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Post by tpanther775 on Jan 6, 2012 10:36:34 GMT -5
Sausalito Summernight by Diesel from 1981 was another one that had the shorter version played. They actually had 3 versions of that song. 2 singles and an album version. AT40 played the original single version released in America. The other single version was slightly longer than the AT40 played version.
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Post by adam31 on Jan 7, 2012 17:05:12 GMT -5
Drove me crazy anytime AT40 edited a Top 10 song, but let a song in the 30s play in its entirety.
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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Jan 7, 2012 17:16:24 GMT -5
Editing is pretty normal on AT40. They have to do it so that it can allow for each hour in the broadcast to run virtually an equal amount of time.
I did listen to #2 on the August 2, 1986 broadcast, and I noticed there was some editing in Peter Gabriel's then-recent #1 song "Sledgehammer".
That same broadcast did play Timex Social Club's "Rumors" (#14 that week, I think?) and it was a more complete version instead of the shorter version.
However, I do remember hearing the nearly-full version of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)" on the November 26, 1983 broadcast (which Premiere hasn't re-aired as yet), and I would have thought they played the edited (or single) version if it wasn't in the #1 spot.
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Post by Mike on Jan 7, 2012 17:19:28 GMT -5
I think that could be mostly due to the fact that a Top 10 song was likely to be heard any other time of the week, but a song in the 30s...maybe not so much. For the #1 song though, cutting it would still be inexcusable, IMO.
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Post by Mike on Jan 7, 2012 17:21:27 GMT -5
Editing is pretty normal on AT40. They have to do it so that it can allow for each hour in the broadcast to run virtually an equal amount of time. I did listen to #2 on the August 2, 1986 broadcast, and I noticed there was some editing in Peter Gabriel's then-recent #1 song "Sledgehammer". That same broadcast did play Timex Social Club's "Rumors" (#14 that week, I think?) and it was a more complete version instead of the shorter version. However, I do remember hearing the nearly-full version of Lionel Richie's "All Night Long (All Night)" on the November 26, 1983 broadcast (which Premiere hasn't re-aired as yet), and I would have thought they played the edited (or single) version if it wasn't in the #1 spot. For 8/2/86, I'm thinking "Sledgehammer" 's cut job was done by Premiere, who are less inclined to take a song's position into account (though there's only been a few shortenings of a #1 song). "All Night Long" was #1 on 11/26/83, second week there.
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