Nostalgia smacks Coot in ugly mug

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All I will say is that I used to listen to our oldie station (KFRC) in the car all the time. Now they play '80 junk. I've given up on radio. I love oldies, '50s and '60s mostly.
 
Small point, but Kenny Roger played "Ruby, Don't Take Your Guns To Town" ?

I think Ruby's husband was worring about her taking her love to town, otherwise:

And if I could move I'd get my gun
And put her in the ground
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
 
Just going by memory I recall two of the songs directly referring to war, though the war was not named:

Ruby, Don't take your love to town. The singer was injured in an Asian war and Galveston, where the singer can hear the cannon fire and hopes he doesn't die.
 
I like the oldies too, the few radio stations here that play oldies have dwindled to one.
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Just remember, obbop; even nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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I like the oldies too, the few radio stations here that play oldies have dwindled to one.
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Just remember, obbop; even nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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Sniff.

Yep.

Used to be young and stupid.

Now, am old and stupid.

Sniff.
 
Thanks old Coot.

I found myself singing in the shower this morning.

"toast and marmalade for tea
sailing ships upon the sea
In lovely avenues
all the games I've seen you play"
 
"I used to listen to our oldie station (KFRC)"

Back in the 60s and early 70s, amonhst us Baby Boomers, you either favored KFRC or, I believe, if memory is correct, KYA.

Both top-40 stations playing the current hits. Real DJs tuned into the local scene.

I remember KFRC having a contest where you could win a Mustang. THe car, that is, not the critter.

I tended towards KYA but would slide across the dial to partake of KFRC from time-to-time.

In Livermore, it was, Alameda County. Bay Area California USA.

Y'all come back now, yah' hear?
 
There are no stations here that play 50s or 60s oldies. The 'classic rock' station plays a little bit from the 60s, mostly stuff from the 70s, but it's the same 20 tunes endlessly repeated. The station of the same format in Cleveland for some reason only played one song way too many times - "b b b b b b bAYby you just ain't seen n n n n n n nothing yet"

I mildly enjoyed music from the mid-nineties - about right for my age group, but I hate the stuff on either side of that 'era'. Most everything I listen to now is more than 100 years old, fortunately there are two good stations for that in town.

There's probably an AM station that plays stuff older than 1950s, but jeesh... AM tuners these days are crud and it seems that the transmitters must be second class, too. On the subject, I found it very odd indeed that my Kenwood 890 car headunit had a terrific AM tuner. OU games with Bob and Merv never sounded so good!
 
Did anything ever come of the AM-in-stereo experiment?

I know that FM quadraphonic broadcasting back in the 70s, in its various forms, was a dud.
 
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