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Best song to take a bathroom break or "smoke break"
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My favorites also included: ZZ-Top - Waitin' for the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago, Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall Pt.1/The Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 (3 cuts that ran together) or Robert Palmer - Sailin' Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley (again, 3 cuts that run together).
My worse vinyl memory was a very large stack of 'already played' carts up on the shelf directly above the turntables next to the CD players falling down behind the shelf with several hitting the tonearm weight of the turntable on the air before their journey to the floor. Made for an interesting aircheck meeting considering it was during afternoon drive...
My worse vinyl memory was a very large stack of 'already played' carts up on the shelf directly above the turntables next to the CD players falling down behind the shelf with several hitting the tonearm weight of the turntable on the air before their journey to the floor. Made for an interesting aircheck meeting considering it was during afternoon drive...
When I was doing Country and the bathroom wasn't too far away, "You Still Move Me" by Dan Seals. Perfect title.
When I was doing Classic Rock and the bathroom was waaaay far away from the studio, "Hear It Through the Grapevine" by CCR. You needed at least 4 minutes just to do number 1 at that place.
When I was doing Classic Rock and the bathroom was waaaay far away from the studio, "Hear It Through the Grapevine" by CCR. You needed at least 4 minutes just to do number 1 at that place.
Rush - 2112 coming in at a modest 20:32.
My actual jocking career lasted approximately 3 months. ;D
But in that time, I came to rely on "Hotel California" more than a time or two.
But if I may, as the resurrection of my radio career has all but sputtered and died, just reading those stories warmed the sub-cockle area of my heart.
But in that time, I came to rely on "Hotel California" more than a time or two.
But if I may, as the resurrection of my radio career has all but sputtered and died, just reading those stories warmed the sub-cockle area of my heart.
I wish someone would play those two together, but I have never heard them played on the air back-to-back. Most of the time, they don't even play "Space Intro" going into "Fly Like an Eagle," but no major loss there.timmyb said:
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SuperQ
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To this day anytime I'm in the car and Free Bird or Layla come on I reallly find I have to go.
Pavlov was right.
Pavlov was right.
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sami
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At WKBO in the late 70s, us night people had a song or two such as Hey Jude and Hotel California rigged with a trip queue. Those were tones you could put on the end of spots and jingles so that when they would end, the queue automatically started the next cart in line in the stack. So our carted version of Hey Jude would end and the tone would trip a jingle which in turn would trip the next (long) song. ;D
As an after thought to my post of a few weeks ago, I remembered the time, in the late 60's, when I worked a Sunday Night Shift (6 to Mindnight) at WMPT. Those of you who knew WMPT will remember that the station sat at the end of a dirt street bewtween two cornfields, spring was an experience, BUT that is another story.
Anyway one evening I was running late (no surprise) and didn't have supper, so I got to the stationon time thenat 6:30 we had a 1/2 hour taped religious show, SO I called the local dairy store, about 1 mile from the station and placed an order. NO ONE EVER comes to the station on Sunday Night! (yeah right) Ok, so I put the tape on the air on the old buy TRUSTY Maggie PT -6 and put the phone lines one hold and out the door tearing up the street, I go into the store get my sandwich and milk shake and out the door tearing back down the street to the station. As I pulled into the the station parking lot the OWNERS car was sitting there. BUSTED! So in the door I walked and he is sitting IN THE CONTROL ROOM awaiting my return. Needless to say I got a pretty decent lecture on leavng the staiton un-attended, even though I locked the doors. I didn't get fired, but probably should have been. Many years later, the owner was manning an automated shift on a, you guessed it, Sunday evening, I went to the staiton to do some work, and when I arrived there were NO CARS in the lot, the phones on hold and no one in the building, SO I went in and sat in the control room until his return. He too had gone out to get something to eat! BUSTED, needless to say as soon as he saw me he started to laugh!
One station i worked at WBPZ, at one time had a rope/pulley/baket system set up with the luncheonette on the first floor. You simply called down your order, they would call back when it was ready with the total you put the money in the basket lowered it, got your food and change. The system worked well so they tell me, it was gone by the time I got there. Legend has it that the rope broke one night covering the owner of the luncheonette with french fries, chilli dogs and shakes.
Anyway one evening I was running late (no surprise) and didn't have supper, so I got to the stationon time thenat 6:30 we had a 1/2 hour taped religious show, SO I called the local dairy store, about 1 mile from the station and placed an order. NO ONE EVER comes to the station on Sunday Night! (yeah right) Ok, so I put the tape on the air on the old buy TRUSTY Maggie PT -6 and put the phone lines one hold and out the door tearing up the street, I go into the store get my sandwich and milk shake and out the door tearing back down the street to the station. As I pulled into the the station parking lot the OWNERS car was sitting there. BUSTED! So in the door I walked and he is sitting IN THE CONTROL ROOM awaiting my return. Needless to say I got a pretty decent lecture on leavng the staiton un-attended, even though I locked the doors. I didn't get fired, but probably should have been. Many years later, the owner was manning an automated shift on a, you guessed it, Sunday evening, I went to the staiton to do some work, and when I arrived there were NO CARS in the lot, the phones on hold and no one in the building, SO I went in and sat in the control room until his return. He too had gone out to get something to eat! BUSTED, needless to say as soon as he saw me he started to laugh!
One station i worked at WBPZ, at one time had a rope/pulley/baket system set up with the luncheonette on the first floor. You simply called down your order, they would call back when it was ready with the total you put the money in the basket lowered it, got your food and change. The system worked well so they tell me, it was gone by the time I got there. Legend has it that the rope broke one night covering the owner of the luncheonette with french fries, chilli dogs and shakes.
I'm a bit older than the rest of you but I used Macarthur Park for a bathroom brake more than once. Terrible record but it was long. on the OTHER side of the coin...I hated "the letter" by the box tops. less than 2 minites long. hardly enough time to cue up the next record and load the cart machines for the next stop set and answer the "hit line" so you could hear some tiny girls voice say" could you please play "Beth "by Kiss?" those were the days.
I'm afraid the first long song I used was Take Five By Dave Brubeck! So I guess that makes me Marconi's Assistant!
WNOW in York had an early form of automation in the late 60's/early 70's...Rust Communications called it "Mini-Mation". Five cart machines (back then, the old noisy "ker-chunk" ones when fired off), were wired with trip tones. When the tone was received at the end of the song fade or end of any other announcement/jingle, (generated during the recording process), the next cart played. So, I guess THAT could be considered a long record to do your business, assuming it worked!
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John-Summers
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Album Rock stations had the advantage back in the 70s as just about every group was doing long self-indulgent album cuts. It was a lot more difficult on Top 40 stations and near impossible with Country. "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" was over 6 minutes and was a huge Top 40 hit in 1972. I recall taking a bathroom break at WKBO and hearing the tape break, wrap around the capstan and finally end with a second or two of squealing and squawking, then dead air. Of course, by that time, I was committed to what I was doing but got back as fast as I could. Everybody has a story like that.
I don't know how jocks did it in the 50s and 60s when the songs were all so short. The great Dan Ingram was once asked what was the most important thing he had learned from working in radio. His reply: "How to take a s--t in 2 minutes."
I don't know how jocks did it in the 50s and 60s when the songs were all so short. The great Dan Ingram was once asked what was the most important thing he had learned from working in radio. His reply: "How to take a s--t in 2 minutes."
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