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Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes songs from the top 40 music charts from the late 1960s to the early 2000s, with music from the 1980s serving as the core of the format. Music that was popularized by MTV [ 1 ] in the early 1980s and the nostalgia behind it [ 2 ] is a major driver to the format.
By 2000, Jammin' Oldies stations had different approaches, with some playing only 60s and 70s music, and others focusing more on the 80s, with still others such as WMOJ playing early rap. KMBX played no 60s music, while WJJJ (which was co-owned with oldies WWSW ) added songs from the 80s and 90s and de-emphasized Motown .
Radio disc jockeys would announce playing “good grooves, hot grooves, cool grooves, etc.” when introducing a record about to play. Recorded use of the word in its slang context has been found dating back to September 30, 1941, when it was used on the Fibber McGee and Molly radio show; band leader Billy Mills used it to describe his summer ...
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music, broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock, from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as well as for a radio format playing this music.
Classic rock is a radio format that developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. [2] In the United States, it comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, [3] [a] primarily focusing on commercially successful blues rock and hard rock popularized in the 1970s AOR format. [2]
The 1980s were a wild time for music. From rock 'n' roll hair bands to the debut of Whitney Houston and the launch of a little-known network named MTV, there was no shortage of history-making ...
It simulcasts a classic hits radio format with sister station WYGI 1430 AM Madison. They are owned by Kensington Digital Media and are known as "Hippie Radio." The stations focus on the "hippie era," playing the hits of the 1960s, 70s and 80s. WHPY-FM has an effective radiated power of 6,000 watts.
Sounds of the 60s is a long-running Saturday morning programme on BBC Radio 2 that features recordings of popular music made in the 1960s. It was first broadcast on 12 February 1983 and introduced by Keith Fordyce , who had been the first presenter of the TV show Ready Steady Go! in 1963.