Michael1973
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 10, 2004 10:41:22 GMT -5
Do you ever hear 80's music on oldies stations, which generally focus on 60's and 70's songs as a rule? The local olides station will sometimes plays 80's songs, particularly those by artists whose older music is typical for the format.
Case in point, I recently heard them play Roy Orbison's "You Got It". In the past year or two, I've also heard The Beach Boys' "Kokomo" and several Billy Joel songs from the "Innocent Man" era.
Is this common?
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Post by tico on Dec 10, 2004 13:26:53 GMT -5
Is your oldies station a Clear Channel station? My local oldies station is a CC station and just started playing some 80s music. Several of their oldies stations use the moniker "Super Hits of the 60s and 70s".
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Post by EvanJ on Dec 10, 2004 16:53:16 GMT -5
If he's talking about WKHL Stamford-Norwalk, that's a Cox station.
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Post by reception on Dec 10, 2004 16:53:28 GMT -5
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Post by Michael1973 on Dec 11, 2004 9:04:43 GMT -5
The station I was talking about is WDRC in Hartford. I'm not sure who owns them.
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Post by reception on Dec 11, 2004 11:21:26 GMT -5
WDRC is owned by Buckley Broadcasting.
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Post by Marv on Dec 14, 2004 14:05:58 GMT -5
KOLA-FM in San Bernardino-Riverside is for my money the best oldies station in Southern California,
The only song from the eighties they play (and they've been playing it for YEARS!!!!) in 1988's 'Kokomo', from the Beach Boys.
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Post by Pipa on Dec 14, 2004 16:45:35 GMT -5
The only 80's songs our old oldies station would play were right on the dot of 1980 (namely Chilliwack's My Girl or April Wine's I Wanna Rock), but on the new oldies station, you can easily hear something from Dire Straits, Huey Lewis, etc.
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