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TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT'S 1975

R

Runrigger

JB105
BIG HIT LIST
AUGUST 3, 1975
BIG 50 HITS
1. I'm Not In Love - 10cc
2. Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
3. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
4. Rockin' Chair - Gwen McCrae
5. One Of These Nights - Eagles
6. Swearin' To God - Frankie Valli
7. Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
8. The Way We Were/Try To Remember - Gladys Knight & The Pips
9. How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
10. The Hustle - Van McCoy
11. Listen To What The Man Said - Wings
12. Rhinestone Cowboy - Glen Campbell
13. Midnight Blue - Melissa Manchester
14. Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
15. Send In The Clowns - Judy Collins
16. The Rockford Files - Mike Post
17. Dance With Me - Orleans
18. Please Mr. Please - Olivia Newton-John
19. Rendezvous - Hudson Brothers
20. It Only Takes A Minute - Tavares
21. Fame - David Bowie
22. Dynomite - Bazuka
23. Just A Little Bit Of You - Michael Jackson
24. Feelings - Morris Albert
25. Fallin' In Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds
26. Mornin' Beautiful - Dawn
27. Why Can't We Be Friends - War
28. Black Superman - Johnny Wakelin
29. Every Time You Touch Me I Get High - Charlie Rich
30. Fight The Power, Pt. 1 - Isley Brothers
31. Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
32. Till The World Ends - 3 Dog Night
33. That's The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind & Fire
34. At Seventeen - Janis Ian
35. Holding On To Yesterday - Ambrosia
36. I'm On Fire - Dwight Twilley Band
37. Slippery When Wet - Commodores
38. Disco Queen - Hot Chocolate
39. Saturday Night Special - Lynyrd Skynyrd
40. Wasted Days & Wasted Nights - Freddy Fender
41. Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company
42. Could It Be Magic - Barry Manilow
43. Tush - ZZ Top
44. That's When The Music Takes Me - Neil Sedaka
45. Help Me Rhonda - Johnny Rivers
46. Bluebird - Helen Reddy
47. Look At Me (I'm In Love) - Moments
48. Cut The Cake - Average White Band
49. Third Rate Romance - Amazing Rhythm Aces
50. Love Being Your Fool - Travis Wammack

BIG 10 LP HITS
1. Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
2. One Of These Nights - Eagles
3. Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille
4. Venus And Mars - Wings
5. Original Soundtrack - 10cc
6. Gorilla - James Taylor
7. Red Octopus - Jefferson Starship
8. Greatest Hits - Cat Stevens
9. That's The Way Of The World - Earth, Wind & Fire
10. Between The Lines - Janis Ian
 
Yeah I like that list. That's a much better one than the one from a while back that I didn't care for all that much. You are right Holland. Not much chance of finding those songs on the dial these days. I Don't understand why radio stations limit playlists to about 200 songs when there are thousands of great songs out there that don't get much play. It's such a waste. Thank God for youtube.
 
You still hear some of these on B101 and probably Lite Rock's seventies lunch hour. Ironically back then if you wanted to hear this stuff you had to listen to the radio and when radio broke the song it meant the audience never heard it before. Now the audience knows the song before radio decides to play it. The following are ones still getting a decent amount of airplay if you even include a couple HJY plays.
1. I'm Not In Love - 10cc
2. Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Elton John
3. Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
5. One Of These Nights - Eagles
9. How Sweet It Is - James Taylor
11. Listen To What The Man Said - Wings
14. Get Down Tonight - K.C. & The Sunshine Band
17. Dance With Me - Orleans
20. It Only Takes A Minute - Tavares
21. Fame - David Bowie
25. Fallin' In Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds
27. Why Can't We Be Friends - War
41. Feel Like Makin' Love - Bad Company
43. Tush - ZZ Top
 
New London's KOOL 101 plays a great portion of the Top 20 songs on this list - and quite regularly, too.
 
Sadly if you look at listeners who were 16 when these songs were popular they are now 50 and at the upper end of the demo some stations want.I wouldn't be surprised to see the ones still getting played to be in the next wave of songs phased out of radio_Oh,and Fallin In Love is sampled over the beginning of Drake's hit The Best I Ever Had.
 
RE " Fallin In Love is sampled over Drake's hit The Best I Ever Had."

THAT'S what I heard yesterday!

'Drove from DC to New England yesterday, and where Philly FMs and NYNY FMs were mashing-into-each-other I HEARD THAT...and thought I was hearing two stations!

and.u.r? said:
Sadly if you look at listeners who were 16 when these songs were popular they are now 50 and at the upper end of the demo some stations want. I wouldn't be surprised to see the ones still getting played to be in the next wave of songs phased out of radio.
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You're right...and the-only-thing-sad-about-it is that it'll be radio's loss.

Since the recession began, ratings-driven transactional business (i.e., 25-54 rankers) has gotten clobbered, while Internet revenue continues to grow. And the Internet (i.e., iPod) is where-people-are-now-finding-the-music-radio-has-abandoned.

What's also becoming SO apparent about the bankruptcy of 25-54 is that 50-somethings:
a.) already control most of the money;
b.) will soon get more, as aging parents pass-on; and
c.) are the heaviest radio users.

HC
www.HollandCooke.com
 
Holland, isn't the theory behind why radio doesn't want 50-somethings & even beyond not so much radio usage or purchasing power, but purchasing habits? I've heard tell that advertisers consider this group more set in their buying habits & less likely to break their purchasing routines or be swayed by spots that would require them to try something new or even buy something they weren't planning on buying anyway. I don't say I agree with this, but it seems to be the mentality. If it weren't, you would even see more actual oldies programming because those older demos do have the money to spend.
 
It's a myth!

Runrigger said:
Holland, isn't the theory behind why radio doesn't want 50-somethings & even beyond not so much radio usage or purchasing power, but purchasing habits? I've heard tell that advertisers consider this group more set in their buying habits & less likely to break their purchasing routines or be swayed by spots that would require them to try something new or even buy something they weren't planning on buying anyway. I don't say I agree with this, but it seems to be the mentality.
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You're absolutely right...on both counts!

NO other generation is populated by more "experimenters" than the Baby Boom crowd...ESPECIALLY 50-somethings.
(I just got an iPhone. So Verizon Wireless sure doesn't think I'm brand-loyal-for-life.)

And that was the case BEFORE the recession, which has EVERYBODY rethinking habitual purchasing.

HC

PS: "1975? You want 1975?"
Here!
Complete with your 1975 DJ: http://getonthenet.com/listen.html
 
I don't agree either that the older demos are set in their ways. I also think they are more apt to sit through stopsets or a song they don't like than the more anxious younger listeners. Sponsors are missing the boat and stations are missing the boat with music formats. I'm one who still thinks some 50s and a lot of 60s music would work as part of a classic format. AEs can't sell so they blame formats. Why does WPRO do well saleswise with a format that targets older demographics but the same can't be said for music formats? It's ridiculous.
 
a common mistake that Oldies stations make

Moonstruck said:
I'm one who still thinks some 50s and a lot of 60s music would work
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And lots of those titles aren't just for listeners who remember 'em as "currents."

I DJ'd @ WBIG Oldies100/Washington 1995-2000.

WE -- inside-the-box -- figured we were going-after such-and-such a segment of 25-54.
And guess who was all over the request lines?
KIDS.
It only surprised me at first.
Then, I noticed the obvious.
I was playing MUSIC DESIGNED FOR YOUNG PEOPLE...us, when we were kids.

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to..."

Today, kids don't get the kind of sweet adolescence in lyrics that we got.

A common mistake Oldies stations make is to make the station a period piece, a throwback that only-people-who-were-listening-back-then can identify with. Old jingles, fossilized-sounding DJs only-because-they-were-on-the-radio-back-then, produced bits about 60s history. JUST PLAY THE MUSIC.
 
Seriously, WKNL/New London plays "Dance With Me" like it's going out of style!
 
Every classic hits and oldies station plays Dance With Me like it's going out of style. I wish it would just go out of style. I agree with Holland. Run the format with personalities that don't sound like they're stuck in a time warp and you'll do well. I hear breaks on B101 when I scan around the radio and all they ever talk about are music tidbits related to the song or artist. Boring! It's like they're reading answers from Trivial Pursuit cards.
 
If you aren't hearing those songs today, you just don't have a decent radio station in Providence. And if they are played but arranged poorly or with a whole lot of inane blather, gossip or old wives' tales crap that is just designed to be heard by a specific person and/or relates to nothing but some weird message or agenda the board op has in mind then you have a radio station without decent personnel or personnel who have had no proper mentoring either by those who can and teach or by those who can't and teach the wrong ways, because they themselves can't.
 
Mentoring? Providence radio? They fired everyone who could possibly mentor anyone and there are really no new people coming into the business in this market to mentor anyway.
 
Lots who have been around for a short time who did need it and eventually ruined themselves when they were unable to be mentored anymore.
 
Now try the whole quote, Holland, not a piece of a sentence.

Silkie said:
If you aren't hearing those songs today, you just don't have a decent radio station in Providence. And if they are played but arranged poorly or with a whole lot of inane blather, gossip or old wives' tales crap that is just designed to be heard by a specific person and/or relates to nothing but some weird message or agenda the board op has in mind then you have a radio station without decent personnel or personnel who have had no proper mentoring either by those who can and teach or by those who can't and teach the wrong ways, because they themselves can't.
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