3/4 days a week. If you want to hear the REAL oldies, go to the internet. Such as my show, the Doo Wop vault on www.rockitradio.net or the small independent terrestrial stations. such as WVLT or WRVD.
 
doowopvault said:
And don't give me the bull s... that they're is not a huge damand for them. in the 90's a poll was taken at WCBS. The majority of the songs requested, the songs people said they would like to hear on the station, we're Doo Wop and Rock n'Roll from the 50's. Leave it to the corporations to screw it up.
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For years, CBS-FM's listener-powered "Top 500" countdown every Thanksgiving weekend was usually capped off with two of the most golden of golden oldies, "In The Still Of The Night" by the Five Satins, and "Earth Angel" by the Penguins. These songs were the perennial Gold and Silver of the Top 500 on CBS-FM.

This Labor Day, same countdown, same premise, and those same two songs finished this year at 9 and 30, respectively.

Times change, Dennis.
 
From what i understand about the radio business, advertisers could care less about people over 50, so playing songs from the 1950's isn't a high priority for WOGL. The fact they they are slowing adding songs from the 80's should signify that the doo-wop era is almost done, as far as being a format on terrestrial radio. In a few years, the 60's will be done as a format as well. Just look at the music that still sells in large numbers, almost nothing before 1970. Just accept the fact that the people are getting older, and they want to hear the music they grew up with, not their parents music.
 
Yeah, yeah, it's the same ol' response. I've heard it over and over again. It's really funny, and sad by the way, how people just regurgitate what corporate america says. Doo Wop is dead? How can something that's dead continue to sell out? why do the CD compilations continue to sell?
 
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