WKFY

Paul Hopfgarten hopfgarten@mail.com
Wed Aug 21 01:43:28 EDT 2013


I remember #1 (I was 15 in '73.....)
Louie Louie Louie Loooooeeee
Louie Louie Louie Loooooiiiiiii
Louie Louie Louie Loooooeeee
Poor Boy you're going to die (or close to those words)


Look at WABC's chart from 40 years ago. I know many of those songs but I
have NO recollection of #1
http://musicradio77.com/Surveys/1973/surveyaug2173.html










On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, <Jibguy@aol.com> wrote:

>
> In a message dated 8/20/2013 8:20:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> wollman@bimajority.org writes:
>
> Someone  who is 65 today was born in 1948.  That means they were a
> teenager for  the first British Invasion, and probably started a family
> in the  1970s.  (Maybe as early as '66, not likely much later than
> '83.)   They never listened to Big Bands or '40s crooners, except when
> forced to by  their parents.
>
>
>
>
> -----------------------------
> Very true, especially that last sentence.  And many had 40's BigBand  &
> 50's standards forced upon them.  BUTTTTTTT.....   it's  something I keep
> hearing over and over and over from WJIB listeners....   They want to hear
> it
> because it reminds them of their fond memories of their  parents.  Or in
> the
> case of the 30-somethings that listen... fond memories  of the
> grandparents.
> -  Photographs and MUSIC are probably the  two major "emotion grabbers" in
> existence.
> ----On a related note, $20k was just spent by WJTO for a new  transmitter,
> and repair of portions of the ground system. So WJTO's music  should be
> blasting onto much of Cape Cod.
> ---jibguy
> 



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