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When did AC station drop most 60s music?

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carolinaradio

I really didn't pay the AC format much attention back when they still really played 60s (excluding Stand By Me/Unchained Melody/Brown Eyed Girl/that were played in to the late 2000s and even today)...but when were most 60s AC titles dropped from the format (a situation we're currently seeing with 70s music)?

I remember still hearing "Build Me Up Buttercup", "Baby Love", and "I Second That Emotion" on a local AC still in the mid-2000s.
 
Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison is seldom heard on a few ACs, but other than that the '60s have gone into the vault at most AC stations.

-crainbebo
 
Sunny in Charleston still played 60s music into the early 2000s. I remember hearing Roy Orbison on there until about 2004 or 05. They probably had other 60s songs too.
 
The '60s are still played on AC here, but it's mostly the ones that resurfaced in movies during the '80s, like "Stand By Me," "Twist and Shout," and *groan* "What a Wonderful World" (the Louis Armstrong song). Our AC at least briefly picked up a few more oldies when their sister station Oldies 96.3 became "Jack." "Can't Buy Me Love" is one that seems to come to mind.

Speak for yourself, crainbebo, but "Brown-Eyed Girl" is indeed still in rotation on AC here. Wouldn't even surprise me if Delilah was still playing it. (For the record, I still like the song, but I can understand why some people don't, since it is a multi-format hit, still playing not only on AC, but also on oldies/classic hits, classic rock, and even AAA (along with his other, more obscure stuff there, of course).

Carolinaradio, the Foundations still play on AC here, but their version of "Baby Now That I Found You" seems to get rotated along with the Allison Krauss version here.
 
firepoint525 said:
The '60s are still played on AC here, but it's mostly the ones that resurfaced in movies during the '80s, like "Stand By Me," "Twist and Shout," and *groan* "What a Wonderful World" (the Louis Armstrong song).
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Don't forget "Unchained Melody".

I only groan about "What a Wonderful World" when Kenny G is involved.
 
WSPA in Greenville SC recently started back playing "Brown Eyed Girl." I don't get that song. It's a catchy track for a classic hits station, but how does it cross over to so many formats decades later? It never had a second life in the 80s like these other 60s songs have. It just sticks around. ???

I remember the now-defunct Sunny 93.9 in Raleigh, NC playing songs like "Michelle" by The Beatles, "Georgia On My Mind" by Ray Charles and "Oh, Pretty Woman" in late 2004 after sister station Oldies 100.7 went to rock. Actually, they played 'Georgia' before then, I believe.

charlestondx, I think Y-102.5 still kept some 60s tracks in rotation for a while after they transitioned to AC in 2007.
 
I don't remember WLIT ever playing anything from the 1960's, unless the song appeared on a soundtrack from the 80's or 90's, & charted on AC & Top 40 charts in the 80's & 90's. Even the old WNND & WPNT in Chicago was the same way.
 
WNIC in Detroit still had some '60s tracks (mostly Motown) in rotation until the early '00s. Made sense for the market, of course.

Another '60s hit that seemed to endure on AC without having had a second life in the '80s is Aretha Franklin's "Respect." I believe the softer/gold leaning Soft Rock 105.1 in Detroit still plays that one. I know for sure they still play "Brown Eyed Girl."

Someone also mentioned not long ago hearing the Mamas & the Papas' "California Dreamin'" played on KOST in L.A., which of course has not modernized to the degree that other major-market ACs did.

For a while it seemed like some AC stations held on to '60s music through specialty shows after dropping it from their regular playlists, but even that seems to be disappearing as AC becomes the new default home for '80s music. WCRZ in Flint, MI (Cars 108), for example, did a popular Saturday-night oldies show for years, but dropped it and replaced it with Casey Kasem's American Top 40 - The 1980s a few years back - interestingly, they still do a "classic lunch" weekdays at noon, but that seems to be mostly '70s and early '80s now, except for "theme day Thursdays" where they might reach farther back (i.e. on a recent installment, Dee Clark's "Raindrops" from 1961 was played during an hour dedicated to "crying" songs). WFMK in Lansing also does a local oldies show on Sunday mornings. I remember the days, though, when hearing syndicated shows like Rock and Roll's Greatest Hits or Supergold on an AC station was common.
 
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