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Nine year old kid requests 1961 song

oldies76

oldies76

A few days ago on Cruisin' Oldies AM 950 Denver, a nine year old kid requested a song from 1961 on their lunch cafe request show (12 noon). The song was "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)". The first thing was......Wow! Young kids listening to oldies and young kids listening to AM radio! I'm thinking....How incredible is this???

Way to go kid, music isn't just Bruno Mars, Lady GaGa or all that rap music..it's oldies from the pre-64 era!!

Sort of surprising to say the least! But a great moment in radio, in 2011.
 
The kid has good taste. Little munchkins rummaging through my music collection never miss digging out, "come on baby lets do the twist", and they always ask if I still have it. The Twist, by Chubby Checker and Cheesecake, by Louis Armstrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqrhdYQ_wMg

Don't know whether they ever saw the YouTube video of Cheesecake. Always on the album.
 
When I was a kid growing up in the 60's, my parents would always play music from their era. I grew up appreciating both old and new music. I wish more kids had that same experience.
 
I have five grown children (it really seems weird saying that) but their most common response to hearing the theme on any commercial using an Oldies tune is amazement that I know the name and group. I then fire up the Hot Times Oldies Machine and play the original. Nine times out of ten they like it and want to put it on their MP3 player.
 
And how handy that these days you can get a record player with a USB cable.
 
oldies76 said:
A few days ago on Cruisin' Oldies AM 950 Denver, a nine year old kid requested a song from 1961 on their lunch cafe request show (12 noon). The song was "Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)". The first thing was......Wow! Young kids listening to oldies and young kids listening to AM radio! I'm thinking....How incredible is this???

Way to go kid, music isn't just Bruno Mars, Lady GaGa or all that rap music..it's oldies from the pre-64 era!!

Sort of surprising to say the least! But a great moment in radio, in 2011.
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Keep in mind that this is radio...there's a real good chance that he did call for Lady Gaga and was prompted to ask for Who Put The Bomp if he wanted to hear himself on the radio...
 
When I lived in South Florida, there were always young kids calling the Oldies station (Majic) calling in to request "If You Want to Be Happy" all the time....

You know that, "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life never make a pretty woman your wife." song.

...obviously being prodded on by a parent in the background.

The first few times it was cute. The 100th time - when it got to where the minute you heard a kid's voice on the air you said to yourself that it's that song - it was like nails on a blackboard.

I would have paid someone to break into the station and steal their copy of the thing. Just because people request something doesn't mean you should always play it.
 
My parents used to have me do the calls into the radio station as a kid because I loved hearing myself. I couldn't pronounce "Age of Aquarius" worth a darn but the DJ got the point.

But I agree that its great that kids are gettng exposed to the classics. Hearing my 8 year old try to sing "Dream On" and even Queen songs he hears on Glee is hilarious!!
 
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