Just goes to show how things have changed in 20/30 years. I remember playing "Into The Night" at numerous stations back in my '80's CHR/AC days. The only other song I remember by Benny Mardones was "Sheila C", which was a true stiffiloni. Great song though. I think Benny did a re-recording for '89 though (I'd moved onto Country by then) which, as re-recordings always do, never recaptured the spirit of the original.
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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
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My kid's watching "The Karate Kid" on ABC Family...which reminds me of this winner:
"Young Hearts" by Commuter. "Young hearts beat fast...rubber, plastic, metal, glass" was the refrain.
I didn't stutter. But I'm stunned, looking back at having played that song, in heavy rotation no less...that anybody thought devoting 3:10 to THAT was a good idea.
"Young Hearts" by Commuter. "Young hearts beat fast...rubber, plastic, metal, glass" was the refrain.
I didn't stutter. But I'm stunned, looking back at having played that song, in heavy rotation no less...that anybody thought devoting 3:10 to THAT was a good idea.
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"Did somebody post Benny Mardones "Into the Night?" If so, this post will be just like the song, released twice in 1980 and 1989. Just came to mind because I heard it a few days ago and the lyrics creeped me out worse than hearing Aunt Helen sing Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff." Brrrragghhhh. Must take shower."
Exactly the same reaction Bob Wood (who was programming WBEN AM-FM at the time it was first released) had when he heard it. He said, "It'd be a great song if the first verse didn't tell you the guy was trying to seduce an underage girl--yechh, and our listeners would probably react the same way." So we never played it on AM, and kept it out of the music rotation on our then-automated FM as well.
On another topic, when Mark Driscoll (who's been an influential guy in this business for years) was starting into programming stations, he became PD at WBBF in Rochester, brought in to try to turn the place around and recapture audience lost to WAXC. He put some songs on the playlist which became one-city hits, like Peter Allen's "I've Been There", not to mention taking a couple of Dr. Demento discoveries like Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream" and putting them into the rotation. He stopped WBBF's bleeding and gave it a few more years of life as a top 40 outlet before the combined effects of WAXC, suburban sprawl beyond their constricted signal pattern, and the rise of FM all took their inevitable toll. But while he was there BBF sure sounded like no other hit radio station in the country, to say the least...and you heard songs that, for better or worse, you were never going to hear on WAXC or anywhere else...
Exactly the same reaction Bob Wood (who was programming WBEN AM-FM at the time it was first released) had when he heard it. He said, "It'd be a great song if the first verse didn't tell you the guy was trying to seduce an underage girl--yechh, and our listeners would probably react the same way." So we never played it on AM, and kept it out of the music rotation on our then-automated FM as well.
On another topic, when Mark Driscoll (who's been an influential guy in this business for years) was starting into programming stations, he became PD at WBBF in Rochester, brought in to try to turn the place around and recapture audience lost to WAXC. He put some songs on the playlist which became one-city hits, like Peter Allen's "I've Been There", not to mention taking a couple of Dr. Demento discoveries like Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream" and putting them into the rotation. He stopped WBBF's bleeding and gave it a few more years of life as a top 40 outlet before the combined effects of WAXC, suburban sprawl beyond their constricted signal pattern, and the rise of FM all took their inevitable toll. But while he was there BBF sure sounded like no other hit radio station in the country, to say the least...and you heard songs that, for better or worse, you were never going to hear on WAXC or anywhere else...
Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile) - Van Morrison
Also covered by Dexy's Midnight Runners, the follow-up single to "Come On Eileen"
Also covered by Dexy's Midnight Runners, the follow-up single to "Come On Eileen"
Yesterday I saw an LP by Richard Harris. Did they ever try to follow-up "MacArthur Park"? Stiff? Did they try to get the cake out of the rain?
Absolutely. Good bar band/sound system song too.Debaser said:
Tom Wells said:
It couldn't possibly have stiffed on WNIA/WECK...
C'mon... better than Spanish Flea which was used on the dating Game?! How is that possible! ;Dchas108 said:
Jon & Robin and the In-Crowd: Do It Again (Just A Little Bit Slower.)
As long as we're perusing the long-extinct ABNAK label:
The horrific soundalike follow-up to "Western Union" (*) - The 5 Americans' "Zip Code."
(*) closed circuit for younger visitors: Western Union was a company once providing a quaint communications service called "the telegraph." You used to be able to send "telegrams" to people in distant locations all over the world. It was the very first all-digital communications system.
As long as we're perusing the long-extinct ABNAK label:
The horrific soundalike follow-up to "Western Union" (*) - The 5 Americans' "Zip Code."
(*) closed circuit for younger visitors: Western Union was a company once providing a quaint communications service called "the telegraph." You used to be able to send "telegrams" to people in distant locations all over the world. It was the very first all-digital communications system.
Savage said:
And Rochester played a fairly big part in the formation of Western Union.