I HATE OLDIES RADIO!!! [Part 476]

[NightTrain]

Late last year, WDRC-FM (the oldies station in Hartford, Connecticut)
picked up the weekly syndicated show, "Little Walter's Time Machine," which they ran from 10:00-midnight on Sundays. I loved the show so much, I started taping it every weekend--something I hadn't to a commercial radio show in more than fifteen years!

Well, it's a damned good thing I made all those tapes, because WDRC
just stopped carrying Little Walter. Seems the station's owner finally decided to tune in one Sunday night and was absolutely aghast at what he heard. All that yelling in the middle of songs! Oh, oh, oh! Where are my tranquilizers?!

So, they've expanded "The Sunday Night Sock Hop" with Mark Andrews from three to four hours. It now runs from 7-11, which gives Andrews a whole extra hour to play the Crew Cuts and Patience & Prudence.(Yes, he actually does mix in that kind of white-bread bullshit with the rock 'n' roll! And it sounds every bit as lousy as you'd think it would.)

Then, from 11-midnight, they run something called "Only Elvis." Yeah, I've always maintained that oldies radio doesn't play "Love Me Tender" nearly enough!

Little Walter likes to say that his show "puts the passion back into rock 'n' roll." Well, we certainly can't have that, can we? Thanks a
lot, WDRC! Once again, you've proven just how big a waste of an FM frequency you truly are.

[bearded_cat]

1. An oldies station I used to listen to

recently changed their format. They had been playing big band stuff mostly - nice for the occasional change of pace. Now, they are 100% right-wing talk.

I would much rather listen to the Crewcuts forty times in a row if I had to than listen to one minute of rush and his ilk.