Wow, I feel like I have heard that version before but it was...a long, long time ago.
I don't think it counts as the worst edit. It's one of the more creative ones I've heard, TBH.
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Worst radio edit of all time
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Wow, I feel like I have heard that version before but it was...a long, long time ago.
I don't think it counts as the worst edit. It's one of the more creative ones I've heard, TBH.
You mean like "woke"?
Warning! Toxic culture-war politics dead ahead!
To me, "woke" is the past tense of "wake." As in "I woke up this morning."
If you seriously don't know how "woke" has been used for at least the last half-dozen years, I suggest you look it up.
Regarding KODACHROME, WABC in New York also had an in-house edit, similar to what Ed remembers from WBZ. Heard it played, obviously re-created, as it's in stereo, on this show recently:
Radio Bob's 1973 Top 10s Month-by-Month (on Mixcloud)
It's at 2:28:30 in the show. Unfortunately, Mixcloud doesn't make it easy to fast-forward without a subscription.
Funny how they edited out "crap" in 1973, but a year later they had no problem playing Elton John's "The Bitch is Back".
They also played Sylvia's "Pillow Talk", with all that moaning and heavy breathing.
Don't care. Don't use it.
Now that you mention "Pillow Talk" ... and I don't know to this day if it was done on purpose, but I recall that one week WABC put Sylvia and "I'm Gonna Love Just A Little Bit More" by Barry White next to each other in the countdown. Intentional or not, it gave Dan Ingram some good material. "Here's Sylvia, right under Barry White...." 
Ingram had a wit the likes of which we’ll never see again.Now that you mention "Pillow Talk" ... and I don't know to this day if it was done on purpose, but I recall that one week WABC put Sylvia and "I'm Gonna Love Just A Little Bit More" by Barry White next to each other in the countdown. Intentional or not, it gave Dan Ingram some good material. "Here's Sylvia, right under Barry White...."
Two very jarring edits were Roundabout by Yes and Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who. I was a teen in the 70s and grew up on big market FM radio. Went to work in small market AM radio and was in for a rude shock! "Where's the rest of the song???"
One that was done very well was Lyin' Eyes by Eagles. Was 6:07 on the FM version and (still admittedly long) 4:44 on the single, but you would have to really know that song to hear where they sliced. Very well done,
One that was done very well was Lyin' Eyes by Eagles. Was 6:07 on the FM version and (still admittedly long) 4:44 on the single, but you would have to really know that song to hear where they sliced. Very well done,
FYI All three edits were done by the various record labels. Not radio.
Chicago fans hate the chopped-up and rearranged single version of "Beginnings", but they probably wouldn't even be Chicago fans if it wasn't for that single, since it gave the band their first big hit. The single edit even invented a chorus "hook" for the song, whereas the album version is really a jazz fusion jam session and lacks one.
I figured as much. But because of the medium I chose as a teen, I had never been exposed to them so it was a bit of a shock.
All of the singles from the first album were edited by the label. Beginnings was their second single, and it stiffed when they released it the first time. They put it out again two years later, and it went Top 10.
The album versions received lots of airplay on FM rock stations. We don't know exactly how much because the airplay wasn't documented at the time.
We must not forget Dan Ingram's edits (or maybe the engineers') at WABC.
"Kodachrome" by Paul Simon -- see previous posts. But he also did some fun stuff:
"Do You Know What I Mean" by Lee Michaels -- he took the "woo" and the end and repeated it.
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce -- same thing with the "woo" .. looped the intro.
And we can't forget Paul McCartneys "My Love" .... which became "My Glove."
"Kodachrome" by Paul Simon -- see previous posts. But he also did some fun stuff:
"Do You Know What I Mean" by Lee Michaels -- he took the "woo" and the end and repeated it.
"Bad Bad Leroy Brown" by Jim Croce -- same thing with the "woo" .. looped the intro.
And we can't forget Paul McCartneys "My Love" .... which became "My Glove."
He also edited the chant at the beginning of the Bay City Rollers' "Saturday Night" to make them misspell the word.
There was also his edit of Blue Suede's "Hooked On A Feeling." He looped the "ooga chaka" intro.
He may have been involved, but at a union shop, talent did not do edits. In fact for most of his time at WABC, Dan didn't cue up records. The operations were done by union engineers. It was called a "needle drop." They had production people as well. I think Julian Breen may have been in production during Dan's time.
And I believe the term "needle drop" would be left over from the days when they played actual records... as WABC used carts. (Remember carts?)
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