Posted on 06/21/2006 4:31:47 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
Bingo! We have a winner!
They recently dropped the last "oldies" station here in Buffalo, WKBW 1520 AM which was one of the 50,000 watt tower of powers during the heyday of rock 'n roll on the east coast and replaced it with, are you ready, Left Talk! That's right, those idiots from Air America et al. Guess since this IS one of the Bluest states in the USA they think it might have a chance. I removed it from my preset buttons in my cars. Oh,well. I still have XM.
My iTunes radio connects me to 16 streams w/ 50s -60s formats. No charge other than your broadband connection.
Granted you can't listen to it in the car.
Just an FYI.
Would these be "Uncle Lare" and "Snotnosed Tommy"??
You can say what you want about us boomers.Much of it is likely to be correct.But we had,in the 50's and 60's,the greatest music ever known to civilization.
Absolutely.
Sad! If that's what some think, then they missed most of it. I like Motown as much as anyone, but, it was merely an extension of what others a decade before them had created.
XM or Sirius?
Awwwwww.
How about for the 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,001 time? Just for OLD TIMES sake.
I know you wanna leave me,
but I refuse to let you go
If I have to beg and plead for your sympathy,
I don't mind coz' you mean that much to meAin't too proud to beg, sweet darlin
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me, girl, don't you goNow I heard a cryin' man,
is half a man with no sense of pride
But if I have to cry to keep you,
I don't mind weepin' if it'll keep you by my sideAin't to proud to beg, sweet darlin
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me girl, don't you goIf I have to sleep on your doorstep
all night and day just to keep you from walkin' away
let your friends laugh, even this I can stand
cause I want to keep you any way I canAin't too proud to beg, sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me girl, don't you goNow I've gotta love so deep in the pit of my heart
And each day it grows more and more
I'm not ashamed to come and plead to you baby
If pleadin' keeps you from walkin' out that doorAin't too proud to beg, you know it sweet darlin'
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Ain't to proud to plead, baby, baby
Please don't leave me girl, don't you go
Baby, baby, baby, baby (sweet darling)
Remember - NO dancing on the tables.
(If you have any other MOTOWN requests, speak up - I have them all)
>>...vinyl
>>>...needles
Amen brothers! Second best: http://www.angelfire.com/retro2/croonerjd/FullList.htm
All free, downloadable, huge selection, and none of that RealPlayer crappe.
Unfortunately, finding anything from that era on broadcast is near impossible today - and its the preferred music of my parents and grandparents, who are still alive. You'd think there'd be a market for playing that music.
I was born in 1966, and I'm also a fan of the old stuff. The only radio station I know that consistently plays that kind of thing anywhere is in the Shenandoah Valley, where I don't live. But every time I'm about there, I'm finding "Music of our Life." I think it's 105.7, but I forget.
I would think the fan base is there. When I travel around the country, one things that strikes me is that there are lots of people who don't give a darn about top 40 or what Hollywood says. Just last month, for example, I was at a bluegrass festival in Georgia. It was a three-day festival and had at least 1,500 people there. The festival had almost no promotion and was held in a very rural area, but drew people from all over the east coast.
WMTRam-1250 in Morristown has a weak signal, but they do a nice internet stream. Great playlist!
http://www.wmtram.com/index2.htm
Edison cylinders are so neat. My husband has a collection and they're a hoot.
I carried that radio on my paper route, and when the sun went down, the big boomers came in. All batteery operated. No AC at all.
Thanks, Don-o!
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