We Built This City

[sdh483]

Hey anyone know of Starship's song "We Built This City"? During an insturmental part of the song, they play 2 short radio airchecks. Just wondering if those are from an actual station or was that done in a recording studio?

 

[RMarino]

Recording studio. It is a famous DJ doing it though. I forget his name but I'm sure someone here will chime in with it. The promo version came without the DJ part so that stations could add their own, which almost every station did back when that song was out in '85.

 

[RobynWattsV2.0]

It was Les Garland doing the DJ part to "We Built This City" on the original version. I believe he did several different versions of that part for other radio stations when the song was out.

Robyn

 

[sdh483]

It would be cool to hear some of those versions of the songs for different radio stations. It's not that bad of a song, I like it, even though it was voted number 1 for awesomly bad songs on VH1...that's comming form a music channel that played Michael Bolton on a daily basis.

 

[disney fanatic]

I rememember that song. That song was played on WCBS-FM a few years ago where it features Harry Harrison and Ron Lundy in the middle of a song. Great stuff.

 

[robgrayson]

I believe at the time that they released a radio station only version which had a music pad during the DJ part, and some stations recorded their own insertions...

 

[RMarino]

I believe at the time that they released a radio station only version which had a music pad during the DJ part, and some stations recorded their own insertions...

I believe I just said that.

 

[JAYDIO]

Here's the version I made at KNBQ in Seattle: http://www.savefile.com/files/588463

You'll hear snippets of the original and my version of the insert back to back.

 

[ErieDJGuy]

Here in Erie, PA, back when I was at the then K104 here, we did our own insertion. Haven't heard it in years. Have it on cassette somewhere...

 

[RadioMan203]

I've never heard any other versions except the Les Garland one. I have a copy of the one with the instrumental pad where we did our own with our local imagining guy - I wonder if the other versions were actually pressed in multiple copies or just one-offs to the stations lucky enough to get them.

 

[amfmsw]

There were also custom station versions of the Grass Roots' "Sooner Or Later". On the intro, there was a downward sliding scale of notes that they would sing the calls if they could get the song added. WIBG Philadelphia played the hell out of it.