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| From | "David Bash" <bashpop@earthlink.net> |
| Subject | Re: Top 5 Radio Stations Of My Formative Years |
| Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:42:08 -0800 |
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1. WABC: What else could it be? Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie, Ron Lundy, Harry
Harrison, the "Heavy Hundred" of 1970...aahhh, sweet memories!
2. WWDJ: A top 40 station from New Jersey in the early '70s that was very
cool. I remember hearing an interview with Donny Osmond on that station,
which was the first time I'd heard Donnie speak after his voice had changed.
I thought "I hope this happens to me soon". It did.
3. WKIP: An adult-oriented station out of my hometown of Poughkeepsie, New
York who played a lot of cool stuff by groups like The Vogues, The New
Establishment, etc...which probably led in large part to my love of
harmonies. This was the station where I first heard Florence Henderson's
song "Conversation". It was right after The Brady Bunch first aired. I
couldn't believe Mrs. Brady could sing!
4. WXLO-FM: 99X, out of New York. The first really cool FM Top 40 station
I'd heard. I know there were others in New York beforehand, like WOR, but I
didn't own an FM radio during their heyday.
5. WPIX-FM: That was the station where I first stumbled upon "American Top
40", in November of 1972. I thought it was so cool, and in my youthful
naivete I thought that Casey was so smart for knowing all the minutae about
the artists!
Funny, ESPN sports airs on 1110 AM here in Los Angeles. I tuned to that
station on Saturday and noticed that it was playing music instead, a lot of
current "Disney" oriented stuff. In the millieu of lo-fi AM Radio
transmission, those songs sounded really good! I've oftened wondered if a
lot of what I dislike about today's Top 40 is its high fidelity, relative to
the radio stations of my youth? My experience on Saturday may have been a
good litmus test.
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Pop Rules!!!!!
Take Care,
David
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