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Believe it or not, it was the late-90's.
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No "crap" in Memphis!
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Believe it or not, it was the late-90's.
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Hey Bosack!!!!!!!!!!!....
Do you still have that "Killer" golf game goin', dude?
Remember a day at Davy Crockett where Jeff Webb nearly killed himself with one golf swing?
I think about that and giggle still!
Never saw a man make contact with a golf ball and then duck and flail as quickly as that dude did.
It ranks way up there with some of the funniest "crap" (kicks, girls, etc...) I've EVER seen!!!! ;D
Do you still have that "Killer" golf game goin', dude?
Remember a day at Davy Crockett where Jeff Webb nearly killed himself with one golf swing?
I think about that and giggle still!
Never saw a man make contact with a golf ball and then duck and flail as quickly as that dude did.
It ranks way up there with some of the funniest "crap" (kicks, girls, etc...) I've EVER seen!!!! ;D
Paul Drew was consulting KAKC/Tulsa, either along with or after programming all the RKO chain post-Drake, when "Kodachrome"
came out. We crap'ectomied, with Gary 'Ono' Stevens as the master-blader. Remember that it sounded pretty smooth (unless
you'd already memorized the LP version), but not sure what he zapped.
1961 or '62, some ahead-of-his-time jock went deep into The Kingston Trio's LP with "The Reverend Mr. Black," and began to
play Hoyt Axton's "Greenback Dollar." Got so much response, Capitol had to put it out as a single. Nothing in the same zip code with digital editing back then -- so "And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar" became "And I don't give a" VERY
LOUD GUITAR GLUMP "about a greenback dollar." But who knew, back then?
And after Buffett finally broke out of Key West via "Margaritaville," MCA put out that LP's title track. Retirement, and too much
cheap wine, have me scratching my head:-- What DID they have him re-sing, so the country stations wouldn't shy away from
"good times and riches, and son of a bitches...more than I can recall"?
came out. We crap'ectomied, with Gary 'Ono' Stevens as the master-blader. Remember that it sounded pretty smooth (unless
you'd already memorized the LP version), but not sure what he zapped.
1961 or '62, some ahead-of-his-time jock went deep into The Kingston Trio's LP with "The Reverend Mr. Black," and began to
play Hoyt Axton's "Greenback Dollar." Got so much response, Capitol had to put it out as a single. Nothing in the same zip code with digital editing back then -- so "And I don't give a damn about a greenback dollar" became "And I don't give a" VERY
LOUD GUITAR GLUMP "about a greenback dollar." But who knew, back then?
And after Buffett finally broke out of Key West via "Margaritaville," MCA put out that LP's title track. Retirement, and too much
cheap wine, have me scratching my head:-- What DID they have him re-sing, so the country stations wouldn't shy away from
"good times and riches, and son of a bitches...more than I can recall"?
Bruises and Stiches?
Rock 103 had a version of "Dirty Water" redone by someone in the early 80's (The Inmates I think) that had the line "Memphis, you're my home" using "Memphis" instead of "Boston."
Yep, and the copies of that vanished when 103 put their albums in the hallway for a mass giveaway when they went CHR circa 1984. Would have loved to have had them back when Rock 103 came back a couple of years later.
And...one more time on the "crap" I learned in high school thing...
I did "Solid Gold Sunday" afternoons on WRVR for a pretty good while there.
Naturally, this song would come up in rotation pretty often.
Only once did anyone ever call and mention "crap."
I was surprised when she called.
She loved Solid Gold Sunday, but didn't really understand why we had to play the "crap" version.
I told her I knew of no other. (I guess I do now)
I did "Solid Gold Sunday" afternoons on WRVR for a pretty good while there.
Naturally, this song would come up in rotation pretty often.
Only once did anyone ever call and mention "crap."
I was surprised when she called.
She loved Solid Gold Sunday, but didn't really understand why we had to play the "crap" version.
I told her I knew of no other. (I guess I do now)
You should try to see if anyone out there would email you an mp3 of the song. And search youtube. It might be there. Seems like almost everything is on youtube now!robgrayson said:
Meepster said:And...one more time on the "crap" I learned in high school thing...
I did "Solid Gold Sunday" afternoons on WRVR for a pretty good while there.
Naturally, this song would come up in rotation pretty often.
Only once did anyone ever call and mention "crap."
I was surprised when she called.
She loved Solid Gold Sunday, but didn't really understand why we had to play the "crap" version.
I told her I knew of no other. (I guess I do now)
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You did SGS too? How many of us on this board did that show????
I was doing Solid Gold Sunday when Entercom pulled the plug. It skewed the numbers too old, they said. The only thing I didn't like about SGS was, at the time, RVR was on a "no talking over the music" kick. All that great music, and no walking up the intros... man!
Sorry. I didn't follow formatics... "THREE".
I recently dug out some old cassette tapes I had made a few years ago and was listening thru them and Dr. Hook's "Cover of the Rolling Stone" was among the songs on one of the tapes. Now there's another song that got the edit, or really more of a bleep job I guess. I remember the part about "We take all kinds of pills to give us all kinds of thrills" having the "pills" bleeped out. Also the line about "a freaky old lady named Cocaine Katy" had "cocaine" bleeped. Oddly, instead of the words just being edited out, we had the short "censored" tone instead. I know the AM stations censored those words, but I really can't specifically recall hearing that song on FM100, but I'd wager nothing was changed there, and I'm sure they must have played it.
So in addition to no crap in Memphis, there were no pills or cocaine either.
So in addition to no crap in Memphis, there were no pills or cocaine either.
I just remembered... on 103 "back in the day", Keith Sykes "I'm Not Strange (I'm Just Like You)", bleeped the line "I've got XXXXS between my legs". So, Memphis had no XXXXS, either.
On a slightly different note, and this was not in Memphis, I thought it was pretty lame when I heard an Urban station play Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" with the word "white" (as in "play that funky music, white boy") edited out.
How about editing out an entire song! There was a small town station where some friends lived that refused to play Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling" even when it reached #1! They aired American Top 40, so when the countdown reached that song each week, including when it was #1, they inserted an annoucement stating what the song in that position was, but that station policy prevented them from playing it.
While on the subject of editing, censorship, and possibly objectionable lyrics, I can't resist mentioning this one. If you think the Southern Bible Belt is conservative in this area, try the Mormon West. When I was working at a Top 40 station in Idaho, where the population was about 75% Mormon, we received complaints and even threats at the station that they were going to have the FCC revoke our license for playing obscene music. Here is the kicker...the song they were complaining about, which was the #1 song in the country at the time, was "Do That To Me One More Time" by the Captain and Tennille.
How about editing out an entire song! There was a small town station where some friends lived that refused to play Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-Ling" even when it reached #1! They aired American Top 40, so when the countdown reached that song each week, including when it was #1, they inserted an annoucement stating what the song in that position was, but that station policy prevented them from playing it.
While on the subject of editing, censorship, and possibly objectionable lyrics, I can't resist mentioning this one. If you think the Southern Bible Belt is conservative in this area, try the Mormon West. When I was working at a Top 40 station in Idaho, where the population was about 75% Mormon, we received complaints and even threats at the station that they were going to have the FCC revoke our license for playing obscene music. Here is the kicker...the song they were complaining about, which was the #1 song in the country at the time, was "Do That To Me One More Time" by the Captain and Tennille.
Yep, back at 103, Dr. Robin Sterns did nights (she was a Phd, by the way), then moved out Utah way to do mornings at an album rock station. I sent her my collection of song parodies, but she couldn't play "Coffee" (sung to the tune of Cocaine) for fear of insulting the faithful.
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