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Here's something missing....STATION versions of tracks!

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TonySantiago

I was going through YouTube posting up heritage mixes from 98.7 Kiss-FM in New York, in the mid 80's, where they had their "Kiss Mastermix" shows. In one of the mixes I heard UTFO's "Roxanne", which was the big rap/hip-hop track in its day. However, at the middle of the track, they went into a "rap" about Kiss-FM and was rhyming on the DJ's there (Yvonne Mobley, Charlie Burger, Chuck Leonard, G. Keith Alexander, etc.). It was a special "station" cut done for Kiss-FM. I also remember hearing similar cuts like this on WBLS, '92/KTU back then.

It was definitely a throwback hearing that :) but it also made me wonder where that type of "marketing" went? Unless there's someone doing something like this now, it has been a LONG time since I've heard a track custom made for a radio station to promote the station as well as the on-air personalities. Maybe it's "corny" to do something like that now but back in the days it was actually pretty cool...as if the artists had recognized the "local connection" between the listeners of the station and the on-air staff. Perhaps? I don't know and that's why I bring it up here.

Just like having a Spanish track of a current song (Like "Good Times" and "Ain't No Stopping Us Now" back then)....hmmmm.
 
I just heard a few days ago on our local chr station Ke$sha "Tik Tok" and she shouted out the station and the dj at the beginning of her song. I think I even heard something similiar like this on Party FM.The spanshi station were notorious for this back in the mid 90's. I'm not going to lie it was a lil annoying. :)
 
Several weeks ago I was traveling through Philly and heard a line to the effect of, "And Elvis Duran was on" in the Miley Cyrus song "Party In The USA". It has been a while since I'd heard a station specific reference in a hit song like that.
 
Well, like I said, it may be a "corny" idea and if there are FB groups hating on this, then maybe it isn't a good idea, lol :).

I just thought I'd throw this out since it has been a LONG while I've heard "station specific" lyrics in a track.
 
I remember hearing Positive Force "We Got The Funk" on 92/KTU (New York) back in 1979.

They replaced the names, towards the end of the track where they would say "Paula's got the funk", to the names of the on air personalities.

So instead of the group members name, you heard...

"Paco's got the funk - HE GOT IT - He's Got The Funk. yeah"
"Rosko's got the funk - HE GOT IT - He's Got The Funk. yeah"
"G Keith's got the funk - HE GOT IT - He's Got The Funk. yeah"
"Carlos got the funk - HE GOT IT - He's Got The Funk. yeah"

etc, etc.

Here's the link to the original track....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BjtgdNSyxs
 
Again another thing that I think would help stations. Kaci Battaglia did that for us this past year and I know Lucas Prata did that for a few of his songs too. Along the same lines, more artists need to do more drops and station visits
 
Dancerev889 said:
Again another thing that I think would help stations. Kaci Battaglia did that for us this past year and I know Lucas Prata did that for a few of his songs too. Along the same lines, more artists need to do more drops and station visits
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I personally love station versions of tracks. I'll never forget "They call me crazy-eighty eight point nine". I remember many years ago when Petey Pablo-Freek A Leek was popular, every station replaced the intro with their own name. Or for the intro of Just Dance, a lot of stations replaced the first line with their name.
 
I still hear a bit of songs with station ID's thrown in from time to time, and I wouldn't pay much mind to any complaint groups on facebook and act upon their feelings regarding things because if we all did then facebook itself wouldn't even continue to exist.
 
Does anyone remember those days of hearing a song on the radio, then going to the local music store to buy the entire album for that one song since no single was available, only to find out it was not at all the same version that they heard and loved on the radio? Does anyone remember the times this continued to happen AFTER music stores inherited the "no refunds / returns" policy, due to too many cassette / cd returns?

To sum it all up, I'm SO glad that technology has advanced to the point where this no longer has to happen. ;D
 
Nick said:
There's a whole facebook group about people COMPLAINING about this http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Hate-When-Z100-Changes-The-Lyrics-To-Songs/218493795890?ref=ts
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I hate to be the "old man" here, but...it's not the station "changing" the lyrics...

This has been a "favor" to radio stations from some artists and record labels since at least the 1960's-1970's.

Stations who play this stuff then use it to "suggest" the station is so big, the artist includes them in their songs.

Ain't nothing new. And it's not just Z-100 that airs stuff like this. Though, I can appreciate some people like it, some people can't stand it. Many radio listeners simply don't care, though...which is why stations get away with playing them.
 
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