If you listen to oldies radio you’ll hear all of the songs mentioned. That’s pretty much the definition of what they do. I’m thinking of more like pop/rock stations that you might hear in a waiting room at the tire shop or the grocery store. You’ll hear the Stone and the Beatles and some Led Zeppelin, but Bob Seger has disappeared.
I wish Bob Seger songs weren’t played any more- especially “Turn The Page” and “Like a Rock”!!! Tune in any classic rock FM station in GA or IN, and you’ll hear that whiny-assed drivel several times a day.
I agree that the record pool those stations dip out of are way shallow, but ol’ Bob still seems over represented to me. (Hmm- could that be because I hate Bob Seger?)
On a positive note, one doesn’t hear Michael McDonald Doobies any more.
I agree that there’s still way too much Bob Seger. I’m sick to death of all but one or two of his songs. “Turn the Page” is the most dreadful of all.
Another band that WAS hugely popular for several years, but whose songs never get played any more, even on mellow/lite pop/easy listening stations: The Air Supply.
Uhm…EVERYONE from before 2008?
Listen to pop radio today, and marvel that instrumentals and tv theme songs used to be big radio hits.
I agree that Roxy Music doesn’t get much airplay today, but they’re (and Bryan Ferry in particular) a well-respected band, at least among music geeks. That Top 500 Rolling Stone list that came out a few years ago has Avalon at #307, Siren at #371, Country Life at #387, and For Your Pleasure at #394. Not a bad showing.
Are you suggesting I might find a good deal on The Bay City Rollers at a garage sale someday? 
I hope they’re house-trained.
I don’t recall Roxy Music really getting that much airplay even when their music was new. They were always more of a cult favorite whose songs and albums maybe got into the bottom tier of the charts. You might hear their songs on sporadic occasions on your typical AOR or Top 40 station during the 1970s but there was far more airplay given to whatever artists that were in the Top 10 at that time.
Now that classic rock stations have started playing 90s stuff… I feel like I don’t hear a lot of Stone Temple Pilots or Nirvana, but will hear Pearl Jam and Soundgarden.
Obviously your local classic rock station is different from mine: ours plays “Dear Mr. Fantasy” roughly 800 times more frequently than “The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys”.
Well, people think it’s The Mamas & The Papas.
Out of curiosity, I checked the playlist of our “adult album alternative” stations (93.1 WXRT) and was surprised to find a fairly wide selection of Traffic tracks being played over the last couple weeks: “Glad,” “Light Up or Leave Me Alone,” “Low Spark of High Heeled Boys,” “Medicated Goo,” “Rock and Roll Stew,” and “Dear Mr. Fantasy.” None of them played more than once, from what I could see.
You know he sang Jessie’s Girl, right?
Well, I keep hearing "Against The Wind"in my local grocery store…
That Rolling Stone list came out 11 years ago. Feeling old yet? They’re replacing all albums recorded before 2000 even as I type.
There’s currently a commercial featuring the studio version of “Dreamer” as the theme song.
You’re more likely to hear the Goo Goo Dolls’ remake of “Give a Little Bit” than you are the Supertramp original.
Deep Purple, Foghat, Steppenwolf, James Gang, Uriah Heap, Mountain, Nazareth, Humble Pie, Black Sabbath (as opposed to Ozzy)
Three Dog Night. I mean, remember these?
“Mama Told Me Not to Come”
“One”
“Eli’s Comin’” (Here’s a REALLY good live version)
“The Show Must Go On”
“Joy to the World”
“Black and White”
“Out in the Country”
“An Old-Fashioned Love Song”
“Shambala”
These guys were huge. Maybe you can catch “Mama Told Me Not to Come” playing occasionally, but that’s it.
I remember all of them, and I do hear “Joy to the World” on the radio here.
This is off topic, but I had to comment on your name - it made me laugh! I carry a plastic card in my wallet that was attached to my insurance card. It is all white, and printed across the middle is “INTENTIONALLY BLANK”. It’s my official business card.
David Cassidy in the early 1970s and Leif Garrett in the late 70s - each was the Justin Bieber of their day and rarely heard these days.
There was also Sean Cassidy who was David’s half brother. He had a couple of hits in the late 70s and was also responsible for one of the best TV shows of the 1990s - American Gothic.
I remember reading something in the paper about Sean Cassidy when he was charting. It was a quote from him in which he said that his music career would be more durable than his brother’s because he didn’t record the sort of silly songs that David did. Sean’s two hits were That’s Rock 'n Roll and Da Do Ron Ron…