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

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

  Bob Nelson wrote:

>And so in line with that, stations do seem to be
>shedding the name OLDIES. The songs are indeed
>old-- they came out anywhere from 39 years ago
>to 25 years ago. Maybe the word "oldies" conjures
>up images of sock hops, James Dean, and cars with
>big fins. When a station offers songs that only
>came out after "She Loves You", maybe they want to
>kind of avoid that image.


I'm sure that has a lot to do with it.  I'm 52 and I can't really relate to 
the 50s...anything before mid-late 1962 or so is before my time...first 
song I remember really liking was "Locomotion".  Yet for many years (until 
the mid 80s really) oldies stations continually harped on the 50s 
image...Blue Suede Radio, etc. with lots of references to da's (the 
haircut, not directional antennas), poodle skirts, submarine races and the 
like.  While there are a few 50s songs I don't mind hearing, good riddance 
to most of it.

I'm sure among the great unwashed the term "oldies" will be with us for a 
long time...while the industry has referred to stations that play the 
current hits as CHR or Contemporary Hit Radio, no one outside the biz uses 
that term...it's still Top 40.

Does WODS still do the Elvis show?  That would seem to be increasing 
irrelevant to a station playing music from the British invasion thru the 70s.