Posted on 06/09/2005 8:26:32 AM PDT by Mike Bates
I get cloudbursts on a sunny day
When it's warm outside, I'm all cold and gray.
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
"My Girl."
Not talkin' 'bout my girl Johanna. Talkin' `bout "My Girl" the song--the mid-1960s Temptations' hit that, like so many classic oldies, now causes me to cover my ears or lunge for the buttons on the car radio.
It was a pleasant and catchy enough ditty the first 20 or 30 times. But thanks largely to the unrelenting 21-year effort of those who programmed WJMK-FM (104.3), "My Girl" and several hundred other hits completely wore out their welcome in my brain.
Not that they're bad songs or that I don't admire the artistry in many cases. It's just that I don't ever want to hear them again.
So I led the cheering online for the dramatic format shift at WJMK, where last Friday, Infinity Broadcasting chained up "The Unchained Melody" and other familiar '60s and '70s chart-toppers.
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You can Just Walk Away (from) Rene, or if you don't want to hear (Its) The Same Old Song.
We need some JACK here in Cincinnati.
Eric Zorn,
The same guy who is moved by Aaron Paterson and thinks that Bernadine Dorn is a great American, now that is a real spokesman for the Average American - who by the way reads the Chicago Sun Times: pencil-necked geeks from the lily-white liberal suburbs get the Trib.
Unfortunately, most oldies stations restrict their playlists to about 300 of the most popular songs of the 60's and 70's, thus digging their own graves. I love R & B music from the 50's and the 60's and in my youth in Pittsburgh I'd listen to Porky Chedwick or Terry Lee precisely because they were NOT playing top 40 R & B music. In addition, if you listen to conventional radio, you're more likely to tune into a commercial than a song while dial-surfing.
Pat: You rang? :)
MB,
Nothing irritates me more about commercial radio than "classic rock" formats. All that means is the same 100-odd songs over and over and over and...
If they were truly "classic", that is, old(er), they'd have alot more Ramones, Iron Maiden, or Otis Redding than the latest Hootie record.
Feh.
If I had money to throw away, I'd buy a radio station and play "It's the Same Old Song" over and over.
Some goofball radio station in Columbia did that with "Macerena" in 1996. It was nothing but "Macarena," all of the time. I could have changed the channel, I know, but I was drawn to destroy my sanity for some strange reason.
To this day, I can still hear the "Hiya!" and then the beginning notes start again. I hope they're doing that to Saddam.
Et Tu Bates?
I think Saddam deserves all Barry Manilow, all the time.
Zorn is a complete tool, but he does have a point about the old 104.3 station. It had a really small playlist, and one does get sick of hearing the same songs over and over again, even if they are really good songs. I never understood why an oldies station had to restrict itself to so few songs. It basically had three decades (50s, 60s, 70s)worth of music to use, which is more than most stations do. Why not have more variety?
Where have all the oldies stations gone, long time passing?
Where have all the oldies stations gone, long time ago?
Where have all the oldies stations gone, long time passing?
They've changed formats to crappy newer songs.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Spinkle in some 'Feelings' and 'Raindrops'. First time I ever heard 'Feelings' was in a Carol Burnett show skit and thought it was something they made up just for the skit because it was so bad.
Seems to me like almost ALL the FM stations have very short playlists. And too many commercials.
Don't forget Runaround Sue.
Yikes!
The Yikes is because it's cruel and unusual, correcto?
Mmm hmm.
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