Re: boston-radio-interest-digest V5 #251

[hmglaz@webtv.net (Howard Glazer)]

A. Joseph Ross wrote:

>I went out to Amherst yesterday to watch
> the UMass game, and I noticed a couple
> of things about oldies stations out of
> Boston. Buth WDRC-FM and WWBB
> seemed to have more pre-Beatles music
> than WODS has. I heard a couple of
> songs on WDRC-FM that were clearly
 >pre-Beatles and may even have been
> late 50s.

No surprise there. DRC-FM still has a bunch of pre-Beatles songs on its
playlist. Daytime isn't the time to hear most of them, though. A lot
more get played during Jack Carney's 7-midnight show on weekdays, the
Saturday request show and, of course, the Sunday Night Sock Hop.

In a previous post, you offered the opinion that the perceived
difference between WODS and out-of-market oldies stations was that "a
different dozen songs" were being run into the ground. I agree with you
to a point -- at DRC, the Beach Boys' "409" is like Gary Puckett's
"Young Girl" on ODS -- but there's nothing, I repeat, nothing, I've ever
heard on ODS that I don't also hear on DRC. The difference is the depth
of DRC's playlist; case in point, the last three-song set (12:10-12:22
p.m.): Rolling Stones' "Angie," Everly Brothers' "All I Have to Do is
Dream" and ... Bobby Vinton's "Please Love Me Forever"! 

Howard