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Stations Playing Halloween Music?

ZantennaG1 said:
I love the music that comes out this time of year, but @Mikey Radio is right: The employees end up listening to it for weeks on end with no rest, and IMO, it is torture for them, and they probably even become numb to these songs after a while. There has got to be a better way.
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I might play a lot of Halloween music on Halloween night. But until then, just play a few now and then.
 
Flying_Dutchman said:
Halloween wasn't celebrated here until the 1840's . That's because many of it's traditions come from Samhain, a Celtic event for the Lord of Death-God of Winter. America's early Christion's thought it was honoring the devil.
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Some Christian conservatives/Bible-thumpers still do.
 
kevtronics said:
iHeartRadio is heavily advertising their online-only Halloween music channel. But besides "Monster Mash", "Thriller", and "Spooky" how much is there to play? Are they filling it up with the kiddie music and sound effects from old K-Tel records?
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It's actually a year round HD2 format out of Louisville, KY (WAMZ 97.5) Along with the songs mentioned; "Welcome To My Nightmare" ",Day-O" (Beetlejuice), "Dead Man's Party" "Tubular Bells" (The Exorcist), Will Smith's "Nightmare On My Street" "Witchy Woman" "Addams Groove", Werewolves Of London"...and lots of Ghost Stories (Louisville is known for many Haunted Hot Spots)
 
gr8oldies said:
A lot of them replace it with "Trunk or Tweet" and "Harvest Festival".
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On Friday, October 31, 2003, a Baptist church in Manhattan's Upper East Side held a Harvest Festival in which the youth were encouraged to wear costumes, as long as they were not spooky. One boy entered the event wearing a grim reaper costume, but the youth counselors promptly told the boy to remove it. The boy complied, and he was allowed to stay as a result of his compliance.
 
Fun Fact: Queen released "Bohemian Rhapsody" on Halloween in 1975. The 6 minute song received considerable push back from some industry executives, as it was much longer than most songs that received heavy radio play. Queen was reportedly asked to edit the song to a shorter "radio release" version, but refused to do so. In the end, they won out and it has since become, arguably, Queen's most popular song.
 
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Never cared for Bohemian Rhapsody but that is just me. Too long, but then I am a former radio programmer!

Killer Queen and My Best Friend were their best songs IMO, but then again, they were short and hooky, something that pd’s liked.
 
It's odd that they were still pushing for "Bohemian Rhapsody" to be edited, when Elton John just had a huge hit with "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", which was nearly a minute longer than it!

Probably they just thought the opera section was too weird and they wanted it cut out.
 
Probably just a coincidence but Good Time Oldies played "Thriller" earlier in the week.

A few minutes before that was an Eagles song with a reference to "the daughter of the devil himself".
 
kevtronics said:
It's odd that they were still pushing for "Bohemian Rhapsody" to be edited, when Elton John just had a huge hit with "Someone Saved My Life Tonight", which was nearly a minute longer than it!

Probably they just thought the opera section was too weird and they wanted it cut out.
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I remember at least one station chopping up "Someone Saved" in morning drive when it was current
 
seatownmedia said:
Who remembers the 3 minute edit of American Pie?

Now we return to regular topic…
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Ha! From 8 1/2 minutes down to 3? Somewhat akin to when one of the sketch comedy shows illustrated what it would be like if an episode of The Sopranos were edited to be broadcast on one of the religious networks. An hour Sopranos episode with all the foul language, brutality, murdering and drug use cut out, ended up clocking in at about 2 1/2 or 3 minutes.
 
seatownmedia said:
I stand corrected. Short version was closer to 4 minutes than 3 according to wiki who we all know is totally accurate. :)
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The mono promo 45 of "American Pie" was 4:21 and was not just an edit, it was actually a complete re-recording of the song, and quite a bit more upbeat than the commercial version:

 
You may be correct that a new version was indeed recorded, but I still say there was an edited version of the original that floated around back in the day. Perhaps an old UA employee can confirm?
 
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