Friends of 1560 WQEW (Home of American Popular Standards)

12/29/2025

"All good things must come to an end. That's why they're called good things -- otherwise they're just... ordinary." - Joyce Rachelle

Before I have to start this new channel with a bang, why not listen to the first aircheck for my new channel. This is the final moments of WQEW from 12/27/98...

12/25/2025

"The Station where the Stars come out, Night and Day..."

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" by Ray ConiffListen to Ray Coniff: https://RayConniff.lnk.to/listenYDLyrics:On the first day of ChristmasMy true love sent to ...

12/24/2025

Merry Christmas! 🎅 🎄💫

CD audio, originally issued on Decca single 28939 - It’s Christmas Time Again (Burke-Elliott-Harwood) by Peggy Lee with Jud Conlon’s Rhythmaires, orchestra c...

12/13/2025

Remembering the 110th birth anniversary of Frank Sinatra ...

https://youtu.be/ZSq9F0nw98c?si=Inl0kq202vE_PSCg

CD audio, originally issued on Capitol LP 894 “A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra” - Jingle Bells (Pierpont) by Frank Sinatra, with the Ralph Brewster Sing...

12/07/2025

"This is Class Reunion, and the year is 1941..."

President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes his famous speech after the Japanese Empire attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. FDR Declares War on the then ...

12/02/2025

December 2, 1992 around 9:59am, as the flip from to was heard on the radio....

With 1130 WNEW ending their standards format soon, 1560 WQXR - a simulcast of 96.3 FM at the time - changed its format from classical to standards. Stan Mart...

12/01/2025

From the 1999 NY Daily News article titled: "WQEW DEMISE LEAVES FANS OF STANDARDS WITHOUT A SONG:"

'Middle Village: The loss of WQEW is heartbreaking. Barbara Floria

Brooklyn: WQEW was the only station I listened to. They were great all day. The disc jockeys became your friends. You would think a city like New York would have a station for people who love the music of the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Will we ever have one again? Rose DuBoff

'Brooklyn: We bought a Bose radio just to receive WQEW at our weekend home on the Jersey shore. But even with that, we can’t get the alternate popular standards stations. Besides, none of them have the sophisticated programing of WQEW. Very little Clooney or Torme, not enough Sinatra and tragically, no Jonathan Schwartz. - Marilyn & Phil Birnbaum'

11/22/2025

"This is Class Reunion, and the year is 1963..."

From the CBS archives from Friday, November 22, 1963, Walter Cronkite announces to the nation that President John F. Kennedy had died.

11/18/2025

"Music is music... talent is talent - I don't care who ya are..." - Hesh on what makes a Hit, a Hit 🎵

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

08/25/2025

"It's a Glenn Miller Monday..." 🎶

A String Of Pearls (Gray) by Glenn Miller & his OrchestraMiller arranger Jerry Gray’s most famous composition, with its Bobby Hackett cornet solo, was the ba...

08/23/2025

"...where the Stars come out Night and Day... 1560, WQEW"

NEVER beg for love. NEVER beg for someone to love you back or be with you when you want to. NEVER beg for someone's time, commitment, affection and attention...

08/20/2025

The pride of Newark, sassy pays homage on this

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