https://www.musicofyourlife.com/ is still around but it is has mostly moved on to Soft AC since today's "Adult Standards" format is the Soft AC with stuff from Melissa Manchester up to the Amy Grant, Gloria Estefan, Wilson Phillips, etc. era with some token original Adult Standards artists in the mix with more of the original Adult Standards format music over the weekends. BTW, record companies still reissue tons of stuff from the Great American Songbook era, big band era, early rock and roll era, etc. including complete boxed sets, etc. (Frank Sinatra's catalog for the most part is still in print in full, BTW, for fans to check out I'm Sorry, there are lots of older Brenda Lee albums on streaming and Greatest Hits compilations available of all sizes. In fact during the 1980s-1990s, I'm Sorry was used in Bounty paper towel commercials), lots of Nat King Cole albums have been reissued on CD, they are all up on streaming, there are Bear Family boxed sets of a lot of his catalog, etc., a lot of obscure and long out of print albums get put up on streaming services without fanfare but overtime do get some streaming. In fact, a lot of out of print reissued back catalog albums are among the most sought after albums in the physical used market with some stuff that tests well on the radio yet have been long out of print do command big bucks on CD. There is even a company called Archeophone that reissues recordings from the Edison cylinder and acoustically recorded 78rpm era from the 1800s-early 1900s.
At its peak in the 1980s, those stations were also dubbed "Nostalgia" stations amongst industry insiders, playing Big Band and Jazz-based Vocalists of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Mathematically, "Classic Rock" is today's "Nostalgia", with Rock classics from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Led Zeppelin is older today as Glenn Miller was back then.
Yet, while Adult Standards ended up evolving to the stuff mostly played on VH1 back in the 1980s-1990s on back to the Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, etc. era.
Meanwhile in Palm Springs, until recently, they had two stations battling over who played more Frank Sinatra. KWXY has evolved similarly to how you noted MoYL has, but one station stays true: https://www.1073modfm.com/
Near my area, there is still KDKK-FM in Park Rapids, MN which does an Adult Standards format and it is mostly a true Adult Standards format although I did hear one time Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's One Sweet Day and they have just played the Beach Boys' Surfer Girl. To stream it: https://www.lightningstream.com/Player.aspx?call=KDKK
BTW, Brenda Lee did issue quite a few Christmas albums and in the case of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, that was one of the songs from the early stereo days and recorded direct to stereo and there is a Complete Decca Christmas Recordings compilation out there of her work. (https://www.amazon.com/Rockin-Around-Christmas-Tree-Recordings/dp/B00000JQMF/)
The version of White Christmas by Bing Crosby that ends up with the most airplay is the 1947 re-recording which was done as the mother disc of the actual 1942 hit version was worn out but there are some compilations that include the original 1942 hit version that was the version that charted including The Voice of Christmas 2 CD set of every Christmas recording he did for Decca. https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Christmas-Complete-Decca-Songbook/dp/B000009RCX
John Denver had a Christmas single with Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas back in 1973 on his Farewell Andromeda album, but it became more popular when he re-recorded it for his mega selling Rocky Mountain Christmas album from 1975 and now, a lot of people don't remember it.
A collection you need to check out is the Trapp Family Singers Christmas on Deutsche Grammaphon which does feature a lot of Christmas classics in their original languages plus this includes the very first version of Little Drummer Boy, known as Carol of The Drum from 1951, which the Harry Simeone Chorale had a million selling hit in 1958 (https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Trapp-Family-Singers/dp/B0002KV296/). The Harry Simeone Chorale version that appears on most VA compilations and gets the most airplay is a 1965 stereo re-recording. There are very few CDs that include the original version of it. The stereo LP of the Harry Simeone Chorale album from the early 1960s includes a fake stereo reprocessing of The Little Drummer Boy, the rest of the album is stereo but there is this Christmas compilation which has a digitally extracted stereo version of the original single. https://www.ericrecords.com/AmazingStereoXmas.html
The people who stream Brenda Lee ought to also stream Connie Francis' Christmas music and in fact, Connie's Baby's First Christmas was a million selling single back in the day. There are a bunch of Connie Francis Christmas compilations, but the definitive CD is this one. https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-My-Heart-Connie-Francis/dp/B000001FAM/
John Denver's Rocky Mountain Christmas: https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-Christmas-John-Denver/dp/B008RCO66M
Farewell Andromeda: https://www.amazon.com/Farewell-Andromeda-John-Denver/dp/B000002W7W/
Reissuing long out of print catalog was a major part of what launches all media formats.
https://www.musicofyourlife.com/ is still around but it is has mostly moved on to Soft AC since today's "Adult Standards" format is the Soft AC with stuff from Melissa Manchester up to the Amy Grant, Gloria Estefan, Wilson Phillips, etc. era with some token original Adult Standards artists in the mix with more of the original Adult Standards format music over the weekends. BTW, record companies still reissue tons of stuff from the Great American Songbook era, big band era, early rock and roll era, etc. including complete boxed sets, etc. (Frank Sinatra's catalog for the most part is still in print in full, BTW, for fans to check out I'm Sorry, there are lots of older Brenda Lee albums on streaming and Greatest Hits compilations available of all sizes. In fact during the 1980s-1990s, I'm Sorry was used in Bounty paper towel commercials), lots of Nat King Cole albums have been reissued on CD, they are all up on streaming, there are Bear Family boxed sets of a lot of his catalog, etc., a lot of obscure and long out of print albums get put up on streaming services without fanfare but overtime do get some streaming. In fact, a lot of out of print reissued back catalog albums are among the most sought after albums in the physical used market with some stuff that tests well on the radio yet have been long out of print do command big bucks on CD. There is even a company called Archeophone that reissues recordings from the Edison cylinder and acoustically recorded 78rpm era from the 1800s-early 1900s.
At its peak in the 1980s, those stations were also dubbed "Nostalgia" stations amongst industry insiders, playing Big Band and Jazz-based Vocalists of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Mathematically, "Classic Rock" is today's "Nostalgia", with Rock classics from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Led Zeppelin is older today as Glenn Miller was back then.
Yet, while Adult Standards ended up evolving to the stuff mostly played on VH1 back in the 1980s-1990s on back to the Barry Manilow, Melissa Manchester, etc. era.
Meanwhile in Palm Springs, until recently, they had two stations battling over who played more Frank Sinatra. KWXY has evolved similarly to how you noted MoYL has, but one station stays true: https://www.1073modfm.com/
Near my area, there is still KDKK-FM in Park Rapids, MN which does an Adult Standards format and it is mostly a true Adult Standards format although I did hear one time Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's One Sweet Day and they have just played the Beach Boys' Surfer Girl. To stream it: https://www.lightningstream.com/Player.aspx?call=KDKK
A Christmas song that people ought to discover through streaming is Woody Guthrie's 1913 Massacre from 1941 on his "Struggle" album on Folkways Records (https://folkways.si.edu/woody-guthrie/struggle), remade by his son Arlo on his 1972 album "Hobo's Lullaby" which is the album with "City of New Orleans" on it (https://www.amazon.com/Hobos-Lullaby-Arlo-Guthrie/dp/B00B1G3VW6/). The closest things to Christmas music from Gordon Lightfoot are "Song For a Winter's Night" from his 1967 album The Way I Feel (this link features a 2 CD set of his 4 studio albums on United Artists Records: https://www.amazon.com/United-Artists-Collection-Gordon-Lightfoot/dp/B00000DQO2/) and a re-recorded version on 1975's Gord's Gold (https://www.amazon.com/Gords-Gold-Gordon-Lightfoot/dp/B000002KCG), plus "Circle of Steel" from 1974's "Sundown" (https://www.amazon.com/Sundown-GORDON-LIGHTFOOT/dp/B000002KC2/) album and is also on Gord's Gold.
BTW, Brenda Lee did issue quite a few Christmas albums and in the case of Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, that was one of the songs from the early stereo days and recorded direct to stereo and there is a Complete Decca Christmas Recordings compilation out there of her work. (https://www.amazon.com/Rockin-Around-Christmas-Tree-Recordings/dp/B00000JQMF/)
The version of White Christmas by Bing Crosby that ends up with the most airplay is the 1947 re-recording which was done as the mother disc of the actual 1942 hit version was worn out but there are some compilations that include the original 1942 hit version that was the version that charted including The Voice of Christmas 2 CD set of every Christmas recording he did for Decca. https://www.amazon.com/Voice-Christmas-Complete-Decca-Songbook/dp/B000009RCX
John Denver had a Christmas single with Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk This Christmas back in 1973 on his Farewell Andromeda album, but it became more popular when he re-recorded it for his mega selling Rocky Mountain Christmas album from 1975 and now, a lot of people don't remember it.
Another Christmas classic many people ought to check out is John Prine's Christmas In Prison from his seminal 1973 album "Sweet Revenge." https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Revenge-JOHN-PRINE/dp/B000002I79/
A collection you need to check out is the Trapp Family Singers Christmas on Deutsche Grammaphon which does feature a lot of Christmas classics in their original languages plus this includes the very first version of Little Drummer Boy, known as Carol of The Drum from 1951, which the Harry Simeone Chorale had a million selling hit in 1958 (https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Trapp-Family-Singers/dp/B0002KV296/). The Harry Simeone Chorale version that appears on most VA compilations and gets the most airplay is a 1965 stereo re-recording. There are very few CDs that include the original version of it. The stereo LP of the Harry Simeone Chorale album from the early 1960s includes a fake stereo reprocessing of The Little Drummer Boy, the rest of the album is stereo but there is this Christmas compilation which has a digitally extracted stereo version of the original single. https://www.ericrecords.com/AmazingStereoXmas.html
The original album on CD: https://www.discogs.com/release/7437777-The-Harry-Simeone-Chorale-The-Little-Drummer-Boy
The people who stream Brenda Lee ought to also stream Connie Francis' Christmas music and in fact, Connie's Baby's First Christmas was a million selling single back in the day. There are a bunch of Connie Francis Christmas compilations, but the definitive CD is this one. https://www.amazon.com/Christmas-My-Heart-Connie-Francis/dp/B000001FAM/