Fitting Format Change Songs

[raccoonradio]

have fun with this one

From talk to another format:
Cliff Richard (I think), "It's So Funny How We Don't Talk Anymore"
Joe Jones (or Run DMC, though a different song): "You Talk Too Much"

From country to another format, or just in general:
Johnny Paycheck, "Take This Job and Shove It"

To country:
Alan Jackson, "Gone Country"
Doug Stone, "I Need A Jukebox With a Country Song" (or FROM country; if the station
stopped playing country, you might have to go to a jukebox to hear it)

From Christian religion to another format
Negativland, "Christianity is Stupid"

 

[danikayser84]

Urban to another format:
"It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" - Boyz II Men (best remembered as the final song on the old WAMO in Pittsburgh)
"Last Dance" - Donna Summer
"Changes" - 2Pac
"End of the Road" - Boyz II Men

Rock to another format:
"Closing Time" - Semisonic
"End of the World as We Know It" - REM
"Cemetery Gates" - Pantera

General:
"A Change Would Do You Good" - Sheryl Crow

 

[RicoGregg]

General purpose/Generic:

Changes - David Bowie


Either to or from Country:

I'm Changing All Those Changes - Done by various artists


From Rock to Talk:

Talk Talk - Music Machine

 

[raccoonradio]

>>"Last Dance" - Donna Summer

Actually was used as last song for Star 93.7 Boston, becoming variety hits Mike 93.7 in '05. When
they flipped again, to sports this past Mon, the song was Free Bird whose first lyrics of course are
If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? --bit of a farewell

A Change Would Do You Good--that, Changes etc., all make sense

 

[Poledo]

For a format change TO any flavor of Rock... stunt with Grateful Dead songs and ID as "Dead (Head) Radio". Keep this up for a good week or so.

For Christian to secular... or better yet, before you give up the board to new Christian owners of a Rock station... just pick any Bad Religion or Eye Hate God song.

Dropping Alternative or Active rock, Pennywise - "Bro Hymn".

Flipping TO country, play Skynard and other southern rock songs.

REM's "The End Of The World (as we know it)" is always a good choice.

 

[EZway2go]

From religious to another format -> "Losing My Religion" REM

From EZ Listening to hard rock -> "Easy To Be Hard" Three Dog Night

From another format to oldies -> "Yesterday Once More" Carpenters

Adding a famous personality to a talk line-up (such as Howard Stern or Rush Limbaugh) -> "You Needed Me" Anne Murray

From another format to dance -> "You Should Be Dancing" Bee Gees

From another format to smooth jazz -> "Smooth Operator" Sade

From another format to rhythmic -> "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You" Gloria Estefan

First song for all-Christmas format -> "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" or "(Oh by gosh by golly, it's time for) Mistletoe and Holly"

From talk to another format -> "It's Not For Me To Say" Johnny Mathis

Last song before going dark -> "Silence Is Golden" Tremeloes

 

[Bongwater]

"Neither One Of Us (Wants To Be The First To Say Goodbye)" Gladys Knight & The Pips

Always a classy station farewell......

 

[JeeperOne]

And then there's THE CLASSIC (And some would say THE MOTHER OF THEM ALL.....

Oldies/Classic Hits/Classic Rock to another format

Don McLean - American Pie (This was used as the proverbial swan song when the original KIMN signed off for good on April 24th 1988)

There's airchecks on KIMN's last broadcast day (On what would later become on AM) on the KIMN Airchecks Page

Cheers & 73 ;D

 

[Bob1370]

The happiest format change music aired in 2007 when WCBS-FM dumped "Jack" and returned to personality classic hits...Broadway Bill Lee opened his show that afternoon with the Beach Boys' "Let's Do It Again." Upbeat start for one of the most welcomed, and most successful, format flips in recent radio history.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

WCBS-FM dumped "Jack" and returned to personality classic hits...Broadway Bill Lee opened
his show that afternoon with the Beach Boys' "Let's Do It Again."

Wasn't Bob Shannon the first jock on the reopener? A 1:01 PM flip.

 

[xmusicmatt]

The most memorable format change I ever heard was a few years ago when a rock station was being taken over by EMF for KLove.. the last song on the Rock Automation Jukebox before the STL was dropped for the EMF Satellite Feed direct from Transmitter Site was AC/DC "Highway to Hell"

 

[nd2023]

For a station that used to be a Family Radio affiliate to any other format: REM - It's The End of the World
The last song of a JACK-FM format: Hit The Road Jack
The first song of a dance format: Bob Sinclar - Rock This Party
The last song of an all-Christmas station changing its permanent format on December 26: Wham - Last Christmas
The last song on a station flipping to sports talk: Queen - We Will Rock You

 

[danikayser84]

First song of an Urban AC - "So in Love" Jill Scott, "Sweet Love" Anita Baker
Last song of a Standards or Oldies station - "Thanks for the Memory" Bob Hope and Shirley Ross

 

[Bob1370]

First song for any station changing from any other format to a rock format; Rolling Stones. "It's Only Rock And Roll (But I Like It)."

 

[Fieldtech1]

Alternative Rock to anything else. The Sundays-Here's Where The Story Ends......

 

[phils07]

AC to anything: Sarah MacLachlan- I will remember you
Rock to anything: Skid Row- I Remember You
First song returning to Rock from another format: Bullet for my Valentine- Hearts Burst into Fire

 

[RBRadioWaves]

Sign-off songs

Soft AC: I Will Remember You, Hold on to the Nights by Richard Marx, Imagine by John Lennon
Mainstream AC: Pretty much anything, but Ill go for Upside Down by Jack Johnson.
Hot AC: Rolling in the Deep by Adele.
CHR: Same as Hot AC
Classic Rock: American Pie by Don Mclean, The End Medley by the Beatles, In the Dark by Billy Squier (the song that took down the reincarnation of KYYS), Too Many People by Paul McCartney (Took down ORIGINAL KYYS, and could be used when facing stiff competition.)
Country: Seven Year Ache by Roseanne Cash, The Dance by Garth BRooks, the Thunder Rolls by Garth Brooks
Classic Hits: Similar to Classic Rock and Soft AC, but add Summer Wind by Frank Sinatra, Rescue Me by Fontella Bass
Rhythmic: Last Dance by Donna Summer, Dim All the Lights by Donna Summer, No More Tears by Barbara Streisand.
Variety Hits: ANYTHING ON THIS PLAYLIST, but I'll Add "Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio" by the Ramones.

 

[NHRadio]

First song returning to Rock from another format: Bullet for my Valentine- Hearts Burst into Fire

Or Rush "Spirit of radio".

 

[static_cling]

Switching from oldies to talk: "Elvis Presley - I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone." I heard WCOL in Columbus, Ohio use this for their flip to talk several years ago.

 

[Lotus503]

Anybody already suggest "The End" by the Doors? ;D