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How Many FM's Playing Doo Wop and Pre 64 Music?

I was just wondering, as stated in post title, how many commercial FM stations are still playing doo wop and pre 1964 music? I know WOGL does, but mainly for specialty shows.<P ID="signature">______________


</P><P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by radiolover78 on 08/15/05 02:09 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> I was just wondering, as stated in post title, how many FM
> stations are still playing doo wop and pre 1964 music? I
> know WOGL does, but mainly for specialty shows.
>

92.1 WLNG in Long Island does. Great station.
 
On June 3rd between 10AM and 4PM until regular programming and the Bill Brown show ended, WCBS played a total of ONE. Louie, Louie. Then oldies said, "me gotta go." After 4PM for a half hour, wcbsfm.com was broadcast over 101.1FM.

It was a loss, but how much of a loss?



> I was just wondering, as stated in post title, how many
> commercial FM stations are still playing doo wop and pre
> 1964 music? I know WOGL does, but mainly for specialty
> shows.
>
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> > I was just wondering, as stated in post title, how many FM
>
> > stations are still playing doo wop and pre 1964 music? I
> > know WOGL does, but mainly for specialty shows.
> >
>
> 92.1 WLNG in Long Island does. Great station.
>
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As a small regional station we don't play all oldies, but we have a good chunk of oldies programming. I think we do a bang up job of covering pre 64 oldies as well as post 1964. Go to www.959watd.com to stream us or if in the area, give us a listen at 95.9 WATD, Marshfield , Ma. I speak for my show ,Solid Gold Sunday. It is heavy in the pre 64 tunes. From 1950 - 1969. Sunday from noon till 4:30. Our website can give you our schedule for oldies programming. All the jocks of oldies have their own collections so you the listener get a variety between each show. Give us a week and we will entertain you.
 
Oldies playing 50s/DooWop

Very few anymore, at least in regular rotation. Even the Doo Wop shows are dying.

Most Fifties and Doo Wop music is played on a few small market FMs, but is now largely on AMs (again, most in non-large/major markets).
 
> I was just wondering, as stated in post title, how many
> commercial FM stations are still playing doo wop and pre
> 1964 music? I know WOGL does, but mainly for specialty
> shows.
>

WRQN/Toledo does. It images pre-63 and doo wop as a "Jukebox Classic". Run one every other hour or so. And, they do 50's weekends. Station is Top 5 P25-54.<P ID="signature">______________
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Only other one that hasn't been mentioned is 103.9 WLSW in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. They play a whole lot during evenings and 24 hours during the weekends.
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Re: Oldies playing 50s/DooWop

> Very few anymore, at least in regular rotation. Even the
> Doo Wop shows are dying.
>
> Most Fifties and Doo Wop music is played on a few small
> market FMs, but is now largely on AMs (again, most in
> non-large/major markets).
>
In Little Rock, a local show Timeless Tracks (pre-Beatles era) Top 40/rock 'n roll airs on sunday nights on KOLL-106.3 (aka Oldies 106.3). Hosted by Tony Warner who did the show on 3 other stations (first on non-comm/community station KABF, then the old CC owned KOll-94.9 until its flip to Mix 94.9 in 2003, and briefly on a rimshot from Des Arc on 104.7 before returning to Little Rock radio).
 
Yup, there's certainly WATD which does have good variety, etc. Also some smaller FMs might have a doo-wop-style oldies SHOW. My station, WMWM in Salem, MA has had "Uncle Henry's Basement" (sat 6-9 pm) since '90. Also I think there are.
weekend shows, with pre-64 stuff, on WTWV/WDVT on Cape Cod (more powerful)

http://www.singers.com/radio_doo-wop.html



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