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It was like we were playing the old TV game show Name That Tune and she was the defending champion. As soon as a song began, she’d shout out “Rod Stewart” or “Phil Collins” or “The Police” or “the Rolling Stones.” “Yes!” I’d reply. Then as happens with someone learning a foreign language, it all clicked.
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Here are just a couple songs to take you back.įortunately, the station played enough Fleetwood Mac for her to be right about half the time, and her confidence grew. What can I say? I’ve probably listened to these three albums more than all my other albums put together. Well, it turns out 98.7 also has a penchant for “Black Water,” and now when we catch those first dulcet strains, my daughter and I smile at each other and then Jenny hits the button. The first time we heard it, I told Jenny how much my sister grew to hate that song because when it was first released in 1974, the Florida radio stations played it over and over until you felt you were drowning in that “old black water” that kept “on rollin’” (or as my friend Roz puts it, “the most overplayed song of all time.”). And some songs proved the old adage “history repeats itself.” Take the Doobie Brother’s “Black Water” for instance. Some songs came with a story or reminiscence.
As song followed song, I’d tell her the title and the artist. And so started her education in some of the songs I’d grown up with.Īt first she took 98.7 in small doses, but gradually we began spending more and more time there. Jenny recognized “Dreams,” and whereas she automatically rejected it before, she now decided it wasn’t too bad. At the time 98.7 was heavy on Fleetwood Mac. It was then, when we were nearing “Someone Like You” insanity, that I tentatively said, “We can try the oldies station.” With trepidation Jenny acquiesced. “That was Adele with ‘Someone Like You.'” When several months had passed and it was still playing-“sigh”-on all those stations, we’d look at each other and say, “There’s got to be something else on.” It was great on 104.7, great on 105.5, great on 103.9, great on 95.7, and had caught up (or down) to great on 106.5. A couple more weeks went by and “Someone Like You” was great. What about the fifth? The song had probably just ended or would begin as soon as the current song was over. It became possible to hop from station to station and catch the song just beginning on one, just ending on another, and playing within a couple of notes of each other on two others. It was amazing on 101.3, amazing on 105.5, amazing on 95.7, and amazing on 104.7 it even started showing up on 106.5, not strictly a Top 40 station. Sometimes it was incredible on all four simultaneously. It was incredible on 105.5, incredible on 104.7, incredible on 101.3, and incredible on 95.7.
Then Adele burst onto the scene with “Someone Like You.” The song was incredible. “Oh, that was a good song,” I’d sometimes exclaim, having caught a couple of notes of an old favorite, but she’d stop me mid-sentence with a withering look. She would always skip over the oldies station or, if she hit the button by mistake, scan away from it as reflexively as if she’d touched a spider (I guess Jim Stafford was on to something after all). When my daughter, Jenny, rode with me, she controlled the selections, scanning through our preset buttons to find a song we wanted to listen to. Then I found 98.7, a good 70s and 80s “oldies” (I categorically reject that description) radio station that I sometimes listened to when driving alone to Target or Stop & Shop. The kids kept the car radio on the local Top 40 stations, and that was fine with me, as I love pop music. So I was satisfied with now and then catching a song from my past while scanning the shelves at Michael’s arts and crafts supply store or trawling the aisles of Stop & Shop (the only place, by the way, that you can still hear Taylor Dayne). This video is worth watching just to be glad we don’t have to watch this kind of thing anymore: Here’s Rick Dees sporting the trademark 70s mustache and feathered hair.
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