The HOP 178 delivers the best hit music from the '50s, '60s and early '70s every commercial-free hour of the day! The HOP is intended to be a unique listening experience for everyone. We don't just play the same "oldies" songs over and over again. We've got Motown mixed with rockabilly, doo-wop next to funk, Tom Jones AND Quincy Jones.
The HOP is YOUR channel and it should best reflect all listeners tastes of music from the 50's, 60's and early 70's. We have a very unique opportunity here to create something truly different from what other "oldies" stations offer. The HOP 178 is both everything and nothing like you might expect. This is not ordinary rock and roll radio...this is The HOP only on WorldSpace!!
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GessnerProgram Director
e-mail Gessner at: bgessner@worldspace.com
It all began in late March 1966 in the hills of West Virginia..well at least for me it did. I was born the only child of two only children. A family small in number but big in heart with minds as open as the world. Music played a big part in my growing up, though the influences were sparse. My father loved Billy Eckstine (Mr. B. he always called him) above all other singers and there were few other records in the house. Sarah Vaughan, Dean Martin, Mills Brothers, Herb Albert and Spike Jones were amongst the records I played in my early days and I did enjoy them.
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Dave Adlere-mail Dave at: dadler@worldspace.com
Dave's one of those guys who's always listening to music (bet you know somebody just like him!) It might be oldies - he especially likes the late 60's - early 70's stuff we play on The Hop. Just give Dave a Guess Who or Grass Roots Greatest Hits CD, press play, and Dave can probably tell you a story about every song! But that's not to say he doesn't like digging a little deeper, into songs you may have never even heard before - those 'one-hit-wonders' are Dave's specialty ... it's probably why we often refer to him as a "Pool Of Useless Information" around the Worldspace studios!
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Scooter Magrudere-mail Scooter at: thehop@worldspace.com
W. Scooter Magruder is an African American man who grew up in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area in the '50's & '60's. The radio was a welcome fixture to the Magruder household, blaring everything from Washington Senators' baseball to rock & roll to gospel to classical to low-down blues shouters like Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown and Willie Mae Thornton. The Little Scooter reeeeeally enjoyed the rock & roll and blues the best. He enjoyed singing in the Peoples Congregational Youth choir as well as harmonizing to the radio lead singers.
The church needed a deejay one day for a function and Scooter's mom exclaimed that Scooter was a deejay although he really wasn't. Soon after that, a real rock n roll deejay was born.
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