# Music groups that used to be very popular and get very little radio play today. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2014, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930 "2014-05-21T14:59:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/61 "2014-05-25T15:57:52Z")
**Little River Band** I can’t even remember the last time I heard one of their songs on the radio, especially Cool Change. ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/62 "2014-05-25T16:15:17Z")
If what I knew about Pink Floyd was just what I heard on the local oldies station, I’d swear that they only had two hits, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall. ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/63 "2014-05-25T16:29:16Z")
Pablo Cruise. ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/64 "2014-05-26T04:16:07Z")
Another web-accessible radio station that’s a throwback to the good ole pre-Clear Channel days of radio yore (70’s & 80’s mostly) - out of Salt Lake City: [“Deep Tracks”- KRSP](http://streema.com/radios/Deep_Tracks_KRSP_HD2) ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/65 "2014-05-26T04:41:17Z")
> [@D.E.S.K.Top668](#): > > If what I knew about Pink Floyd was just what I heard on the local oldies station, I’d swear that they only had two hits, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall. Not even Money? ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/66 "2014-05-26T11:48:17Z")
And “Welcome To The Machine”? ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/67 "2014-05-26T13:14:40Z")
Nope, not on the local oldies station. Their playlist is so stagnant that I don’t think I’ve heard a “new” addition to it in months ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/68 "2014-05-26T20:30:53Z")
It has been years since I’ve heard any song by **Bread** , or **Lobo**. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/69 "2014-05-26T20:34:16Z")
It has been years since I’ve heard any song by **Bread** or **Lobo**. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/70 "2014-05-27T21:34:15Z")
> [@D.E.S.K.Top668](#): > > If what I knew about Pink Floyd was just what I heard on the local oldies station, I’d swear that they only had two hits, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall. I hear Pink Floyd daily on the local classic rock station. Especially Money, Wish You Were Here, and Another Brick in the Wall. But I also hear songs like Time quite a bit too. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/71 "2014-05-27T21:41:22Z")
Thank you for reminding me to listen to Lobo again. I had totally forgotten about that guy. I need to buy his hits ASAP for my mp3 player. Useless oldies radio never plays him. > [@Mona\_Lott](#): > > It has been years since I’ve heard any song by **Bread** or **Lobo**. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/72 "2014-05-27T22:30:33Z")
Groups/artists from the 1970s who can only be found on the side of a milk carton: Poco Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds Roberta Flack Gordon Lightfoot Billy Preston Leo Sayer Both Barbra Streisand and K.C. and the Sunshine Band had FOUR Number one songs in the 1970s, but not much since (especially KC) Some of the previously mentioned ones are great examples of this. America, Barry Manilow, Jackson Browne, and Tony Orlando & Dawn were HUGE back then. Air Supply could be the best example in the whole thread. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/73 "2014-05-27T22:45:19Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Groups/artists from the 1970s who can only be found on the side of a milk carton: > > Poco > Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds > Roberta Flack > Gordon Lightfoot > Billy Preston > Leo Sayer > > Both Barbra Streisand and K.C. and the Sunshine Band had FOUR Number one songs in the 1970s, but not much since (especially KC) > > Some of the previously mentioned ones are great examples of this. America, Barry Manilow, Jackson Browne, and Tony Orlando & Dawn were HUGE back then. Air Supply could be the best example in the whole thread. I hear Gordon Lightfoot (Sundown), America (A Horse with No Name), Barry Manilow (Mandy and Copacabana) fairly frequently on radio stations all across the country. Some of the others you just listed like Poco and Roberta Flack I have even never heard of even though I am 40 and was alive during the 70’s. Barbra Streisand is probably the most famous person out of anyone that I have absolutely no idea why. I know she was once a popular singer and can still sell out concerts if she decides to do a show but I could not tell you any of her songs or even describe her singing style. I don’t think I have ever heard her on the radio in my lifetime or didn’t realize it if I did. I am not sure why. She couldn’t be as grating as Joni Mitchell who does get some airplay but I don’t want to take the chance and purposely seek it out. ---
**Author:** ![Tread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/74 "2014-05-28T19:09:03Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Dr. Hook is an example. _Cover of the Rolling Stone_ gets (over) played. But when was the last time you heard _Sylvia’s Mother_, _Sharing the Night Together_, or _When A Man Loves A Woman_? Huge hits for Dr. Hook. It makes me sad an entire generation doesn’t know Dr. Hook. picking at nits… “When a Man Loves a Woman” was Percy Sledge… Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show had " When You’re in Love With a Beautiful Woman" Huge Dr. Hook fan here. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/75 "2014-05-28T21:47:23Z")
It’s hard. (snicker) ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/76 "2014-05-29T00:39:45Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > Barbra Streisand is probably the most famous person out of anyone that I have absolutely no idea why. I know she was once a popular singer and can still sell out concerts if she decides to do a show but I could not tell you any of her songs or even describe her singing style. I don’t think I have ever heard her on the radio in my lifetime or didn’t realize it if I did. I am not sure why. She couldn’t be as grating as Joni Mitchell who does get some airplay but I don’t want to take the chance and purposely seek it out. :eek: To say Babs was “once a popular singer” is flabbergasting. She is a LEGEND and in a category of her own. Like Cher, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/77 "2014-05-29T01:13:15Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > :eek: > > To say Babs was “once a popular singer” is flabbergasting. She is a LEGEND and in a category of her own. Like Cher, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland. I know Cher, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland quite well. I am 40 years old and could not tell you the first thing about anything Babs sang or why she was famous at all. The first thing that comes to mind is the movie Yentl that I purposefully avoided as a child in the 80’s (I have never seen it either). I could tell you much more about almost any other so-called famous person from the 30’s - the 50’s than I could the Babs. It is a generational thing. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/78 "2014-05-29T06:27:57Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > :eek: > > To say Babs was “once a popular singer” is flabbergasting. She is a LEGEND and in a category of her own. Like Cher, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland. He’s got kind of a point, though. She didn’t do a lot of pure music hits, her best known songs were from her movies. She COULD belt out a song, had a GREAT set of pipes, but her music was that over-orchestrated Vegas-y kinda stuff. He probably has heard [On A Clear Day,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz5DLO8fclA) [The Way We Were](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNEcQS4tXgQ)and [People,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPlQ6EtArSc) arguably her three greatest hits, and forgot about them … understandably. Great voice, but sadly misused. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2014, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/79 "2014-05-29T11:14:42Z")
Sinatra sang some Vegas-y kinda stuff too. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2014, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930/80 "2014-05-30T05:29:07Z")
I heard “Jet” by Wings at the grocery store, for the first time in ages. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-groups-that-used-to-be-very-popular-and-get-very-little-radio-play-today/688930.md?page=5)