- Saturday Night Oldies
Saturday Night Oldies is a
Saturday night music show on WABCRadio inNew York City .History of the Radio Program
WABC Radio (770 AM,
New York City ) played rock and roll from1960 untilMay 10 ,1982 , before changing to atalk radio format. With talk shows not quite as popular on the weekend, Tim McCarthy, WABC President and General Manager, andPhil Boyce , Operations Manager andProgram Director , decided to bring back theoldies music onSaturday nights. "Saturday Night Oldies" premiered onDecember 3 ,2005 , exactly 6 months afterWCBS-FM (also in New York) dropped the oldies format onJune 3 ,2005 .Mark Simone hosts the show. The show features popular music from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s with an emphasis on songs that became popular, but have largely been forgotten. Original WABCjingles from the stations Top 40 era are played and theDJ takes phone calls and reads posts from the [http://www.musicradio77.com/wabcboard/wwwboard/wabcboard1.html Message Board] discussing a wide variety of events in popular culture from that time period.The program's production crew includes Mike Gunzelman, the producer, who answers the phones, and Robert Paul on the controls.
Features
* B-sides of 45s played
* [http://www.musicradio77.com/beatles.html Beatlespectacular] - in-depth look at the Beatles
* Fake breaks – old radio and TV commercials
* Mystery DJ - guess the voice of a radio deejay
* Stump the Host - callers try to stump the show’s host
* Triple plays - 3 songs from one recording artist playedGuest Interviews
*
Herb Oscar Anderson
*Paul Anka
* Little Anthony
*Peter Asher andGordon Waller ofPeter & Gordon
*Frankie Avalon
*Burt Bacharach
*Frank Bank
*Shirley Bassey
*Pete Best
*Jay Black ofJay and the Americans
*Pat Boone
*Tom Bosley
*Dewey Bunnell of America
*Eric Burdon
*Glen Campbell
* TheCaptain & Tennille
*David Cassidy
*Dick Cavett
*Chubby Checker
*Lou Christie
*Petula Clark
*Tim Conway
*Stu Cook ofCreedence Clearwater Revival
*Alice Cooper
*Pat Cooper
* Paul Cowsill ofthe Cowsills
*Tony Danza
*Bo Diddley
*Phyllis Diller
*Dion DiMucci
*Micky Dolenz
*Donovan
*Tony Dow
*Barbara Eden
* Fabian Forte
*Peter Frampton
*Art Garfunkel
*Bobby Goldsboro
*Lesley Gore
*Al Green
* Harry Harrison
*Deborah Harry
*Isaac Hayes
*Dwayne Hickman
*Janis Ian
*Dan Ingram
*Tommy James
* Frank Jeckell of the1910 Fruitgum Company
* Davy Jones
*Shirley Jones
*Larry Kane
*Paul Kantner ofJefferson Airplane andJefferson Starship
*Ben E. King and Charlie Thomas of theDrifters
*Frank Kingston Smith
*Robert Klein
*Bernie Kopell
*Billy J. Kramer
*Steve Lawrence
*David Letterman
*Eddie Levert and Walter Williams ofThe O'Jays
* Gary Lewis of the Playboys
*Little Richard
*Barry Livingston
*Airrion Love ofThe Stylistics
*Mike Love of theBeach Boys
*Ron Lundy
*Barry Manilow
*Jerry Mathers
*Johnny Mathis
*Marilyn McCoo andBilly Davis, Jr. of the Fifth Dimension
*Maureen McGovern
*Don McLean
*Ed McMahon
* George Michael
*Eddie Money
*Mary Tyler Moore
*Bruce Morrow
* David Nelson
*Julie Newmar
*Wayne Newton
*Peter Noone of theHerman's Hermits
*Tony Orlando
*Donny Osmond
*Gary Owens
*Lisa Marie Presley
*Gary Puckett
*Kenny Rogers
*Freddie Roman
*Linda Ronstadt
*Rose Marie
*Todd Rundgren
*Bobby Rydell
*Mort Sahl
*John Sebastian
*Neil Sedaka
* Bob Shannon
*Scott Shannon
*Patrick Simmons of theDoobie Brothers
*Nancy Sinatra
*Jaclyn Smith
*Frankie Valli
*Bobby Vinton
*Jimmy Webb
*Adam West
*Barry Williams
*Jo Anne Worley
*Alan Young
*John Zacherley logans
* "Saturday Night Oldies. What an awesome idea!"
* "Who else could pull this off?"
* "This is the station you grew up with. Who said you had to grow up?"External links
* [http://www.musicradio77.com/wabcboard/wwwboard/wabcboard1.html Saturday Night Oldies Message Board]
* [http://www.marksimone.com Mark Simone Official Web Site]
* [http://www.wabcradio.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=166880&spid= WABC Radio]
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