What was the most annoying song you had to play on the radio?

[Stewy]

Excellent thread! Since I've all these horrible songs playing silutaneously in my head allow me to bring you all such pleasure. "Oh Mandy, well you came and you gave without taking but I sent you away OH MANDY". ;D

 

[smashedcd]

Carts...hmm...how about turntables?

every station I ever worked at had both ;D and a reel to reel for traffic And a 4 track for production

 

[waynewatkins]

I forgot an essential in the ol' production rooms besides reel to reels, grease pencils and splicing tape...RAZOR BLADES to either cut your tape and pile it on the floor, or slit your wrists after a aircheck session. Why did those blades always have a white residue on them?

 

[kudzooter]

Not sure whether to put this here, or in one of the ongoing 'RNO threads...
1979-'80..."It's 5 o'clock...at the ?Rock? of New Orleans, WRNO, FM-100" over Christopher Cross/Sailing. Unn-uhh...a few months later,
same Batshlock time, same Batshlock channel--for true--Barbra Streisand/Evergreen. "Well, da numbah one movie for da 18-to-tuddy-fo'
dimmagraphic is 'A Stah is Bohn.' And our tahget dimmagraphic is...18-ta-tuddy-fo' -- I'm da oney one's got dat figga'd out,
deah." To be topped (?bottomed?) a year later with "Here Come The Monkees" at #6 on the countdown of NOLa's Alltime Top 300 Albums.
Billboard had had a programming conference in NO a few years earlier, and a follow-up breakdown of the market included "WRNO. Format: Does not apply." And dey say outsidahs cain' figga out da NAwlins mahket, deah.

 

[waynewatkins]

And the insanity continued in 1984 as I had to say "It's 5 O'Clock at the Rock of N'Awlins WRNO" over Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" and Madonna's "Like a Virgin!" Yeah 'dere---we gotta play 'dem 'cause we got R&R Top 40 reporting status 'dere...

 

[skippertthomas]

We had a great donut open and shotgun "KINT-98" to follow....And we were CHR... So, we always filled in the top of the hour spot with a rockin' recurrent or primo-oldie.... "It's 7'Oclock with "Skipper T." at K, I, N, T....El Paso's Tabor Station...With less talk and more ROCK! (Jingle: "Kint-Ninety-Eight" and into something like Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker").... 8)

 

[AMandFM]

Hands down..."Disco Duck".

 

[smashedcd]

And the insanity continued in 1984 as I had to say "It's 5 O'Clock at the Rock of N'Awlins WRNO" over Lionel Richie's "All Night Long" and Madonna's "Like a Virgin!" Yeah 'dere---we gotta play 'dem 'cause we got R&R Top 40 reporting status 'dere...

yea when wckw came along I never went back to fm 100

but i did have a spot on WRNO. of sorts ;D

HI this is +++++ from summit ms and i get my rock from 995 wrno..into big country--in a big country

 

[RFLA]

I remember when someone called years ago to say they were listening to WCKW up in Winnsboro,Louisiana (about 30 miles SE of Monroe)

Love all the answers and I can't really pick my all time hateful one... I know I do cringe everytime I gotta hear that duet by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton "islands in the stream" from 1983 that made it hot in country and a/c

 

[Megacycler]

Ring My Bell-Anita Ward
You Light Up My Life-Debbie Boone
Morning Train-Sheena Easton

 

[cough]

long tall glasses by leo sayer i tried to skip the thing when it came up in rotation..... :

 

[bjdj]

99 Luftballoons ! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

 

[smashedcd]

Almost forgot ;D WHNY mccomb went slow standards very briefly back in 1992. And we had to play all old easy listing standards for 2 full weeks...before the station flipped again..to talk. I was let go during this time but I still hung around long enough for my friend rod to invent such liners as leave off the n and youve got why? why are we on the air? 1250 whny ;D he also oped the mike and used lots of profanity over the easy listnig music..no one noticed ;D I would list the songs. but I dont know them...

 

[Beernuts711]

Everything the PD added to the playlists that brought him a nice $$$ spiff under the table from the promotion man for adding those titles to the playlist so it would be reported to the trade mags. And the PD thought his DJs were all so stupid that we didn't know the game he was playing. No names, but 1970's. Major station. And how this oily person and his cohorts with the wads in their pockets didn't get caught, I'll never know. Folks don't realize that many of the marginal songs they remember from '70's radio were only there because the PD was paid to play them. Or not play them. Just list them on the alleged printed playlist but never actually play them, just report them as on the playlist. That was the second tier of the spiffs. Some titles hit the *national* top 20 without ever being played on any station anywhere, just reported by several stations as "on the playlist".

He knows who he is.

 

[frequentmodulator]

Same said promo man resulted in my leaving a 1970s major station as well...it was so damn obvious and pathetic and the GM just turned his head to it...must have been in that same pocket. Disgusting. They also know who they are.

 

[qid937]

how about that aweful Blue Bell Ice Cream commercial theme song. I can't stand hearing that guy trying to be country and nostalgic.

Particularly if you got the production order that had 57 tags and they had to rotate on 10 minute carts. Get to cut 8 or 9 and mess it up... Oh the humanity! I don't eat Blue Bell to this day because of that.

That's painful...ouch! Well good thing there is Baskin Robins and Ben and Jerry's, both are much better products, mes thinks...oh and don't forget haggan das...

 

[qid937]

"Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" and "Butterfly Kisses" both have to be some of the worst songs that are still played. Sure "Butterfly Kisses" is cute n sweet n all, but it just has that "turn your stomach" feel to it.

And I do have to agree with Morning Air Wavezzz 110%! The song "Hey There Delilah" has got to be the ultimately WORST song on the radio since the beginning of broadcast!!! I mean HORRIBLE! I cringe when I hear it come on B-97 or WFMF. What's hilarious is the fact that the DJ's on these stations must hate the song just as much as the rest of us. They just have to sound like they LOVE it when they promote it cause... well... their told to do so. Sad. My opinion says flush it down the toilet or strap the master copy on a rocket to the planet Flahflooga!

Ya know, now it's done made its way to Diva 92.3, Magic 101.9, and Sunny 103.3. And it's terrible cause these were the stations I could go to get away from it! Argh!

lol ;D BTW, what a fun topic!

Jeremy

And let me guess, all those stations start spinning that crap within seconds, if not minutes of each other, right?

 

[CFKane]

This is a tough one. The one moment, that sticks out was a "new" record by Manilow, late 90's, early 2000's? "Turn the radio up". I assume most people haven't heard this thing, it wasn't even close to being noteworthy. Our PD played it to get presence at the concert he played around that same time. (yeah, that says something right there.) I worked P/T nights, and that was the only place it got it's spins. I seriously questioned my choice in career everytime it came up. CFKane

 

[JeffJasper]

I think there might be a distinction between "the most annoying song" and the WORST song. I never had to play it, but there was an old country song called "Opal, You Asked Me" that's without doubt the worst I've heard that actually got airplay. Apparently Opal's husband is dissatisfied with their marriage, and he lists all the reasons he detests her.

But the worst song I had to actually play was probably Hank Williams, Sr.'s "My Bucket's Got a Hole In It" at Classic Country WNOE-AM. That station had...uh...depth.

JJ

 

[Tom Wells]

I'm suprised that no has mentioned "Get Off" by Foxy from 1978..


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