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Doug Quick's Golden Classics

About This Format

Doug Quick’s Golden Classics, developed in collaboration with award-winning, longtime radio and television broadcaster Doug Quick, is a carefully crafted classic hits format that celebrates the rich musical era from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, with a strong focus on the 1970s. Designed to capture both the sound and spirit of heritage radio, the format blends timeless hits with a subtle layer of a classic radio presentation that prioritizes warmth, familiarity, and personality without feeling dated or overly produced.

A distinctive feature of Doug Quick's Golden Classics is its optional use of custom beginning and end tags for many songs in the library, allowing stations to enhance transitions, reinforce branding, and recreate the seamless, personality-driven flow that defined radio’s golden age, while still maintaining flexibility for automation systems and offering options for format blending of locally produced productions. 

Doug Quick’s Golden Classics is available in two distinct versions: a broad-based format spanning the late ’60s through the early ’80s, and a focused all-’70s edition that zeroes in on the core of the era. 

Sample Artists

Chicago - Rod Stewart - Eagles - Elton John - John Denver - Elvis Presley - Bob Seger - David Bowie - The Supremes - Santana - The Fifth Dimension - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles

Sample Songs

Stevie Wonder - Boogie On Reggae Woman

America - I Need You

Carly Simon - It Keeps You Running

Electric Light Orchestra - Hold On

The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

Kim Carnes - More Love

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown

Orleans - Dance With Me

The Hollies - The Air That I Breath

The Cornelius Brothers - Treat Her Like a Lady

The Rolling Stones - Happy

Al Stewart - Time Passages

The Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute

T. Rex - Bang a Gong

Era Balance

Late 1960s - 15%
1970s - 70%
Early 1980s - 15%

Target Demo

Target - 35+

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