While the British Invasion gave us more than its share of great music, it’s sometimes a challenge to find enough songs to keep our listeners entertained 24/7. Here are a few reasons why:

• Our musical niche was a victim of its own success. By the late 1960s, so many artists around the world were playing the same kind of music that it no longer could be identified as a product of the U.K. As a result, recordings attributed to British Invasion musicians span only about six years.
• While British Invasion performers put out thousands of recordings between 1962 and 1967, we doubt most people want to hear each one of them. Many just aren’t very good.
• As Internet broadcasters, we’re also limited by a bizarre federal law that prohibits us from playing some artists as much as we’d like. If we had our way, you would hear a Beatles record at least every 15 or 20 minutes. But the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents us from airing songs by the same performers(s) more than once an hour.

In order to bring you enough good music to keep you coming back for more, we need to bend the rules sometimes:

• We don’t automatically exclude artists from outside the U.K.. For example, we play “My Boy Lollipop” by Millie Small, who’s from Jamaica, because it’s a good song, it was recorded in Britain and was a big hit there and in the States. You’ll also hear the Walker Brothers, who happen to be Americans. But while they weren’t particularly popular in the U.S., their records were consistently big bits in England. About half the members of Fleetwood Mac were also Yanks, but you’ll hear a lot of their music on our station.
• Likewise, not all of the songs on our playlist were recorded during the years of the British Invasion. Many artists who were a part of the original Invasion have continued performing for decades since — the Stones, Eric Clapton, the Kinks and the individual Beatles, to name just a few. We’ve included a lot of their recordings from the Seventies and beyond.
• Strictly speaking, Elton John, 10cc and several others came on the scene after the Invasion ended. But we’re glad to include their contributions that were influenced by the first wave of musicians.
• We’ve also added many recordings that never charted in the U.S. although they were hits in Great Britain.

And finally, we’ll drill down to find good music that never received very much airplay or attention. This past week, we’ve added about 30 of those tracks to our playlist, including:

• Can’t Let Maggie Go (Honeybus)
• Getaway (Georgie Fame)
• Helule Helule (Tremeloes)
• See My Friends (Kinks)
• Same Old Feeling (Pickettywitch)
• Look Before You Leap (Dave Clark Five)

We think British Invasion Radio plays a pretty good mix… but obviously, we’re a little biased. Let us know what you think.