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YESESIS 
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When I first started really listening to the radio was late in '79. I was born in May 1971, so I would have been about 8 and a half then. The songs I mostly remember from that time are Video Killed the Radio Star, it played a lot at the time.. Video killed the radio star.. video killed the radio star.. Another one was Cruel to be Kind. I remember at the time trying to figure out that meant.. And that Pina Colada song you heard a lot at the time. Also Don't Stop till You Get Enough by Michael Jackson, YMCA by the Village People, I Will Survive.. etc. Anyway that year, and those songs are significant to me now because it was literally when I first started paying attention really to music. What year did you start actively listening to the radio and what are major songs that you remember from that time? |
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Posted: October 22 2018 at 19:05 |
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Very interesting questions because there are songs I remember as early as the early 70s, but I believe many of them I actually heard with more regularity later. I'm focusing on 1977-78 as the era when I first started to pay more attention to the radio myself as opposed to just listening to my older brother's music. And it was pop music on AM, not FM rock, at first. This led to the switch from transistor radios to having one's own receiver turntable 8-track and speakers. K-TEL albums! Then shortly after, FM rock.... I recall: James Taylor - Your Smilin Face Neil Diamond - Desiree Andy Gibb - I just wanna be your everything Bee Gees - How deep is your love Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke Debbie Boone - You Light Up My Life Rod Stewart - Do ya think I'm sexy Emotion - Samantha Sang Chuck Mangione - Feels so good Exile - Kiss you all over Player - This time I'm in it for love Just to name a few... |
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YESESIS
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Posted: October 22 2018 at 19:21 |
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^ The Rod Stewart song must have still been popular in '79 because I definitely remember hearing that one as well.
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Posted: October 22 2018 at 19:30 |
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Those were actually great years for pop music despite disco. Love the mid-late 70s and early 80s.
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Posted: October 22 2018 at 19:43 |
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Oh yeah, I even liked stuff like Air Supply and Olivia Newton John. Then like Toto and early Loverboy.. just great stuff. Blondie.
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Posted: October 22 2018 at 19:45 |
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Me too! I find myself YouTubing those old songs all the time. I love album rock and prog rock but I'll never give up pop songs. Even dig The Carpenters! |
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Posted: October 22 2018 at 19:50 |
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Carpeters are a little before my time, but I like what I've heard by them..her voice is soothing. I was even a fan of Culture Club in the 80's had both Kissing to be Clever and the great Colour by Numbers. 80's were definitely my decade, but started at the very end of the 70's.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 01:33 |
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I started listening to pop music in 1971 at age 11. One of my favourites was a single edit version of Supersister's A Girl Named You. When I really plunged into it, in May of that year, Gilbert O'Sullivan's Underneath the Blanket Go topped the Dutch charts. Focus entered the charts with Hocus Pocus in those weeks. Though I liked most Top 40 music, my favourites were, even in '71, prog-oriented bands. Earth & Fire could be heard quite often on the radio. Glamrock-bands like The Sweet, Slade and Middle of the Road were gaining momentum back then.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 06:08 |
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I'd say I started paying attention to the radio around the same time as I bought vinyls (before that I knew of French singers, Beatles , Stones and Jethro Tulll. Knowing that I bought Crime of the Century as a first album in the fall of 74, and my radio discovery started around that time.
I don't remember ever listening to AM radio, and going directly to FM band and most likely it was CHUM-FM and CILQ (or Q-107 as it was known) in Toronto and whenever in Montreal, it was CHOM-FM. From that moment, I guess it was the end of album-oriented radio (I do remember hearing a few full albums or at least full-sides of album), so I wasn't exposed at home to "pop" music... However, during High School days, school bus rides (relatively long in my case: +/- 2 to 2.5h/day) meant that the choice of radio (the cool bus drivers asked us) was not always up to the boys: generally we'd choose the FM stations (roughly 3 days/week) and the girls would go for the AM stations twice a week, where we were subjected to crappy disco, MOR, bubble-gum pop, etc... Sooo, in a weird way, I'm better acquainted with MOR and AOR from 76 onwards (my high school years) than that of 74-75 (when finishing elementary school) and almost not at all prior to 72, unless it was via AM radio in my HS years)
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 10:37 |
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I began listening to radio in '66 back when AM top 40 was cool. My very young elementary school head was full of a mix of Brit invasion, American Psych and Motown. The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who, Simon & Garfunkel, Donovan, The Yardbirds, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Supremes, Mamas and the Papas, Dylan, Lovin Spoonful, The Hollies, Ray Charles, James Brown, The Animals, The Byrds, etc...whatever was playing, I soaked it up. We also had a little record player and the newest Beatles and Stones albums were always playing.
By '70 I finally got this tiny radio, cassette recorder thing and began taping the songs I loved...one day I heard Lucky Man and my world changed
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 11:11 |
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Been listening to the 'radio' since I was about 10 or 11.....early pop/r&b radio stuff then. I recall vividly hearing The Tokens...The Lion Sleeps Tonight...one of my earliest songs I liked. But I really didn't pay too much attention until the Beatles hit the radio in late 63 . Then I started listening on a regular basis.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 11:21 |
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When I was a kid the only radio I really heard was the AM pop stuff of the mid 70's ( think "Magic" by Pilot)
I didn't have access to FM radio until I was older.Even then as a teen I listened to a lot of mellow pop rock stuff (Fleetwood Mac, Chicago, Doobie Bros., Billy Joel, ...) It was later when I found the cooler FM stations that played prog and heavier stuff.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 11:31 |
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^Yes..it was AM when my brother and I started listening...one or two of the Chicago stations had late night programs where they played 'underground' music from 10-4...etc......then in the early 70's FM became interesting .
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I started actively listening to the radio around 1976, when FM radio was changing from it's alternative, "underground" music haven, to a kind of merging with the more mainstream pop diet existing on the AM Band. There was still underground music on FM radio, but it was just becoming harder to find, and rock radio was gravitating to a more mainstream approach. But even then, I feel that mainstream pop was of a better quality. I remember hearing Ambrosia's Holding On To Yesterday, Boston's More Than A Feeling, Alice Cooper's Only Women Bleed, and Dire Strait's Sultans Of Swing, and thinking they were pretty cool songs. But gone were the previous years where you might hear a side long prog epic or full album from a band like Yes or Triumvirat, and I got schooled in real progressive rock more from listening to friend's albums than on the so-called "alternative" FM radio. Still, radio had a role to play in the development of my music appreciation.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 13:42 |
Same in the SF bay area. San Jose had KLIV AM 1600 and I recall when the Beatles white album came out, that's ALL they played for the entire weekend. Hard to believe, but AM was super cool back in the 60's
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 16:03 |
Oh yeah! A bunch of stuff from them actually and that was definitely one of them! A bunch of Bee Gees and disco stuff, and I don't care what anyone says it was a special time for music imo. The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Battlestar Galactica.. special time, I don't care.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 16:28 |
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Looks like most people here got into radio sometime during the 70's, while a few people even before the Beatles hit! Wow, interesting reading these responses.
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Posted: October 23 2018 at 18:37 |
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My first listening was my dad’s records in the early 70s (I latched onto the Beatles and Moody Blues early, see my bio for details), ,but the late 70s were a key period for me in terms of radio. Most of the stuff now known as Yacht Rock really holds a special place for me as a result. Little River Band, Rupert Holmes, Gino Vannelli, all that stuff. . Butvat the same time I was hearing a lot of Steely Dan, Supertramp, and even Camel at that time, which really hit the spot too.
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Funnily I what I recall best from radio is sitting in my room listening to the «European Top 100» while drawing. So there I heard songs that I didn’t get ane airplay elsewhere such as Flash and the Pan «Midnight Man», Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark «Secret» and well Falco "Amadeus" before everyone else lol. Random and not particularly amazing songs but I felt like I was the only one who had heard them. Before this I remember Bonnie Tyler «Total Eclipse of the Heart», F.R David «Words», Men at Work "Down Under", several Bowie songs from Let's Dance (maybe mostly because my big sister bought the album) and completely idiotic tunes such as «E.T, I Love You» and «Woodpecker From Space». I still enjoyed them all though. I also have a recollection of getting into the car with my family and Steve Miller Band "Abracadabra" filled the space when mom started the engine and thinking it was mysterious and magic compared to what we were usually force fed. I'm guessing that song must already had been a year old or so by then. Yeah those great days of underground/pirate radio that I keep hearing about was long gone - and probably never existed where I grew up anyway. Fortunately my parents had a decent record collection for me discover some much better 60’s/70’s stuff that shaped & exited me way more than early-to mid-eighties radio.
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