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No Walk On The Wild Side on ZLX

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Karlson & McKenzie were doing songs from 1972 in honor of the last Stanley Cup for the B's and the morning crew was saying how Lou Reed's hit was on CBS's "no play list." It was therefore surprising to hear Chuck Berry's "My Ding-A-Ling" as ok to play. Funny to hear a Moody Blues song on ZLX too since anythng from them seems to be banished there.
 
I think it may have to do with the oral sex reference in the Lou Reed song, where Chuck Berry is a song about a toy his Grandma gave him.

How's your dick..............tation machine how's your whole..................family?
 
MRBIboredop said:
I think it may have to do with the oral sex reference in the Lou Reed song, where Chuck Berry is a song about a toy his Grandma gave him.
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There's a radio edit of "Walk on the Wild Side" that snips that verse. Hard to believe ZLX doesn't have it, as it was the version that got just about all the airplay when the song was a hit. It's also hard to believe a jock would refer on-air to a corporate "do not play list."
 
I know there is a list because a certain WODS DJ has mentioned it on this board.


As for them mentioning it, is it any different from them saying " it's not on the playlist"
 
MRBIboredop said:
I know there is a list because a certain WODS DJ has mentioned it on this board.


As for them mentioning it, is it any different from them saying " it's not on the playlist"
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Why mention requests for songs that you can't play, for whatever reason, in the first place? Tell the listener off-air either the truth (CBS corporate thinks the song is offensive and, even though it's a great song, we aren't allowed to play it.) or a sanitized version of the truth (Gee, we don't have that song. Sorry. Can we play something else for you?) When you acknowledge and play requests, you're giving the listener the impression that your station has a huge music library and all you have to do to hear anything from it is ask. Why ruin the illusion?
 
In 72,WMEX 1510 played Lou Reed unedited, "never lost her head when she was giving head". Dont remember if WRKO played Walk on Wild Side or not.
 
CTListener said:
MRBIboredop said:
I know there is a list because a certain WODS DJ has mentioned it on this board.


As for them mentioning it, is it any different from them saying " it's not on the playlist"
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Why mention requests for songs that you can't play, for whatever reason, in the first place? Tell the listener off-air either the truth (CBS corporate thinks the song is offensive and, even though it's a great song, we aren't allowed to play it.) or a sanitized version of the truth (Gee, we don't have that song. Sorry. Can we play something else for you?) When you acknowledge and play requests, you're giving the listener the impression that your station has a huge music library and all you have to do to hear anything from it is ask. Why ruin the illusion?
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The reason we would mention corporate and programming dictates is to point out how ridiculous they are / were ! You sound like a clueless management shill ! Blind policy followers and cousins marrying and ending up in radio management were the death of radio !

BeenThereDoneThat
 
I played the single version just a few weeks ago. Nothing offensive in it. "Little Willy" is more out there. For people who don't know it was spelled correctly for its first eleven weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 like it was in the UK: "Little Willie." That's why the writers of the tune drive big cars.
 
Ummm when he says "and the colored girls sing" on a station that plays very little Hendrix, but Then exclusively all white rock (skynard etc).... That could be construed as pretty offensive. The song is boring anyway.
 
teenpo said:
Ummm when he says "and the colored girls sing" on a station that plays very little Hendrix, but Then exclusively all white rock (skynard etc).... That could be construed as pretty offensive. The song is boring anyway.
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It's not a 'race card' issue. After the Super Bowl Boob-gate, the morons at VIACOM sent out a list of songs that were not to be played because of sexual content. Local music directors have eased up on the list, but some are too busy writing books to keep up. The loss of one of Reed's weaker songs on the air at WZLX is hardly earth shaking...
 
When I was an intern at then-WBZ-FM, 1976 -
the word came down from Westinghouse in NY
that we could not play the Tubes' "Don't Touch Me There"...
 
WLYNgm said:
When I was an intern at then-WBZ-FM, 1976 -
the word came down from Westinghouse in NY
that we could not play the Tubes' "Don't Touch Me There"...
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The song peaked at No. 61 in Billboard. There must have been a lot of station owners and ownership groups that wouldn't allow it on the air.

"Walk on the Wild Side" was different. It was a legit top 20 hit -- peaking at No. 16 -- and most likely was banned only in the country's most conservative markets. It was definitely all over Boston radio in 1972, both CHR in its censored form and AOR uncensored. So why is it a "no play" nearly 30 years later on a station that's supposed to be playing the most familiar classic rock of that era?
 
SonicAl said:
post-Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" world, perhaps?
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But there are stations still playing "Walk on the Wild Side," both versions. Nobody's getting fined for airing the phrases "giving head" or "colored girls," are they? Why the big corporate fear?
 
For instance, I hear that play regularly on the Pike out of Worcester--the full and unedited version--and of course, the station is owned by big, burly Citadel (soon-to-be-Cumulus). So I guess not all corporate headquarters think alike.
 
MRBIboredop said:
Why the big corporate fear?
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because CBS sucks?
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Because CBS/Viacom was THE company that got nailed for $550,000 for Janet Jackson's Superbowl accident, and over TWO MILLION for Howard Stern's sexual content? Wouldn't you be a little cautious if you were in their shoes?
 
and they made hundreds of millions of dollars off Stern, and the Super Bowl isn't exactly a loss leader. It was a cost of doing business for them.

Now can someone explain why stations play Clapton's version of "Cocaine" but the word cocaine is edited from Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow's " Picture"?
 
reelyreal said:
MRBIboredop said:
Why the big corporate fear?
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because CBS sucks?
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Because CBS/Viacom was THE company that got nailed for $550,000 for Janet Jackson's Superbowl accident, and over TWO MILLION for Howard Stern's sexual content? Wouldn't you be a little cautious if you were in their shoes?
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They haven't been "nailed" yet. Both cases are being appealed (IIRC, all the way to the Supreme Court) and CBS hasn't paid a dime on either of them.
 
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