'60s Songs You Don't Hear Anymore for Obvious Reasons...

[nocomradio]

They also do a segment called "Oh Wow" songs where they play something supposedly unheard regularly. The last one about an hour ago was Stevie Wonder "Superstition" I kid you not. Really. [shakes head]

You're kidding! 

"I Don't Know Why", a great classic by Stevie from '69, could be considered "Oh Wow"

  Not kidding at all. This was probably the worst offender in their list of "Oh Wow" songs, but I've heard many other mainstream songs land there too.

[Jay F]

I saw a song in my Whitburn book that I never heard of before...Crow-Evil Woman Don't Play Your Games With me..it peaked at #19 in 1969. I found a clip of it and it sounded pretty good..a blues rock jam.

The anti-woman lyrics of that song (and similar songs of the era) would never fly today. Yet as I probably mentioned earlier in this thread Eminem/Rihanna "I Love The Way You Lie" was a huge hit and it's violent lyrics are more extreme than anything that would have been accepted in the 60s. 

[deltas69]

a few more you don't hear : white lies,blue eyes/bullit-absolutely right/five man electrical band- pledge of love/joe jeffery group-bad time/grand funk railroad-you could have been a lady/april wine- i saw the light/todd rundgren-el chicano/tell her she's lovely-guess who/bus rider..and hundreds more tons of GREAT tunes from the 60's/70's that only get played online...IF you can find a station that knows what it's doing...

[nocomradio]

 I know it didn't get a lot of airplay even when it was new, but I doubt you'd hear Bob Seger's "Horizontal Bop" anymore.

[firepoint525]

I know it didn't get a lot of airplay even when it was new, but I doubt you'd hear Bob Seger's "Horizontal Bop" anymore.

I still hear its B-side, "Her Strut."  In fact, I've even seen that 45 listed on Ebay with "Her Strut" listed as the A-side!

[CTListener]

Thanks.  Your situation reminds me of the Clear Channel classic rock station here in Nashville that played what they called a "deep cut" by the Beatles, and it turned out to be "Hey Jude"!  The biggest hit by the biggest band of all time is a "deep cut"? 

Obviously, the target audience did not live in 1968, so they would not know any better. How depressing!

I remember WAQY Springfield, MA, a very tight-playlisted classic rocker, doing a regular feature where the jock would pretend he was walking down to the "basement" to dust off a forgotten track. Footsteps, creaking doors, sounds of rats scurrying away, the works. And what glorious obscurity did he bring up from the basement? Tom Petty's "You Got Lucky"!

[CTListener]

Why does it do the way it does?

 
HUH ??

If anyone else here can explain "Why does it do the way it does" I'll let them explain.  If no one knows what that refers to, I'll explain it.
[/quote]

It's a line from "Baby, How'd We Ever Get This Way," another forgotten Andy Kim single. I'm still partial to his first, "Shoot 'em Up Baby."

[jfrancispastirchak]

I remember WAQY Springfield, MA, a very tight-playlisted classic rocker, doing a regular feature where the jock would pretend he was walking down to the "basement" to dust off a forgotten track. Footsteps, creaking doors, sounds of rats scurrying away, the works. And what glorious obscurity did he bring up from the basement? Tom Petty's "You Got Lucky"!

After hearing all of those radio theatrics, I would expect the jock to come up with a cut from the Jack Benny radio show.  Today's PDs & MDs are too young to manage oldies.

[deltas69]

Oh Rochester !!!!   Bring the Maxwell around!!!....Today's PDs & MDs are too young to manage oldies.....truer words were never spoken...

[cyberdad]

Oh Rochester !!!!   Bring the Maxwell around!!!....Today's PDs & MDs are too young to manage oldies.....truer words were never spoken...

At midnight on new year's eve, I'll have Rochester wake me up, roll me over, hand me a rum-flavored Life Savers, and then I'll roll back over and go back to sleep.