What's your oldies station?

[cyberdad]

Mine?

Not much around here on terrestial radio, so I basically listen online.

First Tier Favorites...WDJO, KYA, Radio Bop (roughly...but not always...in that order).

Second Tier Favorites.... WMID, XM 50s, XM 60s, Iceberg Radio "Sock Hop", SuperOldies, Just about any Canadian oldies station (deeper playlists due to "Can-Con"), but lately CKOC, Aol "Golden Oldies". (no particular order).

Soon to be "In Memoriam", WRLL. Already "In Memoriam", WSAI.

 

[MarcB]

I like WATR 1320 Waterbury. CT. Most of their music comes from the Jones Good Times Oldies Channel. Listen Live: http://www.watr.com/ (Not a 24/7 oldies station)

 

[DougD]

Bill, I don't think it covers all of LA, but the other oldies station is Oldies 99.9, KOLA. http://www.ImAKOLANut.com

KOLA is a pretty weak station. They don't really do oldies much anymore, focusing on 70s drivel.

I heard them a summer or so ago and THEY"RE BIG "LOST OLDIE" OF THE HOUR. OH MY GOSH. IT"S GONNA BE A GREAT SONG RARELY HEARD.

Know what the boobs there played? MONY MONY.

Later, another of their "lost" oldies was AMERICAN PIE. Then AQUARIOUS.

I think KLOS is lost.

This kind of boneheaded programming was like what the FORMER Sacramento "oldies" station that never heard of an oldie before the Beatles did one weekend.... a tribute to the 50th birthday of rock and roll. They never played ONE oldie older than 65.

You'd think when they said, "And now, NAME OF THE CRAPPY STATION salutes old-time rock and roll," they'd follow it with said song. Like if they said, "and now, another Motown classic," they'd play one then, not some tired clicheic late 60s song.

 

[wwes]

With thousands of 50's / 60's titles in rotation...
and ZERO commercials...here in NE Ohio it's the
FM 88-9 Sunday Oldies Jukebox.

All can hear it too at:

www.SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[RadioMan203]

Bill, I don't think it covers all of LA, but the other oldies station is Oldies 99.9, KOLA. http://www.ImAKOLANut.com

KOLA is a pretty weak station. They don't really do oldies much anymore, focusing on 70s drivel.

I heard them a summer or so ago and THEY"RE BIG "LOST OLDIE" OF THE HOUR. OH MY GOSH. IT"S GONNA BE A GREAT SONG RARELY HEARD.

Know what the boobs there played? MONY MONY.

Speaking of lost oldies, does any station play Barry Scott's "Lost 45's" show anymore? I haven't heard it in ages and nobody speaks of it other than on WODS in Boston (and I wonder if they even play it anymore). It's been years since I've heard it but I don't see any oldies stations picking this up or retaining it on their schedule.

Bill

 

[John1]

Sirius Gold & 60's Vibrations. Especially Norm N. Nite & Cousin Brucie.
Here in the Philadelphia area, we still have WOGL with a very repetitive '60's, '70's playlist, I only tune in for Harvey Holiday's "Street Corner Sunday" doo-wop show 9-midnight eastern (WOGL.com) and also a local community station WRDV (also streaming on WRDV.com) runs obscure doo-wop & R&B weekends, also like Philly radio legend Hy Lit's great streaming oldies station (hylitradio.com).

 

[cyberdad]

also like Philly radio legend Hy Lit's great streaming oldies station (hylitradio.com).

Thanks to your post, I discovered this one over the weekend! Sensational! Definitely belongs among the first tier of my list.

 

[kirkiefan]

WULM in Springfield (AM-1600) Though they dropped 50s oldies they still air 60s and 70s and a little bit of 80s(with a few comedic mock spots thrown in here and there) WDJO can be picked up in some areas in Dayton..which is by far the best as they have Dusty Rhodes and the old gang from WSAI. WBUK-FM "The Big Buck" in Lima is also good but their signal doesn't do so well south of Wapakoneta since they are basically now an Ottawa station since moving from Ft. Shawnee's frequency of 107.5 a few years back which is now Lima's version of "The X." Here in the valley,many of us still lament the loss of Kool 95(later Oldies 95...now "The Point" playing 80s.) and its jocks David G. Mc Farland,Joe Demma,Bob Roberts and the late great John Hall.

 

[pqgeorge]

I love Sirius Gold and 60's Vibrations. On the terrestrial front, it's WXRB-FM/95.1 in Dudley, MA (and why not, I run it)!


73,

Peter Q. George (K1XRB)
Whitman, Massachusetts

 

[DougD]

Sirius Gold & 60's Vibrations. Especially Norm N. Nite & Cousin Brucie.

Norm N. Nite and Cousin Bruce are gems. I heard Norm on Sirious. Sounded as good as always.

I recall his great syndicated oldies show during the early 90s- U.S. HALL OF FAME. Introduced me to a great number of oldies songs that mainstream stations at the time wouldn't touch such as THIS I SWEAR, the Skyliners,
THIS TIME, Troy Shondell, WILD WEEKEND, Rockin Teens,
LITTLE DIANE , Dion, etc.

Norm would do whole-hour spotlights on a particular year, such as 1961 and 1964.

Later, before the show got canned, he was doing spotlights on the lackluster and lamer years of 1972 and 1973. I suspected his distributors insisted he make his oldies "younger."

The show quality suffered immensley, kind of like MIKE HARVEY"S SUPER GOLD, which plays way too much 70s slop.

 

[ItalianAce]

My favorite oldies station is XM's 50s/5 and XM 60s/6. XM 50's on 5 goes deep and covers the 1950-1954 era. I like Matt the Cat's "Harlem" show. Once in a blue moon I'll listen too WPON online.

I use to have Sirius but dropped their service. Sirius Gold, and 60's Vibrations will play the same 200-300 "safe oldies" songs over and over again on their 50s & 60s decade channels. I couldn't handle it anymore lol.

Anthoy--