Jazz Pop Smash Hits of the 1950s and 1960s

[Teasing the Korean]

On 8/28/2022 at 9:09 AM, felser said:

May be that your local A.M. station chose not to play it, and the Friends of Distinction version made the Masakela version instantly obsolete for golden oldies formats. 

That has not been my experience at all. I have heard both over the decades more or less equally, with possibly a slight edge to Masakela.  I lived in Philly and used to listen to their soul/R&B oldies stations, and Masakela was played one those.  His version was also on a  TV commercial recently.  

[felser]

1 hour ago, Teasing the Korean said:

That has not been my experience at all. I have heard both over the decades more or less equally, with possibly a slight edge to Masakela.  I lived in Philly and used to listen to their soul/R&B oldies stations, and Masakela was played one those.  His version was also on a  TV commercial recently.  

You're probably right.  I'm in Philly, but haven't listened to commercial radio much in decades, and based my  observation on the music I hear piped into stores and restaurants when I am shopping and eating, and on what I hear on Sirius/XM.

11 hours ago, GA Russell said:

There were three songs not played on New Orleans radio at that time.

Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Dion - Abraham, Martin and John
Janis Ian - Society's Child

Yeah, they didn't play the Ian song in Huntsville either.  I lived in Cincinnati when the Dion song came out, and it was huge there.

Edited August 29, 2022 by felser

[Teasing the Korean]

1 hour ago, felser said:

You're probably right.  I'm in Philly, but haven't listened to commercial radio much in decades, and based my  observation on the music I hear piped into stores and restaurants when I am shopping and eating, and on what I hear on Sirius/XM.

Looks like you are right after all.  My brother, who has listened to oldies radio much, much more than I have over the years, (and who has lived in Philly since the late-1970s,) tells me that the only instrumentals that get played with any regularity on terrestrial oldies radio are "Green Onions" and "Soulful Strut."  He says that you likely may hear both versions of "Grazin'" on satellite.