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Roll Over Chuck Berry: Oldies Radio Moves Into the '70s
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| 10/31/03
| Jonathan Salant
Posted on 10/31/2003 11:52:53 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
The term "oldies" has always refered to music from late fifties through early seventies. It's short for the phrase "oldies but goodies."
I believe the term began in the mid-sixties. At that time, and it may be hard to believe now, an "oldie" was any song about two years old or older (but not older than mid-fifties).
For example, in 1967 a radio station would have an "all-oldies" weekend and play songs from 1956 to about 1965.
In those days, popular-music styles changed at a lightning speed compared to today.
To: onyx
you're right. you posted while I was writing my post trying to say the same thing (see above).
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
An oldie for me has to be 1965 or before; not sure why but there it is.
To: Dan from Michigan
WRIF in Detroit is still spinning the same playlist as when I was in high school in the late 1970's. Seger, Nugent, ACDC, Zep, ZZ Top, Stones, Rockets, Cars, repeat repeat repeat. Going home is like stepping into a time warp. Is Arthur P still on the air or is he getting the pension now?
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posted on
10/31/2003 12:52:53 PM PST
by
mitchbert
(Facts are Stubborn Things)
To: Flashlight
Great minds --- same page! Thanks so much for your ping!
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posted on
10/31/2003 12:54:19 PM PST
by
onyx
To: mitchbert
Arthur P is still on the air.
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posted on
10/31/2003 12:56:01 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
(Don't blame me. I voted for Rocky.)
To: Flashlight
In those days, popular-music styles changed at a lightning speed compared to today.Ain't that the truth?
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posted on
10/31/2003 12:56:02 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(All I want for Christmas is Ron Zook's firing (I'll remove this tag if we beat UGA))
To: stands2reason
Had a classic rock station in Midland that played the same 12 songs over and over and over...
I think I can do you one better.
About ten years ago I was driving through Northeast Texas, and ran across a station that was playing only Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman. Every time it finished it would start up again -- with just an occasional break. The station even had a contest going on -- for the listeners to predict what time on the following Tuesday the continuous sequence would stop!
Never could figure out the real reason for the continuous play. My assumption is that they needed/wanted to keep a live signal broadcasting, so they found a way to keep something on the air. Maybe they were jost operating on a really tightbudget and could only afford one record in their library!
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posted on
10/31/2003 12:59:38 PM PST
by
StevieB
To: Flashlight; Chi-townChief
Ecxcellent web site for lyrics and the offical listing of all Top 100 songs by year, from '55 -'74 with a few from '53 and '54 thrown in for the 'older' folks.
http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/index.html
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:01:05 PM PST
by
onyx
To: Jim Cane
"for me there is only Beethoven." ~ Brahms"
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Sylvester Stallone will be starring in a movie about Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
Willis said he will play the part of Mozart, Stallone Beethoven, and Arnold says, "I'll be Bach"
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:02:00 PM PST
by
M. Peach
(eschew obsfucation)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Wah, wah, I want my Rosie and the Originals, Brenda and the Tabulations, Danny and the Juniors and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans!
To: discostu
Soon the early days of rap will be on the oldies stations, it's hitting that age, wonder if they'll play "Parents just Don't Understand" I always liked that song. I am sure that is next, now that rap outsells all other genres of music.
I can imagine the TV ads now: "The Fresh Prince! Public Enemy! LL Cool J! The Sugar Hill Gang! UTFO! Run-DMC! All jammin' on your new favorite station, KRAP-FM!
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:10:58 PM PST
by
L.N. Smithee
(Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
To: discostu
Not only will Britney and Cristina be regarded as oldies, there will be people then the same age you are now loudly proclaiming that there hasn't been any listenable music made since Britney and Cristina retired. It's inevitable.I hope if I am living at that time, I will be deaf.
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:11:45 PM PST
by
L.N. Smithee
(Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I'm discovering a lot of music from the 1970s and 80s that I dismissed at the time because I wasn't mature enough to appreciate it yet. Dire Straits, Warren Zevon, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Steely Dan, to name a few examples. That is a very rich mine that I have tapped into over the past few years.
I came of age during the 1970s and back then, "oldies" were considered to be big bands and Frank Sinatra. You could still hear a lot of 1950s music on the contemporary rock stations and they were still playing 1960s music like it was current. Now when I tune into the "classic rock" stations, I'm hearing Styx, Rush, Journey, U2, Bob Seger - all stuff that came out after I was out of high school! And my teenage kids have no clue about the seminal bands of my youth like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and The Rolling Stones. Yeah, that does make you feel old.
In fact, I was playing Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti" in the car during this past summer for my 14-year-old, trying to show him how cool I was. Wanted him to know that his Dad could "rock"! He looked at me like I had three heads. Sort of the way I used to look at my father when he played Johnny Cash and George Jones on his 8-track. Only today, I love listening to Johnny Cash and George Jones.
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:25:29 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(202.4 (-97.6) Homestretch to 200)
To: onyx
"Those Oldies But Goodies
Little Caesar and The Romans..."
Since you have gone this far you forgot to mention it was recorded on the DELPHI label.
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posted on
10/31/2003 1:53:27 PM PST
by
duckman
To: Elliott Jackalope
Re post 29, I'll second that. I keep waiting for rap to go away but for some reason it won't. Nobody could possibly call that monotonous crap "music".
Does anyone think that melody will make a comeback in music?
To: Dan from Michigan
Bay-Buh! :-)
An interesting piece of trivia...He was the highest paid FM DJ in the States in the early 80's. I visited their offices not long after for an advertising meeting for a stereo chain I was working for in Windsor at the time. I remember Stern on W4. When he called the Libyan embassy and demanded money for every resident of Detroit for their birthday celebration. Right after Billy Carter got money from Kaddafy. The station went country not long after. Man, do I have great memories of DEtroit radio!
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posted on
10/31/2003 4:01:43 PM PST
by
mitchbert
(Facts are Stubborn Things)
To: M. Peach
Willis said he will play the part of Mozart, Stallone Beethoven, and Arnold says, "I'll be Bach" LOL
Beethoven: "Yo, Bach! Where's dat Vivaldi?"
The Bachinator: "Decomposing." *rimshot*
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posted on
10/31/2003 4:30:43 PM PST
by
Jim Cane
("I've always lived twice." ~ Dr. Sarcophogus.)
To: L.N. Smithee
It'll be pretty funny when 60 year-olds are chanting out:
You gotta fight
For right
To paaaaaaartay
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posted on
10/31/2003 4:43:06 PM PST
by
discostu
(You figure that's gotta be jelly cos jam just don't shake like that)
To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I had lunch at the Golden Corral the other day. They know the demographics of their customers. The music ranged from the sixties back to some of the hoarier stuff from the fifties. I hadn't heard 'Love is Strange' by Mickey and Sylvia in ages. The food was good, too.
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posted on
10/31/2003 7:54:10 PM PST
by
gcruse
(http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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