KLUV EDIT - Start Me Up?

[MikeShannon914]

OK, so the last line near fade-out is, "You make a dead man come." Nobody's ever made a big deal about it, even during all the FCC brouhahas over language and 'indecency' during the last couple of decades. I think even language-conscious KEOM plays it as-is. Now, 31 years later, KLUV is playing an edited version that says, "You make a dead man cry," and fades out before Mick can sing the line one more time.

Really?

 

[Holstead]

Maybe it was a 'fast fade' -you do enough of those in a single shft, you can crank out another 2 or 3 commercial units an hour!

 

[firepoint525]

Or maybe this is in the same category as the retroactive censorship of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits, in particular the second verse, in which Mark Knopfler says "******" three times. :

 

[billyg]

I dont think there was an edited radio version 45, but When "Start me up" was a hit in 1981 a lot of CHR stations faded it quickly or the DJ would start talking over it.

When I worked at 96-X in Tyler I had to record it onto the Audio Prophet system in real time* and I remember slowly fading the ending up. ;D

(* This was a time consuming project - I remember adding at least 150+ songs to the system, but I got extra pay for it. I wish the early Windows NT version of Audio Prophet had a CD to WAV/MP3 "ripping" program similar to Exact Audio Copy or Audograbber.)

 

[ButtnPushr]

Maybe it was a 'fast fade' -you do enough of those in a single shft, you can crank out another 2 or 3 commercial units an hour!

HA HA!! But that requires a live jock being there, so I doubt if that's the case.

 

[Sgt. Hans G. Schultz]

TIME/LIFE Edit - White Boy

OK, so the last line near fade-out is, "You make a dead man come." Nobody's ever made a big deal about it, even during all the FCC brouhahas over language and 'indecency' during the last couple of decades. I think even language-conscious KEOM plays it as-is. Now, 31 years later, KLUV is playing an edited version that says, "You make a dead man cry," and fades out before Mick can sing the line one more time.

Really?


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I worked at a nightclub in far north Dallas a few years back. They had made their happy hour a 70s and 80s music format. Apparently one of the djs got a hold of some of the Time/Life 'Greatest Hits' collections (as seen on TeeWee) for play in the club. "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry had the words "white boy" edited out of every "Play that funky music, white boy!" line where it occurred in the song. It became VERY obvious, VERY quickly that the words had been removed when all the drunk patrons in the bar that were singing along were yelling *WHITE BOY* at the appropriate time but the words were not being sung on the recording with the music!

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[billyg]

Re: TIME/LIFE Edit - White Boy

I worked at a nightclub in far north Dallas a few years back. They had made their happy hour a 70s and 80s music format. Apparently one of the djs got a hold of some of the Time/Life 'Greatest Hits' collections (as seen on TeeWee) for play in the club. "Play That Funky Music" by Wild Cherry had the words "white boy" edited out of every "Play that funky music, white boy!" line where it occurred in the song. It became VERY obvious, VERY quickly that the words had been removed when all the drunk patrons in the bar that were singing along were yelling *WHITE BOY* at the appropriate time but the words were not being sung on the recording with the music!

I read somewhere that edit was made for overseas markets where "white boy" was considered a racial slur. But thanks to Priority Records (a real hit or miss company with CD oldies reissues) it wound up on their "Mega Hits Dance Classics - Volume 5" CD. Thanks Sgt for pointing that one out.

 

[newsmark]

" Nobody's ever made a big deal about it, even during all the FCC brouhahas over language and 'indecency' during the last couple of decades.

When the Stones performed at the Super Bowl in '06, the word was cut out. It wasn't bleeped. Mick's mic was cut (or potted down) very precisely. So you just heard "you make a dead man ," twice. The music played as though nothing happened.

Guess they were taking no chances after 2004's Wardrobe Malfunction.

 

[DFWPT]

OK, so the last line near fade-out is, "You make a dead man come." Nobody's ever made a big deal about it, even during all the FCC brouhahas over language and 'indecency' during the last couple of decades. I think even language-conscious KEOM plays it as-is. Now, 31 years later, KLUV is playing an edited version that says, "You make a dead man cry," and fades out before Mick can sing the line one more time.

Really?

"language-conscious KEOM" plays an early fade version (I think we only lose 13 seconds or so) before Mick does the line. The EOM fires the next event before he gets there.

 

[BigB68]

OK, so the last line near fade-out is, "You make a dead man come." Now, 31 years later, KLUV is playing an edited version that says, "You make a dead man cry," and fades out before Mick can sing the line one more time. Really?

KLUV - The new KLTY .... keepin' the classic hits "safe" for us old farts...

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