"Streakin Through the 70s" w/ Billy Shears on 98.9 WQLV (Harrisburg rimshot AC)
I was just curious whether anyone listens to or has even heard of this syndicated show. It's featured on Saturday nights from 8 PM - 1 AM on a rimshot AC station located NW of Harrisburg, PA: WQLV FM 98.9 "The Pulse of Central PA". The show is exclusively dedicated to music from the 70s, and what I like is that Billy Shears doesn't stick to a "safe" (and BORING) playlist...he actually plays certain forgotten or abandoned gems from the decade, some examples including:
Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All- 5th Dimension
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes- Jimmy Buffett
No Time- Guess Who
Hello Stranger- Yvonne Elliman
How Long- Ace
Sharing the Night Together- Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
Jackie Blue- Ozark Mountain Daredevils
You are the Woman- Firefall
Venus- Shocking Blue
Wildfire- Michael Murphy
When I Need You- Leo Sayer
Song Sung Blue- Neil Diamond
Also, his show is great for "wimps" like me, because he actually plays artists such as the Carpenters, whom other oldies shows seem to be entirely afraid of. Interestingly, the show is virtually non-existent as far as the internet: it doesn't have a website and no one seems to even talk about it. Due to its complete absence on the internet, I actually thought the show was unique to WQLV until I found that a couple of stations around the country feature Billy Shears as a regular "DJ" for various time slots and formats, and he can't be in PA, FL, and TX at the same time...
I live in York and I can actually receive WQLV reasonably in the car, though the reception is VERY location-sensitive: even a few yards make a huge difference. And at home, I am miraculously able to get a near-perfect signal from WQLV by laying my dipole "T" antenna flat and pointing it towards the transmitter. I think this is miraculous considering that WQLV's transmitter is a measly 780 watts and located >40 miles from my house. I got the dipole antenna just so I could listen to this show ;D whenever I'm home on Saturday nights (and Dick Bartley's "Classic Countdown", also featured on WQLV: Sunday mornings). For my peculiar tastes, these two shows are really the only 2 programs I can listen to continuously without getting bored. 96.1 WSOX does play some decent music, especially on weekends, but their signal (while strong) usually tends to contain interference and/or distortion in my house, and I tend to be a bit picky about sound quality
. Stations like 98.5, 92.7, 103.3, and 101.3 also play some decent songs (in my opinion), but they tend to be the SAME decent songs...the problem with these stations is that there is virtually no novelty, so I have ended up growing tired of them.
Oh, by the way, my age is a ripe old 27.
I was just curious whether anyone listens to or has even heard of this syndicated show. It's featured on Saturday nights from 8 PM - 1 AM on a rimshot AC station located NW of Harrisburg, PA: WQLV FM 98.9 "The Pulse of Central PA". The show is exclusively dedicated to music from the 70s, and what I like is that Billy Shears doesn't stick to a "safe" (and BORING) playlist...he actually plays certain forgotten or abandoned gems from the decade, some examples including:
Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep at All- 5th Dimension
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes- Jimmy Buffett
No Time- Guess Who
Hello Stranger- Yvonne Elliman
How Long- Ace
Sharing the Night Together- Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show
Jackie Blue- Ozark Mountain Daredevils
You are the Woman- Firefall
Venus- Shocking Blue
Wildfire- Michael Murphy
When I Need You- Leo Sayer
Song Sung Blue- Neil Diamond
Also, his show is great for "wimps" like me, because he actually plays artists such as the Carpenters, whom other oldies shows seem to be entirely afraid of. Interestingly, the show is virtually non-existent as far as the internet: it doesn't have a website and no one seems to even talk about it. Due to its complete absence on the internet, I actually thought the show was unique to WQLV until I found that a couple of stations around the country feature Billy Shears as a regular "DJ" for various time slots and formats, and he can't be in PA, FL, and TX at the same time...
I live in York and I can actually receive WQLV reasonably in the car, though the reception is VERY location-sensitive: even a few yards make a huge difference. And at home, I am miraculously able to get a near-perfect signal from WQLV by laying my dipole "T" antenna flat and pointing it towards the transmitter. I think this is miraculous considering that WQLV's transmitter is a measly 780 watts and located >40 miles from my house. I got the dipole antenna just so I could listen to this show ;D whenever I'm home on Saturday nights (and Dick Bartley's "Classic Countdown", also featured on WQLV: Sunday mornings). For my peculiar tastes, these two shows are really the only 2 programs I can listen to continuously without getting bored. 96.1 WSOX does play some decent music, especially on weekends, but their signal (while strong) usually tends to contain interference and/or distortion in my house, and I tend to be a bit picky about sound quality
. Stations like 98.5, 92.7, 103.3, and 101.3 also play some decent songs (in my opinion), but they tend to be the SAME decent songs...the problem with these stations is that there is virtually no novelty, so I have ended up growing tired of them. Oh, by the way, my age is a ripe old 27.