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Question about a post-Diana Ross Supremes song

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ixnay

That being "Up the Ladder to the Roof", their first hit after Jean Terrell replaced Ross (per Whitburn).

The question being, since former President Trump was shot at from a rooftop, have jocks thought twice about playing UTLTTR, IYKWIM? It would be a shame because "Up the Ladder..." IMO holds up well against anything the Supremes did with Diana.

This is not a political question. This is a programming question.
 
JJSPC said:
Are there many stations even playing that song in 2024?
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No. It was released in January of 1970. The #1 song when it was released was "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head", with "ABC" and "Bridge over Troubled Water" coming later that year. When's the last time you heard any of those songs on the radio?

Pretty sure the last time I heard "ABC" was the day after Michael Jackson died. It was one of the few Jackson songs the "Stardust" standards network played.

I listend to "Up the Ladder" on Spotify while I wrote this, and I don't think I've ever heard that song before.
 
Yeah, the Supremes after Diana left had 4 or 5 Top 40 hits but the only one that's mostly heard anymore is Stoned Love.
 
I recall that Up the Ladder to the Roof got quite a bit of airplay in Austin in 1970, but after its initial run pretty much disappeared. Can’t recall hearing it anywhere since then.

Nathan Jones was another post-Diana Ross Supremes tune that got a bit of airplay in 1971. I remember it popping up as a gold throw-in tune in the later 70s, but is now another song that has disappeared.
 
ixnay said:
The question being, since former President Trump was shot at from a rooftop, have jocks thought twice about playing UTLTTR,
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Thats quite a stretch, don't you think? They also might think twice about playing Up On The Roof by the Drifters (or James Taylor)

They might also think twice about playing Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix (there's an obscure one for you)

Also assumes the jocks have anything to say about the music a station plays.
 
PTBoardOp93 said:
No. It was released in January of 1970. The #1 song when it was released was "Raindrops Keep Fallin on My Head", with "ABC" and "Bridge over Troubled Water" coming later that year. When's the last time you heard any of those songs on the radio?

Pretty sure the last time I heard "ABC" was the day after Michael Jackson died. It was one of the few Jackson songs the "Stardust" standards network played.

I listend to "Up the Ladder" on Spotify while I wrote this, and I don't think I've ever heard that song before.
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Other than a Casey Kasem rerun, post-Diana Supremes is completely off the radio. I personally like the song, but no.
 
TheBigA said:
Thats quite a stretch, don't you think? They also might think twice about playing Up On The Roof by the Drifters (or James Taylor)

They might also think twice about playing Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix (there's an obscure one for you)

Also assumes the jocks have anything to say about the music a station plays.
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Good thinking. But it was Up the Ladder that entered my mind over the weekend, so I used that. The Hendrix tune, I am not familiar with that (sorry).
 
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