FH Reader SAM WARD tells us about a great site that offers up just about any kind of music you might like to listen to ... with a wide variety of choices to choose from.
Hi there Kent,
As much as you are into music and keep up with all kinds of music happenings all over the world, I can't imagine that you don't already know this, but just in case you don't, there is a website out there called AccuRadio in which one of the many oldies channels offered is called Oldies '67 channel.
The URL for this amazing website is: https://www.accuradio.com/oldies/
Back on the afternoon of Thursday May 5th, I decided to tune into this channel for a couple of hours just to see what they'd play, and here's what I heard.
Accuradio Oldies '67 Channel
Beginning at about 2:24 PM EDT on Thursday May 5, 2022
When I'm 64, the Beatles, from their Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album
So You Wanna Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star, The Byrds
All I Need, the Temptations
Go Where You Wanna Go, the 5th Dimension
Groovin', Booker T and the MG's
Green Tambourine, the Lemon Pipers
I Can See The Grass Grow, the Move
If I Could Build My Whole World Around You, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Piccadilly Line, Emily Small
Fire, the Jimi Hendrix Experience
The End, the Doors
Alfie, Dionne Warwick
I Can Stand Up To Falling Down, Sam and Dave
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again), Engelbert Humperdinck
Motherless Child, O.V. Wright
Look Out (Here Comes Tomorrow), the Monkees
Why Don’t You Do Right?, Nichelle Nichols
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, the Beatles
The Idol, the Fortunes
Don't You Care, the Buckinghams
Soul Kitchen, the Doors
Heroes and Villains, the Beach Boys
Incense and Peppermints, Strawberry Alarm Clock
Lazy Day, Spanky And Our Gang
Stagger Lee, Wilson Pickett
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby, Sam and Dave
Ode To Billie Joe, Bobbie Gentry
Laundromat Blues, Albert King
Society's Child, Janis Ian
Strange Days, the Doors
The First Cut Is The Deepest, P. P. Arnold
Castles Made Of Sand, the Jimi Hendrix Experience
She'd Rather Be With Me, the Turtles
Gentle On My Mind, Glen Campbell
Release Me (And Let Me Love Again), Engelbert Humperdinck
The Letter, the Box Tops
Love Is Blue, Paul Mauriat
The Tears Of A Clown, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You, the Monkees
Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, Aretha Franklin
You Got Me Floatin', the Jimi Hendrix Experience
As The Years Go Passing By, Albert King
Green, Green Grass Of Home, Tom Jones
To Sir With Love, Lulu
It Could Be We're in Love, The Cryan' Shames
Alfie, Dione Warwick
Love Makes Sweet Music, The Soft Machine
By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Glen Campbell
Lazy Life, William E.
Little Bluebird, Johnnie Taylor
Money Won't Change You, James Brown
While it's true that there were a couple of repeats, when these songs were out, they got repeated a lot on the radio stations we listened to, especially the number 1 song, which usually got played every hour.
As you can see, there were a number of British hits from '67 that weren't hits here
but they were featured on this channel, and they really went pretty deep into both the blues, the classic rock and the soul genres of music, so you can see that this channel is not limited to the top forty hits of that year.
Kent, I'm sure you are happy to see that both the Buckinghams and the Cryan' Shame were represented in my more than two hours of listening to this channel. Now, each time you tune into this channel, the songs will be completely different.
What other channels does AccuRadio have to offer?
Here's just a sample:
1950s Oldies
The Birth of Rock 'n Roll!
1960s & '70s Lite Hits
Early adult contemporary classics
1964 Once More
Was 1964 pop music's most pivotal year?
1970s Hits
Rock, pop, and disco ... in no particular order
At the Hop: '50s Dance Classics
It's sock hop radio!
Blue-Eyed Soul
Soul- and gospel-influenced '60s pop oldies
British Invasion
Early-to-mid-'60s UK rock oldies
Bubblegum
The poppiest of our '60s oldies collection
Classic Rockabilly Party
A rockabilly rave-up!
Critics' Picks: Top Songs of the '50s
Derived from hundreds of critics' lists of the best music of the decade
Critics' Picks: Top Songs of the '60s
Derived from hundreds of critics' lists of the best music of the decade
Critics' Picks: Top Songs of the '70s
Derived from hundreds of critics' lists of the best music of the decade
Doo-wop
'50s & early '60s harmonizers
Easy Listening Oldies
'60s and '70s hits from pop artists who didn't let rock 'n roll change their style
Feel Good '50s & '60s
Energetic and fun Oldies
Folk-Rockers
Pop oldies influenced by the struggle against oppression
Garage Rock
Fuzzy and raw garage rock of the sixties and seventies
Girl Group Oldies
Supremes, Vandellas, Shirelles, Ronettes, Marvelettes and more!
House Blend: Classic Rock '64-'71 + Oldies '65-'72
A blend of two channels that each feature music from eight great years of music
House Blend: Melodies & Memories + '50s Country
Easy Listening pop classics with a touch of '50s Country
Instrumental Oldies
Great instrumental pop hits of the 50s-early 80s
It's Disco!
Nonstop disco-era dance anthems!
Jammin' Oldies
An upbeat, fun music mix from back in the day
Legendary Venues: The Fillmore(s)
Rock and Soul acts that played Bill Graham's San Fran shrine the Fillmore and its NYC counterpart ...
Listeners' Top 100: Classic Soul
The 100 most popular tracks from our Soul channels
Listeners' Top 100: Oldies
Your star ratings determine our most-popular songs!
Lost '70s
A decade's worth of tracks that FM radio has largely quit playing but we don't want you to forget...
Magic Sunny Flashback
Bringing back lite hits from when life was easier!
Melodies & Memories
Nostalgic pop hits from the '50s and '60s
Midwest Oldies
'60s pop and rock from the heartland (Kent, I bet you'll be checking out that channel as well)
Motown Sound
Here's to 60 years of the Motor City institution that defined Classic Soul. Celebrate with us!
Music from "The Wonder Years" (Covering the original show AND the 2021 re-boot! Tons of great oldies hits and classic soul)
Oldies '67
The Summer of Love was a great year for pop, rock, and soul hit songs!
Oldies @ the Movies (and on TV!)
Great '50s, '60s, and '70s pop hits from the Silver Screen and the Tube!
Oldies 1955-64
Rock & Roll's first great decade
Oldies 1964 & Before - Pop music before the Beatles hit America
Oldies 1965-72 - Pop, rock, and soul hits from the mid-'60s through early-'70s
Oldies 1967-68
A golden age of AM Top 40
Oldies 1968-79
"Modern" oldies ... the music of younger baby boomers
Oldies Covers
Classic cover songs from the '50s, '60s, and '70s
Oldies Guitar
Duane Eddy, Roger McGuinn, Chuck Berry and more!
Oldies Love Songs
Classic Love Songs from the '50s, '60s, and '70s
Oldies Novelty Records
Dickie Goodman, "Purple People Eater," "They're Coming to Take Me Away" ... even some early Weird Al ...
Oldies One- (& Two-) Hit Wonders
'60s Oldies stars that burned bright, but not for long
Oldies Pop
'60s Oldies minus the rock, folk, and R&B
Oldies Road Trip (Songs about destinations, songs for driving)
Oldies Rock
Guitars, Woodstock, and '60s psychedelia
Oldies Tailgate Party - Great Oldies to enjoy before (and after!) kickoff
Surprise Me: Let us choose a Oldies channel for you!
There are even more selections than I've shown here. And here's the real kicker ...
If you sign up with them, which I think is free, you can create your own channel of oldies by blending any two, three or more channels of theirs together, and if there's a song you don't like, you can skip it, and I think it will remember that, and skip it the next time you launch your own channel.
And just to show you how massive this service is, Oldies is just one of many different genres of music that are offered. There are a couple of short advertising breaks during each hour, but it's not like radio where you will hear eight or ten
commercials in a row.
So oldies lovers, I hope you find this interesting ... I certainly have.
The next day I checked out the 1966 channel and that was equally interesting, and I also checked out the original versions channel. A lot of the music was somewhat later than I am interested in, but they still surprised me with a few songs, like the original version of All Shook Up by David Hill, Istanbul (Not Constantinople), The Four Lads, I've Got My Mind Set on You, James Ray and Love Hurts by the Everly Brothers.
Take care,
Sam
I played around with this a little bit on Sunday and found a wide variety of choices to choose from ...
DEFINITELY worth a visit or two ... or more. Check it out, oldies music fans! (kk)
