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Betcha By Golly Wow

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vchimpanzee

This song by The Stylistics has been played at 3:15 Eastern on weekdays on America's Best Music more than any other song. I like the song okay, but ...

I'm curious as to how this happens. I hear it so many times in the car after Mike Huckabee, and at home if I happen to be there and the clock radio comes on for the same reason.

There may be times I haven't heard it. At two libraries I just go out to the car but go back inside. At another one I'm close enough to where I can listen to another station I like better.
 
vchimpanzee said:
This song by The Stylistics has been played at 3:15 Eastern on weekdays on America's Best Music more than any other song. I like the song okay, but ...

I'm curious as to how this happens. I hear it so many times in the car after Mike Huckabee, and at home if I happen to be there and the clock radio comes on for the same reason.

There may be times I haven't heard it. At two libraries I just go out to the car but go back inside. At another one I'm close enough to where I can listen to another station I like better.
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In satellite-delivered formats, there is sometimes an optional commercial break for stations. The syndicator has to play a record in that space for the stations that haven't sold the time, and that record needs to be the precise length of the break. It could be that "Betcha By Golly, Wow" is one of a handful of songs that are the correct length and they use it in those optional breaks.
 
michael hagerty said:
In satellite-delivered formats, there is sometimes an optional commercial break for stations. The syndicator has to play a record in that space for the stations that haven't sold the time, and that record needs to be the precise length of the break. It could be that "Betcha By Golly, Wow" is one of a handful of songs that are the correct length and they use it in those optional breaks.
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This is another topic http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?663744-Songs-that-are-played-too-often but there are a few songs that get played a lot in those commercial breaks. Lately with the election there haven't been as many of those. But in this case it is a song that everyone gets to hear.
 
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michael hagerty said:
In satellite-delivered formats, there is sometimes an optional commercial break for stations. The syndicator has to play a record in that space for the stations that haven't sold the time, and that record needs to be the precise length of the break. It could be that "Betcha By Golly, Wow" is one of a handful of songs that are the correct length and they use it in those optional breaks.
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Sirius XM used to do something like that when Clear Channel still programmed a large chunk of XM bandwidth. Brooks & Dunn's "Red Dirt Road" used to pop up several times a day when WSIX Nashville was in a long set of local spots. Must have been just the right length, as you suggest for "Betcha By Golly, Wow."
 
That's what was great about the old "rock instrumentals". You could run them right up the news, do a quick fade and no one would care.
 
For a while we had a soft-rock station that played ELO's "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" at 10:30 every morning. Something similar at the local Public TV station; every Saturday night the gap between the "Red Green" rerun and the next program is always filled by one of two old public-domain cartoons, either Foghorn Leghorn in "Crowing Pains" or Woody Woodpecker in "Pantry Panic," because they are apparently just the right length. (Or maybe they're the only "fillers" they have?)
 
semoochie said:
That's what was great about the old "rock instrumentals". You could run them right up the news, do a quick fade and no one would care.
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America's Best Music sometimes does this with instrumentals too. For some odd reason, the second song before the news on one occasion recently was an instrumental and the last one had vocals.

This morning before the 10:00 news--"Betcha By Golly Wow". Hey, it's not 3:15!
 
vchimpanzee said:
This is another topic http://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?663744-Songs-that-are-played-too-often but there are a few songs that get played a lot in those commercial breaks. Lately with the election there haven't been as many of those. But in this case it is a song that everyone gets to hear.
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"Moonglow" by Tony Bennett and k.d. lang, "Call Me Irresponsible" by Jack Jones, and "Pretty World" by Brasil 66 are some examples. "Theme from 'The Apartment'" and "Exodus" by Ferrante & Teicher are others I've heard. Timeless Classics used to do the "Beverly Hills Cop" theme but America's Best Music has only played that one when everyone could hear. And not lately.
 
They followed me to 4:00!

I changed the clock radio after Mike Huckabee nded his show to alert me when it was time to clean up on Saturdays. I can't do it in the summer as early.
 
"'Beverly Hills Cop' theme but America's Best Music has only played that one when everyone could hear"
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Oh, so that's what that synthesiser cut is that I've heard on there and been trying to find for years, to no avail, thinking it was Alan Parsons or somebody like that. (Having never seen the movie probably doesn't help.)

Thank you Youtube VDS!
 
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