Back To The 70's

[docpepin]

I love the 70's

[Hari ng Spakol]

martial law

[the_sentinel]

We listened to the same stations but I listened to this in the 80s because I was still a kid in the 70s.

Was also a kid back in the 70's but since there's a strong radio influence at home (my eldest sib is / was a FM DJ), I had an early start.

 

In the 80's, the station I listened to where:

 

1. 99.5RT (Rhythm of the City)

2. 97.1 WLS-FM (The Best Music) - only up to 1985 though

3. 101.1 KISS-FM (HOT HITS!)

4. 101.9 ZOO-FM (Hayop Talaga!)

5. 94.7 DWLL-FM (Mellow Touch)

6. 96.3 DWRK-FM (Real Radio) - not the WROCK version

[the_sentinel]

No WXB 102? That was the "in" station in the mid-80s. Puro new wave. I remember always waiting for the song " If You Leave" when I listen to this station.

That also. But since the signal was horrendously weak, it wasn't easy to pick up the frequency in the car while driving, or on the boombox in our school organization's tambayan...

 

I won't forget WXB 102 since our mobile disco group was featured one Saturday night. We were once doing a party in one of the clubhouses in QC when someone approached me and introduced himself as a DJ of WXB. Appreciating the playlist that we were doing, he invited us to be the mobile feature of the station for one Saturday.

 

Because the station didn't actually have sophisticated equipment, we were asked to bring a cassette tape of our best new wave mixes, provided that it was clear copy. We did so, went to the station in Taft around 8:30PM, and came on board at 9PM.

[the_sentinel]

I didn't know that their station was in Taft. There wasn't any station that played new wave music in 80s except that station.

RT did try to tinker with their playlist sometime 1986 when they reformatted and became the Red Hot Radio Station after Rhythm of the City. This was triggered by KISS-FM's success in eating up their listener share. In a knee-jerk move made by then part-owner cum DJ OB Hollywood Andrew, RT generally became a new wave station sprinkled with some American hits that didn't pan out. They reverted to the ROTC format a year or two after.

 

Yes, XB's location was in Manila, somewhere in the Taft area. Can't recall the actual street but it's not exactly what we normally see on television shows like WKRP in Cincinnati, those Wolfman Jack shows, and even those Howard Stern clips. It's a dingy, not even a building but more of a residential house type. Still, they played really great music that impacted heavily in the non-mainstream market.

[the_sentinel]

I remember listening to RT in the 90s in college. New wave was a dying genre and glamour rock was the genre I was listening to. Warrant, Skid Row, Heart, Aerosmith were some of the rock bands I listened to on RT. What station was KISS-FM? I remember it but I forgot what station exactly?

Sorry for the OT - I guess the topic we're talking about now is a spillover of what the 70's gave to us...

 

101.1, now owned by the FJE Group and where YES-FM is. Personally, I think KISS-FM may be the best pop station ever formed after RT, just that they were more creative and changed the dynamics of Philippine FM radio. Too bad their weak 5k signal didn't help them, but despite the limitation, they created a niche market in the elite level, which at that time, was dominated by RT.

 

You're correct about your recollection of the early 90's of RT when they had jocks like North Andrew, Joe Schmoe, Joshua, among others. They weren't ROTC already anymore back then (I think they were already Maximum Music) but the playlist was still founded on Billboard's Top 40. Glam rock was exceptionally doing well in the charts that time so that's not a surprise. Other early 90's hitmakers associated with RT included Natural Selection, Maxi Priest, Extreme, Damn Yankees, Wilson Phillips, Vonda Shephard, among others.

 

Red Hot's personalities included OB Hollywood Andrew, Johnny Cesar, Mighty Thor, Bob Magoo, among others.

[storm]

No WXB 102? That was the "in" station in the mid-80s. Puro new wave. I remember always waiting for the song " If You Leave" when I listen to this station.

102 XB was the disco station in late 70s. It featured the music from Where Else on Saturday nights. Levi's was the major sponsor.

[storm]

I learned how to dance because of Soul Train. Before Saturday Night Fever, Dance Fever and TGIF, there was Soul Train.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8sJobVw5vc

[the_sentinel]

102 XB was the disco station in late 70s. It featured the music from Where Else on Saturday nights. Levi's was the major sponsor.

Tagline was Magic Disco 102, and yes, they played disco music all day long (6AM to 12NN). Some of the jocks I remember were The Friendly DJ, Lady Love, King George (later George Boone), and a host of others.

 

Even local disco tracks were given airtime. These included Passionata's "Disco Araw-Araw," Ella Del Rosario's "Mr. Disco," and of course, the classics from VST and Co.

[muttley]

I don't know if "Choo Choo Junction" in Greenhills opened in the 70s but the earliest recollection I have of this restaurant was around 1980 or 1981. I just started grade school. It is located where Mcdonalds is now. "Come to Choo Choo Junction, the great spaghetti station."

 

Yes, I also recall Choo Choo Junction in Greenhills. It was around 1980. I recall it being located at the site of where the Connecticut Carpark Arcade now stands.

[muttley]

So Connecticut Arcade is where McDonald's used to be. I am not a regular in Greenhills so I am not updated anymore.

No, McDonalds has always been at the same site ever since it opened in Greenhills way back when.

[the_sentinel]

No, McDonalds has always been at the same site ever since it opened in Greenhills way back when.

This is correct. McDonald's entered the PHL scene in 1981 with its first store located at Morayta. Their Greenhills store was the 4th McDonald's branch that opened in the country and it has always been situated right across the Greenhills Shopping Center and beside the open parking lot.

 

Greenlanes (the bowling center) was also there, beside Mr. Donut, where one of the best brewed coffees was made at least during that time. And prior to Sugi opening in the 90's, there was Kimpura.

[muttley]

What I know is Choo Choo Junction is in the vicinity of where the Mcdonald's is, like maybe 20 to 50 meters away.

Yes, they are. Both on the same side of the road.

[storm]

If it's in the 80's then it should be in the other thread.

 

Anyway my favorite burger joints then were Jack's Restaurant which had branches along MacArthur Highway near Monumento, beside Delta Theater in Quezon Ave., and in P. Tuazon corner EDSA.

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