Re: Don't call 'em "oldies"?

[Dan.Strassberg@att.net]

If you call the recordings/songs "oldies," then the people who like that music 
must be old. And we all know that once you become old (that is, over 54), you 
never buy anything again--except maybe a bruial plot and a casket. And how many 
people pick their own caskets? Usually, somebody younger in the family (albeit 
perhaps older than 54) makes that purchase.
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> Noticed in the new NorthEast Radio Watch that
> Providence's B101 is no longer using the word 
> "Oldies" as part of their nickname. Now it's "Big Hits
> of the 60s and 70s". Up north, Rochester NH's WQSO
> 96.7 refers to themselves as "the Wave" and the word
> oldies has also been banished. 
> 
> Wonder if/when WODS will also drop "Oldies" from its'
> nickname? Probably they won't, but who knows...They
> say "The Greatest Hits of the 60s and 70s" but still
> use "Oldies 103.3" in their jingles and it's all over
> their website. 
> 
> But some stations seem to feel that "oldies" means 
> "those same tired old hits of the past". That doesn't
> necessarily mean that it's so, but maybe some people
> get that idea.
> 
> "Those oldies but goodies, remind me of you..." :)