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And The Burn-Outs Just Keep On Comin'

Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
I Can't Get Next To You - The Temptations
 
Lately, most of the Michael Jackson catalog is burning out faster than his hairdo did at the Pepsi ad shoot...especially the early (1969-73) material with his older brothers.
 
Is Everlasting Love by Carl Carlton still smokin'?

The radio stations I've heard, they've burned that more than
the California wildfires.
 
Sorry to double post -

but just thought of it...
Elton John - Candle In The Wind - his tribute to Marilyn Monroe.
Then the same song for Princess Di.

I wonder if he'll do the same song again for Michael Jackson -

Cash-in three times. (Fire In The Hair)
 
"I wonder if he'll do the same song again for Michael Jackson"

ROFL

Unforgettable - Natalie Cole with tape of her papa
This Will Be - Natalie Cole all by herself
 
I have to say Mary Hopkins Those were the Days, which was allmost off the playlist when the Owner discovered it and made us put it back on for 4 more weeks.....AND Archies Sugar Sugar which was just about over when I left one market AND hitbound when I got to the next........
 
Each and everyone of them...great songs! Now let's put our heads together and get serious and pick songs that have burned and should no longer recieve airplay and not songs you have some kind of negative agenda against! GO!
 
I have a "negative agenda" for "More Today Than Yesterday," by Spiral Starecase, a great song the first 20 years it was in "A" rotation, but now just another another crispy critter that fits right in here. GO!
 
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - The Bee Gees
Grease - Frankie Valli
 
Anything by Seals and Crofts. ANYthing.

Closed circuit for Silkie: bud, could you explain what your sig means? I'm obviously too dumb to understand it.
 
Kodachrome - Paul Simon

We're All Alone - Rita Coolidge

Mr. Savage - Just a guess - a stab in the dark:

Does Silkie's sig have anything to do with out of town WX people
predicting the forecast for Rochester? Like on RNews .. oops 'xcuse
me - YNN. Just spec'ing.

By the way I'll be listening to your talk show tonite on WHAM at 8pm.

..The Savage Nation.
 
Michael "Savage" is a poseur - a Savage-wannabe, as opposed to the real deal....who would be, "moi." Proudly Savaging the airwaves since 1967.

"Savage's" actual, real last name is Weiner. Either pronunciation works.
 
Just a few instant tune outs (for me, at least) that I can't seem to escape on either old radio or sat rad:
Dire Straits - Walk of Life
Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
Stones - Start Me Up (this was a great song the first 30,000 times I heard it)
ZZ Top - Legs
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart (why was this record ever a hit, and why does it test so well?)
Journey - Any Way You Want It (I still don't mind Don't Stop Believin', for some reason, proving even some burnouts don't burnout)
 
"You're the One That I Want" - John Travolta & Olivia Newton John.

Looks like "Burnouts" has replaced "Stiffs" as the Thread du Jour.

Next, we need to start an "Oh, Wow" thread, and see how many of those show up on the other lists.
 
Savage said:
... Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert "go dive off that tower already" O'Sullivan.
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You heartless bastard!

;-) (Where the hell are the damn emoticons when you really need 'em!?)

True story: Listening to AM 740 a few days back and their "Number 1 at 1" feature (wonder if they do a "Number 2 @ 2" followed by a toilet flush? Grey Fidelipac: Rimshot), wherein "Alone Again, Naturally" played and immediately brought to mind your post. Having played this dirge (usually with studio monitors only slightly audible) a "few" times in my career, I listened more carefully to the lyrics (as if they weren't burned into my brain the first 74 spins) and wondered, "How the hell did this become a hit?" I mean, it's not the song you hot pot after the Charlie Van Dyke / Drake Timp Top of Hour Legal ID, if you hear what I'm sayin'.

So, was "Alone Again" an estrogen song as much as "Go All the Way" (the ultimate after Top of Hour ID song) was a testosterone song? Were there that many clinically depressed people listening to the radio back then? Or did hearing Gilbert O'Sullivan make listeners feel better because, even with their own problems, listeners' lives weren't anywhere near as tragic?

Ponderous, effin' ponderous. Is Don on the phone? I want a concerted effort....
 
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