RE: amusing article about 90s oldies

["Paul Hopfgarten" <paul@03038.com>]

I'm sure "20th Century Rock" will soon be a format available at a low-budget
FM station near you!

Paul Hopfgarten
East Derry NH 03041

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Martin
> Waters
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 5:02 PM
> To: Donna Halper
> Cc: boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: amusing article about 90s oldies
>
>
> --- Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
> > Umm, 90s music being considered oldies?????
> <snip>
>
>    I guess I have a contrarian view on this. Since
> radio started playing rock 'n' roll, a song never has
> needed to be very old to be an oldie. In the early
> 1960s, Everly Brothers or Elvis recordings from four
> years earlier were golden oldies. In 1968, a 1965
> Beatles' record was an oldie on WRKO. Etc., up to the
> present. The way radio formats developed, if it wasn't
> a current, it had be called something. A song that
> dropped off the chart 18 months ago is an oldie.
> There's nothing new here.
>
>    I think the trouble is that the thought of oldies
> from the '90s just makes a lot of us who hang out on
> this list feel like we're solid-gold,
> blast-from-the-past, million-dollar-weekend
> SUPEROLDIES. My advice, don't get too upset, it could
> be bad for your heart :))
>
>
>
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