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As an older rock 'n’ roller. I’m ready to put on sack cloth and rub ashes in my hair as a sign of mourning. I’m preparing for the worst, getting ready to join thousands of listeners in Piedmont Virginia in their search for a new spot on the dial if Warrenton radio station WEER follows through on tentative plans to change its format to "Top 40".
Statistics show that buyers of single 45’s. that portion of the public that primarily determines which releases hit the top of the chart, are early and subteens from 12 to 15 years old. Their tastes tends to run toward disco and "bubblegum music," songs with a simple, catchy beat and repetitive lyrics.
There’s nothing wrong with this kind of music. Millions of teeny boppers turn in to it every day, snapping their fingers and tapping their toes. Hundreds of radio stations across the country pump it out around the clock.
But "Top 40” doesn’t appeal to everyone. It certainly doesn’t appeal to me. There was a time when I snapped and popped with the best of them but those years are long gone. I haven't outgrown rock ‘n’ roll and probably never will but the sound broadcast by "Top 40” stations lost its appeal years ago.
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