KOLA new music adds

[ChannelFlipper]

I've heard a few from 1980-82: Open Arms, Physical, The Tide Is High, The One That You Love, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Kiss On My List...and Our Lips Are Sealed, one of the few songs that was not a top-ten hit.

Our Lips Are Sealed reached top 7 in the U.K. with an all boy band! I remember at KOLA we would play Crazy Little Thing Called Love followed by Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Sort of a double play from Fred Cote

Fun Boy Three.

 

[semoochie]

"Our Lips Are Sealed" only made it to #20? I heard it constantly then and now! So much for charts!

 

[Thomps2525]

In 1972, KHJ-FM became KRTH and switched to an oldies format. The playlist covered 1954 through 1963. The oldest songs (Gee, Sh-Boom, Mr. Sandman, Rock Around The Clock) were only 18 years old. If oldies stations in 2013 adhered to that concept, the oldest songs we'd be hearing would include Boombastic, Freak Like Me, This Is How We Do It and Gangsta's Paradise. Yikes!

 

[oldies76]

In 1972, KHJ-FM became KRTH and switched to an oldies format. The playlist covered 1954 through 1963. The oldest songs (Gee, Sh-Boom, Mr. Sandman, Rock Around The Clock) were only 18 years old. If oldies stations in 2013 adhered to that concept, the oldest songs we'd be hearing would include Boombastic, Freak Like Me, This Is How We Do It and Gangsta's Paradise. Yikes!

I highly doubt those songs will ever play on classic hits. As much as I like "This Is How We Do It", I just don't see it playing much on stations such as KOLA, WCBS or KRTH anytime soon.

 

[radiocph]

I've heard a few from 1980-82: Open Arms, Physical, The Tide Is High, The One That You Love, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Kiss On My List...and Our Lips Are Sealed, one of the few songs that was not a top-ten hit. I've heard enough songs to get a pretty good idea of the playlist, so I know that KOLA will not be playing Coward Of The County, Pac-Man Fever, I Love A Rainy Night or Theme From Hill Street Blues. Instead of safe predictable overplayed 1960s hits, we'll now get safe predictable (and soon to be overplayed) 1980s-90s hits.

Well, the country songs were hits back in the early 1980s with the "Urban Cowboy" phenomenon, but that probably doesn't mean they'll fit on a pop/rock station in 2013. Same with the Pac Man song,
which is really a "Doctor Demento"-type novelty tune. Instrumentals are also sort of hit or miss as well....

 

[36james]

they are really hitting the 80's hard this afternoon, for the last hour from 5 to 6 pm, its been mainly 80's JEEZ!

 

[36james]

90's wise they could play songs like, what becomes of the broken hearted, dreaming of you tonight, more than words, also they could add like toad the wet sprocket, n sync, stuff like that

 

[Thomps2525]

I'm not hearing any rap, any hip-hop, any hard rock or any modern rock, and I'm not hearing much r&b either. That eliminates almost all of the 1990s music except for Mariah Carey. I hope nobody objects to hearing Hero, Dreamlover and Vision Of Love ten times a day!

 

[oldies76]

I hope nobody objects to hearing Hero, Dreamlover and Vision Of Love ten times a day!

No Thanks!! I think I'd rather happily hear "Honey" (1968), "Ma Belle Amie" (1970) and "Billy Don't Be A Hero" (1974) back to back to back twice a day.

 

[Mike Brewer]

So much for charts!

Well, duh. There's a TON of chart-toppers that people never want to hear again.

As for the '80s tunes - another thing that makes it tough to pick the "right" songs is the format fragmentation that happened around 1983 - the first peak of MTV.

 

[Thomps2525]

I can look at old charts from the 1950s-60s-70s-80s and I know every number-one song. I look at charts of the 1990s and early 2000s and there are a lot of number-one songs I know I heard a lot when they were current but I can no longer recall them. Quick---somebody sing a few lines of Weak, The First Time, Tha Crossroads, She Ain't Worth It, Freak Me, Angel Of Mine or Bills Bills Bills!

See?

 

[oldies76]

So much for charts!

Well, duh. There's a TON of chart-toppers that people never want to hear again.

Some yes, but not "tons"....You are underestimating many good songs here.

 

[oldies76]

I can look at old charts from the 1950s-60s-70s-80s and I know every number-one song. I look at charts of the 1990s and early 2000s and there are a lot of number-one songs I know I heard a lot when they were current but I can no longer recall them. Quick---somebody sing a few lines of Weak, The First Time, Tha Crossroads, She Ain't Worth It, Freak Me, Angel Of Mine or Bills Bills Bills!

Those are the type of songs that most likely won't be played as "classics" down the road (which is why many songs from the 90's and early 00's will be difficult to "test") We know all the other #1's, due to past radio airplay (some way more than others) as classic hits or oldies.

I believe some of the more recent #1's (or even top 10's) from 2007 to 2013 would be more appealing in the future to be played as classics (Gotye, Train, KT Tunstall, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Adele, Nelly Furtado....etc..)

 

[justpassingthough]

I can look at old charts from the 1950s-60s-70s-80s and I know every number-one song. I look at charts of the 1990s and early 2000s and there are a lot of number-one songs I know I heard a lot when they were current but I can no longer recall them. Quick---somebody sing a few lines of Weak, The First Time, Tha Crossroads, She Ain't Worth It, Freak Me, Angel Of Mine or Bills Bills Bills!

See?

I can sing the choruses to all those songs but I'm only 32 so I'm on the young side of the demo. In ten years, though, ill be squarely in the part of the demo they're chasing at classic hits stations.

When I want to hear classic music, though, I'm more likely to put on KDAY. I never listened to KRTH. They haven't reached my generation yet (I'm the first year of the Millennials)

 

[Thomps2525]

"And now here's a request from justpassingthrough. He wants to dedicate this song to his third-grade teacher, Miss Potrzebie. Here is your "golden oldie," justpassingthrough. This goes all the way back to 2011---Someone Like You by Adele."

 

[jonbruce]

I believe the 80's (thru 1987)are the way to go for classic hits stations including 1977-1979 with them as the music doesn't "change" at the start of a decade. if KOLA's research was valid I feel it was either not interpreted propery and implimented correctly as I don't thing 90's and 2000's songs fit the format.

 

[jasonharper2013]

now playing bryan adams "When a man loves a woman" From 1995

 

[Neel]

Today it was Green Day "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"...

sorry to keep adding but I can't believe hearing these songs on a "classic" hits station!

 

[justpassingthough]

Today it was Green Day "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)"...

sorry to keep adding but I can't believe hearing these songs on a "classic" hits station!

"Good Riddance" is from 1998- so its 15 years old. Seeing as it was a popular anthem for high school and college graduations at the time, it is probably fondly remembered by people who are now 33 to 37 years old- which is on the young end of the classic hits demo. It may seem odd to us, but it does fit the demographic.

 

[Radio Coug]

So if I need to buy a "Classic Hits" or "Classic Rock" station for an EARLY Beatles Tribute concert promotion in LA...who do I rely on? It appears that I'm hearing the EARLY '60s are not relevant on LA Classic Hits stations any longer. Would love your input those who know LA Classic Hits. Thanks.