Like most radio stations, KRTH is typically very boring these days, playing the same songs to death. I don't really know anyone who listens to KRTH, though they are surprisingly the #2 or #3 station in Los Angeles most of the time. (If you don't know, they are the oldies station, have been around for about 35 years, and their definition of "oldies" now includes 80s music.)
Anyway, every once in awhile K-Earth does something interesting. This weekend they are doing an Original/Cover theme. At the bottom and top of every hour, they play a cover version, then the original, back to back. If you are a radio nerd like myself you like these kinds of things.
So far this weekend they have done:
Heard It Through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight covering Marvin Gaye)
La Bamaba (Los Lobos covering Richie Valens)
Working My Way Back (Spinners covering Four Seasons)
Roll Over Beethoven (Beatles covering Chuck Berry)
Hooked On A Feeling (One hit wonder Blue Swede covering BJ Thomas)
Do You Wanna Dance (Beach Boys covering Bobby Freeman)
Grazin' in the Grass (the cover on this one has words, the original is instrumental)
Dedicated to the One I Love (Mamas and Papas covering Shirelles)
Crimson and Clover (Joan Jett covering Tommy James)
Aint No Mountain High Enough....you probably know both versions.
Anyway I didn't hear all these but saw them on their playlist. Of course Saturday the Sound is playing every Beatles song A to Z so I'll have to listen to some of both....
