Worst single edit songs

[hammondo]

Some of this is generational, some has to do with old people saying, "HEY - did I hear F*&K on the radio?", etc.

("Funked Up" is NOT a dirty word!)... UNLESS you are (not 12 years old) and a local radio salesman trying to get a sponsor in DAYTON. Believe it or not, there was a time when some of us had morals (not like now).

You said; quite annoying when you hear "you turn on CKLW" in place of "you turn on the radio"). Well, Man - that's the FUN of top 40 radio. Its custom for US! We are big stuff!! The same Sooner or Later call letters sound CUSTOM - "we are as big a deal as WLS...so thats why. Add "Life is a Rock" to that. In Chicago cfl played the custom with their call letters a bit before '

Note that the beginning of Mr Bojangles is crap (old man mumbling about the dog- try listen over and over in heavy rotation)... until the opening guitars. It's GREAT for an album, but when you are rying to please teeagers, they'd think that sucks!!!

The GREEN EYED LADY intro is repetitive and not the image for
"top 40" radio station trying to distinguish itself from the album rockers of the time.

I was a rock jock myself at the time.

 

[ixnay]

When the Clovers' "Love Potion #9" was placed in the soundtrack of the movie of that name, it was edited so that the final verse was a repeat of the third verse (about "kissing everything in sight", including the cop). That edit seems to have become the "standard" edit of LP#9.

Hopefully before I die I'll hear again (maybe more than once) the original final verse, which both Hollywood and the Searchers should have left alone...

"I had so much fun that I'm going back again
I wonder what'll happen with Love Potion #10
Love Potion #9..."

Charlie Adams actually played that original edit on WEEU-830 Reading PA on Valentines Day 2006.

ixnay

That's odd. I'm in Binghamton, NY and all the oldies stations here, over the years, have played and still play the original edit with those last few lines intact. I don't think I've ever heard the song without them, except for the Searchers' version, which I really don't care for at all.

The edit I described (repeating the kissing of the cop) was the one I a) heard on WOGL 98.1 Philadelphia in the late '90s and b) hear whenever I hear it (I heard it today) on the satellite speaker at the retail store in Delaware (part of a national chain) I work at. Guess it depends partly on what discs/tapes a jock or station or service has access to (or can afford).

ixnay