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REFRESH MY MEMORY: PURGING OF 50s MUSIC ON (THEN) "OLDIES 103"

What are you looking for? Dates?

It seemed to come in steps over the years.

The last wave was when WCBS-FM in NYC came back on the air with an updated playlist in the summer of 2007.

Other CBS stations (WOGL, WODS, etc.) seemed to follow suite.
 
The 50s were gone from 103.3 long before 2007. I would guess around 2000-2001, but I don't have any proof. Wish I had some airchecks of them around that time. This was just before I started doing a lot of recording.
 
jlehmann said:
The 50s were gone from 103.3 long before 2007.
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I didn't mean to say that 2007 is when they removed the 50's.....I was saying that 2007 was the last format "update".

I think they took out 50's titles in waves...eliminating the worst testing stuff first.

When was the last 50's song played? Probably when they ushered out Little Walter in 2002?

Though they probably hung onto Mack the Knife for a long time. I wouldn't be surprised if it still gets played today.
 
I'd say that the "latest wave" came earlier late last year/early this year when they dropped most of the 60s music, and added more 80s. They even seemed to drop all Beach Boys songs for a while, but recently brought them back.

CBS-FM is nowhere near as "safe" with the music as WODS. CBS will still occasionally play a 50s/early 60s song during a special feature, or if it's a "summer song," etc.
 
Yes Jay Gordon is still doing Elvis Only, ( you can find it on Facebook btw) and that is probably the last bastion of the 50's on WODS
 
jlehmann said:
I'd say that the "latest wave" came earlier late last year/early this year when they dropped most of the 60s music, and added more 80s. They even seemed to drop all Beach Boys songs for a while, but recently brought them back.

CBS-FM is nowhere near as "safe" with the music as WODS. CBS will still occasionally play a 50s/early 60s song during a special feature, or if it's a "summer song," etc.
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I am surprised that radio stations still play 60's music. Once the audience hits 55 in the radio business you might as well be dead.
 
jlehmann said:
I'd say that the "latest wave" came earlier late last year/early this year when they dropped most of the 60s music,
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Heard "Can't Buy Me Love" yesterday (listening online.).
 
raccoonradio said:
Mostly 70s-80s judging by the 'just played' on their site. Artists: Fleet Mac, Hues Corp, Neil Diamond, Nick Gilder, Madonna, Beatles (I Should Have Known Better), Chicago, G. Benson,
Foundations, Bee Gees, Elton, Bruce etc

http://wods.radio.com/playlist
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WDRC-FM Hartford does better by the '60s. Last hour was O'Jays, REO Speedwagon, Stevie Wonder, Tommy James, Rod Stewart, Beach Boys, Steely Dan, Animals, Monkees, Andy Kim, Linda Ronstadt, Supremes/Temptations, Los Brovos, Gary Numan and Foreigner -- with six '60s titles out of 15 total played (The Wonder song was "Living for the City," from the '70s), two '80s (Speedwagon and Numan), the rest '70s. I had to go all the way back to the 9:00 hour before I could find a '50s title, Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day." But at least a few '50s songs are still getting a spin.
 
If you have a hankering for 50's you can still hear them on 95.9 FM WATD.and www.959watd.com Plenty of oldies shows to listen to and many times you will hear a 50's song in daytime rotation. And best of all WATD plays requests!
 
MRBIboredop said:
Yes Jay Gordon is still doing Elvis Only, ( you can find it on Facebook btw) and that is probably the last bastion of the 50's on WODS
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And for the late night crowd, on Saturday night/Sunday morning, there are a few pre-Beatles oldies now and then on the Wolfman Jack show.
 
MickeyD said:
I am surprised that radio stations still play 60's music. Once the audience hits 55 in the radio business you might as well be dead.
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Some mid-to-late '60s music still appeals to, and tests well with, enough of a somewhat younger "classic hits" demo to keep it in rotation, especially warhorses from the Beatles and Stones, the biggest Motown hits, a few Beach Boys hits, etc... much of that audience may have started listening to those songs when they were already oldies in the '70s or later, but as long as they test well with enough people in their 30's and 40's to give them good ratings in that age group, they'll keep playing them.
 
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