Re: [FWDLK] Challenging music...

[Jan Harmonson <jharmonson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Here in Ventura County we have 1450 AM "The Boomer" that plays 50's era AM
stuff. Unfortunately it also has some sports but almost always Sunday
cruising in my 1955 Imperial is acompanied by Wolfman Jack and his music.
Long live AM radio.

Jan in Ojai, CA
1955 Imperial Sedan
1952 Plymouth Suburban (arriving this week)
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Subject: [FWDLK] Challenging music...


> Maybe not FWDLK related, but the L.A. Times reported today, that Dodge
> is going to resurrect the Challenger, next year, as a shortened
> wheelbase, 2-dr iteration of the 300/Charger platform, & yeah, its gonna
> have a Hemi.
>
> The car will be show-cased @ the Detroit Auto show, in Jan(?).
>
> Last year, the proto-cars were NOT well represented, @ the Barrett
> Jackson festivities, & they may not be well represented, again, this
> year.....
>
> As far as "music" is related, I've just recently begun to listen to the
> Sirius "channels", on my WebTV, & yeah, I know that various
> cable-networks, & XM Radio, et al,  offer these theme-channels, but I've
> noticed that 1962 appears (IMHO) to have had the "best"  pop music, from
> 1955-1965.
>
> '62 had EVERYTHING:  R&B, R &R, blues, pop, (softish-)rock, folk,
> girl/boy groups, & instrumentals....`.
>
> Our local AM station carries the execrable
> "OldiesRadio" syndicated program---truly the lowest common denominator
> in :"60's-70's"
> music; same-old-top-40s-stuff; but, @ least we've GOT  that.
>
> Vegas has (had?) a great local station (1100?)
> called :"Cruizin Oldies".
>
> L.A.'s  got a station @ both 540 & 1260 AM, which broadcasts a good
> "Music of Your Life" format, but no schmaltzy-stuff, & there's (been) a
> station out of Tijuana, MX, that has broadcast classic
> Doo-Wop/R&B---back in the 'day', its call sign was XERA 610 (that
> frequency is now sports-talk) .
>
> Out Here, in Bishop, we could receive "music-of-your-life" from KOMO
> (1000 Seattle) ; now it's "talk" ,  ditto from Albuquerque, KBOI (Boise,
> ID )  & KSL (Salt Lake City) . They're all talk, I believe, now. One
> nite Horrie's radio picked up a station in Lincoln Nebraska.
>
> Any other  really good radio stations, out there?
>
> Neil Vedder
>
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