Popular pretty ricky songs9/22/2023 ![]() But a few groundbreaking radio stations (I listened to WNEW-FM in New York) played the full song, which lasted six or seven minutes. AM radios adhered to a 3-minute rule for songs, and so only played the 3-minute version of Light My Fire, which simply eliminated the instrumental solo. Then The Doors’ Light My Fire came along. Most radios back in the 1960’s were AM-only, since FM broadcasting was reserved for primarily classical music, which few in America listened to. It occurs to me, as I write this, that many alive now think radios always came with FM and AM I know differently. If you did, too, then maybe I saw you at one of the concerts Grand Funk Railroad at Shea Stadium, or Jethro Tull at The Fillmore East, a few weeks before that hallowed hall forever closed its doors. ![]() I can still stake some sort of a claim to being a knowledgeable source of rock music, based largely on the fact that I lived through (and stayed awake for most of) the “classic rock” era.
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