DooWop

[FriedrichSternberg]

Doo Wop is N.Y.C. & likewise

[68lincoln]

I listened to Don K. Reed on The Doo Wop Shop on Sunday evenings from 1990 to 2000 and I taped a lot of those shows but lost the cassettes when I moved. Darn it. Anyhow, WCBS FM is nothing today, to them oldies are the 1980s LOL. I never listen to that station anymore.

[TheEdgeOfLlanview]

know. Throughout the 90's, TDWS was great for playing many obscure cuts that you couldn't hear anywhere else. Especially when Bobby Jay (another favorite CBS deejay of mine) subbed for Don at times. But when the songs seemed to be "same ol same ol" I knew something wasn't right. Then of course all of the specialty programs like Soul Of The City and Jukebox Saturday Night were pulled, which were also major letdowns because I always listened to these shows. Just a sad story in itself.

[TheEdgeOfLlanview]

Looking back at this, I realize now that WCBS-FM's decision to pull "The Doo Wop Shop" like it did in August 2002 was in the making. Maybe a year or more before its demise, the show was trimmed to four hours, 8 pm-12 am. For as long as I had been listening, it was on from 7 pm-12 am. Not so much the time shaving, but also the music Don was playing. In its last year or two, I noticed that the playlist for TDWS was noticeably smaller, focusing on the "big hits" that all doo wop fans (cont)

[nickvanzetti]

what do they respect? commercial radio dont give a shit about good music and people. fuck it Doo Wop is better off. its not commercial music,at least the best of it!

[hah13]

doo wop and oldies are 2 different things I moved to Minnesota from NY and the oldies aren't even old

[Wehategod]

I was sad that the Doo wop Shop went off the air. However Oldies live on and so will doo wop

[Rhodabea]

I heard this picketing was going to happen. I live upstate NY and wish I could have been there picketing the stop of doo wop on the radio. Long Live Doowop and if you're listening out there, doowop will never die. We will keep it alive.