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What's The First Song or Two You Played On The Radio?

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Saw this question posted on the Dallas-Ft. Worth board...thought it might be a worthwhile question here....I remember my first 2 songs I played on the radio, it was KQIN-AM 800(now KGNW 820), and I was 16 and doing my first shift there on a Saturday morning at 11am out of the ABC Contemporary Network News at :55....and I played "It Don't Matter To Me," by Bread and then "Lay Lady Lay" by Bob Dylan.....and my favorite line out of that Bob Dylan song I heard from the late Lan Roberts on 950/KJR on day....."lay lady lay across my leaky ol' waterbed...." and it's funny Lan really had a waterbed!!!

Anyone else remember their first couple of songs you played when you got started in the biz, hmmmmmmmmmm?
 
"Rihannon" Fleetwood Mac
 
GREAT subject!

"Living After Midnight" by Judas Priest. It was at 1201am, so not exactly a subtle choice on my part.
then..."Slow Ride" live version by Foghat...mainly just picked a really long song so my buddy and I could start looking though all the records at the station and try to put together a show for the first time.

The Judas Priest tune was a new song then...but that was 29 years ago.
 
For me....'Nights on Broadway' by the Bee Gees on AM 1420 KITI in Centrailia. I was 13.
 
Absolutely too terrified at the time to remember anything but my loose bowels. For God's sake the microphone was ON!
 
IndigoCoyote said:
GREAT subject!

"Living After Midnight" by Judas Priest. It was at 1201am, so not exactly a subtle choice on my part.
then..."Slow Ride" live version by Foghat...mainly just picked a really long song so my buddy and I could start looking though all the records at the station and try to put together a show for the first time.

The Judas Priest tune was a new song then...but that was 29 years ago.
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You know, some of the COOLEST CHRs I've ever known used to play "Living After Midnight" after midnight and it mixes in clean with anything CHR in the '80s. KHIT was one, KNBQ was another. I even heard it once on KUBE circa summer '83.......

That song had just the right sound for CHR in the '80s, from beginning to end (just play it again if ya don't believe me). Why it never became a CHR radio party staple is beyond me. It's STILL a kickass party jam - I even heard it on the Music Choice Party Favorites channel a week ago.

Yes, Judas Priest was a heavy metal band, but I can't understand why "You Shook Me All Night Long" AC/DC (which was shock treatment coming out of a Janet Jackson tune) got far more airplay on nighttime CHR than this song, which has a far more KILLER rhythm and melody than "You Shook Me All Night Long" ever had........
 
Jan. 2, 1970; I was one month away from my 15th birthday (lied about my age to get the job) and the first song I played was "One Tin Soldier", the version by the Canadian group "Original Caste".
A more dramatic moment was the second song I cued up.
Like others have already mentioned here, I was pretty nervous and fumbly slapped on the wrong side of John Lennon's latest release "Cold Turkey". Those of that time might recall that the B-side to that one was Yoko singing (wailing really), "Don't Worry Kyoko (mama's only looking for a hand in the snow)"
Within thirty seconds the station manager came cycloning into the control room, shrieking (in a tone not unlike Yoko's); "Get that crap off of my radio station!!"
I thought for certain that I would be fired.
I wasn't.
That came later at different stations for different reasons.
 
Hey - I wouldn't hire any air talent who wasn't fired at least once in their radio career. Wouldn't trust 'em, either.

My first song was, on a "cosmopolitan country-western" station that actually covered a lot of farm country in the midwest, and skirted several medium markets, that big ol'd Bakersfielf-styled hillbilly hit "Hello, Out There" by Miss Lawanda Lindsay. It was early 1974 and in hot rotation, plus the intro on the 45 hadn't developed a lot of cue burn yet, and it seemed like an opening song. Then I stumbled over my own name.

God only knows what I played next. Maybe Barbara Fairchild with "The Teddy Bear Song." Later got yelled at for playing six females in a row. Probably an early diva-appreciation gene going into action. After all, who wouldn't want to hear a real sad album cut from Tammy Wynette right about now on the Country King? Only seems appropriate.
 
Goldilocks94941 said:
Hey - I wouldn't hire any air talent who wasn't fired at least once in their radio career. Wouldn't trust 'em, either.
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Getting fired is simply the radio industry's way of saying "Hi"..........
 
Jeez! First song. IT was the 70's. As Robin Williams quipped, "If you remember the 70's you weren't really there." But I do remember my last song at WOXR (later internet pioneer WOXY). Grateful Dead.."Goin' Down the Road feelin' Bad/China Cat Sunflower." Hey, what could they do? Fire Me?
 
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