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Shades Of The Old CKOC! The Big 500 Lives Again (Sort Of)
AccuRadio is a website that allows you to listen to and combine any number of music types. The site's secret sauce is that humans choose all the music - not algorithms.
I came across it this weekend while looking for some music to do chores to. Turns out they're playing the AccuRadio Top 500, the most requested oldies from users of the site. It put me in mind of CKOC's annual "Big 500," which, if memory serves, they used to run every Labour Day weekend on the original 1150. (Except this isn't a "countdown" per se.)
Some interesting tunes on it, all familiar, but some you don't usually hear on oldies stations anymore. Worth a quick tune in if you're interested.
If you're curious what the CKOC Big 500 looked like, this site has 14 years worth of the listings.
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I remember listening to CKOC’s Big 500 and catching the last one before they flipped to TSN back in 2015. “Satisfaction” by the Stones was the last song they played. I missed them at the time!
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I've been using AccuRadio for half a dozen years now for my roots music fix and soundtrack. Sound quality is good to excellent, Free to stream, minimal if any commercials and a huge amount of tunes...plus great mix and match genre features. Highly recommended and well worth checking out.
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Agreed. AccuRadio is a great freebie. If you're into oldies, they have a section divided into every conceivable genre - 50s, 60s, 70s, the year 1964, when the Beatles invaded North America, Blue Eyed Soul, The British Invasion, Doo Wop, Girl Groups, Folk Rock, Garage Rock, Bubblegum, Folk Rockers and many, many more. Not to mention my personal fave, Hey Hey We're The 60s, a tribute to Top 40 rock.
If you were around in those eras, you're bound to find something you like.
You don't have to sign-in to listen, but if you do, you can skip a song you don't like and ban one you never want to hear again. A wonderful service that costs you nothing,
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The site has 63 different categories of music from Beautiful Music to Broadway, from Classical to K-Pop, Nordic Folk Songs and Opera to Punk and Underground.