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"Bathroom" records

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KMRichards

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I said "records" not "songs" because of the era I am recalling.

Mike Dane made the point that a lot of DJs liked "MacArthur Park" because of the length. That was what used to be called a "bathroom" record because you could make a run for the bathroom while it played and make it back before anyone knew you had left the control room.

Other "bathroom" records I remember using (bear in mind, part of my on-air career was in AOR, so some of these would be considered Classic Rock now, if anyone even would still play them):

Hey Jude - Beatles
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album version) - Iron Butterfly
Vahevala (live version) - Loggins and Messina
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter's White Trash
Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Also Sprach Zarathustra (album version) - Deodato

Any others?<P ID="signature">______________


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> I said "records" not "songs" because of the era I am
> recalling.
>
> Mike Dane made the point that a lot of DJs liked "MacArthur
> Park" because of the length. That was what used to be
> called a "bathroom" record because you could make a run for
> the bathroom while it played and make it back before anyone
> knew you had left the control room.
>
> Other "bathroom" records I remember using (bear in mind,
> part of my on-air career was in AOR, so some of these would
> be considered Classic Rock now, if anyone even would still
> play them):
>
> Hey Jude - Beatles
> In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album version) - Iron Butterfly
> Vahevala (live version) - Loggins and Messina
> Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
> Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter's White Trash
> Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
> Also Sprach Zarathustra (album version) - Deodato
>
> Any others?
>

What about American Pie? (Good one IMHO)
 
> I said "records" not "songs" because of the era I am
> recalling.
>
> Mike Dane made the point that a lot of DJs liked "MacArthur
> Park" because of the length. That was what used to be
> called a "bathroom" record because you could make a run for
> the bathroom while it played and make it back before anyone
> knew you had left the control room.
>
> Other "bathroom" records I remember using (bear in mind,
> part of my on-air career was in AOR, so some of these would
> be considered Classic Rock now, if anyone even would still
> play them):
>
> Hey Jude - Beatles
> In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album version) - Iron Butterfly
> Vahevala (live version) - Loggins and Messina
> Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
> Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter's White Trash
> Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
> Also Sprach Zarathustra (album version) - Deodato
>
> Any others?
>
Like a Rolling Stone
The End- The Doors
Can't You Hear Me Knockin' - Rolling Stones
What'd I Say-Ray Charles (long version)
Shout-Isley Brothers (long version)
half of the Renaissance catalogue :>) that progressive rock radio played
Low Spark of the High-Heeled Boys -Traffic
Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding-Elton John <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by SuperRadioFan on 11/29/05 11:46 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Frampton, "Do You Feel Like We Do" (13 minute live version only).

(bathroom break plus a short nap)
 
> [I said "records" not "songs" because of the era I am
> recalling.
>
> Mike Dane made the point that a lot of DJs liked "MacArthur
> Park" because of the length. That was what used to be
> called a "bathroom" record because you could make a run for
> the bathroom while it played and make it back before anyone
> knew you had left the control room.
>
> Other "bathroom" records I remember using (bear in mind,
> part of my on-air career was in AOR, so some of these would
> be considered Classic Rock now, if anyone even would still
> play them):
>
> Hey Jude - Beatles
> In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album version) - Iron Butterfly
> Vahevala (live version) - Loggins and Messina
> Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
> Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter's White Trash
> Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
> Also Sprach Zarathustra (album version) - Deodato
>
> Any others?]



Good to see that this board is back to meaningful discussion. Those 55+/satellite radio threads were way out of line.
 
"Low Spark" mentioned above ran around 11 minutes, that was worth at least a trip to the bathroom and the pop machine. I remember doing country where the bathrooms were a long way down the hall, and most of the songs were in the 2 1/2-3 minute range.<P ID="signature">______________
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one I always liked to spin for "relief" American Pie......
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It's how you use it.</P>
 
> Frampton, "Do You Feel Like We Do" (13 minute live version
> only).
>

Even the "short" version of that one was over 7 min. as I recall.
 
> The End- The Doors

I would guess that the album version of "Light My Fire" at 7 minutes, give or take, served that purpose many times.

Do you suppose anyone who might have been having a rough night could have put on the full 22:43 version of Kraftwerk's "Autobahn"? ;-)
 
Closer To Home (I'm Your Captain)- Grand Funk Railroad
Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John
Hotel California - Eagles
Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Nights In White Satin (including the poem) - Moody Blues
Layla - Desmond Dekker & the Aces
Papa Was A Rolling Stone - Temptations
American Woman - Guess Who

> I said "records" not "songs" because of the era I am
> recalling.
>
> Mike Dane made the point that a lot of DJs liked "MacArthur
> Park" because of the length. That was what used to be
> called a "bathroom" record because you could make a run for
> the bathroom while it played and make it back before anyone
> knew you had left the control room.
>
> Other "bathroom" records I remember using (bear in mind,
> part of my on-air career was in AOR, so some of these would
> be considered Classic Rock now, if anyone even would still
> play them):
>
> Hey Jude - Beatles
> In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (album version) - Iron Butterfly
> Vahevala (live version) - Loggins and Messina
> Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
> Tobacco Road - Edgar Winter's White Trash
> Karn Evil 9 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer
> Also Sprach Zarathustra (album version) - Deodato
>
> Any others?
>
 
Alices Resturaunt
Long version of Rock Your Baby

And the 12 inch (get your mind out of the gutter) version of 'Aint No Stoppin Us Now' at 10 minutes leaves you time to wash & wipe...<P ID="signature">______________

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CBS-FM lives at http://67.83.118.54:8010
Oldies Board co-moderator</P>
 
If you get into the disco era, that whole format consisted of bathroom records. The long version of "Boogie Wonderland" went over 9 minutes. A song called "I Love America" by Patrick Juvet ran about 15 minutes. The problem with less familiar tunes is that it's harder to know when they're ending!

Earlier from the 70s, the acoustic "American City Suite" by Cashman & West starts off nicely enough but turns into a total funeral dirge at the end... a tortured, prolonged end!

> Alices Resturaunt
> Long version of Rock Your Baby
>
> And the 12 inch (get your mind out of the gutter) version of
> 'Aint No Stoppin Us Now' at 10 minutes leaves you time to
> wash & wipe...
>
 
> Layla - Desmond Dekker & the Aces

"Layla" was Derek & The Dominoes (Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, etc...)

Desmond Dekker & The Aces was the Jamaican band who had the international reggae hit "The Israelites" in 1969.
 
> > Layla - Desmond Dekker & the Aces
>
> "Layla" was Derek & The Dominoes (Eric Clapton, Duane
> Allman, etc...)
>
> Desmond Dekker & The Aces was the Jamaican band who had the
> international reggae hit "The Israelites" in 1969.
>
Thanks. You're right. It's old age, you know. By the way, I really liked that tune from 1969, The Israelites. Why don't most oldies stations play it?
 
By the way,
> I really liked that tune from 1969, The Israelites. Why
> don't most oldies stations play it?

I dunno, maybe a consultant can answer that one (just kidding!). Whenever I fill in for my station's oldies show, I occasionally spin "The Israelites" to spice things up. I've heard Dick Bartley give it an airing now and then on his Saturday night program.
 
> How about CCR's album version of "I Heard It Through The
> Grapevine"?
>
OR CCR's version of "Suzie Q"
I remember how progressive they sounded with that song compared to their later Top 40 hits
 
> By the way,
> > I really liked that tune from 1969, The Israelites. Why
> > don't most oldies stations play it?
>
> I dunno, maybe a consultant can answer that one (just
> kidding!). Whenever I fill in for my station's oldies show,
> I occasionally spin "The Israelites" to spice things up.
> I've heard Dick Bartley give it an airing now and then on
> his Saturday night program.
>

Haha I'm no consultant (man what the Consultant World missed :>) but maybe "The Israelites" was too reggae, mon! OR not very PC for Arab-American listeners?
 
> Any others?

I managed to use the long version of Tommy James & The Shondells "Crimson And Clover" once when I worked at an AM oldies station years ago which did not play classic rock album cuts.
 
Re:

(timing taken from allmusic.com)

Steely Dan - Deacon Blues (7:35) and Aja (exactly 8:00 - great for lazy backtiming into network news)
Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song (7:38) and Kashmir (8:28)
Lynard Skynard - Freebird! - live version (not a favorite but it was long - 13:40)

And I remember fondly several FM "free form" stations I grew up listening to as a teen in the mid 70's (KTYD in Santa Barbera CA in 1973, and KKUL in Tulsa OK in 1975-6) used to play the whole first side of "The Who Sell Out" where every song was segued with UK pirate radio jingles, great album!

I remember hearing many AOR Jocks accidently play 2 Moody Blues songs back to back, since all thier classic 1967-74 albums were segued.

Billy G.
http://listen.to/jangleradio
 
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