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unusual facts about Oldies


Julie Tristan

Tristan, a St. Louis native, also worked at Clear Channel Radio-Total Traffic as a traffic reporter and voice-over talent for Oldies 103.3 KLOU-FM, KMJM-FM Magic 104.9 & KATZ-AM Gospel 1600.


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A Collection of Michael Jackson's Oldies

A Collection of Michael Jackson's Oldies is a compilation of the Motown Records released on December 8, 1972, with songs by Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 that were made between 1969 and 1972.

Allan Weiner

WREM is now known as WXME, simulcasting WSKW Skowhegan, Maine, an oldies formatted station previous formats on WXME include news/talk, simulcasting Caribou-based music Channel X Radio under the call letters WCXH and as WREM rebroadcast the talk programming of Presque Isle's WEGP.

Bristol Mountain Ski Resort

The Bristol Mountain station now broadcasts on 107.3 as oldies WODX.

Bruce Greensill

In 2003, he founded the Forster-Tuncurry Dolphins and was active in golden oldies rugby with first the Manning Mongrels of Taree and the Derelict Dolphins.

C. Jérôme

He also joined Michel Drucker in Vivement dimanche for presenting a section on oldies.

CFCO

On March 3, 2008 at 9AM, after sixteen years as an oldies station, "Classic Gold 630" came to an end with the song "The Beat Goes On" by Sonny and Cher, after which CFCO signed on the new country format with "Play Something Country" by Brooks & Dunn.

Dedicated 2 the Oldies 2

Dedicated 2 the Oldies 2 is double disc album from rapper Mr. Capone-E released in 2007.

Ember Records

In 1979, after Kruger had continued to put an impressive number of soul releases by artists such as Ed Robinson, Tony and the Tyrones and golden oldies such as Gladys Knight, as well as new albums by PJ Proby and Johnny Otis, the label, essentially becoming a victim of its own success, was wound down.

Heart Bristol

It should also be noted that GWR's oldies service was originally called Brunel Classic Gold, after the Great Western Railway's founding father Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Hot Hits

With legendary personalities such as Terry "The Motormouth" Young and Paul Barsky, WCAU-FM came to dominate as Philadelphia's choice for hit music for much of the 1980s, until flipping to Oldies as WOGL in 1987.

Jimmy Clanton

Clanton became a disc jockey at WHEX in Columbia, Pennsylvania between 1972 and 1976 and performed in an oldies revue also in the 1970s, The Masters of Rock 'n' Roll, with Troy Shondell, Ray Peterson, and Ronnie Dove.

KAUJ

It airs an Oldies music format featuring satellite-fed programming from Scott Shannon's The True Oldies Channel from ABC Radio.

KAZM

KAZM (780 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a mixed format consisting of news, sports, variety talk, classic rock and oldies music, the Wolfman Jack show, and Coast to Coast AM at night.

KEGY

The last song played in the short-lived oldies format was "Bobby's Girl" by Marcie Blane.

KHKS

KDNT-FM went through a number of different formats during the late 1970s and early 1980s, including a Top 40/Oldies hybrid, Disco, Rock, and Country.

KLOU

In the late 2000s, KLOU dropped its "103.3 KLOU" branding and oldies format for a more classic hits approach as "My 103.3", launching with Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Takin' Care of Business In 2010, the station rebranded to 70s and 80s hits as "Rewind 103.3." On May 31, 2011, KLOU shifted their format to back to 1960s-early 1980s classic hits, and rebranded as "Oldies 103.3".

KOOL-FM

At the time, no other station in the Phoenix market had an oldies format, and Osborne was given the freedom by KOOL-FM (then owned by Gene Autry) to play anything he wanted.

KRDJ

The oldies format lasted until KOOJ began airing a loop of "Hair of the Dog" by Nazareth and "Rock You Like a Hurricane" by the Scorpions on October 7, 2002—two days after much of the station's coverage area was hit by Hurricane Lili.

KVEN

This station used to broadcast the syndicated Wolfman Jack Radio Program, and, on Sunday nights, the Dr. Demento show, but because The Boomer became an affiliate of True Oldies, both shows stopped airing on The Boomer.

KYQQ

Sometime in 1990, KWKL dropped its Oldies format and stunted with David Bowie's "Changes" and Bananarama's "I Heard a Rumour" repeatedly and a drop between the songs saying "All Good Things Must Come To An End, Out With The Old" referring to the demise of KWKL's Oldies format.

KZMP-FM

On May 12, 1987, KLAK moved to frequency 97.5 FM in Durant, Oklahoma, wiping out popular rimshot KWTX Waco's DFW signal at 97.5; but on that same day, KMKT was established on 104.9 FM as an oldies station and was branded "Katy Klassics" and later "Katy Oldies".

Mondialement vôtre

Am tag als de regen kam is the biggest hit of Dalida in Germany back in 1959 and since then the song became a classical Oldies song.

Ö2

Music programming is chosen through based on many criteria and is mostly made up of oldies, classic hits and even traditional Volksmusik.

Rhyme Masters

The album was released on October 4, 2005 for oldies label, Flashback Records.

Ted Roop

At the time, BEA-VER Communications owned and operated CKSY-FM and CFCO, its AM Oldies sister station, from their Chatham, Kent studios, but had an application in to the CRTC for a 3rd FM station.

The Kwartet

Replacing Dean Rottau with Billy Ford, modifying their band name, and adopting a new, oldies, a capella repertoire, the band put together an EP of cover songs titled Enter the Cactus, including covers of Wham!'s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, The Temptations' My Girl, and The Foundations' Build Me Up Buttercup.

The Original Sins

A few more albums were released until Ken Bussiere decided to move to Florida and tour with oldies acts including Peter Noone.

The Virginia Belles

Completely student-run, the Belles continue to perform an eclectic range of vocal music from oldies and classic rock to indie and R&B.

WBIW

Not long after WQRK's switch from AOR to Oldies in 1999, WBIW began phasing out music programming and disc jockeys in favor of syndicated talk shows such as those from Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlessinger.

WDRQ

WLTI initially positioned itself as a cross between more up-tempo AC competitor WNIC and beautiful music Joy 97, featuring a blend of soft hits and oldies from artists like Barry Manilow, The Carpenters, Anne Murray, Olivia Newton-John, and Frank Sinatra.

WEGL

WEGL 91 is a traditional "college radio" station in that the station's programming consists of an eclectic mix of genres including, but not limited to: Rock, Hip-Hop, Pop, Blues, Jazz, Country & Bluegrass, Soul, Dance & Techno, R&B, Reggae, World Music, Oldies, and Gospel.

WestStar TalkRadio Network

The network also distributes Goddard's Gold and The 70s, two oldies/classic hits syndicated series hosted by KOOL-FM long-time Phoenix-based on-air radio broadcaster Steve Goddard, and An American Christmas, an annual special hosted by Mannheim Steamroller.

WODA

WGSX was an affiliate of Casey Kasem's American Top 40 throughout the '80s. In 1992, the station changed to an Oldies music format airing Top 40 music from the '50s, '60s and '70s.

WODX

On September 3, 2001, WLCL began stunting with an all-ABBA format, returning the following week to rhythmic oldies.

WOKY

To keep up with demographic trends, WOKY tweaked their format over the years, gradually shifting to a middle of the road/oldies hybrid that mixed uptempo 1950s-1970s oldies with classic and current adult contemporary music, with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Neil Diamond and The Carpenters being mainstays of the format.

WORC-FM

The station signed on April 8, 1994 as WXXW, though it did not formally launch its initial format, a blend of hot talk and oldies, until April 11 (in the interim, the station stunted by continuously playing "Old Time Rock and Roll").

WOZZ

In the late 1990s-early 2000s, it began simulcasting with its sister station WIZD 99.9 FM under the name "The Oldies Station;" this was done to allow the entire Wausau-Stevens Point radio market to be linked with one oldies station.

WREY

Borgen bought the silent WDGY in October 1996 and returned the station to the air in January 1997 as a Hudson, Wisconsin-based entity with the same call letters, airing a talk radio format that featured hosts like Don Imus, G. Gordon Liddy and Don and Mike, with oldies music from 6 PM to 6 AM.

WSKX

On January 10, 2008, it was noted that the station had dropped country and was simulcasting sister station WQSO 96.7 (oldies) with WUBB's website stating "Coming Soon! Sports Radio" with a link to MSN's Fox Sports page, implying that the new format would be Fox Sports Radio, seeing as the station is owned by Clear Channel Communications, which, in turn, owns Fox Sports Radio.

WSMM

The station broadcasts at 102.3 MHz and broadcasts an oldies/classic hits format branded as 97.7 and 102.3, The Stream, in simulcast with WSSM 97.7 FM Goshen.

WSNW

Programming on WSNW includes America in the Morning with Jim Bohannon, oldies music with Nonna Carlson in the morning, AM Seneca and The Midday Report with Chad Dorsett, "Coffee Time" with Adam Wright, Kool Gold (late mornings and weekends), Neal Boortz, Sean Hannity, Sportstalk with Phil Kornblut, Jim Bohannon's nighttime show, and Kim Komando.

WSWO-LP

Ultimate Oldies Radio was also heard on its first translator W268AX at 101.5 MHz from Old Troy Pike (SR 202) in north Dayton with a power of 106 watts which provided a wider coverage area reaching downtown Dayton, Moraine, Troy, and the fringe areas in Piqua to the north and Miamisburg to the south.

WSYN

Later, with some programming also being done locally, the playlist included many 1960s oldies and also some 1950s ones as well blended in with the mostly early 1970s oldies along with some Carolina beach music classics like "Sixty Minute Man" by Billy Ward (1949).

WULM

During this time, its weekend programs along with NASCAR coverage included The Motown Show, Dennis Mitchell's Breakfast With The Beatles, Oldies Coast To Coast, Little Walter's Time Machine, Glenn Sauter's Hits of Yesteryear and Cool Bobby B's Doo Wop Stop.

WWCB

WWCB (1370 AM) is an oldies/classic hits radio station licensed to Corry, Pennsylvania and serving Corry, Union City, eastern Erie County, Pennsylvania and Clymer, New York from its studio located at 122 North Center Street (PA 426) in downtown Corry and a transmitter facility off of West Columbus Avenue (U.S. Route 6).

WZOC

WZOC (94.3 FM, "Oldies 94-3") is a radio station licensed to Plymouth, Indiana, serving Michiana and the South Bend area.


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