Saturday Night Oldies

Saturday Night Oldies is a Saturday night music show on WABC Radio in New York City.

History of the Radio Program

WABC Radio (770 AM, New York City) played rock and roll from 1960 until May 10, 1982, before changing to a talk radio format. With talk shows not quite as popular on the weekend, Tim McCarthy, WABC President and General Manager, and Phil Boyce, Operations Manager and Program Director, decided to bring back the oldies music on Saturday nights. "Saturday Night Oldies" premiered on December 3, 2005, exactly 6 months after WCBS-FM (also in New York) dropped the oldies format on June 3, 2005.

Mark Simone hosts the show. The show features popular music from the late 1950’s through the 1970’s with an emphasis on songs that became popular, but have largely been forgotten. Original WABC jingles from the stations Top 40 era are played and the DJ takes phone calls and reads posts from the [http://www.musicradio77.com/wabcboard/wwwboard/wabcboard1.html Message Board] discussing a wide variety of events in popular culture from that time period.

The program's production crew includes Mike Gunzelman, the producer, who answers the phones, and Robert Paul on the controls.

Features

* B-sides of 45s played
* [http://www.musicradio77.com/beatles.html Beatlespectacular] - in-depth look at the Beatles
* Fake breaks – old radio and TV commercials
* Mystery DJ - guess the voice of a radio deejay
* Stump the Host - callers try to stump the show’s host
* Triple plays - 3 songs from one recording artist played

Guest Interviews

* Herb Oscar Anderson
* Paul Anka
* Little Anthony
* Peter Asher and Gordon Waller of Peter & Gordon
* Frankie Avalon
* Burt Bacharach
* Frank Bank
* Shirley Bassey
* Pete Best
* Jay Black of Jay and the Americans
* Pat Boone
* Tom Bosley
* Dewey Bunnell of America
* Eric Burdon
* Glen Campbell
* The Captain & Tennille
* David Cassidy
* Dick Cavett
* Chubby Checker
* Lou Christie
* Petula Clark
* Tim Conway
* Stu Cook of Creedence Clearwater Revival
* Alice Cooper
* Pat Cooper
* Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills
* Tony Danza
* Bo Diddley
* Phyllis Diller
* Dion DiMucci
* Micky Dolenz
* Donovan
* Tony Dow
* Barbara Eden
* Fabian Forte
* Peter Frampton
* Art Garfunkel
* Bobby Goldsboro
* Lesley Gore
* Al Green
* Harry Harrison
* Deborah Harry
* Isaac Hayes
* Dwayne Hickman
* Janis Ian
* Dan Ingram
* Tommy James
* Frank Jeckell of the 1910 Fruitgum Company
* Davy Jones
* Shirley Jones
* Larry Kane
* Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship
* Ben E. King and Charlie Thomas of the Drifters
* Frank Kingston Smith
* Robert Klein
* Bernie Kopell
* Billy J. Kramer
* Steve Lawrence
* David Letterman
* Eddie Levert and Walter Williams of The O'Jays
* Gary Lewis of the Playboys
* Little Richard
* Barry Livingston
* Airrion Love of The Stylistics
* Mike Love of the Beach Boys
* Ron Lundy
* Barry Manilow
* Jerry Mathers
* Johnny Mathis
* Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr. of the Fifth Dimension
* Maureen McGovern
* Don McLean
* Ed McMahon
* George Michael
* Eddie Money
* Mary Tyler Moore
* Bruce Morrow
* David Nelson
* Julie Newmar
* Wayne Newton
* Peter Noone of the Herman's Hermits
* Tony Orlando
* Donny Osmond
* Gary Owens
* Lisa Marie Presley
* Gary Puckett
* Kenny Rogers
* Freddie Roman
* Linda Ronstadt
* Rose Marie
* Todd Rundgren
* Bobby Rydell
* Mort Sahl
* John Sebastian
* Neil Sedaka
* Bob Shannon
* Scott Shannon
* Patrick Simmons of the Doobie Brothers
* Nancy Sinatra
* Jaclyn Smith
* Frankie Valli
* Bobby Vinton
* Jimmy Webb
* Adam West
* Barry Williams
* Jo Anne Worley
* Alan Young
* John Zacherley

logans

* "Saturday Night Oldies. What an awesome idea!"
* "Who else could pull this off?"
* "This is the station you grew up with. Who said you had to grow up?"

External links

* [http://www.musicradio77.com/wabcboard/wwwboard/wabcboard1.html Saturday Night Oldies Message Board]

* [http://www.marksimone.com Mark Simone Official Web Site]

* [http://www.wabcradio.com/goout.asp?u=http://www.wabcradio.com/article.asp?id=166880&spid= WABC Radio]