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An interesting program challenge!

C

Call Me Sherlock

So I'm driving down the highway listening to my favorite oldies station, WRBK, today and at 1 PM they're running the Obituaries for the day.

Being the ex-radio pro that I am, I thought "Gee, I wonder what songs might just possibly follow this each day. "DOA" by Bloodrock? "Seasons In The Sun" by Terry Jacks? "Patches" by Dickie Lee? "Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning? "Let's Live For Today" by The Grassroots or one of hundreds of others?

Unbelievable! The legal ID played followed by....

Freda Payne's "Band of Gold"...

"Now that you're gone
All that's left is a band of gold
All that's left of the dream I hold
Is a band of gold
And the memories of what love could be
If you are still here with me

You took me from the shelter of a mother I had never known
Who loved any other
We kissed after taking vows
But that night on our honeymoon
We stayed in separate rooms

I wait in the darkness of my lonely room
Filled with sadness, filled with gloom
Hoping soon that you'll walk
Back through that door
And love me like you tried before..."
 
I've got two of these from WTOE when I worked there in the 1980s and 1990s.

First, we were having Tornado Awareness Week with the weather service issuing mock tornado warnings to instruct the public on how to react to a tornado alert. So, what does our board op do when the last warning is issued? He rolls out of it with Stormy Weather by Stella Parton (Dolly's younger sister). Of course...

The other is some fun we'd have with commercials. You know that at a small station you want to dress up your commercials however you can. We had an optometrist who was buying ads on the radio so, you guessed it, we had an instrumental version of I Can See Clearly Now that was put behind every one of his spots. No one ever said anything to us about it, but surely someone in our audience caught on...

I'm sure I'll think of more. So, other posters, what "inopportune" program elements have aired on your station, accidentally or on purpose?
 
More oldies that fit the obits:

Mama - Connie Francis
Tell Laura I Love Her - Ray Peterson
Rocky - Austin Roberts
Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson
Ebony Eyes - Everly Brothers
Love Is Here and Now You're Gone - Supremes

....I could go on but best I stop here! I always wanted to do a show that featured all the teenage tragedy songs!
 
Let's not forget the best one of all . . .

Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

Later . . . .
 
Have you guys ever put together a Q&A type spot, or a "man on the street" interview where the answers to your questions were snippets of popular song lyrics? Now that was the most fun I ever had with a razor blade and reel-to-reel.
 
wncmacs said:
I've got two of these from WTOE when I worked there in the 1980s and 1990s.

First, we were having Tornado Awareness Week with the weather service issuing mock tornado warnings to instruct the public on how to react to a tornado alert. So, what does our board op do when the last warning is issued? He rolls out of it with Stormy Weather by Stella Parton (Dolly's younger sister). Of course...

The other is some fun we'd have with commercials. You know that at a small station you want to dress up your commercials however you can. We had an optometrist who was buying ads on the radio so, you guessed it, we had an instrumental version of I Can See Clearly Now that was put behind every one of his spots. No one ever said anything to us about it, but surely someone in our audience caught on...

I'm sure I'll think of more. So, other posters, what "inopportune" program elements have aired on your station, accidentally or on purpose?
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In 1978 Ray Charles did a version of "I Can See Clearly Now". The oddity of that was not lost on the airstaff!
 
It wasn't a whole song like the Ray Charles thing, but I still laugh when I think of Ronnie Milsap singing "There's a stranger in my house...somebody here that I can't seeee..." Why didn't somebody stop him on that one? :)
 
At WHKY if we didn't run the ABC news at the bottom of the hour we still had to run the news spots. WHKY FM and Am simulcast at night back in the day and only ran the top of the hour news. So I play the news spot, Midol, then Alice Cooper and Only Women Bleed. Not planned. It was just the next song in the rotation.
 
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