Could be this thread should be re-titled "Classic Backsells?" Every top 40 jock at one time or another cast good sense and programming discretion to the wind, unable to resist temptation, filling the gaps in My Sharona, No Matter What, Good Lovin' or Let 'Em In with some kind of wild track, jock shout or an acapella jingle. Some jocks held the record and turned a one second gap into some serious dead air, thereby honking off a few listeners and PDs too.
How about the WYSL Buffalo boss jock who played "Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves" and back sold it as a description of the competition's sales staff? Harv Moore had a trademark off key trumpet that he would drop in the gaps from time to time. It always made me laugh, cuz being a jock, I found it funny. Harv was also great with drop-ins going back to the WPGC days, and talking back to pre-recorded wild tracks, too. We still remember his stuff with "The Colonel." J.Michael Wilson during his years at CHUM and his short stay at WGR, used to do Rodney The Mouse, where he'd talk back to his pre-taped track that was sped up, before the days of vari-speed, with a capstan collar.
Elton John provided material for the boss jocks who backsold his hit as “Someone Shaved My Wife Last Night.” KB’s real Don Wade in middays once sang “sh” under every “Save” of the Four Seasons’ “Save It For Me,” thereby turning it into “Shave It For Me.” Larry White tells me Dan Ingram did the same. Wade was every bit as hip, funny and talented as Ingram. You wonder who stole the bit from whom, or is it a matter of GMTA.
This stuff is great jock fodder, but we all know it really honks off the listener because we're messin' with his-her favorite songs. Wouldn't fly in a PPM world. "Shut up and play the Doors." (An inside line from the early 97 Rock years.)
Hopefully the fun will continue.