Real Oldies 1480/850

[ftballfan]

http://www.wgvu.org/realoldies/ro_shows.cfm?id=ro

This station has played a lot of stuff just today most radio stations wouldn't touch with a 39 1/2 foot pole

The only problem (and it's a minor problem) is that the stations are on AM, so a lot of people probably don't know about them. However, there are some billboards promoting the stations in and around Grand Rapids.

 

[TheFonz]

http://www.wgvu.org/realoldies/ro_shows.cfm?id=ro

This station has played a lot of stuff just today most radio stations wouldn't touch with a 39 1/2 foot pole

The only problem (and it's a minor problem) is that the stations are on AM, so a lot of people probably don't know about them. However, there are some billboards promoting the stations in and around Grand Rapids.

Looks like a great playlist. But I'm not sure that James Taylor, Santana, and Rod Stewert belong under the "Real" Oldies banner. As far as the AM issue, that shouldn't be a problem with the '50s/early '60s music. Most of that was recorded in mono and listeners are used to hearing it that way. They might resist hearing mono versions of music that's available in stereo.

 

[ftballfan]

I listened to it on Friday for about a half hour and I carried it from Kentwood to Allendale, where it was starting to get staticky but it was still listenable. I heard stuff I hadn't heard since WMTE-FM flipped to a variety hits format a few years ago.

 

[cd637299]

Are they still on the .4 TV channel of WGVK/WGVU?

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[hornet61]

http://www.wgvu.org/realoldies/ro_shows.cfm?id=ro

This station has played a lot of stuff just today most radio stations wouldn't touch with a 39 1/2 foot pole

The only problem (and it's a minor problem) is that the stations are on AM, so a lot of people probably don't know about them. However, there are some billboards promoting the stations in and around Grand Rapids.

What a great playlist..kudos on the early fifties instrumentals...the rare 60's stuff, great balance of all things radio from the entire decade of the 50's.60's and early seventies..OMG classic 50's instrumental,"77 sunset Strip" Don Ralke..throw in some classic doo-wop Tim Tam and the turn-ons, some 60's psyceldelic with Thirteen floor elevators, country cross-over with Bobby Bare and Johnny cash,nice helping of bottom 40 stuff from Little Eva , del shannon and jimmy Mcgriff...this grogram director is a genius...what a magnificent program director..I am listening live as we speak...they just did a promo on their "Sunday Morning Standards show"...Sinatr, Cole . Bennet , Martin...this is too good to be true.
Thank you, thank you, thank you ftballfan for posting this and the link to the station..I immediately saved it as favorite....OMg they are playin War - "Summer" as we speak, that's great.

 

[radioman148]

http://www.wgvu.org/realoldies/ro_shows.cfm?id=ro

This station has played a lot of stuff just today most radio stations wouldn't touch with a 39 1/2 foot pole

The only problem (and it's a minor problem) is that the stations are on AM, so a lot of people probably don't know about them. However, there are some billboards promoting the stations in and around Grand Rapids.

What a great playlist..kudos on the early fifties instrumentals...the rare 60's stuff, great balance of all things radio from the entire decade of the 50's.60's and early seventies..OMG classic 50's instrumental,"77 sunset Strip" Don Ralke..throw in some classic doo-wop Tim Tam and the turn-ons, some 60's psyceldelic with Thirteen floor elevators, country cross-over with Bobby Bare and Johnny cash,nice helping of bottom 40 stuff from Little Eva , del shannon and jimmy Mcgriff...this grogram director is a genius...what a magnificent program director..I am listening live as we speak...they just did a promo on their "Sunday Morning Standards show"...Sinatr, Cole . Bennet , Martin...this is too good to be true.
Thank you, thank you, thank you ftballfan for posting this and the link to the station..I immediately saved it as favorite....OMg they are playin War - "Summer" as we speak, that's great.

Fabulous playlist! Thank goodness someone recognizes that this music is timeless and if it's played we will listen.
The hell with the so called "great thinkers" in corporate radio.

 

[CTListener]

Interesting use of an AM signal by a college, that's for sure. Their 96 kbps stream sounds pretty good.

I'm surprised they can get away with "Real Oldies" as a positioner. Isn't that copyrighted, or is it just "True Oldies" (Scott Shannon) that is?

 

[klutch00]

Interesting use of an AM signal by a college, that's for sure. Their 96 kbps stream sounds pretty good.

Maybe this could be a model for other perhaps marginal AMs to consider. These stations have been going at it since the late summer of 2009.

http://www.wgvu.org/realoldies/

 

[hornet61]

Still listening..kudos this afternoon..all the music is great..had to give you a special thank you on the following:"talk to me" - Sunny and the sunglows, "This Time" - Lyn and the Invaders,New colony six - "I will always Thinks about you"..a super shout out on Sonny James - "Running Bear" (genius, pure Genius)...

 

[Thomps2525]

Real Oldies 1480/850 is similar to Los Angeles's short-lived Real Oldies 1260/540. They even put the higher frequency before the lower frequency! Saul Levine has owned the 1260 frequency since somewhere around the Civil War era and he's changed formats approximately every two years...but in 2004-05 the station was KSUR and simulcast a 1950s-60s oldies format with XESUR in Tijuana. They played almost every song that was a top-30 hit. The burned-out songs that are overplayed on other stations---Brown Eyed Girl, My Girl, Happy Together, Oh Pretty Woman, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling et al---would be played only once a week. As more and more stations drop 1950s-60s music and focus on 1970s-80s-90s, we really need these "Real Oldies" stations. Let's have more of them! Let's go into syndication!

 

[hornet61]

Real Oldies 1480/850 is similar to Los Angeles's short-lived Real Oldies 1260/540. They even put the higher frequency before the lower frequency! Saul Levine has owned the 1260 frequency since somewhere around the Civil War era and he's changed formats approximately every two years...but in 2004-05 the station was KSUR and simulcast a 1950s-60s oldies format with XESUR in Tijuana. They played almost every song that was a top-30 hit. The burned-out songs that are overplayed on other stations---Brown Eyed Girl, My Girl, Happy Together, Oh Pretty Woman, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling et al---would be played only once a week. As more and more stations drop 1950s-60s music and focus on 1970s-80s-90s, we really need these "Real Oldies" stations. Let's have more of them! Let's go into syndication!

i wish i could have heard it and compared to this station.. I am impressed with the stuff this station plays no one else touches..great example Sonny james -Running Bear and the great top 40 stuff that has disappeared "I will always think about you"- by the great Ronnie Rice and the New Colony six..the forgotten Instrumentals..but the most Impressive if the early sixties true Doo-Wop that never charted that they throw in , when you least expect it like Nicky and the Noble or timmy and the tams. And when you are really excited they spring "Talk To me"- sonny and the Sunliners, it's really fun, great listening.

 

[Thomps2525]

John Regan, midday host on the short-lived Real Oldies 1260/540, hosted a Sunday-afternoon show called Finger Poppin' & Doo-Woppin'. He played requests. Really! Most stations have a request line just to satisfy the listeners but in reality the stations completely ignore the requests and play what a consultant or a computer printout says to play. Regan not only took requests but one time he even went out and bought a CD because I requested a song that wasn't in the station's library. On his next program he played Marie by the Harps and mentioned my name. On a weekday show he played a clarinet instrumental I had requested, the Megatrons' Velvet Waters.

The 1260 station is now classical KMZT, "K-Mozart." Regan was running an Internet radio station, Regan's Record Rack, but I don't think it's still around. I couldn't find it. Maybe someone else can.

 

[hornet61]

John Regan, midday host on the short-lived Real Oldies 1260/540, hosted a Sunday-afternoon show called Finger Poppin' & Doo-Woppin'. He played requests. Really! Most stations have a request line just to satisfy the listeners but in reality the stations completely ignore the requests and play what a consultant or a computer printout says to play. Regan not only took requests but one time he even went out and bought a CD because I requested a song that wasn't in the station's library. On his next program he played Marie by the Harps and mentioned my name. On a weekday show he played a clarinet instrumental I had requested, the Megatrons' Velvet Waters.

The 1260 station is now classical KMZT, "K-Mozart." Regan was running an Internet radio station, Regan's Record Rack, but I don't think it's still around. I couldn't find it. Maybe someone else can.

Yes I am familiar with both and they both fall into what I am talking about.. the known and lesser known "Velvet Waters" and Marie by the harps are sone of those good old tunes you don't hear anymore ..Marie is in the same area I like such as Sheik of Araby by the Colts and a guy no one plays, that is great ,and that's Wyninie Harris.... "bloodshot Eyes".." Good Rockin' Tonight" ...."all she wants to do is Rock"