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Ever Play a Song Over and Over?
- Thread starter Jimmy128
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Two that come to mind for me are "Sweet Little Sixteen" by Chuck Berry and "I Get Around" by The Beach Boys. When I first bought those records I played them over & over until the grooves wore out.
oldies76 said:
me too, but the Quadraphonic version! and it has a couple of scratches to it.
When I was 7 I got my first Record Player Cassette Deck and Tuner combo deck known as a Soundesign. It was white, Acoustic Dynamic series. The tapes it loved recording songs to were, TDK D, and AD along with Maxell XLII-S tapes (even though it didn't have a Cro2 Tape selector switch, and plagued with Automatic Volume Control) I got it as a Christmas Present, we bought it for $100 at the now extinct K-Mart on Austin Hwy in San Antonio. The same year Loose Gravel was layed from Perrin Beitel and IH-410/ US 81 to US 87-Fredricksberg road.
My father only had 2 Quadraphonic Records, I was amazed they had a such a thing since all the stereos were two channel at the time being 1987. I would play Barbara Streisand's "Stoney End", "If you could Read my Mind" along with Chicago's Greatest Hits Quadraphonic album songs I would continue to play over and over again from Chicago were "25 or 6 2 4", "Does anybody know what time it is?", "Saturday In the Park", "I've Been Searching So Long", and "Beginnings" I was OCD about Quadraphonic music and still am today! Even though I was born in 1980 a year or two after the death of Quadraphonic sound, and the beginning of the demise of FerroChrome (IEC Type III cassettes.)
Then when I was 9 I got a pocket rocker for my birthday, I only had the Tequila/La Bomba pocket rocker tape. I would play La Bomba a lot! When Pee Wee Herman's Big Adventure debuted on the Disney channel (back when the channel was watchable, subscriber only, and enjoyable) Tequila was played a lot off the pocket rocker, and I would do the Pee Wee Herman dance. Being in SA Town you could never ever get worn out of La Bamba!
Even though some of these songs didn't come out in the 60s, I remember playing "Pump Up the Jam", "Feels Good", and Dee-Lite's "Grooves in the Heart" reason- had a childhood crush on Lady Kier of Dee-Lite.
Back on my Quadraphonic obsession:
Fast forward to 2010 as I would buy more Quad titles, including my first CD-4 Quadradisc record (even though I don't own a 4 channel turntable or shiabata stylus and that was Tony Orlando and Dawn's "He Don't Love You- a remake of the original song done in the early 60s" which sounds way different than it's stereo version you hear today if you are lucky to have a radio station that plays Classic Hits, or better yet Oldies.
I also added Chicago Transit Authority Quadraphonic LP, Blood Sweat and Tears self titled album Quadraphonic edition, and by the way "Spinning Wheels" off that album is a weird hybrid version of the edit that is on the Greatest Hits album and the version that is on the Stereo album. I don't know why they did that, maybe the Greatest Hits album stereo release actually features a edited version of the Quadraphonic release.
I blame KSAQ, KLDE, KRBE, KKBQ, KTFM, KISS, KFAN>KONO, KSMG, and KMMX for all of this good music, along with myself, along with owning my first lo-fi system.
Two that I will play over and over are Nothing But A Heartache by The Flirtations and all the versions I have found of Deee-Lite's Groove Is In The Heart (45, LP and six re-mixes).
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nocomradio
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Chicago: I Don't Want Your Money.
I don't think I ever get tired of hearing it and I've listened to it a million times.
I don't think I ever get tired of hearing it and I've listened to it a million times.
I never played a song over and over again, but I remember that my sister used to. She would put a 45 on the turntable, and leave the lever up so that the tonearm would play it over and over again. Then she would wonder why she got "sick" of certain songs, and never played them again! :
firepoint525 said:I never played a song over and over again, but I remember that my sister used to. She would put a 45 on the turntable, and leave the lever up so that the tonearm would play it over and over again. Then she would wonder why she got "sick" of certain songs, and never played them again! :
Could "Brown Eyed Girl" be one of them....
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hornet61
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"Your were mine" by the fireflies and "Devil you May Be" by the Dovers
No, she wasn't that old.oldies76 said:Could "Brown Eyed Girl" be one of them....firepoint525 said:I never played a song over and over again, but I remember that my sister used to. She would put a 45 on the turntable, and leave the lever up so that the tonearm would play it over and over again. Then she would wonder why she got "sick" of certain songs, and never played them again! :
melan8tr said:
It would be "Bristol Stomp" by the Dovells!!!!
And "Surfin Bird" by the Trashman.
Damn Family Guy ;D ;D
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hornet61
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also the Beatles first album..cover to cover ..over and over and over...
firepoint525 said:No, she wasn't that old.oldies76 said:Could "Brown Eyed Girl" be one of them....firepoint525 said:I never played a song over and over again, but I remember that my sister used to. She would put a 45 on the turntable, and leave the lever up so that the tonearm would play it over and over again. Then she would wonder why she got "sick" of certain songs, and never played them again! :
The radio stations play it over and over....well, maybe every two hours, but it still seems like over and over...
Yeah, "Brown-Eyed Girl" is one of those songs that get played across multiple formats:
classic hits
classic rock
oldies
adult contemporary
AAA
country (at least via the Jimmy Buffett cover version)
I'm sure there are more.
classic hits
classic rock
oldies
adult contemporary
AAA
country (at least via the Jimmy Buffett cover version)
I'm sure there are more.
firepoint525 said:
Add "Brown Sugar" by the "Rolling Stones" that also gets played over and over again on the radio!
I thought you meant ON THE RADIO, and it reminded me of a stunt I pulled in 1966 at WDAD Indiana PA. The early evening hours (7-10pm) were geared to the teenyboppers, and my show (10p-1a) was more for college students. On one particular night, the kiddies kept calling over and over for me to play "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron". It was a big hit, but I had stayed away from it. I got so aggravated by the phone requests that I announced I would indeed play it, and I did. Then I played it again... and again.. and again - six times in a row. I was going to stop after that, but a caller threatened my life if I played it again, so of course, I just had to play it a 7th time! (Otherwise, the terrorists win!) Thanks for the chance to share this story from my earlier radio days. Deejays ruled in the 60s!
Jeff Hunt
Roanoke VA
Jeff Hunt
Roanoke VA
oldies76 said:
We get to hear Low Rider on the following Austin, Texas stations, KXBT 98.9, Jammin 103.1, and KBPA 103.5. Also add Why Can't We Be Friends by that same group. What separates Jammin is Low Rider of course, is sped up!
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