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The Songs That Bog Down Classic Hits

If it were up to readers and Facebook friends, the ’90s song they’d most like to hear on the radio is “You Get What You Give” by New Radicals. That song should be perfect for Classic Hits. It’s fun and uptempo, despite its lyrical edge. “You Get” is a ’90s song that invokes the ’80s (if you think of it as a Daryll Hall & John Oates homage) or the ’70s (if you notice the Todd Rundgren resemblance instead). Some do play it. “You Get” had a not insignificant 455 Mediabase spins last week; about a third of them from Classic or Adult Hits stations. […]