Thank you David, that's surprising and more than a little encouraging! I thought that based on their recent 6+ results(9.9 in the last book), they were over-heavy in 55+ but that's certainly not the case! In fact, they seem to be strong across the board! The last time I listened, they played a 60s song occasionally and the 90s were limited to three Aerosmith tunes!
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Songs that no longer fit the format?
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"Raspberry Beret" wasn't a bad song either. I liked it
Disco was dance music. At its height I was working projects in NYC and Baltimore so had occasion to visit both Black and White clubs. Never was I, even once, targeted because I was White. In fact, my usual Baltimore dance partner, a Black woman probably in her late 50's or early 60's, didn't generate any animosity in the predominately Black crowd. I wasn't a big fan of Disco but it was good dance music in the same way as early RnR in the 50's. Wasn't so fond of National Bohemian beer though (the only thing they sold).
Did anyone even want to hear it in 1983?
Sounded good until you said 90s.Does anyone know how KLTH in Portland performs 25-54? This station is literally still playing “California Dreamin” and is well back in to the 70s - “Fire and Rain”, “Summer Breeze”, “Build Me Up Buttercup”, “You’re So Vain” among the same older tracks WWSW plays. 90s music is also incorporated.
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I always thought of disco as something white people did.Once again, my point is that Black people were closely associated with disco music even when they actually were not. Here's the link to the full article.
'Let's blow up this black music!': The ugliness and unrest of 1979's Disco Demolition Night
Some say an anti-disco rally in Chicago 40 years ago was merely protesting a musical genre, but others argue something nastier was at its core.www.yahoo.com
The FM station in Charlotte playing disco did transition to the station all the Black kids listened to.
I was just on SiriusXM 80s on 8 last weekend
I like those. Two of them, I believe, are played on America's Best Music. Not sure about the other.
R&B got mixed in with disco, and that's why AOR was almost exclusively loud heavy metal
Don't know what "The Freshmen" means but I like The Four Freshmen.
I take it CTListener is referring to "The Freshmen" by The Verve Pipe. It's a depressing but meaningful Alternative song about a young college-aged couple facing an unplanned pregnancy.
Depressing alternative is exactly what I don't want.
OMG, CTListener!!! I totally was thinking about "She's A Brick" by Ben Folds Five! That's the song where the girl had a nervous breakdown (after she did something controversial.) Anyway, I was humming the song to myself after I posted and I realized I had confused the two songs!
Both "The Freshmen" and "She's A Brick" are good songs about young people transitioning into adulthood, but "She's A Brick" is what I was thinking of. Again, sorry!!!!!
The meaning of "The Freshmen" has always been ambiguous. I lean toward suicide, but there are lines that hint at another meaning, including the one you mistakenly gave. No need to apologize.
You realize that song hit #2 in Los Angeles in February 1982, so there was some demand for it then. But yeah, novelties usually don't stick around.
Personally, I think his worst was "Batdance", a clunker of a #1
I would have to agree with you here. I much prefer his 1983-84 music more than anything else. And "Little Red Corvette" was that perfect summer of 1983 song. Heard it all over, even in arcades! GREAT song!
#2 on what list?
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