How about some old time rock & roll?

All of the songs on my IPod are oldies and I keep adding to them as I find them. I've bought a few if the time-life record sets but really prefer to find them on sites like ITunes, etc. there used to be a couple of oldies radio stations in the Houston market but I can no longer find them. Hope they return maybe with some moments of Wolfman Jack thrown in.
 
Farmtex said:
All of the songs on my IPod are oldies and I keep adding to them as I find them. I've bought a few if the time-life record sets but really prefer to find them on sites like ITunes, etc. there used to be a couple of oldies radio stations in the Houston market but I can no longer find them. Hope they return maybe with some moments of Wolfman Jack thrown in.
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Remember the Wolfman in American Grafitti?
 
Watched or, rather listened to, an AM station start up a few years ago that played only stuff from the Fifties. It was great but failed, eventually. Sad.
 
I assume the one in Houston just did not have the listeners needed to sustain the business. That is hard to imagine as my age group is sizable. I have no clue as to what else they would be listening to except perhaps talk radio. If an oldies station was to start up I would be a faithful listener.
 

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Although not singers, integral parts of the 'scene' were Dick Clark with American Bandstand and later Casey Kasem with his weekly countdown of the top 40. Clark I believe arrived in the mid 50's with Kasem in 1970 or so. I enjoyed both.
 
SeaBreeze said:
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The original Grassroots formed at my high school in 1965. They were The Bedouins back then. They were "discovered" and moved to LA. Only lasted a couple of years there,got sick of the business and came back home. If you hear any of the Grassroots very early songs (Where Were You When I Needed You, Mr. Jones) that was the originals,rather than the Grassroots that everyone later came to know. My best friend at the time was married to the bassist and I babysat their daughter,as our daughters were born two weeks apart. We are still all friends today.
 
Farmtex said:
Although not singers, integral parts of the 'scene' were Dick Clark with American Bandstand and later Casey Kasem with his weekly countdown of the top 40. Clark I believe arrived in the mid 50's with Kasem in 1970 or so. I enjoyed both.
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Let us not forget Alan Freed, the dj who started playing rock 'n' roll on the radio in the early fifties.
 
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