The music formats of WBKZ ranged from adult contemporary to nostalgia (music of the pre-rock era mixed with softer recent music).

Today, however, we seem to be entering a phase not unlike the pre-rock era, when screen sirens sang and crooners played priests or high society chaps.

The pop composer who forged the most important links between the pre-rock era and today's more musically sophisticated pop-rock is Burt Bacharach.

For all its concentration on the pre-rock era, "Follies" was in some ways a product of its time.

At Baby Jake's, the jukebox is a testament to the pre-rock era.

The Grammy categories still reflect the methodology of the pre-rock era.

Hoagy Carmichael's music has more implicit jazz in it than the tunes of any other major American songwriter of the pre-rock era except Duke Ellington.

Ms. Lea's repertory of 2,000 to 3,000 songs comes mostly from the pre-rock era.

Mills Brothers songs constitute a virtual time capsule of the pre-rock era.

Like Julie Wilson and Sylvia Syms, she looks back at the pre-rock era as a golden age for aspiring singers.