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January 2, 2008 7:19 AM

Can anyone recommend a streaming "oldies" radio station? Specifics inside.

I usually listen to Radio Paradise, but sometimes I and my friends want to hear some Creedence, Beatles, even schlock from the 60's like Herman's Hermits, (omg my friend LUVS them) Peter and Gordon....

I've done an AskMe search, Googled, and I have come across some, but it's either Live 365 or do-wop, cruisin' stuff, which I am not looking for.

posted by wafaa to media & arts (9 comments total)

Try out www.pandora.com entering a representative song or artist and then with your feedback you might end up with what you're looking for if they have enough inventory. You can add more songs to source that station or create different ones and play them in shuffle together.
posted by tonci at 7:27 AM on January 2, 2008

Check your mefimail. Sorry to be so coy, but I don't think it could handle a huge amount of traffic.
posted by Iteki at 7:40 AM on January 2, 2008

Check out "Gold" in the UK. It is a live feed from a radio station in London that used to be called Capital Gold, but now just goes as Gold. You get everything including news, traffic and weather and the Brit Radio Ads (some very funny). All of their stuff is Brit Pop form the 60's, 70's and 80's and as an ex-pat Londoner I love it.

It might ask you you for a London Postal Code to sign up for their listener utility (I originally signed up a long time ago) as a check that you are in the UK. If it does just enter E62NA which was my old postal code in London as that worked just fine for me
posted by worker_bee at 8:00 AM on January 2, 2008

Seconding Pandora.com. I've got stations there that are all new stuff, all old stuff, all bluegrass, all Motown, and combinations thereof. The stations can get repetitive, but Pandora should at the very least keep you entertained for a while.
posted by ibmcginty at 8:16 AM on January 2, 2008

Thirding Pandora. It's EXCELLENT, it's what we pipe into our store every day.
posted by TomMelee at 8:58 AM on January 2, 2008

For 60s pop, I like AVRO's stuff on Shoutcast. Just go to shoutcast.com and search for "AVRO Steenen Tijdperk 60ies" (most of it is in English).
posted by JanetLand at 8:58 AM on January 2, 2008

Not an oldies station as such but a most excellent weekly show. Brian Mathew's Sounds of the 60's. No ads, no idle chatter, just three hours of glorious music.
posted by Dr.Pill at 1:31 PM on January 2, 2008

AccuRadio has a great 60s station, and also one called Decades, where you can pick 60s, 70s or 80s.
posted by still_wears_a_hat at 2:22 PM on January 2, 2008

I don't have an actual station recommendation, but assuming you're on Windows, grab the latest beta of the Screamer Radio client, install it, then go to Presets - By Genre - 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s. Has heaps of stations that you can easily listen to and work out whether you like or not.
posted by tra at 9:57 PM on January 2, 2008