'All grind-metal steampunk powerslop, all the time'

Sunday, April 18, 2010

In the mid-'60s you could hear the Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Peter Paul & Mary, the Temptations and Roger Miller all on the same radio station, sometimes all in the same hour. On top of that, you'd get your hourly three-minute dose of news, weather and sports. If you didn't like one of the songs, you hit the button on the car radio and went to another station that would be playing music by The Supremes, The Beach Boys, Ray Charles, Dean Martin or Johnny Cash. People forget how many types of music mixed together to make top-40 stations back in the day. On Sept. 28, 1968, the number-one song in the country was "Hey Jude" by the Beatles. Another number-one was "Harper Valley PTA" by country singer Jeannie C. Riley. Frank Sinatra had one of the biggest hits of his career in the midst of Beatlemania with "Strangers in the Night."

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