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Hits That Never Get Played on Radio Any More

How about The Strangelove's "I Want Candy," (1965), I even loved playing Bow-Wow's 1982 version when I worked at WUWU.

Great use of Bo-Diddley beat.
 
Jim Santella said:
How about The Strangelove's "I Want Candy," (1965), I even loved playing Bow-Wow's 1982 version when I worked at WUWU.

Great use of Bo-Diddley beat.
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As I'm reading reading this "Diddley Daddy" - by Bo Diidley is airing.
 
"Arc of a Diver" was a big album for Steve Winwood, but I don't hear much of it on the air anymore. Ditto "Back in the High Life".
 
There's Suavicito by Malo; Sunny Days by Lighthouse; Conquistador by Procul Haram; You're still a young man and So very hard to go by Tower of power; I'm doing fine now by New York City; Funky Nassau by Beginning of the End.
 
Not much airplay for the Isley Brothers' late 60s-early 70s hits these days, with the exception of the use of "Who's That Lady" in the Swiffer TV commercials...great band, great songs, deserve more love from the classic hits programmers.
 
I'll submit for your listening and nurgling pleasure,"All I Want" -Toad The Wet Sprocket. This song reminds me of Badfinger and George Harrison. Also, "Lotta Love," (written by Neil Young) by Nicolette Larson, which has an awesome saxophone hook.

What's the limit on suggestions per post? How many stopsets per hour?
 
JimPastrick said:
I'll submit for your listening and nurgling pleasure "Lotta Love," (written by Neil Young) by Nicolette Larson, which has an awesome saxophone hook.
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Ah, that is unless you are listening to a station on the Dial Global Adult Standards format-in which case you'll hear it daily. But that saxophone hook is excellent and helps make it a great driving song. Can't argue with that.
 
heydaybegone said:
Son of a Bit##!!! What we have here is the makin's of a "Brand New Radio Station" :eek:

This crap ( ;)) NEVER gets past the "testing" stage (now does it?)

But everyone here...(yup, we're ALL programmers-- ???) seems to enjoy the non-mainstream stiffs (oops-stuff).

And I know every radio sales guru (excuse me - Revenue Partner)..can sell ice to the Eskimos....

so what do you think?

That's all

HDBG

BTW- feel free to start a thread on this one...to keep the boards neat & orderly ;D)
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I'm in! I'll even come down from Canada to do a show or 5 every week.

There's another thread on this board about songs that still sound good on the radio. To me, almost every song mentioned in this thread would qualify.

Here's another: 3 Dog Night-Out In The Country
 
Bend Me Shape Me - The American Breed
Indian Giver - The 1910 Fruitgum Company
You Got It - Roy Orbison
 
There's another thread on this board about songs that still sound good on the radio.
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Yup...

I'm in! I'll even come down from Canada to do a show or 5 every week.
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Green card, eh? Just looking for a frequency & backer and we're golden....keep your present gig!! ;D

And oh yes...we'll need an air check (even if the powers that be already checked you out locally or by internet. :mad:)
 
More big brassy sounds from the mid 60s:

American Breed: "Step Out of Your Mind"
The Outsiders "Respectable"

I think it's four stopsets per hour...remember quarter-hour maintenance...and don't play two female artists back-to-back
 
Super-uptempo song out of news and/or the top of the hour. No Mitch Ryder before noon. Limit, one instrumental per hour.

And: never, ever, EVER play "Seasons In The Sun."
 
I'd bet a six of Pabst that some of you boys are borrowing from the "Stiffs" thread. ;D Lemme see now... whutabout "Tough Enough" by Fabulous Thunderbirds?
 
George Thoroughgood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer.
 
Savage said:
Super-uptempo song out of news and/or the top of the hour. No Mitch Ryder before noon. Limit, one instrumental per hour.

And: never, ever, EVER play "Seasons In The Sun."
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Also... never, ever, EVER play "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ... because every time we played it, someone got fired!
 
Penrod Rightout said:
Savage said:
Super-uptempo song out of news and/or the top of the hour. No Mitch Ryder before noon. Limit, one instrumental per hour.

And: never, ever, EVER play "Seasons In The Sun."
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Also... never, ever, EVER play "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ... because every time we played it, someone got fired!
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Not even when the gales of November come early? Even if you're in Duluth, Mn?
 
Tom Wells said:
Penrod Rightout said:
Savage said:
Super-uptempo song out of news and/or the top of the hour. No Mitch Ryder before noon. Limit, one instrumental per hour. And: never, ever, EVER play "Seasons In The Sun."
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Also... never, ever, EVER play "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ... because every time we played it, someone got fired!
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Not even when the gales of November come early? Even if you're in Duluth, Mn?
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"Wreck" goes in Great Lakes Lunar Rotatation (Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Toledo, Erie, Rochester, Watertown only; Syracuse optional), Restricted to 10 am - 5 am, Monday - Tuesday; October - December. And as long as we're doing Selector talk and in the Gordon Lightfoot file, I'll manually schedule "Beautiful."
 
JimPastrick said:
Tom Wells said:
Penrod Rightout said:
Savage said:
Super-uptempo song out of news and/or the top of the hour. No Mitch Ryder before noon. Limit, one instrumental per hour. And: never, ever, EVER play "Seasons In The Sun."
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Also... never, ever, EVER play "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" ... because every time we played it, someone got fired!
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Not even when the gales of November come early? Even if you're in Duluth, Mn?
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"Wreck" goes in Great Lakes Lunar Rotatation (Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Duluth, Toledo, Erie, Rochester, Watertown only; Syracuse optional), Restricted to 10 am - 5 am, Monday - Tuesday; October - December. And as long as we're doing Selector talk and in the Gordon Lightfoot file, I'll manually schedule "Beautiful."
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Okay, that I can accept.

I'll add

"Hurt" by Timi Yuro

and

"Gimme Gimme Good Lovin" by Crazy Elephant

Both of which run on here on W-Nuthin-Nuthin-Nuthin.
 
heydaybegone said:
There's another thread on this board about songs that still sound good on the radio.
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Yup...

I'm in! I'll even come down from Canada to do a show or 5 every week.
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Green card, eh? Just looking for a frequency & backer and we're golden....keep your present gig!! ;D

And oh yes...we'll need an air check (even if the powers that be already checked you out locally or by internet. :mad:)
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-Don't need a green card since I am an U.S. citizen (ah-the best of both worlds...inlcuding paying taxes in both countries!)

-Air check? People still listen to those?

Today 's entry: Andy Pratt-Avenging Annie.
 
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