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DJs and rembering forgotten hits
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Didn’t someone ask this question last year?
As the previous poster asked, didn't you ask this same question last year? Or two years ago?
Let me introduce you to Sean Ross.
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Read Sean's regular column, and you might learn something about hits and stiffs. Just because you sit in a radio studio all day doesn't mean you listen.
I don’t remember every single song I played, much less which ones were stiffs vs hits. You just play what’s in the system/on the playlist.
It kind of rings a bell, but don't remember asking it.As the previous poster asked, didn't you ask this same question last year? Or two years ago?
Let me introduce you to Sean Ross.
Ross On RadioInsight
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Read Sean's regular column, and you might learn something about hits and stiffs. Just because you sit in a radio studio all day doesn't mean you listen.
The reality is that radio stations do not pay DJs to listen to the music and never have. They're supposed to be working during their show.
The main job of a DJ is right there in the title. Disc jockey. If you're playing 13 songs an hour, 4 jingles and 20 spots, 24 hours a day, there are a lot of discs and tapes to manage based on the logs provided by the PD/MD and traffic director in order to properly execute the format. The studio must be kept orderly. It is a serious problem if the tape with the spots for Mike Woodsen Lincoln/Mercury is misplaced.
All the on-air personality stuff was a secondary duty, except in the largest markets where the personality might have worked with a board operator.
However, they should have had the air feed on the whole time they were working to make sure the record wasn't skipping or the machine didn't eat the tape.
So the DJ of 1976 heard Disco Duck twice per shift every day for weeks, and it probably made an impression.
Of course, I write this from the perspective of years ago. These days the DJ often isn't in the studio when their show airs, so it's a very job different now.
The main job of a DJ is right there in the title. Disc jockey. If you're playing 13 songs an hour, 4 jingles and 20 spots, 24 hours a day, there are a lot of discs and tapes to manage based on the logs provided by the PD/MD and traffic director in order to properly execute the format. The studio must be kept orderly. It is a serious problem if the tape with the spots for Mike Woodsen Lincoln/Mercury is misplaced.
All the on-air personality stuff was a secondary duty, except in the largest markets where the personality might have worked with a board operator.
However, they should have had the air feed on the whole time they were working to make sure the record wasn't skipping or the machine didn't eat the tape.
So the DJ of 1976 heard Disco Duck twice per shift every day for weeks, and it probably made an impression.
Of course, I write this from the perspective of years ago. These days the DJ often isn't in the studio when their show airs, so it's a very job different now.
And those who voice track entire shifts don't have to listen to the music at all, or at least not the complete songs, right? I can only imagine the tedium the hosts of SiriusXM's Symphony Hall must go through if they have to actually sit down with six hours of classical music and listen to every last note while cracking the mic only once every 20-30 minutes! AFAIK, every shift on that channel is voice tracked.
Correct. Peter van de Graaf, the host of the syndicated classical music service based at WFMT/Chicago, provides 9 new hours of voice tracks each day. I would imagine he knocks those out in an hour or two.
This thread reminds me of the song "No Myth" by Michael Penn. Seemingly it disappeared after its run as a hit, at least for a while and as time went on I'd never hear it as a gold on bigger stations or the satellite delivered services. But every so often, I'd run across a smaller, locally programmed station and hear "No Myth." Same with in-store music services. There's certain songs that seem to have the cachet of being an MD's favorite. Typically it was a song that went for pop release and stalled, but seemed poised to do something bigger or a deeper gold that disappeared from radio after a brief run of success.
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