This morning, "Stuck with You". With the woman doing the morning show until her boss is recovered, it seems appropriate. I've also heard it when the satellite had problems for a few minutes and they had to play their own music locally.
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Musical selections that seem out of character
- Thread starter vchimpanzee
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re: The "Ride Like The Wind" guitar solo. They'll get rid of the standards first.
It's not about playing a type of music anymore. It's about scrambling, as quickly as they can, to get to a survivable demographic. And that's going to include rock and roll. It's probably going to sound a lot like oldies.
They're not going to touch the standards.
They're still playing more than they should be, and that does make the more AC-sounding material and the louder oldies more tolerable.
But the "Ride Like the Wind" guitar and the one in "Goodbye to Love" both need to go. I think even the WDUV-type stations would avoid such noise.
On the subject of sounding like oldies, WRBK Richburg, SC, which I heard going to the beach and going back home, played only songs America's Best Music would play one of the times I listened, except for "My Sweet Lord", which I suppose wouldn't be too strange.
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I think I've heard John Fogerty's "Centerfield" on the morning show. That was mentioned on "Jeopardy". I like that one.
I've heard "Hey Jude" twice. It doesn't keep going once that part which repeats begins. Once it was during the six-pack, when all songs are requested. There's only so much time for music and commercials and whatever else needs to be done. Yesterday I figured it would just run until Mike Huckabee started, but the substitute DJ came on and said she remembered when she first heard it but then didn't bother to tell us more. She had more to say but then Mike Huckabee started talking and once that happens, you just have to quit.
I've heard "Hey Jude" twice. It doesn't keep going once that part which repeats begins. Once it was during the six-pack, when all songs are requested. There's only so much time for music and commercials and whatever else needs to be done. Yesterday I figured it would just run until Mike Huckabee started, but the substitute DJ came on and said she remembered when she first heard it but then didn't bother to tell us more. She had more to say but then Mike Huckabee started talking and once that happens, you just have to quit.
Let's meet back here at this quote in 2 years.
Let's put this into perspective: "Goodbye To Love" was a hit 41 years ago. Are you saying that you were offended by the guitar riff, when you were 11?
Some of y'all are taking him way too seriously. I heard "Ride Like the Wind" again over the weekend while we were in east Tennessee, and while there is SOME electric guitar in it, it is buried underneath the vocals toward the end of the song.
As for "Goodbye to Love," it's the Carpenters. Anyone who would play the "Carps" (as I call them) would play "Goodbye to Love." If the guitar is too "offensive," they could always do an early fade.
WRVR in Memphis used to edit the electric guitar out of the intro of "Self-Control" by Laura Branigan back when it was a hit back in the '80s, but I don't believe that they would do that now, assuming that they are even still playing anything that old.
As for "Goodbye to Love," it's the Carpenters. Anyone who would play the "Carps" (as I call them) would play "Goodbye to Love." If the guitar is too "offensive," they could always do an early fade.
WRVR in Memphis used to edit the electric guitar out of the intro of "Self-Control" by Laura Branigan back when it was a hit back in the '80s, but I don't believe that they would do that now, assuming that they are even still playing anything that old.
When I was 11 I had never heard of The Carpenters.
There are no vocals in that part of the song. I'd like to see them cut it off before the guitar starts up. when I heard the song, though, it was right before the top of the hour and they just had to keep going. Though I do recall that in the final days of Timeless Favorites, they started up an instrumental I hadn't heard since the days of Timeless Classics even before the top of the hour station ID. I never once heard a song during the news on any station with either format.
They could but they don't. I wish they would.
Whichever station I was listening to when "Self-Control" was first popular also did that.
I recall Timeless Favorites (unless you already said this) used to ALWAYS cut the guitar out of "Goodbye to Love". The station I worked for in the 80's never cut "Self Control". In fact my ALL-time favorite seque, was the awful Olivia Newton John song "Xanadu", straight into "Self Control" (as the synthesizer-like fade started on Xanadu) Those two songs blended so well, it's as if it was one continuous song...with a tempo change in the middle. I felt soooo cooool when I did that!
I remember that the FM station in the small town where I grew up back in the '70s (which seemingly had a different format every day back then) would play "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison, but would cut it early, before it even got to the guitar solo. I am thinking that they were extremely easy listening back then, but the early cut-out from "My Sweet Lord" could just as easily have been to remove the Hare Krishna references from the song.
Are you sure you're talking about the right format?
I know Timeless Classics didn't always cut the guitar out. One reason I remember this is that the entire song was played as part of "Hubbard's Cupboard". I forget now what that was exactly, whether it was the name of the whole show or just this one feature. On some days I would hear Eddie Hubbard answer some trivia question or tell us some trivia, and then play a song. Sort of like "A Moment of Musical History" on one station I listen to sometimes.
Eddie Hubbard did not make it to Timeless Favorites, and since they tended to play louder music than Timeless Classics, I would be very surprised if they removed the guitar.
And let me add this. While I had heard, and liked "Please Mr. Postman" and "There's a Kind of Hush" (both remakes!) and liked them, when I saw a TV trivia column answer a reader's question about Donny and Marie by saying they were brother and sister like The Carpenters, not married, I had STILL never heard of The Carpenters. Now I don't know how old Marie would have to be in order to marry Donny if they hadn't been related.
I do know that by the time I graduated from college I had heard of, and liked, several songs by The Carpenters, but it was another decade or so before I heard "Goodbye to Love". I know Music of Your Life played it but I don't remember what they did with the guitar. The format was more traditional than Stardust at the time but not as traditional as it was a decade later.
There are background vocals on that part of the song, and they drown out that electric guitar in that point.
In Alice's world where the white rabbit is late, maybe.
Speaking of white rabbits, the local morning show has been known to play that Jefferson Starship song about Alice and white rabbits.
Even then, it is only on the fadeout, so I say big deal.
It IS a big deal. The guitars don't belong and the song can easily be cut off before it gets there.
The guitars belong if the artist put them there.
The station makes a determination if the recording fits their format and the audience they want to reach.
Just out of curiousity...and if it's none of my business, I understand, but how and where does a guy your age get raised to find the guitar solo on "Goodbye To Love" offensive?
I can hear hippies cringing everywhere: Jefferson AIRPLANE!
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