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I’m Officially Done With WCBS-FM - My Thoughts and Memories of the Station.
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How many Oldies are within reach of New York City and Long Island?? I know that WHLI is still around and WABC is on weekends. But what other stations near the New York City area play Oldies???
WCBS-FM HD3 (True Oldies Channel) and WMTR/1250 AM Morristown, NJ.
Depends where you are, BJSteigner. Here's one on AM from near Asbury Park that's loud all through southern Nassau County.
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MTNProductions
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After a week and a half of waiting, I posted this one. For those of you have not heard of before, here he is. This is Allan David Stein as heard on WMTR back on January 3rd which was Tuesday morning.
This is the first show I listened to following Scott Shannon on WCBS-FM and Bob Miller on WBPM. The music is way better than WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies”, because it has the oldies from the 50’s through the 70’s, just like the way it sounded on the good old WCBS-FM when it was and still is “New York’s Oldies Station”. Allan David Stein is also the host of “Doo-Wop Drive” every Friday night playing Doo-Wop’s the way that Don K Reed played back in the “Doo-Wop Shop” days on Sunday nights. I love Allan David Stein a lot better than Bob Miller on WBPM, and I’m giving it as a new favorite. Take a good listen.
This is the first show I listened to following Scott Shannon on WCBS-FM and Bob Miller on WBPM. The music is way better than WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies”, because it has the oldies from the 50’s through the 70’s, just like the way it sounded on the good old WCBS-FM when it was and still is “New York’s Oldies Station”. Allan David Stein is also the host of “Doo-Wop Drive” every Friday night playing Doo-Wop’s the way that Don K Reed played back in the “Doo-Wop Shop” days on Sunday nights. I love Allan David Stein a lot better than Bob Miller on WBPM, and I’m giving it as a new favorite. Take a good listen.
WMTR: Allan David Stein - 1/3/23 : Allan David Stein : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
WMTR: Allan David Stein - 1/3/23
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I miss Julius. Wonder what he’s up to nowadays?
Probably joined a k-pop protest group?
NYRadioFan22
Banned
And on 77 WABC Saturday nights with Vinnie Medugno at 5 PM and Cousin Brucie at 6 PM!!!!!
I thought he was rambling about WPHT failing in his head again...
WMTR-AM is a good oldies station. I also like David Allen Stein Doo-Wop show very well done.After a week and a half of waiting, I posted this one. For those of you have not heard of before, here he is. This is Allan David Stein as heard on WMTR back on January 3rd which was Tuesday morning.
This is the first show I listened to following Scott Shannon on WCBS-FM and Bob Miller on WBPM. The music is way better than WGNY-FM’s “Fox Oldies”, because it has the oldies from the 50’s through the 70’s, just like the way it sounded on the good old WCBS-FM when it was and still is “New York’s Oldies Station”. Allan David Stein is also the host of “Doo-Wop Drive” every Friday night playing Doo-Wop’s the way that Don K Reed played back in the “Doo-Wop Shop” days on Sunday nights. I love Allan David Stein a lot better than Bob Miller on WBPM, and I’m giving it as a new favorite. Take a good listen.
WMTR: Allan David Stein - 1/3/23 : Allan David Stein : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
WMTR: Allan David Stein - 1/3/23archive.org
How does a show like that sustain itself? Doo-Wop is a genre that has predominantly octogenarians in its audience and that is an un-salable group.
It's a Friday night 7 to 10PM specialty show.
Is Stein an employee of the station? If not, the show could be a time buy.
He's part of the morning team.
WMTR is an anomaly in Beasley’s lineup as a true “oldies” station. It’s all local, so I’d be surprised what kind of revenue it earns.
MTNProductions
Banned
Yes it does, he plays nothing but doo-wop, just like the way Don K Reed played on the “Doo-Wop Shop” which was a Sunday night staple for 27 years on WCBS-FM starting in 1975 and ended in 2002.
A few years ago, I played a doo-wop record on a 1950s turntable I recently purchased to see if it worked. My dad told me to turn it off. I turned it back on a few minutes later. He stormed into the room and said, "I told you to turn that crap off! The only people who listen to that music are either dead or should be!" He isn't wrong.
I do wonder if at some point, 50s/60s oldies will return to the airwaves in the form of non-profit operations, sort of like classical music. I have no clue how anyone can sell ads on a station that plays music for a demographic 65+. It must take a lot of convincing. Props to those sales people.
The differences between classical music and doo-wop are many, but chief among them is that classical music draws on centuries of active composition and performance, while doo-wop was a brief popular music fad spanning small parts of two decades. It's extremely unlikely that doo-wop will even be remembered, let alone performed or broadcast, once the baby boomers (the youngest demographic alive when doo-wop was current) are gone, while orchestras and smaller ensembles will still be playing the works of the greats of the 16th through 20th centuries to appreciative audiences and making them available on commercially produced recordings.
It's always amazed me how Classical music has endured for so long, and, for just about every good-sized market having a station playing it -- plus with consistent numbers.
I suppose when (and if) the genre starts to dissipate, it'll be treated the same way the Standards and Oldies and C&W and Jazz got abused Someone will splice apart some of Bill Drake's old voicers for a younger audience (and give only digital time, of course).
'Ladies and Gentlemen (tympani roll) : Four hundred years ago to-day !!!'
I suppose when (and if) the genre starts to dissipate, it'll be treated the same way the Standards and Oldies and C&W and Jazz got abused Someone will splice apart some of Bill Drake's old voicers for a younger audience (and give only digital time, of course).
'Ladies and Gentlemen (tympani roll) : Four hundred years ago to-day !!!'
Station plays Brahms' Symphony No. 1. Announcer: "Number One then ... (tympani) ...and Number One now!" Station plays "Flowers" by Miley Cyrus.
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