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How do you describe this format?
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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Mine too and yet I never liked what was loud.
Though as I am forced to listen to oldies rather than standards in the car. unless I am closer to Charlotte and get soft oldies instead, I am starting to develop a taste for some of the louder stuff.
Getting back to the original topic, is there a name for this?
And yet I am willing to bet there are "get off my lawn" types, including myself, who will disagree.
We'll make exceptions for big bands and some early rock and roll from back when it was still called that.
To answer the original question, I say that the format is adult hits.
I was born on the 5th day of the Boomer generation, and neither I nor any of my school friends has any liking for or interest in big bands or very early rock and roll.
I'm starting to think that's the case. Someone on Wikipedia actually changed the station's format to "soft oldies" in the article, after the "soft" had been removed several, years ago. And the station has changed even since then. The previous format shown in the article was based on a source several decades old.
Amazingly, it was "oldies/easy listening" at one place in the article just a few years ago and that's two decades out of date.
You and I were the only ones of that era who didn't appreciate the recently departed Jerry Lee Lewis?
Not the grandma who lives with me.
"Oldies is a time period, not a music genre and definitely not Taylor Swift (or many others on this list).
I appreciate the heritage, just as I appreciate the big bands and other earlier music forms. But I am not a fan of most music from the earliest days of rock 'n' roll, whether it be Bill Haley or Little Richard or even early Elvis songs.
"Oldies" is, indeed, the hits of the mid-50's to the earlier 70's in the radio definition zone. But there is no strict rule, so each person and each station can define it however they want.
There are no Format Police. Stations can call themselves whatever they want, and so can listeners.
However, Jerry Lee matured a bit as he got older. This song is an example.
I say "a bit" because he continued to party until his stroke.
He should have been a country singer all along.
Got to agree with you on that one. I did not like his early RnR stuff but could tolerate his later Country songs - some of them anyway - even though I wasn't a Country music fan.
I was looking for further information and didn't find anything. However, people tell me I should be very specific with Google, or they were. This was interesting reading!
What happened to WVLG - Talk of The Villages Florida 2020
WVLG format change - Talk of The Villages Florida and
Done with WVLG, no more! [Archive] - Talk of The Villages Florida 2022
What happened to WVLG - Talk of The Villages Florida 2020
WVLG format change - Talk of The Villages Florida and
Done with WVLG, no more! [Archive] - Talk of The Villages Florida 2022
Based on what I read and linked to above, people are complaining about too many ads for housing in the area, and open houses. And it appears the target audience is the "younger" people who are moving in, not the older established people who were already there.
Nevertheless, the format changes made the people mad, as I predicted. just not for the same reasons I thought they would. They joked about Perry Como and "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" and Bing Crosby. That's what I want!
And some people pointed out it was just one song or a few songs that made others upset. Using that logic, I have no trouble with WERT. If they play a bad song I just turn it off and try again later. But there are so many good songs! KTUC has few bad songs but they keep playing the same ones over and over.
WERT is what should be playing in a place like The Villages. At least for the "Get off my lawn" types.
Exactly. That's what WRNJ in Hackettstown, NJ is doing -- they play everything from the Animals to the Glass Animals.
WTZQ Hendersonville NC, which has a large retired population, used to say everything from Glenn Miller to Steve Miller. I haven't tried it lately.
With Mitch Miller bridging the generations between Glenn and Steve?
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