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Delilah song choices

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knapfordsouthern1

In the Worcester, MA market, we have WSRS as the local Delilah affiliate, and in nearby Boston her show's carried by WMJX. One night, I was tuning between stations as the program was in progress, as I noticed a bit of a delay. On WMJX, once the call-in segment ended, there was an alternative-ish AC song, but when I caught the segment ending on WSRS, it was instead Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" (since the demographic SRS goes for is clearly older).

I know she has two different versions outside of the Christmas season (regular AC and gold-based AC, and she had a Christian AC version at one point too), but the contrast between music on different versions of the show can be strange in a way.
 
Theater of My Mind said:
Isn't that the case with most of her affiliates? The syndicator basically sends the voice tracks and production elements and the station drops them into their own music scheduling like they would any other voice tracker?
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In smaller markets, I believe most stations use the "full version" with songs so that they can avoid the extra labor in integrating the music with the show.
 
John Tesh is the exact same thing. Most of his affiliates just 'insert' his Intelligence for Your Life segments in between local sweepers and station-based music. There are a few exceptions.
Probably why a lot of her callers ask for "a song for my (XYZ)" instead of specific titles, because Delilah's affiliates aren't all on the satellite feed the whole time.
 


radiofan2023 said:
I haven't listened to Delilah in years, but I once heard her make fun of someone who called in and wanted to dedicate "Muskrat Love" to someone.
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Wow!

It’s been at least 20 years, but I remember a woman called Delilah to dedicate a song to a man she was seeing. Except, the man was married and she was the side piece. Delilah refused to play the song. Delilah didn’t demean her, but she said her show is about keeping families together.
 
golden eagles97 said:
Wow!

It’s been at least 20 years, but I remember a woman called Delilah to dedicate a song to a man she was seeing. Except, the man was married and she was the side piece. Delilah refused to play the song. Delilah didn’t demean her, but she said her show is about keeping families together.
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I mean, Delilah has some strong moral convictions (she's a Christian, hence why she had a Christian AC version of her show at one point). No wonder she refused to play a song for a cheater!
 
knapfordsouthern1 said:
Someone running the Deliliah music log at that station was probably flipping burgers at McDonald's a week later
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A music "log" is generated out of a computer. The computer has no idea what Delilah will say. If the station is programming its own music, then they probably should code novelty and negative lyric songs not to play during the syndicated Delilah show.

Otherwise, we have the question of why any station today would play that song at all, let alone on a station that is compatible with the Delilah show. Better to take the show with the network music.
 
NJnerd19 said:
This reminds me of the time a caller suffered a death in the family and Delilah said "I'll play a special song for you". "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer" started playing.
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Was that from a station that didn't use their own music logs? Someone was probably burning bridges at Premiere / Clear Channel...
 
davideduardo said:
In smaller markets, I believe most stations use the "full version" with songs so that they can avoid the extra labor in integrating the music with the show.
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I thought they were all drop-ins everywhere because in every city I heard her, there were distinct playlist differences from station to station
 
atthestars said:
Anytime I've heard requests on Delilah recently, they're extremely generic. "Can you play a song for my husband?" "Sure listener, here you go!" And it's whatever song is next on the log. No one names a specific song so that way it could be anything
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I wonder if all affiliates are required to air the same dedicated song, while the non dedicated music can be changed out.
 
listen more closely to delilah.. it sounds in the last few years like its phrases from past calls pieced together... theres not many specific name or other rferences to indicate its delilah actually ta,lking to the person. its like the digital weatherman from the late tom churchhill or weatherology... you can tell its single phrases or sentences pieced together to form a phone call
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
listen more closely to delilah.. it sounds in the last few years like its phrases from past calls pieced together... theres not many specific name or other rferences to indicate its delilah actually ta,lking to the person. its like the digital weatherman from the late tom churchhill or weatherology... you can tell its single phrases or sentences pieced together to form a phone call
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Interesting...Im going to make a note to listen to her show to catch that. I'm not exactly a Delilah listener, a little too sugary and syrupy for my taste.
 
KilowattKat said:
Interesting...Im going to make a note to listen to her show to catch that. I'm not exactly a Delilah listener, a little too sugary and syrupy for my taste.
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I'm not a big delilah listener either, but the few times ive heard, she sounds like pieced together sentences/phrases like the weather people
 


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