Might have been one of those things where AT40 couldnt release stereo because it was a big greatest hits record. The record companies may have wanted to put some protection on it. That recording where Kasey Kasem flips out is gut busting funny. "Why do I have to come out of a "Bleep" uptempo record after a dog dying". I bet there is some funny local outtakes too. It would be fun to find some of the late Jim Obrien. One of my favorite tunes is Sh-boom byt the Crew-cuts.
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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'
- Thread starter Radknowski
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Wow. "Double Barrel". I'd forgotten that song, though I played it hundreds of times. Pete's right - you could release it today and it would have a decent shot at creating a new genre - "Reggae Rap".
I don't understand why WHFM would lose the stereo light because of the source material. The stereo light is turned on by the stereo pilot, isn't it? The only thing that I can think of is that they deliberately turned off the stereo pilot because AT40 was out of phase, and they had no simple way to fix that problem on their old stereo console. Most consoles now allow you to reverse the phase if you get a funky source.
I don't understand why WHFM would lose the stereo light because of the source material. The stereo light is turned on by the stereo pilot, isn't it? The only thing that I can think of is that they deliberately turned off the stereo pilot because AT40 was out of phase, and they had no simple way to fix that problem on their old stereo console. Most consoles now allow you to reverse the phase if you get a funky source.
Back in the paleolithic era of FM Stereo and FCC Rules, I recall that there was a requirement regarding mono and stereo programming. Savage could probably elaborate.SirRoxalot said:
JimPastrick said:
Some time in the early '70s, the FCC did propose a rule that would have required FM stations to kill the stereo pilot during mono programming, but AFAIK it was never put into effect. Orban had hoped to sell a bunch of "stereo synthesizers" as a convenient way to get around this mandate.
This proposal was probably inspired by the longstanding TV rule which required color burst to be shut off during black-and-white movies, which I recall from my vacation-relief gig at Channel 9 in Syracuse.
One of last summers' WABC "rewound" FM airchecks was included a bootleg of the Beatles White album, and they announced at the beginning of the segment that they were dropping stereo and going mono....they paused a few seconds, dropped to mono and continued on with the show...they said it was required because the source material was mono. So it must have been a rule at some point in the 60s.
This thread has taken on a life of its own and I'm too damn lazy to check, but did somebody already submit "Alice Long" from Boyce and Hart?
But that's not what I came here for...
While at a wedding a few months back, I was taking a slug of a perfectly chilled bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon and nearly blew nose balast when I heard the DJ play the Mike Douglas chestnut, "The Man In My Little Girl's Life" which starts with the lyrics, "There's a boy outside, his name is Rod... he wants to play in our backyard." Bwahhhhh-hah-hahhhh! Instant parody by at least three guys at the bar, all over 50 and not related to the bride.
This song wasn't a stiff, but one of those sappy hits that either makes you tear up (if you're related to the bride) or throw up (if you're a brofriend of the groom.) So, being half nuts and half baked, I walked over to the wedding DJ, put a soggy 10 spot on the board and said "Play Super Freak after this or you don't have a hair on your ass!" He took my 10, looked at me and said "you don't wanna see my ass, but I'll take your money." After four bars of Superfreak, the dance floor was packed and more than a few people, including the bride and groom, had a good laugh at the sequence of the two songs.
Now then, a song that I heard played only once on an AM Top 40 station (WILK? WARM?) in Scranton, PA many years ago, "Your Don't Get Me I'm Part of the Union" by The Strawbs. I'll bet the song induced fear in management types and they pulled it.
But that's not what I came here for...
While at a wedding a few months back, I was taking a slug of a perfectly chilled bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon and nearly blew nose balast when I heard the DJ play the Mike Douglas chestnut, "The Man In My Little Girl's Life" which starts with the lyrics, "There's a boy outside, his name is Rod... he wants to play in our backyard." Bwahhhhh-hah-hahhhh! Instant parody by at least three guys at the bar, all over 50 and not related to the bride.
This song wasn't a stiff, but one of those sappy hits that either makes you tear up (if you're related to the bride) or throw up (if you're a brofriend of the groom.) So, being half nuts and half baked, I walked over to the wedding DJ, put a soggy 10 spot on the board and said "Play Super Freak after this or you don't have a hair on your ass!" He took my 10, looked at me and said "you don't wanna see my ass, but I'll take your money." After four bars of Superfreak, the dance floor was packed and more than a few people, including the bride and groom, had a good laugh at the sequence of the two songs.
Now then, a song that I heard played only once on an AM Top 40 station (WILK? WARM?) in Scranton, PA many years ago, "Your Don't Get Me I'm Part of the Union" by The Strawbs. I'll bet the song induced fear in management types and they pulled it.
Radknowski said:
ROFLMAO - EOM
Can we say the internet is getting more popular?
I Woke Up in Love This Morning - Partridge Family
Down by The Lazy River - The Osmonds
and the third's a charm -
Uneasy Rider / Uneasy Rider '88 - Charlie Daniels Band
And while we're on the talkin story tellin' songs -
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
I'm exiting the room for the What Happened to Joe Centanni which has now become Legends CUME/TSL Ratings Thread room in which I see many millin' around by the door.
Down by The Lazy River - The Osmonds
and the third's a charm -
Uneasy Rider / Uneasy Rider '88 - Charlie Daniels Band
And while we're on the talkin story tellin' songs -
A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash
I'm exiting the room for the What Happened to Joe Centanni which has now become Legends CUME/TSL Ratings Thread room in which I see many millin' around by the door.
Since Rad was nice enough to start this thread and many contributors jacking up the reply count to past 500 - in which not much fanfare was shown for I think Mr. Sirrox who hit the 500th mark, I'm holding out for the 500th page count.
Let's see it's at 60 now, I'll check it again in what? August?
Let's see it's at 60 now, I'll check it again in what? August?
This one makes it to stiff status.
http://www.last.fm/music/Dion+%26+The+Belmonts/_/When+You+Wish+Upon+a+Star
http://www.last.fm/music/Dion+%26+The+Belmonts/_/When+You+Wish+Upon+a+Star
qman said:
Good tune! But think about 1978, who had time or money to help record sales when we were buying "soft' drinks and other mind enhancing commodities to enjoy while listening to such tuneage?
I'm absolutely amazed that "Time for Me to Fly" wasn't a hit for REO. It certainly got a ton of airplay on album rock stations. "Roll With the Changes" from "You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tune a Fish" also stiffed as a single, but the album went platinum. "Riding the Storm Out" was another stiff as a single from the same era, but got a lot of album rock airplay.