'60s Gold, formerly known as The '60s on 6 or The '60s, is a commercial-free,

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station on the

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platform. It plays music from the 1960s. Airing on XM since 2001, the channel became available to

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subscribers replacing '60s Vibrations on November 12, 2008, following the merger of the two companies. The station currently broadcasts on channel 73 of both services, as well as on

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channel 6073. Like the other decades channels, '60s Gold works to recreate the feel of 1960s radio. They use similar DJs, classic PAMS jingles, period slang, and news updates. The channel was also used for XM's annual rock and roll hits music chronology, '' IT''. The logo features a Peace sign for the zero. , The '60s on 6 was the fifth most listened to station on the XM service, with a cume of 581,300 listeners per week, according to

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Post Sirius XM merger

With the merger of many Sirius XM channels on November 12, 2008, there were some changes to 60s on 6. The channel's playlist, which had once exceeded 3,000 songs was sliced to emphasize Top 10 hits more, with most of the lower-charting tracks as well as many of the crossover and

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hits of the era removed and abandoned from the rotation. Pat Clarke, who helmed the channel since the 2004 departure of Program Director and channel creator, Cleveland Wheeler, was dismissed along with another disk jockey, Marty "with the Party" Thompson. Phlash Phelps and Terry "Motormouth" Young were spared, and "Broadway" Bill Lee and Mike Kelly joined the airstaff. Lee eventually moved to the '70s on 7 channel. Cousin Brucie began a live Saturday all-request show. Wolfman Jack was moved into an early afternoon block, and was eventually eliminated altogether, along with other channel fixtures such as the Sonic Sound Salute, Sweet Sixteen Music Machine countdown, and '' Chickenman''. The classic PAMS jingles were edited to remove references to XM Radio, or jingles not referencing XM were used. In the summer of 2009, PAMS produced a new set of jingles based on its Series 31, "Music Explosion" for the channel. Prior to the merger, it was the only XM channel to not change its zero in the logo, since it has always been a peace sign. All decades channels changed logos, whereas this channel, along with the '40s on 4 and the '70s on 7 are updated logos from their predecessors. The last logo for The '60s on 6 was the same, but "The" is phased out on the left, and adds the "on 6" info at the right. In October 2021, SiriusXM announced that the station would move to channel 73 on November 3, and its name would simultaneously change to '60s Gold.

Notable hosts

* Cousin Brucie * Phlash Phelps * Pat St. John * "Shotgun Tom" Kelly

Core artists

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* The Four Seasons *

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Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo comprising the singer-songwriter Paul Simon and the singer Art Garfunkel. They were one of the best-selling music acts of the 1960s. Their most famous recordings include three US number-one sing ...

* Hermans Hermits *

Four Tops The Four Tops are an American vocal group formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1953 as the Four Aims. They were one of the most commercially successful American pop music groups of the 1960s and helped propel Motown Records to international fame. The ...

The Monkees The Monkees were an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. The band consisted of Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones (musician), Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork. Spurred by the success of ''The Monkees (TV series), Th ...

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References

External links

SiriusXM: '60s Gold
{{DEFAULTSORT:60s on 6 Sirius Satellite Radio channels XM Satellite Radio channels Sirius XM Radio channels 1960s-themed radio stations Radio stations established in 2001