If you’re lucky (and you are not among the heretics people who have totally abandoned radio), there’s a “souldies” station in your market. Pronounced so that it rhymes with “oldies”, it’s a format name I made up back when Denver had a classic soul station and damn, I still miss it. But the ownership of the station, as is so often the case in radio, built a loyal listener and advertiser base — thank you, Tower Liquors — but didn’t get high enough ratings (in a heavily saturated market) to satisfy some out-of-town suit, so they applied the Genghis Kahn Approach to Radio Programming and pulled the plug and flipped the format to country. Believe me when I say Denver needed another country station like Detroit needs another abandoned building.
In honor of tonight’s VH-1 Soul Train documentary and also because Lester made some good finds the other night that got me to missing this amazing music all over again, I’ll share a few with you over a series of posts, like I did with the one-hit-wonders last year.
First up: Tower of Power!
Here’s wishing you all peace, love — and SOUL!
