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Rewound Radio Oldies without the 80's

adma said:
Compounded by the fact that what did pass itself off as squarely "mass audience" at the time has, by and large, not aged well--think of how anything from "We Built This City" to Wilson Phillips now inspire punchlines and cringes beyond even 70s "Have A Nice Day" fare.
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Actually, it's interesting to see what *has* aged well from that era...pretty much everything that *wasn't* in the mainstream. Modern Rock (certainly the College Rock portion of it) certainly did. Of course, we were defined as much by what we couldn't stand about the mainstream as what we liked about our little garden of left-of-center music.
 
I guess that Dr. Sniffen did a good job launching a new internet oldies station called "Rewound Radio". It plays nothing but the 50's, 60's and 70's, just like when Bill Brown was PD at CBS-FM since it first came on the air back in 1972 after they pulled the plug on the then progressive rock thing and went oldies and then it became a top rated station during the Joe McCoy era from the 80's and 90's right up until the early 2000's since they decreased a number of 50's songs and placed it with a few 80's stuff right before "Jack" came along.

I missed those days when CBS-FM was big playing 50's music, but I do remember the "Friday Night 50's" show with Bobby Jay. That was a long time ago.

This internet station is way better than any other Hudson Valley that has been gone since 2007 after the former "Cool 92.9" pulled the plug when it flipped to a classic hits/classic rock station with boring music that you don't hear on an oldies station anymore. Thanks to Randy Turner, but I don't call him Turnip all the time in many posts.

I missed Rick McCaffery's show called the "Solid Gold Jukebox" and the "Doo-Wop Cruise" shows. These are good songs playing 50's and 60's music, he did the right thing, but sadly, he left the station back on Halloween of last year where he did his last show on WKIP, when it is simulcast on 99.3 after they dropped a country simulcast of WRWD and went to a FM news-talk station on 99.3 as WKIP-FM.

Good move for the new Rewound Radio. we'll see what happens.
 
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