Do you still listen to “oldies?”

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pantheroux@reddit

My mom grew up with Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix but when I was little, she loved '80s synth pop. She started to take guitar lessons when I was 5, and so started to listen to Dire Straits. My dad liked more jazz, blues and blues inspired rock, but was always discovering new music right up until he died in 2009. He liked live music of any kind, so I went to lots of concerts and music festivals with him.

As a result of this, I was exposed to lots of music as a kid. Some of my co-workers tell me I'm too young to like '80s music, but that was literally the music of my childhood.

I do listen to older music, but enjoy discovering new music too. A disturbing number of people our age act like no good music was made after 2000. There are also people (my husband included) who weren't exposed to music as kids. My husband didn't listen to music until he discovered gangsta rap and nu metal in his teens. It has been fun introducing him to the older music I grew up with. We're both xennials but he leans more gen X and I lean more millennial. When it comes to music, we're almost reversed as his musical memory begins around 1990 whereas I remember music from preschool.

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Allaplgy@reddit

Tangent, but I will die on the hill that "oldies" refers to music from a specific time, not just music that's a few decades old. Same with "classic rock."

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Helo7606@reddit

Same here.oldies are pre 70s. Classic rock is the 70s. 80s is hair metal. 90s is grunge and nu metal. 2000s is a weird mixture of nu metal, stadium rock, pop punk, and emo.

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moleculariant@reddit

80s had a lot of synth pop, power pop, yacht rock, adult contemporary, R&B, Early Rap, Top 40, and lots of other great stuff that reminds me of my childhood. So much so, that I find myself listening to all of these way more than Hair Metal. Don't get me wrong, though, Hair Metal still holds a special place. And, they still made some great Classic Rock through the 80s.

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Golden_Enby@reddit

I've never heard of yacht rock. What are some examples?

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darksideofmypoon@reddit

The Captain and Tennille is classic yacht rock. Maybe some hall and Oates.

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BarleyBo@reddit

Yacht rock is a smooth, soft‑rock style from the mid‑1970s to mid‑1980s, defined by glossy production, mellow vocals, and breezy, escapist vibes—think music that feels like sailing on calm water. It wasn’t called “yacht rock” at the time; the term was coined in 2005 as a tongue‑in‑cheek label, but it stuck and is now widely used. 🌊 Essential Yacht Rock Artists These artists helped define the sound—even if they didn’t know it at the time:

Michael McDonald**
Steely Dan**
Toto**
Christopher Cross**
Kenny Loggins**
Hall & Oates**
The Doobie Brothers**

-Sailing” – Christopher Cross
- Ride Like the Wind” – Christopher Cross
- Africa” – Toto
- What a Fool Believes” – The Doobie Brothers
- I Can’t Go for That (No Can Do)” – Hall & Oates**
- Just the Two of Us” – Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr.

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alex61821@reddit

80s is alt punk for me.

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forever_erratic@reddit

New wave for me! Punk coming in second.

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TheMancYeti@reddit

2000s is the rise of the mp3 player and nobody having to buy albums anymore.

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smolstuffs@reddit

100%! It's a genre!!

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Rivster79@reddit

I fully agree.

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Roscoe_P_Trolltrain@reddit

I agree. oldies is music from the 50s and 60s and classic rock is music from the late 60s/70s. like how modern art is art from the 1860s-1970s and contemporary art is 1970s onward.

or that’s how it should be. I know they play Michael Jackson on oldies stations and stuff but I think that’s just those stations struggling to find an audience.

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OldCreezy@reddit

I do! And found an honest to God terrestrial oldies radio station in Raleigh, NC. 93.5 and I listen every day. Reminds me of riding around with my mom and dad or my aunts when I was a kid.

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minimonimuse@reddit

My Spotify age is 83. So take away from that what you will. 👵

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aversboyeeee@reddit

It’s not about it being new, it’s about it being new to me.

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carriestewbert@reddit

I’ve only ever listened to 60s and 70s music. Nothing from the 80s onward has ever really interested me (except for a few artists). I’ve pretty much spent my entire life listening to Boomer music lol

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Golden_Enby@reddit

I was obsessed with oldies in middle school for some reason. Probably my undiagnosed autism latching onto something temporarily as a way to escape trauma. I rarely listened to oldies after that. Not because I don't like it. I just moved on to other things. These days, I mostly listen to the local classical radio station when I'm driving. Sometimes I'll pop in an old CD if I want something upbeat.

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Foxy_locksy1704@reddit

I listen to a good mix of 50s, 60s 70s and 80s music. To me “oldies” are like the 50s-the early 70s. Late 70s-80s are a whole different type of music to me.

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Mixtrix_of_delicioux@reddit

Nope! I also think the Beatles are profoundly overrated.

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carriestewbert@reddit

This is such an exhausting take. You don’t sound cool or edgy. You sound immature and ignorant.

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PoisonMind@reddit

When I was in high school, the community band I was in would sometimes play gigs at retirement homes for the Greatest Gen. We would play Tin Pan Alley hits from the 40's.

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Slowmaha@reddit

I rock Elvis almost every morning when I’m getting ready.

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Val-E-Girl@reddit

I love 70s ballads -- ain't gonna lie.

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Cold-Monk5436@reddit

I listen to lots of oldies.

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thesnark1sloth@reddit

I listen to music from the 50s to the early oughts, and every decade in between, every day.

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DuranDourand@reddit

My Father born in ‘47 loved doo wop. So that is oldies to me. Of course he still listened to classic rock and 80’s rock when I was a kid. He kinda even liked the 90’s alt stuff I listened to. I love surfing the radio finding all those old songs and exposing my kids to it.

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Ok_Cloud9042@reddit

You mean 80’s rock?

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fromsdwithlove@reddit

Every day. Music from the 50s forward and even throw in some Sinatra and similar tunes from the 40s too. But those Motown hits to Yacht Rock 70s still played today mixed in with all my other decades.

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GotWood2024@reddit

Yep, especially since mom moved in with me. She's got the "real" oldies playing. lol

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Budgiejen@reddit

My mom loved oldies. As a result, I can’t stand them.

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metalyger@reddit

My tastes are very different, like I tend to listen to more new music, especially finding new artists. My mom is stuck listening to the same songs from 50+ years ago to the end of time. It's like if XM plays a deep cut from an album, change it, or if there's a song from the 70s with electric fuzz in the guitar, change it, basically anything resembles sometimes cool is going to be changed until The Monkeys or something else corny comes on.

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S4FFYR@reddit

My husband laughs at me for having his mother’s taste in music 😂 (& my husband is 20 years older than me, so you can imagine what era his mother was)

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browns47@reddit

Great music to clean to on a Saturday morning

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1friendswithsalad@reddit

I’ve been really enjoying 60s-70s soul music in the last couple years, not really sure how that started.

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slowbilly@reddit

Yes love classic oldies

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Primary-Strawberry-5@reddit

I heard Nirvana on the classic rock station 20 YEARS AGO. I’ve been dying inside ever since.

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MercyfulFrigate@reddit

Duke, duke, duke, Duke of Earl, duke duke

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knic989900@reddit

100%

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AnyAngle7212@reddit

The 80s station is pretty much all I listen to

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One-One6017@reddit

I was raised on Yes, Camel, King Crimson, Genesis, Caravan, Pink Floyd... Still love prog more than anything else.

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Medium_Educator1983@reddit

Yup, I play 90s music all the time.

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here_we_go2324@reddit

Not too much earlier than 90s. My tried and true classic band is Pink Floyd, I'm in love most of their catalogue and will always incorporate them, but other than that, not so much. There's lots of great classic artists and music that I appreciate but there's only so much time in the day and I have other faves I keep in rotation that are 90s and later.

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KidCharlem@reddit

75% of my listening is Steely Dan. Which is the universal old man experience.

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Plumeria9798@reddit

Yes! I will always have my parent’s 59a-70s music in my rotation. I’m personally most into 80s music and of course love the 90s music of my teen years. And I was the world’s biggest Beatles fan after seeing the Anthology air in 1995 (although I already was super familiar with their music because of my parents.) The Stones were my first concert! Hell, I even have a small amount of my grandparents’ music from the 40s in my collection.

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SunshineofMyLyfetime@reddit

I’m rockabilly, so…

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TheLeathal13@reddit

Yes. I love some of the old surf guitar, doowop and rock-a-billy stuff. It’s in pretty regular rotation for me.

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delibertine@reddit

I listen to 90's rock and metal and listen to new rock and metal that takes inspiration from that era

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space_wiener@reddit

Oldies? You mean stuff from the 90’s?

:(

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cianne_marie@reddit

I don't seek them out, but it makes me smile to hear them. I actually started a spotify list to try to collect all those songs my parents listened to when I was young (haven't done much with it, but it exists).

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dragon_morgan@reddit

I went through a 1960s phase as a teenager and listened to a ton of Beatles and Bob Dylan and Buffalo Springfield. Mostly grew out of it but still enjoy some of those songs. Funny I despised 80s music at the time but now I think some 80s songs are bangers

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ThizGuyFawkes@reddit

KRTH in Los Angeles played the "Oldies" when I was a kid. Now they play 90s alternative rock. 😭😭😭

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FoppyRETURNS@reddit

I didn't vibe with 50s - early 60s, but I kinda miss it as Supermarket/Deli music.

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small___potatoes@reddit

Yep! Love the American Graffiti soundtrack

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enstillhet@reddit

I didn't really ever listen to oldies that much, maybe occasionally here and there on the radio but my mom listened to like 70s folk and the Grateful Dead and my dad listened to the doors and Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and Stevie Ray Vaughan and such things.

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noonesaidityet@reddit

I grew up on Stax/Volt and Motown, so yes. That stuff is on the turntable regularly at our house.

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brocbolo@reddit

We had a true oldies station that shut down about 15 years ago. It was mostly stuff from the 60’s. Now I listen to a station that used to be best of the 70’s and 80’s. But they’ve slowly been adding 90’s music into the mix and it’s terrible. Playing Fleetwood Mac and then going into Christina Aguilera is not good programming…

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dontletyourcrownslip@reddit

I loved the oldies my parents played (50s to early 70s). It's comfort music ❤️

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PsychologicalSoil712@reddit

The first thing my mother did in the morning was turn on the oldies station. The last thing she did before bed was turn it off. I still listen to it all

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Just_Another_AI@reddit

"Oldies" as in just like typical 50s music, no... but if oldies includes Motown, then hell yeah

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edasto42@reddit

In Chicago growing up there was Magic 104.3 that played music from the late 50’s through the very early 70’s. They also specialized in a lot of Midwest and regional artists that had some hits. Stuff like the American Breed, Ides of March etc. This station was always the soundtrack to our family picnics and backyard bbq’s.

Related-the song Kind of a Drag by the Buckinghams from that era was stuck in my head the other day. It inspired me to create a playlist of songs from that radio station.

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TheDavidCall@reddit

I still do. I have playlists on Spotify dedicated to each of those decades that I load up sometimes.

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Worldly-Fishing-880@reddit

I know "kids today" aren't listening to the radio, but it bums me out that (generally) you won't hear the Ronettes or Sam Cooke or pre-motown soul music on the radio anymore. If it's oldies, generally it starts at Motown. And even then, I think there are a lot more eighties throwback than sixties.

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unlovelyladybartleby@reddit

I love Sam Cooke

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lovemypennydog@reddit

Another Saturday night...

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MonkeyBred@reddit

Yes, I dabble in time travel... in the musical sense.

I love most genres, and I don't exclude popular things from my repertoire.

Going backwards from the present decade, I enjoy:

Artemas - I Like the Way You Kiss Me

Phosphorescent - Song for Zula

Massive Attack - Tear Drop

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry

5th Dimension - Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

Everly Brothers - All I Have to Do is Dream

Vaughn Monroe - Riders in the Sky

Cab Calloway - Hi De Ho Man

Gertrude Lawrence - Someone to Watch Over Me

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Impressive_Pin_1087@reddit

Absolutely! I love the Beatles, but to me, oldies was the 1950s-early 1960s with the Rubber Soul as the cutoff point. Before rubber soul, oldies, after rubber soul, classic rock.

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walkinghrviolation86@reddit

My favorite genre is thrash metal and more specifically 80’s thrash metal. I don’t particularly listen to much music from my teen years anymore. Fell out of the numetal scene years ago. I still occasionally listen to limp bizkit. When I’m at work though I put on pop music from the 50’s to the 80’s. Or if I want to make the customers uncomfortable I’ll put on Mongolian throat singing or polka music. It’s not that I particularly like those genres I just like to see peoples reactions to it.

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thirddownloud@reddit

Hell yeah I do, love 50s music

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HookersForJebus@reddit

A little bit, but not a ton. I mostly stick to 90s alternative and some new alt or folk.

Both of my younger brothers exclusively listen to oldies though.

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VampireOnHoyt@reddit

I have the 60s Gold SiriusXM channel in my presets. Which is funny because my aunt used to pick up my cousins and me from middle school while blasting oldies as loud as possible just to embarrass us, and we hated it. But now the Supremes and the Beach Boys are comfort music for me.

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smolstuffs@reddit

I don't consider 90s music "oldies" but for some reason the oldies station does.

But yeah, I love oldies from the 50s & 60s. Man some of those songs held zero punches back (I'm looking at you "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul)

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Top-Difficulty5202@reddit

I'm finding a lot of originals and started to listen to more 50s-60s and I'll tell ya...i love that music. Plus I never really listened to it before other than the big hits on the radio, so it's all new music to me. I'm expanding 70s as well. 80s i was born in and I'll always love the 90s music.

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Butter_Brains@reddit

Johnny Ace—Pledging My Love

Don’t get no better for me

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themrsfreeze@reddit

Absolutely I listen to the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. I like putting my music on random and hearing The Drifters next to Ice Cube, next to Garth Brooks with some Fleetwood Mac finished with some Mr Big.

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Reasonable-Wave8093@reddit

absolutely yes, oldies i consider 50s & 60s and 70s Staxx, but just not the same ones that were always in roration. for example angel baby is played out b/c of gang culture and heavily repeated stuff.

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Vegetable_Reward_867@reddit

Yes.

Just rewatched E.T the other night and was thinking about oldies too.

Early in the movie they’re all in the kitchen and 1 dood is ordering a pizza, when they ask for his name he says ‘papa omaumau’

And now my boy is singing papa omaumau 🤣

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ManiacRichX@reddit

Yeah, I was listening to Blink 182 in the car just today

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username__0000@reddit

Yes and I love actually listening to the lyrics and being like….wait..what?

The most happy sounding songs have the most messed up lyrics.

“If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life.

Never make a pretty woman your wife.

So from my personal point of view.

Get an ugly girl to marry you.

A pretty woman makes her husband look small.

And very often causes his downfall.

As soon as he marries her, then she starts To do the things that will break his heart.

But if you make an ugly woman your wife.

You'll be happy for the rest of your life.

An ugly woman cooks meals on time She'll always give you peace of mind.”

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Important_Pizza_4794@reddit

Frankie Vallie is my jam.

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Spare-Good-5372@reddit

Hell yes, and my kid knows them too

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Stang1776@reddit

Some but its been a while. I might turn my small oldies Playlist on

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teriKatty@reddit

I never really listened to oldies back then or if I did I don’t remember. The channel my mom listened to had 70s and 80s. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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jessek@reddit

I would if there was a local station that still played that format. I used to love actual oldies music back when I was a kid. Now the “oldies” station plays music from the early 2000s.

A hill I will die on: oldies is 50s-60s pop, rock and soul. Classic rock is late 60s thru early 80s mainstream hard rock, no punk and minimal glam. Want to play other music? That’s fine, just call the format something else.

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LeftHandedGuitarist@reddit

Are you in the USA? The way people on here talk about the radio stations over there sounds nightmarish!

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jessek@reddit

Yes you can thank the Republican controlled congress in the 90s and their communications deregulation act that allowed Clear Channel to buy up all the local stations.

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snootchiebootchie94@reddit

Music from the late 60’s - early 80’s is like 1/3 of what I listen to.

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Knightstar24@reddit

I listen to 80’s R&B and 70’s soul music all the time

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EmmalouEsq@reddit

Totally! Every Saturday night we'd go to my uncle and aunts house and the adults would listen to some call in golden oldies radio show. I have good memories of those nights and the oldies are the soundtrack.

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IYFS88@reddit

Yes still love it all, alongside 70s to early 2000s rock and indie. We used to have a local 50s & 60s radio station and as a kid I realized they’d put me on the air and play my requests, so over time I had about a dozen dedications to my friends and family including some repeats like Sh’Boom and Mr Sandman. I also had Mr Sandman play at my wedding right after our kiss and walking back down the aisle. It was a retro wedding venue and it worked out great!

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

I listen to stuff from the 1930's & 40's up to new stuff like Thundercat or Kali Uchis 🤷🏾‍♂️

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elliemff@reddit

Same. I have the satellite radio and have presets for 40s all the way to present.

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

Swing music is fun!

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elliemff@reddit

It is! I blame my granny and her love of those Time Life collections. I was totally the weird kid that performed for her and her friends with all of the old big band songs like an 80s Shirley Temple.

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Appropriate-Neck-585@reddit

"But wait! There's more! We've added an extra CD or Cassette if you order now!" 😂

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blove135@reddit

Late 60s really was a special time in music and that's coming from someone who grew up with and loves 90s music. The boomers got something right.

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coffee_robot_horse@reddit

Yeah. These days I listen to more Beatles, Beach Boys and stuff than my dad.

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pink_faerie_kitten@reddit

My mom had on the oldies channel on Xfinity music choice and I heard the Big Bopper just yesterday lol. Usually she has pop and I have alt so it was funny for her to have the old stuff on. My dad loved putting the oldies station on the car radio. Makes me think of eating hotdogs at Portillo's.

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the_ballmer_peak@reddit

I make it a point to listen to all kinds of genres from all kinds of time periods, and I expose my kids to anything they'll tolerate.

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TransportationOk657@reddit

I'm listening to an oldie right now! Stand By Me by Ben E. King

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degeneratesumbitch@reddit

All the time.

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Kinetic_Silverwolf@reddit

I live in Northeast Ohio, somewhere outside Cleveland.

At home, I use Spotify playlists I've built and choose them on my moods. Sometimes its acts who would have played at Woodstock. Other times its acts who would have played at Bonneroo or the first Coachella.

When I'm in the car I'm almost exclusively listening to The Summit FM. One of the themed shows they put on is called "Cruising the Decades", in which they play one song from each decade, starting usually in the 1910s or 1920s. The host incorporates trivia bits about each song into the program, and hearing both about the processes and public reactions at the time while also hearing the changes in performance and recording capabilities is absolutely amazing.

I think they're available online, I've just not bothered to go check.

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EastTXJosh@reddit

Absolutely! Not just doo wop or bubble gum pop from the 50's and 60's, but also roots music. Like right now, I have a place list that features Ricky Nelson, Lowell Fulson, Chuck Willis, David Lee Roth, James Taylor, Tori Amos, Pearl Jam, Social Distortion, and The Smiths. That's a pretty standard mix of genres and artists for me.

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Separate-Relative-83@reddit

Yes, was listening to an oldies station in the car yesterday.

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calimota@reddit

Ha! With just talking with my 16yo daughter about this a few days ago. “Oldies” have completely disappeared from the radio. But if you do the math, the “oldies” from our generation (30-40 years prior), would be music from the 80-90’s relative to now. Not sure if that makes me sad or laugh.

We put on a YouTube playlist called K-Earth oldies and there were some jams!!!! We talked about how that era of music influenced some of the music today. You can definitely hear it with some artists.

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More-Bug6393@reddit

arena rock from the late 70’s-early 80’s is the best!

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the_ballmer_peak@reddit

Gen Z kids: You mean, like, Nirvana?

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spiniton85@reddit

60s and 70s are my favorite music. No contest. But I do have a lot of 90s/2000s/modern favorites. But 60-70s is peak for me. As an 80s baby who hates 80s music.

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faintly_nebulous@reddit

I still get in a 50s 60s mood sometimes, or motown or surf. Shotgun by JR Walker and the All Stars is a killer song to this day.

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jackatman@reddit

Yeah. I got a soul collection on Spotify that's over 200 songs from 50s to 90s.

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therobotscott@reddit

Yes. I love that music, and so much more. Good music is good music.

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briannadaley@reddit

Agreed whole heartedly - Good music is Good music.

We caved, got a record player and started investing in vinyl when we had a kid. Something about this digital generation never hearing true analogue music felt really wrong. I knew I was winning the parent thing when my kindergartner came home and told me about an assembly where the high school jazz band played that old soul song (Lee Dorsey’s Give It Up) that got sampled in Today’s Your Day (Fatlip). He couldn’t remember the names, but accurately sang the melody and reminded me of the sample. Yeah, the kids are alright.

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ParadoxInsideK@reddit

I still love listening to oldies. I have a playlist I listen to often.

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Freakin_A@reddit

My mom loved to put on the Golden Oldies station as a kid so I had plenty of exposure to that. I was usually listening to classic rock, and added in 90s alternative.

At this point my local classic rock station is playing 90s alternative music.

Either way I haven’t listened to a proper radio station in years, but I’ve got some banger playlists of golden oldies, classic rock, and 90s alternative

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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

We lived with my grandparents for years, and my parents were very religious, so it was always either my grandparents' oldies or church music. I barely knew any modern music until the 2010's. I'll never forget getting my hands on a Whitney Houston tape and my grandma making me turn it off.

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GoonieMcflyguy@reddit

I'm a music fanatic though so I go back even further than that with old Jazz standards. I feel like I draw the line about 1930, but yes parents cranked that old time rock and roll of the 50's and later all the time.

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PORTOGAZI@reddit

In high school it was just as common to see kids rocking Beatles, Zeppelin and Doors shirts as much as Nirvana and Wu Tang. The love for older music we were exposed to doesn’t just stop.

I noticed with people born after 85 ish have a remarkably short sighted taste in music. As in, if it didn’t happen in their time then it never happened at all. That was not the case for our generation, many if not most had a good understanding of what came before us.

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G0ldenBu11z@reddit

I see lots of high school kids wearing Nirvana, Alice In Chains and Korn shirts. Those bands are similarly as old now as Zeppelin and the Doors were when we were in high school.

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realitythreek@reddit

Stop it right now

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G0ldenBu11z@reddit

Kurt Cobain has been dead now longer than Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin were when we were in high school. Almost as long as Buddy Holly!

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postitpad@reddit

That’s the same shit that my parents generation said about us. Wasn’t true then, isn’t true now.

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Sunlit53@reddit

My brother asked me to recreate our Dad’s road trip mixtapes from when we were kids. I still have the original cassettes. Dad had the whole turntable to audio cassette recording setup back in the late 1970s to rip tracks from his 60s and 70s LPs. I grew up listening to Gordon Lightfoot, Cat Stephens and Jim Croche.

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GenghisConnieChung@reddit

I only listen to music recorded on wax cylinders.

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sinenomine83@reddit

Yep. I grew up on what my mom listened to, which was oldies in the car, and MTV on TV. I had a hard time getting into stuff that was from "our" generation, from the mid 90s to early 2000s. Or anything after, really.

Whats funny is that now when I listen to rock from the 90s, it makes me feel nostalgic even though it wasn't what I was listening to back then.

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tetrasodium@reddit

Sure. Sometimes I go somewhere with Mom and we take her car

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SarcasticYetHopeful@reddit

I’m a late 80’s alt and grunge era guy. But when I’m grilling, cooking, or entertaining it’s rat pack all the way. Sinatra, steaks, and scotch, baby.

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Fit-Top-8203@reddit

Growing up as a kid, I used to roll my eyes when my parents would play 50s and 60s music. Now I’ll play a half dozen songs here and there. As for me, I mostly play 70s and 80s with some 90s and I’m sure my kids look at me like I’m nuts.

One example for my oldest, who is now in his mid-20s. I played him “Black” and he nodded his head and admitted it was a good song.

I said, “That’s Pearl Jam”.

Son: “That’s the name of the song?”

Me (trying not to smack myself in the head): “No, that’s the band. The band is named “Pearl Jam”.

Kids these days.

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thefro023@reddit

Like the Spin Doctors?

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Pree-chee-ate-cha@reddit

Sam Cooke is still great!

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laurcar@reddit

I love big band/swing from the 30s

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night-swimming704@reddit

Hated it when I was a kid, but once I hit my mid to late 20s I started exploring a lot of the “older” stuff and started appreciating the roots of all the 80s to 90s stuff I enjoyed when I was younger

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smurthyredds@reddit

I live by the "1968 is too late" rule of oldie-listening.

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sweetassassin@reddit

Sam Cooke, Van Morrison (Astral Weeks front to back, no skips), Dusty Springfield, Ronettes, Beach Boys, Jackie Wilson, etc etc etc still in rotation… along with Bad Bunny, Chappell Roan and SZA.

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lurk3141592653589793@reddit

Yup. 60's and pre-disco 70's music has some of my favorite songs.

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dudly825@reddit

We’re in uncharted territory. Popular culture used to pass over us like a wave and disappear. Everything is available for perpetuity now.

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Pete4hon@reddit

Ive started listening more to forgotten artists that my parents generation listened to when they were 30 or 40. Like marginalized singer songwriters from the swedish 1980s that are retired or dead. Its not the golden oldies or like Roxette or Abba, but just regular dudes with a moustasch and leather jacket who had a few radio hits in 1980-1985.

Its wonderful. I feel connected to my history and what my mom and dads generations regular Joe musicians were singing and feeling when I was a baby.

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Outside-Feeling@reddit

I still listen to quite a bit from the 70s and 80s, 90s are my core though. New stuff does also get added and my kids do periodically introduce me to new stuff that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.

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genesimmonstongue415@reddit

Yes. Daily.

There needs to be a Golden Oldies radio station with pop & RNR from 1956-73. Elvis, Little Richard, Supremes, Ronettes, Delfonics.

The closest to that in San Francisco is 103.7 FM "80s Plus" which plays mostly 80s & 90s, with some 70s.

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abbydabbydo@reddit

Man. The song “Day Dream Believer” came on the other day and it made me absurdly happy. I hadn’t heard it in years.

I listen to less variety of oldies now that I don’t listen to the actual radio. But I still listen to them on a weekly basis. By oldies, I mean, 60s and 70s.

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Enough_Sky9769@reddit

Growing up, Saturday nights was oldies on 1050 CHUM, and Sunday's was Psychedelic Psunday on Q107. Totally influenced my musical tastes. I was rocking Jimi Hendrix shirts in grade 6 and still do.

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Sweet_Deeznuts@reddit

My mom was big into Q107 and then 102.1, my dad’s fave was 1050 CHUM. I still listened to Psychedelic Sunday into my 20s, especially in the summer

AM 640 and pre-news channel 680 were the best though

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Enough_Sky9769@reddit

Andy Frost is legendary 🙌

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FormidableMistress@reddit

My great aunt exposed me to 1920's and 30's jazz. My parents exposed me to all they listened to during the 60's and 70's. I listened to everything in the 80's. My favorite songs back then were Walk Like an Egyptian and Enter Sandman. I also had an uncle that was a DJ and radio guy in the Marines. He pirated so much music. If I wanted it he got it for me. One Christmas he gifted me a terabyte of music.

Tbh I'm not as interested in some of the newer music. I don't think it's all bad or anything, but I'm not interested in mumble rappers. I did really enjoy the resurgence of folk music about a decade ago. Janelle Monae has been a pleasant surprise and reminds me of artists like Janet Jackson and Lauryn Hill. I like pretty much everything Jack White has done. My best friend sends me current music all the time and if not for her I probably wouldn't pick up on new artists very much.

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My_Knee_Hurts_@reddit

Yep, still listen to a lot of grunge and 90s alternative.

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BayouLuLu@reddit

Yes, I’ve always been a fan of the oldies. I used to play song quiz and the 60s was my best decade for accurately naming song and artist.

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Aprils-Fool@reddit

Regularly!

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Echterspieler@reddit

My mom always put something current on in the car so I got to hear a fair bit of new 80s music. Once in a while I'd find the oldies station that played a lot of 60s stuff. Of course to me this was all new so I thought the 4 seasons and the Beatles were new music as well lol

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dvoecks@reddit

Oldies were the compromise in the car. We were convinced that country wasn't cool. Mom and dad didn't want to listen to the pop station.

I love Elvis. I love Motown. I still get an itch for "Whiter Shade of Pale" or "Come a Little Bit Closer" by Jay and the Americans.

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_Internet_Hugs_@reddit

My parents did NOT play kids music. It was 100% their music from the get-go. My mom listened exclusively to Country but my dad had more varied taste. I *hate* Country music. Oldies were the compromise we could get my mom to agree to when we were doing chores on Saturdays or when we were on long road trips.

I do still occasionally listen to Oldies, but like most old people I prefer the music of my youth. To be fair, the 90s were a kickass decade for music.

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JamesMattDillon@reddit

Of course. But I also listen to classical music, big band era, rag ttime, to about 2000's.

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Mission-Jackfruit138@reddit

Yes I put on a 50s or 60s mix sometimes. I feel if I don’t my 7 year old will never hear Elvis or older music.

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That1DirtyHippy@reddit

This! My mom listened to a golden oldies station on the radio when I was growing up, so I got exposed to a lot of older music early. It sparked my passion for music.

I still listen to the Ronettes, Four Tops, Temptations, Dion, and so forth regularly, but I made a point to incorporate the older stuff during bath time. Splish Splash kicked it off, usually.

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Hitthereset@reddit

I happened to turn on the radio a few days ago and the display showed “Oldies” for station type… what was playing you might ask? Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely. I died, right there on the spot.

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meatsaballz@reddit

I like to rotate in the ‘hits’ of the 50s/60s/70s/80s throughout the week but I’m mostly 95-05, which are considered the oldies now. So yes, whatever is considered oldies now.

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CuriousLands@reddit

Yeah weird hiw stuff that was new for us is retro now. Not that I mind, it been fun seeing it all come back.

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Hot_Frosty0807@reddit

My main playlist and my vinyl collection both include songs from as far back as the 1930's. It would be absurd to let a century of great music go by the wayside because it's not current, or particularly well known.

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AdelleDeWitt@reddit

Tapestry by Carole King is one of the best albums ever made and will continue to be so.

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shadowlarx@reddit

Not only do I still listen to them, I have a Beach Boys poster on my living room wall.

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ghoulthebraineater@reddit

I'm a huge fan out Fallout. Yeah, I listen to oldies.

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G0ldenBu11z@reddit

At first I thought you were talking about Fallout Boy 😂

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Numbnuts696@reddit

Every Sunday night my local radio station plays a couple of hours of oldies. Wish it was longer.

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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

I can go for some Roy Orbison or Righteous Brothers now and then.

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

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creddittor216@reddit

I’m literally listening to The Temptations right now

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

I’ve got sunshiiiiiine on a cloudy day…

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Natprk@reddit

That’s basically all I listen to these days. Not much music since 2000 that I listen to.

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dumbass_sempervirens@reddit

See, the garage revival of the early 2000s got me. Still a huge White Stripes fan.

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CuriousLands@reddit

Yeah I still like it :) Most of the oldies I still listen to are from the late 60s or the 70s, like The Mamas and the Papas, The Cowsills, Abba... also a smattering of one-off songs, like Venus by Shocking Blue.

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machomansavage666@reddit

‘75-‘85 is my pocket but I’m trying to branch out to more modern stuff. It’s fun to listen to music from the past decade and hear the influences from the older music

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drwebb@reddit

"Bubblegum pop" stations have completely died out it seems. Now oldies is like Van Halen and Nirvana.

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VinylHighway@reddit

Fuck yeah

I started collecting records 2-3 years ago

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Comprehensive-Fact94@reddit

I had a really bad time with covid. Could only smell and taste horrible things. Lost 30 pounds since most food tasted rotten and my body would reject it. My brain fog was so bad I had trouble reading and would get lost on routes I'd driven thousands of times.

Needless to say, not a very positive time in my life. I'd put on my favorite bands (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Black Sabvath, Tool, etc. and get even more depressed.

That's when I discovered Soul music. James Brown, Marvin Gaye, etc. I was hooked. So uplifting. That was all I listened to for a year or more.

I got better and started listening to rock again, but the oldies stuck with me.

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Moxie_Stardust@reddit

Now and then, yeah, stuff as far back as the 1930s. I used to listen to the Golden Oldies station on my own when I was a kid.

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

Yeah, for sure. Just I played Let It Be (Naked) during a roadtrip just the other day, I play a lot of Beatles since my Dad is from Liverpool and my wife loves them too.

I also brought back a few albums from England when my Dad passed a couple of years ago, so Queen, Zeppelin, the Hollies, Tommy James and the Shondells, Fleetwood Mac and even the Carpenters get frequent air play in my house.

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