Raised On Radio #4: Tony Carey
May. 5th, 2012 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23I grew up with the area's CHR/Hot Hits/Top 40 station- KHTR in St Louis.
Hot Hits was a format that played the Top 40, but with a strong rock influence to it.
Here is a sample playlist from that era.
The Hot Hits format went as fast as it came, but for the 80s, KHTR dominated ratings. By the time I reached high school, and the 90s approached, KHTR became an all-oldies station KLOU.
One of the people that did well for Hot Hits was Tony Carey.
Carey had two quick hits that I really liked. He had been keyboardist for Rainbow, and had J Mascis hair.
1984's album Some Tough City went to #60. Singles "A Fine Fine Day" went to #22, and "The First Day of Summer" went to #33, but for rock -heavy stations, they were in heavy rotation.
Carey kept and keeps recording, though he's stayed a bit out of the mainstream eye.
Anyway, both were some of my favorite singles of the time, and to pick one, I am going to go with "A Fine Fine Day"- now fairly obscure, but I still think it holds up.
Hot Hits was a format that played the Top 40, but with a strong rock influence to it.
Here is a sample playlist from that era.
The Hot Hits format went as fast as it came, but for the 80s, KHTR dominated ratings. By the time I reached high school, and the 90s approached, KHTR became an all-oldies station KLOU.
One of the people that did well for Hot Hits was Tony Carey.
Carey had two quick hits that I really liked. He had been keyboardist for Rainbow, and had J Mascis hair.
1984's album Some Tough City went to #60. Singles "A Fine Fine Day" went to #22, and "The First Day of Summer" went to #33, but for rock -heavy stations, they were in heavy rotation.
Carey kept and keeps recording, though he's stayed a bit out of the mainstream eye.
Anyway, both were some of my favorite singles of the time, and to pick one, I am going to go with "A Fine Fine Day"- now fairly obscure, but I still think it holds up.
