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Supertramp - Give a Little Bit

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Are any AC stations playing the original 1977 Supertramp version of this song? It has a nice laid-back sound, and it would be a good complement to the new Goo Goo Dolls version which is of course well-known to AC listening audiences.

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> Are any AC stations playing the original 1977 Supertramp
> version of this song? It has a nice laid-back sound, and it
> would be a good complement to the new Goo Goo Dolls version
> which is of course well-known to AC listening audiences.
>

I've occasionally heard it on AC stations even before the Goo-Goo Dolls version. Rarely, but yeah, I've heard it now and then to AC stations I'm checking out on the web.
 
> I've occasionally heard it on AC stations even before the
> Goo-Goo Dolls version. Rarely, but yeah, I've heard it now
> and then to AC stations I'm checking out on the web.

It's also being used in the trailer for some new movie starring Ashton Kutcher.

Meanwhile, "Take The Long Way Home" is a great bit of '70s Gold to spice up an AC playlist -- and "The Logical Song" would make a great 'Oh wow!' track, especially now that the people who had it in their 45 or 8-track collection when it was new are now forming the upper end of AC's primary target demographic.

p.s. One interesting factoid is that "The Logical Song" featured the sound of a digital cell phone ring-tone, two decades before digital cell phones became commonplace!
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> p.s. One interesting factoid is that "The Logical Song"
> featured the sound of a digital cell phone ring-tone, two
> decades before digital cell phones became commonplace!

How is that possible? Did they know someone? In 1979, the first commercial cellular telephone system began operation in Tokyo. In 1981, Motorola and American Radio telephone started a second U.S. cellular radio-telephone system test in the Washington/Baltimore area. By 1982, the slow-moving FCC finally authorized commercial cellular service for the USA.

Breakfast in America came out in early 1979
 
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> How is that possible? Did they know someone? In 1979, the
> first commercial cellular telephone system began operation
> in Tokyo. In 1981, Motorola and American Radio telephone
> started a second U.S. cellular radio-telephone system test
> in the Washington/Baltimore area. By 1982, the slow-moving
> FCC finally authorized commercial cellular service for the
> USA.

It's just a coincidence. Near the end of "The Logical Song", the lyrics mention "d-d-d-digital" and then a bleeping noise is played, which is very similar to that of a cell phone ring. I suppose at the time they intended it to mimic a video game or computer game sound effect, as that was pretty much the only digital device available to consumers which could make that kind of sound.
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