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[Retro]

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

 

[Keith321]

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

Mike-FM...we play everything!

 

[Laurence Glavin]

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

I've heard that recording, and I didn't know it had "parts" the way a symphony has movements. WCRB doesn't hesitate to play "parts" or segments of longer compositions, and it's been criticized (properly) for doing so. Stations playing mass-marketed recorded material have truncated such recordings for years, usually by taking out snippets here and there, like reducing the number of the the yada-ya-da's in "Hey Jude".

 

[GovtMule1979]

I'm sure even the computer that plays the music for 93.7 was probably sick of that song like everyone else. American Pie is one of those songs that's up there with Freebird, Stairway, Hey Jude, and Turn the Page that were all good songs the first 1,000 times you heard them.

 

[SonicOverload]

I'm sure even the computer that plays the music for 93.7 was probably sick of that song like everyone else. American Pie is one of those songs that's up there with Freebird, Stairway, Hey Jude, and Turn the Page that were all good songs the first 1,000 times you heard them.

they need to play "Dreidel," McLean's not-quite-a-hit in '72 or so. My wife didn't believe he'd done a song called that until I played her an MP3 of it. At 1 AM. Miraculously, we're still married!

By the way, "Vincent" is her favorite song by him. Does that get much airplay on the oldies stations?

 

[Eli Polonsky]

By the way, "Vincent" is her favorite song by him. Does that get much airplay on the oldies stations?

Very rarely anymore. It might turn up as one of Barry Scott's "Lost 45's", or on WATD in Marshfield.

 

[Retro]

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

Mike-FM...we play everything!

Apparently not!

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

The actual charted 45 had volumes 1 & 2. The song is so long that it couldn't fit on a single side of the single at all, although I do believe that such technology exists now for that though.
I've heard that recording, and I didn't know it had "parts" the way a symphony has movements. WCRB doesn't hesitate to play "parts" or segments of longer compositions, and it's been criticized (properly) for doing so. Stations playing mass-marketed recorded material have truncated such recordings for years, usually by taking out snippets here and there, like reducing the number of the the yada-ya-da's in "Hey Jude".

I'm sure even the computer that plays the music for 93.7 was probably sick of that song like everyone else. American Pie is one of those songs that's up there with Freebird, Stairway, Hey Jude, and Turn the Page that were all good songs the first 1,000 times you heard them.

Yeah, it gets way overplayed!

I'm sure even the computer that plays the music for 93.7 was probably sick of that song like everyone else. American Pie is one of those songs that's up there with Freebird, Stairway, Hey Jude, and Turn the Page that were all good songs the first 1,000 times you heard them.

they need to play "Dreidel," McLean's not-quite-a-hit in '72 or so. My wife didn't believe he'd done a song called that until I played her an MP3 of it. At 1 AM. Miraculously, we're still married!

By the way, "Vincent" is her favorite song by him. Does that get much airplay on the oldies stations?

Some of the less relegated stations have played Vincent.

 

[WMC2006]

Mike-FM...we play everything!

More recently, they've been playing alot of Jefferson Starship and Men at Work and I think even some Johnny Cash. And earlier in the week ( I think it was Monday morning, actually), they played current/recent hit "Last Name" from Carrie Underwood.

 

[JIBGUY]

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

Mike-FM...we play everything!

Apparently not!

93-7 Mike FM played American Pie by Don McClean today. Now what was so unusual about this? They only played Part I!

The actual charted 45 had volumes 1 & 2. The song is so long that it couldn't fit on a single side of the single at all, although I do believe that such technology exists now for that though.
I've heard that recording, and I didn't know it had "parts" the way a symphony has movements. WCRB doesn't hesitate to play "parts" or segments of longer compositions, and it's been criticized (properly) for doing so. Stations playing mass-marketed recorded material have truncated such recordings for years, usually by taking out snippets here and there, like reducing the number of the the yada-ya-da's in "Hey Jude".

I'm sure even the computer that plays the music for 93.7 was probably sick of that song like everyone else. American Pie is one of those songs that's up there with Freebird, Stairway, Hey Jude, and Turn the Page that were all good songs the first 1,000 times you heard them.

Yeah, it gets way overplayed!

I'm sure even the computer that plays the music for 93.7 was probably sick of that song like everyone else. American Pie is one of those songs that's up there with Freebird, Stairway, Hey Jude, and Turn the Page that were all good songs the first 1,000 times you heard them.

they need to play "Dreidel," McLean's not-quite-a-hit in '72 or so. My wife didn't believe he'd done a song called that until I played her an MP3 of it. At 1 AM. Miraculously, we're still married!

By the way, "Vincent" is her favorite song by him. Does that get much airplay on the oldies stations?
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Some of the less relegated stations have played Vincent.

...such as 740, which plays Don's version but also Justin Hayward's (Moody Blues) version.

 

[JustinT]

Mike-FM...we play everything!

Every adult hits station says that, though Mike really does... though that might not really be a good thing. Typically these stations focus around 80's pop/rock, but in recent days I've heard 50 Cent "In Da Club" and Rascal Flatts "What Hurts The Most" on WMKK. Does their normal listener want to hear those? Seems like most P2s would be looking for Simple Minds or Genesis instead.

 

[Retro]

Mike-FM...we play everything!

Every adult hits station says that, though Mike really does... though that might not really be a good thing. Typically these stations focus around 80's pop/rock, but in recent days I've heard 50 Cent "In Da Club" and Rascal Flatts "What Hurts The Most" on WMKK. Does their normal listener want to hear those? Seems like most P2s would be looking for Simple Minds or Genesis instead.

I find myself when scanning the dial that more often than not, I end up going back to Mike-FM. Basically they play what I want to hear so they must be doing something right. Their biggest competition with them is Mix instead.

 

[BearFur]

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