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Song you wondered how they they ever got played on Top 40 radio

b-turner said:
D.O.A. by Bloodrock was released as a single. I don't have a clue how it did nationwide but being a band from Dallas, every top 40 played it wih some dayparting to after 5pm. It was marginal at best as far as popularity in Dallas. The guys in school thought the song was 'pretty cool'.

DOA is a play by play of an accident with sfx where the victims don't make it performed by what we then called a hard rock band (aka early metal)
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Oh, gosh. I heard that one recently in a dump of 1970's "hits," and while it was sort of interesting, it was so dark I couldn't stand it.

michael hagerty said:
The Spinners were trying to get their first hit records in two years when that album was released. To put "f**k" in it would have been the ultimate act of self-sabotage.
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No kidding! Why on earth would they do that?

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The Spinners wouldn't have done that, I agree. Clarence Carter or Joe Tex, maybe. Even "Rapture" by Blondie is debatable. WLS didn't play it, but it got to #1 Hot 100 anyway, which is unusual. "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" by Bob Seger used the word "funky", and many thought he used the word. That's probably why it didn't chart higher. Many words are used as euphemisms or substitutes for the verb and present participle.
 
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