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Poll: Oldies Or Classic Hits?

Some of us in witness protection don't do facebook...I vote Oldies all the way.... :eek:
 
I use neither. My station plays music. Age is irrelevant.

Something doesn't sit right with me in creating such categories.

If a new song comes along that you like you can't play it because it's new?

Even if it sounds like ( insert year here) ?
 
i detest the term "oldies" :p immediately tells me 250 song playlist.."pretty woman" every fifty song..and i don't know where or when someone decided that all the music recorded between.say..'63 through '88 should be divided into different 'genres.thats 25 years of great stuff..during those years it was all played pretty much along with the other music on the charts..but now one station will play doobie brothers "another park another sunday"..but won't play "china grove"..another plays supremes "baby love"..but not "the who "wont get fooled again"..crazy...at one time all those would have been played on the same station.but...it DOES take a good jock that knows how to make it happen..and how to work the mix..
 
deltas69 said:
i detest the term "oldies" :p immediately tells me 250 song playlist.."pretty woman" every fifty song..and i don't know where or when someone decided that all the music recorded between.say..'63 through '88 should be divided into different 'genres.thats 25 years of great stuff..during those years it was all played pretty much along with the other music on the charts..but now one station will play doobie brothers "another park another sunday"..but won't play "china grove"..another plays supremes "baby love"..but not "the who "wont get fooled again"..crazy...at one time all those would have been played on the same station.but...it DOES take a good jock that knows how to make it happen..and how to work the mix..
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Nowadays, that would be called a "trainwreck," but that was actually the way that I grew up listening to radio. The problem was that all these various subformats gradually moved further and further away from each other, to the point that they could no longer co-exist on the same station. And rap, especially, doesn't "play well with others."

As for the poll? Doesn't matter what you call 'em. Just play 'em! 8)
 
rap is not a musical genre'..there is no melody to the 'so called' lyrics..so i don't even pretend to consider it at all..as dated as this will make me sound..and i don't care..once there were two mainstream formats..top 40 and the "dark side (country)..lol..back in the 60's/70's..either you played one or the other..top 40 being preferred over country at that time by a large percentage...the first split in the top 40 DNA came i suppose when KDA FM started playing the "underground' format about 1970..i'm talking nashville area now..and i can see and understand fully the two totally different demo's there...not everyone that came out of the 60's wanted to hear "BREAD", OR "Al Green" by the time they passed 18..from there i guess it continued to splinter off into the various sub genre's that exist today...BUT since it's been well over 30 years since a station did play ALL the HITS all the TIME..would that fly into days market place ?? why can't RQQ and the "ROCK" formats merge with 'oldies"..as stated before it takes a seasoned vet to make it work on the air..of course who's gonna sell it or more correctly who's gonna BUY it ??...and before our resident KIA checks in with his "audience testing" hoorah i've done a lot of "audience testing" myself over the last 30 odd years..I've played hundreds and hundreds of gigs with bands, or as a dj to ages from 20 to 65..and 80% of the music was rock/top40/ the balance being crossover country..so I know first hand what an audience responds to and likes..and i've lost count of how many times i was asked why do they play the same old sh*t all the time ??? there's real up close and personal market research !! :eek:
 
deltas69 said:
it's been well over 30 years since a station did play ALL the HITS all the TIME..would that fly into days market place ??
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30 years. That's about how long it has been since FM surpassed AM as the primary "music intensive" band on the radio dial. The proliferation of new stations coming on the air since then has probably had something to do with the fragmentation of various musical subgenres.

I grew up in a rural county in west Tennessee that had a population of (I think) 30,000. They had only one AM station servicing the entire county up until the '70s. And even it signed off at night back then. Now that AM is 24 hours, and there are three more FMs broadcasting to that county and the surrounding area, although I don't think there has been a significant population increase there since then.
 
deltas69 said:
rap is not a musical genre'..there is no melody to the 'so called' lyrics..so i don't even pretend to consider it at all..
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By that standard, a scat in jazz or a descarga in salsa (a truly American music form) or a spoken portion of a pop song of any kind would not be music, either.

This is no different than saying that metal or grunge is just noise; it's called letting personal taste color objectivity.

as dated as this will make me sound..and i don't care..once there were two mainstream formats..top 40 and the "dark side (country)..lol..back in the 60's/70's..either you played one or the other..top 40 being preferred over country at that time by a large percentage..
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Let's see... WVOL was r&b in the 60's, and WLAC had 40 or so hours of r&b a week. WSIX was MOR, and later in the 60's there were a couple of Beautiful Music stations, and an assortment of religious and other formats.

In 1970, I recall there were only two Top 40's, limited signal WKDA and Joe Sullivan and Jerry Adams' WMAK.
 
Tom Wells said:
I use neither. My station plays music. Age is irrelevant.
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Now that is a statement I can personally agree on.

I can like a new Pittbull or Akon as much as an old Tompall and the Glaser Brothers, Mahler, I Pooh, or Los Corraleros de Majagual.
 
I agree with Firepoint, Just Play em'... For that matter, to me, what makes the term Oldies is the complete genre of a music mix (Rock, Pop, Country, Soul, & British Invasion) the way radio evolved from the late 50's thru the 60's. Classic Hits, to me, is the "tired and "overplayed", same stack, of Top Ten hit records "played-into-the-ground", where you are just sick of hearing them. "Oldies" is "more variety" where there is more selections of music to choose from. I like hearing artists like Elvis/Danny & the Juniors, Beach Boys/Leslie Gore Johnny Cash/Patsy Cline, Four Tops/Marvelettes, Beatles/Dusty Springfield and etc. I could go on naming artists or listing song titles, but there isn't enough room here. I don't want to bore those who love the Classic Hits...
 
kenb said:
I agree with Firepoint, Just Play em'... For that matter, to me, what makes the term Oldies is the complete genre of a music mix (Rock, Pop, Country, Soul, & British Invasion) the way radio evolved from the late 50's thru the 60's. Classic Hits, to me, is the "tired and "overplayed", same stack, of Top Ten hit records "played-into-the-ground", where you are just sick of hearing them. "Oldies" is "more variety" where there is more selections of music to choose from. I like hearing artists like Elvis/Danny & the Juniors, Beach Boys/Leslie Gore Johnny Cash/Patsy Cline, Four Tops/Marvelettes, Beatles/Dusty Springfield and etc. I could go on naming artists or listing song titles, but there isn't enough room here. I don't want to bore those who love the Classic Hits...
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Let's just rename the 1955 to 1985 period "oldies" and we'll have a huge, enormous selection of songs to choose from...in other words, thousands upon thousands of oldies......I agree, just play 'em all.
 
Isn't the reality:
Oldies 1955-1975
and
Classic Hits 1965-1985 (strictly semantics used to drop 55-65 from their format)

and 55plus prefer the former.....

so, if you play 1955-1985 call them classic oldies, and really screw up corporate radio across the country.
 
Oldies is the Brand........Say you are an Oldies Station to someone in the 45+ demo and they will know right away what you play SAY Classic Hits and they will say What is that? I am talking about the NON radio average joe who listens
 
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