Grooving to the Oldies

Today I mowed some of our grass. Not unusual, we have lots of grass that grows all summer long. I listen to my CD player while I mow to make it more interesting. I nearly always listen to the same CD; a compilation of early 70's music the 1st disc of a seven disc set my mother owns. Today however I departed from tradition and chose to listen to my Royal Guardsman CD. This got me thinking about how by hearing one of their songs on the radio I choose to only listen to that station and became a fan of oldies music. It was the 23rd of December, 1995. I was in the seventh grade, on Christmas break and my Dad decided that we couldn't go on another day without owning a blender (he wanted to make some kind of powdered weight loss drink). So we got in the car and on the radio came the Royal Guardsmen singing "Snoopy's Christmas" (I'm not sure if that's the actual name of the song but that's what I've always called it). This delighted me, I had sung this song for years in elementary school and knew all the words. When I got home I tuned my radio (which I never used before) to that station and there it stayed on an Oldies Station. 92.5 you were my love for 3 years. I still miss that oldies station, I loved the morning show DJ, Fred. Fast forward to 10th grade. Because the high school was far away I had to get up much earlier and catch the bus at 6:20 so I didn't often hear much of the morning show then. BUt one day February day we had a snow day, I was happy to lay in bed and listed to the radio until I fell beck asleep unfortunately when I turned it on I heard Mambo #9!!!!!! I waited a minute thinking that the dial had gotten moved a bit and just tried to figure out which way I need d to turn it to get my station back only to hear the weather man come one (the same weatherman I heard every day) report the weather on the new Z92.5 Today's music for all people!!! I started crying. I felt so incredibly betrayed by that station I wouldn't let my sister play it in the car. I eventually found a new oldies station with many good qualities including a great morning show DJ but I still missed Fred. I listed to this station for 5 years until I was a junior in college. And that February, my oldies station became Classic Rock. I was lost for a while listened to the oldies station from Pittsburgh WWSW. I finally found another local oldies station and have enjoyed it but a few months ago it changed it's call sign from oldies to Classic Hits and began playing occasionally weird 80's songs. I am once again without a good Oldies station, it seems they are disappearing. If anyone out there knows of a good one, please let me know.