Correct. Looking at Mediabase, there are about 200 songs that were pulled out at the of last week, and replaced by a different batch of songs. The oldest song played last week was "Summer In The City," which was likely done because of the record heat, not to bring back 60s music. That was a one-time spin, and was not returned to the playlist this week. This week's oldest song is American Pie from 1970.
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Correct. Looking at Mediabase, there are about 200 songs that were pulled out at the of last week, and replaced by a different batch of songs. The oldest song played last week was "Summer In The City," which was likely done because of the record heat, not to bring back 60s music. That was a one-time spin, and was not returned to the playlist this week. This week's oldest song is American Pie from 1970.
Nice catch. I did not see that, and it shows that they have put a lot of thought into the library. They likely have other topical songs used for single plays, probably in the morning show.
It makes me wonder if they give Shannon some liberty to insert occasional cuts like that. Scott goes back to being both a programmer and morning guy to the late 60's when we were both at Mooney Broadcasting somewhere south of NYC.
"Summer in the City" was featured in the Grand Theft Auto video game soundtrack. A lot of younger people are familiar with it.
Here's the demographics for my upload of "Summer in the City" to YouTube:
How big is the sample?
If he's truthful about the Grand Theft Auto tie-in, that would be irrelevant. The song is reaching people who've never heard it before, so it's logical that they're driving the YouTube numbers. Many likely play it multiple times. A 65-year-old is unlikely to be looking for a song he's known since childhood and has heard it a gazillion times on radio since.
That's my impression, outside looking in.
In various different parts of the morning show, Scott has played songs that are not in the rotation. I think they tend to stick with more well known older songs, i.e. "Twist and Shout", "Summer In The City", and "Born to Be Wild", but I've also heard things like "Little Willy" by the Sweet, "Go All The Way" by The Raspberries, which aren't as well known.
Yesterday, at the start of the show, they played "Twist and Shout" by the Beatles, on the flip side, today they started with The Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling" from 2009.
I’m responsible for many of those views. I’m age 27 now, but always watched your selection of oldies/classic hits when I was younger.
I'm 28 and love oldies/classic hits of the 60s and 70s. It's unfortunate as I stopped listening to most classic hits stations that changed their playlist to reflect updated demographics. I personally can't stand music from the 80s. It all sounds either stale or cheesy to me.
"Summer In The City," is my most hated song of all time. It was torture to the ears as a little kid whenever it came on the radio in the 60s,70s but I thought some day they will stop playing it and I will likely never hear it again. But it is still being played.
I am not associating it with any bad memory or anything. It is just the entire depressing and grating sound of all of it. Every bit of it is just awful. I just I do not get how it got to number #1 back then and is still being played.
Scratching my head, I just don't get it?
I am not associating it with any bad memory or anything. It is just the entire depressing and grating sound of all of it. Every bit of it is just awful. I just I do not get how it got to number #1 back then and is still being played.
Scratching my head, I just don't get it?
I really like the 80’s, personally, though I wish we’d still be able to hear a few more “real oldies” on the radio (obviously not going to happen). The 90’s is where music drops off for me. Rock stayed very relevant at this time, but pop became hip hop, and that just doesn’t appeal to many people. In my opinion, if you really want to know why WCBS is picking up younger demographics, it’s because not all young people are connecting with current music anymore. Every time I come across a CHR station all of the music sounds exactly the same. CHR wasn’t really my taste when I was in high school (in the early 2010’s), but I’d argue the music was a bit more diverse at that time.
Again, I didn’t grow up when there songs were brand new, but even when there were songs that I didn’t care for on the oldies format as a kid, if I’m fortunate enough to hear them on the radio today, I’d listen anyway just because I rarely get to hear it.
It's like an accurate soundtrack of summer in a big city, like NYC or Chicago. The lyrics are good. It was a hit for a reason.
This is patently false.
Here we go again with rock fans in denial about the genres American youth now prefers over rock.
I bet you were complaining in 1978 when the Rolling Stones and Rod Stewart went Disco.
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