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Radio, Radio... Apr 6, 2016 15:00:36 GMT -5

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Apr 5, 2016 17:31:34 GMT -5 Ish Kabbible said:

The Musicradio WABC Top 100 of 1965

I know those songs now, and would have known most of them then too, although I wasn't listening to WABC. In 1965 we still woke up to the "Rambling with Gambling" show on WOR. John Gambling's theme song was "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag".

The first and only WABC Top 100 list that I sent away for was the 1972 list. Boy, I memorized that list. When I decided to pay attention to pop music, I got really into it.

1 "Alone Again (Naturally)"............................Gilbert O'Sullivan
2 "American Pie".......................................Don McLean
3 "Candy Man"..........................................Sammy Davis, Jr.
4 "Lean on Me".........................................Bill Withers
5 "Without You"........................................Nilsson
6 "Let's Stay Together"................................Al Green
7 "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"....................Roberta Flack
8 "Horse With No Name".................................America
9 "Brandy".............................................Looking Glass
10 "I'll Take You There"...............................Staple Singers
11 "Rockin' Robin".....................................Michael Jackson
12 "Nights In White Satin".............................The Moody Blues
13 "I Can See Clearly Now".............................Johnny Nash
14 "Nice to Be With You"...............................Gallery
15 "Oh Girl"...........................................The Chi-Lites
16 "Black and White"...................................Three Dog Night
17 "Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast"......................Wayne Newton
18 "Outa Space"........................................Billy Preston
19 "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"...........................Robert John
20 "If Loving You is Wrong"............................Luther Ingram
21 "Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me".......................Mac Davis
22 "Precious and Few"..................................Climax
23 "Ben"...............................................Michael Jackson
24 "Everybody Plays the Fool"..........................Main Ingredient
25 "I'll Be Around"....................................The Spinners
26 "Brand New Key".....................................Melanie
27 "Back Stabbers".....................................The O'Jays
28 "Too Late to Turn Back Now".........................Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
29 "If You Don't Know Me By Now".......................Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes
30 "Heart of Gold".....................................Neil Young
31 "Betcha By Golly, Wow"..............................The Stylistics
32 "I Gotcha"..........................................Joe Tex
33 "Saturday in the Park"..............................Chicago
34 "Hurting Each Other"................................The Carpenters
35 "Puppy Love"........................................Donny Osmond
36 "Papa Was a Rolling Stone"..........................The Temptations
37 "I Am Woman"........................................Helen Reddy
38 "Long Cool Woman"...................................The Hollies
39 "Down By the Lazy River"............................The Osmonds
40 "Go All the Way"....................................The Raspberries
41 "Day After Day".....................................Badfinger
42 "Clean Up Woman"....................................Betty Wright
43 "I'm Still in Love With You"........................Al Green
44 "Burning Love"......................................Elvis Presley
45 "Garden Party"......................................Rick Nelson
46 "Song Sung Blue"....................................Neil Diamond
47 "Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard"...............Paul Simon
48 "I'd Love You to Want Me"...........................Lobo
49 "Sylvia's Mother"...................................Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
50 "You're Everything".................................The Stylistics
51 "Sunshine"..........................................Jonathan Edwards
52 "Rock and Roll Part 2"..............................Gary Glitter
53 "In the Rain".......................................The Dramatics
54 "Look What You Done For Me".........................Al Green
55 "School's Out"......................................Alice Cooper
56 "Mother and Child Reunion"..........................Paul Simon
57 "Walking in the Rain"...............................Love Unlimited
58 "Never Been to Spain"...............................Three Dog Night
59 "Last Night I Didn't Get to Sleep"..................The Fifth Dimension
60 "Vincent"...........................................Don McLean
61 "Me and Mrs. Jones".................................Billy Paul
62 "Way of Love".......................................Cher
63 "Freddie's Dead"....................................Curtis Mayfield
64 "Day Dreaming"......................................Aretha Franklin
65 "Summer Breeze".....................................Seals and Croft
66 "Everything I Own"..................................Bread
67 "Sugar Daddy".......................................The Jackson Five
68 "Joy"...............................................Apollo 100
69 "You Don't Mess Around With Jim"....................Jim Croce
70 "Guitar Man"........................................Bread
71 "Rocket Man"........................................Elton John
72 "How Do You Do".....................................Mouth and MacNeal
73 "Listen to the Music"...............................The Doobie Brothers
74 "Clair".............................................Gilbert O'Sullivan
75 "Cowboy's Work is Never Done".......................Sonny and Cher
76 "You Ought to Be With Me"...........................Al Green
77 "Got to Be There"...................................Michael Jackson
78 "Beautiful Sunday"..................................Daniel Boone
79 "I Wanna Be Where You Are"..........................Michael Jackson
80 "I Need You"........................................America
81 "Family Affair".....................................Sly and the Family Stone
82 "Scorpio"...........................................Dennis Coffey
83 "Hold Your Head Up".................................Argent
84 "Cherish"...........................................David Cassidy
85 "Day by Day"........................................Godspell
86 "Sealed With a Kiss"................................Bobby Vinton
87 "Layla".............................................Derek and The Dominos
88 "It Never Rains in Southern California".............Albert Hammond
89 "I'm Stone in Love With You"........................The Stylistics
90 "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing".............. The New Seekers
91 "Where is the Love".................................Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
92 "Conquistador"......................................Procol Harum
93 "Use Me"............................................Bill Withers
94 "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show".....................Honey Cone
95 "Motorcycle Mama"...................................Sailcat
96 "Morning Has Broken"................................Cat Stevens
97 "Taxi"..............................................Harry Chapin
98 "Sweet Seasons".....................................Carole King
99 "Rock and Roll Lullabye"............................B. J. Thomas
100 "Suavecito"........................................Malo

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Radio, Radio... Apr 6, 2016 15:27:08 GMT -5

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Apr 6, 2016 15:00:36 GMT -5 Rob Allen said:

I know those songs now, and would have known most of them then too, although I wasn't listening to WABC. In 1965 we still woke up to the "Rambling with Gambling" show on WOR. John Gambling's theme song was "Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag".

Our house, too! He had a distinguished-sounding (and -looking, I found out) newsman named Henry Gladstone. Don Criqui was the sports guy. He inherited the show from his father, John B. Gambling, and turned it over to his son, John R. Gambling. All told, the show ran from 1925-2013!

My mother loved him.

After his show she listened to Don McNeil's Breakfast Club live from Chicago on WABC. (the show lasted from 1933 till December of 1968!) and then "easy listening" music on WVNJ.

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Radio, Radio... Apr 6, 2016 16:35:22 GMT -5

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I was an AM radio listener through 1968. In 1969 I started transitioning early in the year to FM. By mid-year the only time I'd listen to AM was if I was stuck in the car that wasn't equipped with FM radio yet. And in those days FM radios in cars were luxury items until maybe 1973 or so.

Those early FM days were a blast, hearing music for the first time in stereo and no static. Commercials were at a minimum. DJ's and their individual tastes decided what was played, not like these corporate-approved, Billboard magazine sanctioned song lists. What I remember from WNEW FM was the early morning DJ favored singer/songwriter material towards the light, melodic side. Afternoon Scott Muni was heavily into British music. Alison Steele the late night Nightbird played the trippy stuff

Back around 1970 I was buying regularly a monthly magazine which was basically a TV guide for FM radio. It was needed for all the new stations and programs popping up on the dial. WLIR FM in Long Island played The Album Of The Day- a complete no commercial break album. Live concerts from NYC venues were broadcast every week as well. Rock stars on tour were always popping up at the FM stations for interviews

FM was exciting and unpredictably back then. Many stations were independently owned, not part of a media conglomerate yet. Those days are long gone and never coming back

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Radio, Radio... Apr 9, 2016 11:05:12 GMT -5

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Apr 5, 2016 14:11:52 GMT -5 Rob Allen said:

I have a question for our UK members. My local public radio station plays BBC Newshour on weekday afternoons and BBC World Service late at night (11pm - 4am). Between those two, I've become quite familiar with the voices of Lawrence Pollard, Julian Warricker, Owen Bennett-Jones, Nikki Bedi, Bridget Kendall, and others. Are they well-known in Britain, or is the World Service separate from the domestic BBC?

Bridget Kendall is the only name among those that list that I recognise. But I'm not the biggest radio listener, to be honest, and I never was.

The BBC World Service is a part of the domestic BBC, as in, it's produced by the BBC (obviously), funded by our TV licence fees, and you can listen to it over here. In fact, a new series of BBC TV adverts have just started on the BBC's channels aimed at raising people's awareness of it here. Traditionally though, the BBC World Service is and has always been, since the last days of the British Empire, for the benefit of ex-pats living abroad and residents of other English speaking nations.

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Radio, Radio... Apr 27, 2016 20:44:09 GMT -5

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I've been buying Old Time Radio shows on CD and DVD. They are MP3 Files. I had to buy a rather expensive player that will play both CDs and DVDs. These discs will play on any computer. But I needed a player that would play next to my bed because I listen to them at night when I go to sleep. I had to buy a rather expensive player that would play both CDs and DVDs. It's the size of a boombox but is MP3 capable. Previously I had a CD player but it would not play the DVDs.

When you buy OTR programs on disc, sometimes they are on CDs and sometimes DVDs. I had to have a player that would play both types of discs.

I like the private eye shows like Richard Diamond and Johnny Dollar.

WGN radio in Chicago plays OTR shows late at night on the weekends.

There is a syndicated show called When Radio Was that I can also pick up late nights on the AM band.

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Radio, Radio... Jul 1, 2016 12:41:18 GMT -5

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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 1, 2016 12:41:18 GMT -5

Good radio alert!

KBOO-FM is broadcasting the Waterfront Blues Festival again this year - July 1-4, noon to 10pm (Pacific).

Listen here: kboo.fm/listen-now

The headliners for each night:

Friday: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Femi Kuti & the Positive Force

Saturday: Jimmie Vaughan & the Tilt-A-Whirl Band, Maceo Parker

Sunday: Dr. John & the Night Trippers, Liv Warfield & the Special Hornz (Prince tribute)

Monday: Curtis Salgado, California Honeydrops

More complete artist listings at kboo.fm/blog/48538

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Radio, Radio... Jul 1, 2016 15:35:49 GMT -5

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I remember listening to our local AM station, which was WHAL 1400. In the mornings, they had the birthday club. You could send in your birthday and if they randomly choose your entry, you won a birthday cake from the local bakery and some other prizes provided by local businesses. My grandmother and my cousin both won. They also had a show called Swap and Shop. You could call in during the day and evening to make requests, sometimes you could even talk to the dj and it was broadcast.
As I got older, my favorite station was a FM station called Boogie 93.
Fond memories of listening to the Grand Ole Opry on WSM too.
I don't listen to the free radio anymore but I do love Sirius XM. I like the Lithium, First Wave, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and Groove stations.

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Radio, Radio... Jul 1, 2016 23:08:59 GMT -5

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It's only recently that I've had a much better appreciation for the invention of the radio. I just think it's a fabulous invention that has spawned the framework for a lot of modern day technological innovations. At least I think it has. As far as listening goes, I've found my nitch in being a consumer of public radio. I don't know why that never dawned on me before. KQED in the bay area is fantastic to me and so much better than commercialized radio. I don't get the feeling of a bias either. Sports talk was good at times, but I got tired of the commercialism and most of the personas. Now I only usually tune in for Warriors, Giants, or 49ers games as I do appreciate the team broadcasters more so than the TV crew that is supposed to be unbiased but sometimes isn't (Mark Jackson and Jeff Van Gundy seemed like Cavs fans during the Finals). So there have been times where I'll take the trade off of not seeing a national televised game just to get the local broadcasting flavor, who know way more about the teams they cover on a consistent basis than any national crew that goes from team to team. And music...well any adult contemporary station I'm fine with. Again though, commercials are really annoying. I know folks need to pay the bills though. I do love Pandora though because I can customize my listening selection to the exact "feeling" of music I want that goes beyond a worded description. And the free version the commercials are very limited so I can't complain.

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