[bomp] Re: CBS-FM saved my life

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Sent: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 04:00:01 -0500
Subject: bomp-digest V2003 #1221

I don't live in New York, and I've never heard WCBS-FM, but I can say 
that the main oldies station here in Chicago (WJMK) met the same iTunes 
fate as CBS, so I feel you New Yorkers' pain. Y'all had Don K. Reed and 
Norm N. Nite, we had Dick Biondi and Ron Britain; different time zone, 
same feelings.

<< my mom & dad told me they would take me to
see a movie called "Let The Good Times Roll" that they thought I might 
like.
Man, was that ever an understatement. Little Richard and Chuck Berry 
were
over the top, Chubby Checker almost missed his set taking a leak, and 
there
was this way-cool cat with a way-cool guitar named Bo Diddley who wasn't
even on the radio.>>

...and don't forget that show-stealing emcee during the Shirelles' 
segment!! Who was he, one of the Shirelles' boyfriend?

My parents took me to see this movie, too (at the drive-in!) and at six 
years old, I could barely contain myself watching Chuck, Bo, Richard 
and Chubby go crazy onscreen. In the 70's, all four of those performers 
were on every variety and music TV show there was (thanks  to the 
nostalgia craze) and I was always sure to tune in MIDNIGHT SPECIAL or 
IN CONCERT if I knew Chuck or Bo would be on that night. I remember 
seeing Little Richard on some AMERICAN BANDSTAND anniversary special 
and going BALLISTIC. Even today, playing in bands, my stage presence is 
directly influenced by seeing one of these four men (all of whom are 
still alive!) squirming, grinding, twisting and duckwalking across the 
stage.

<< I think I was already in college the first time I heard Stairway to
Heaven. Ponderous metal, disco, mellow California, whatever was going on
back then I missed all of it because it was doo-wop, Chuck Berry, Elvis,
Dion, Bill Haley, and Little Richard night and day on my radio >>

In the 70's, there was an automated oldies station (not JMK) here in 
town that had my undivided attention as a kid. In '76, I was nine years 
old. KC & the Sunshine Band's "Shake Your Booty" was hot as a pistol 
that summer and my cousin was amazed that I hadn't heard it. Why? I was 
too busy catching up with the Beatles and the Monkees on the oldies 
channel. The disco bandwagon was gonna have to pass me by!

<< That's probably why I never developed a
personal radio rebellion that might have lead me towards the Ramones in 
a
more timely manner. >>

The reason I ever got into punk rock in the first place was because it 
reminded me of what I'd heard on the oldies station. Even the artier 
stuff like Talking Heads.

James

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