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WHLI 1100AM STANDARDS & MORE

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kevinsealy

This weekend WHLI is featuring dance songs. Around 12:45 they played, "Boogie Wonderland".by Earth Wind and Fire. The last this song was played on WHLI was back in the spring of 1979 when the station was Top 40.

Is this a sign that WHLI is moving away from Pop Standards which they've adopted in April of 1979 with the slogan "Music of Your Life"?

"Boogie Wonderland" was a song that not even AC stations back then would go near. It was mainly a Top 40, Disco & R&B song.




Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Kevin, you need to stop over-thinking this stuff.

WHLI is doing a dance song weekend, which (if I heard the promo right), is songs that have "dance" in the title, or are related to a dance (The Twist, The Continental, Tennesee Waltz) or a evengood song to dance to.

Boogie Wonderland was a hit in 1979 (that's twenty-nine years ago) and gets played at just about any party you go to these days.
 
Seriously, WHLI has been evolving... and not always for the better. The staton is cluttered with unfamiliar revivalist nonsense. I understand the need to sound younger, but they could still do this while playing the HITS. WRIV is doing it, WKLI Magic 100.9 does it. WHLI should as well, and give the Buble stuff a rest.
 
Kevin L. Sealy said:

Is this a sign that WHLI is moving away from Pop Standards which they've adopted in April of 1979 with the slogan "Music of Your Life"?
Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
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I'd say it is. I have to agree with 1290WGLI. WHLI is a lot different since Dean Anthony left us. I know of several people who have made the switch to WNYH of all things because they are more familiar with the music on 740 than they are with the stuff they have been playing lately on WHLI.
 
WHLI, unfortunately, has never been the same since Dean Anthony AND Jack Spector left us. Those two guys really put the juice in that station. Those 2 guys are missed. :(
 
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