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Post by mga707 on Feb 27, 2013 12:48:12 GMT -5
On an aside, do you recall WWDJ's short-lived slogan "Pass the J"? Wow! that's right up there with "You've got KOME on your radio" in the 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' department! (KOME was a legendary Bay area FM station)
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Post by chrislc on Mar 1, 2013 20:21:29 GMT -5
My stations in Albany did not play "Jungle Fever" either. In fact, I heard this song for the first time 2 years ago when I heard the first rebroadcast of an AT40 from this time period. I was rather shocked that I had not heard a top 10 hit before. BTW, chrisic if you read this, maybe you can confirm. But I think Albany stations like WTRY and WPTR copied the NYC stations for their playlists back then, making the Albany market an extension of the NYC market to some degree. And on the other thread is a comment about "Black Dog". Now I DID hear that song a lot on the aforementioned top 40 stations. Hi dukedeb sorry I just saw this. I don't think WTRY copied WABC, anyway. WMCA was the other station I had listened to in NYC but in 1970 WMCA went talk. If anything, I got the impression that WTRY had a slightly harder sound than WABC, more 70s soul and rock, and I remember WPTR being more AC than WTRY - more mainstream - so maybe WPTR was very close to WABC - without Ingram and Cousin and Harrison and Lundy of course! My first PD, Sky McDougall, did morning drive on WTRY in the early 1980s. His sound fit right in on that station, I think. One more thing about WABC that I always have wondered about. I don't remember ever hearing Wilson Pickett on WABC in the 1960s. I wonder what that was all about.
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Post by dukelightning on Mar 1, 2013 20:46:21 GMT -5
McDougall in the morning right? He was followed in the morning drive position by Rick Mitchell or Mitch Richell as he said. BTW, I did an internship in the news department at WTRY in late 1981 so I would have probably met Sky McDougall at some point. Can't remember him though. The only personality I remember is the day time DJ although his name escapes me at the moment.
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Post by rgmike on Mar 2, 2013 0:01:34 GMT -5
I don't remember ever hearing Wilson Pickett on WABC in the 1960s. I wonder what that was all about. check out the old WABC surveys here: www.musicradio77.com/surveys.htmlThey played many of Pickett's hits.
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Post by chrislc on Mar 2, 2013 11:22:14 GMT -5
I don't remember ever hearing Wilson Pickett on WABC in the 1960s. I wonder what that was all about. check out the old WABC surveys here: www.musicradio77.com/surveys.htmlThey played many of Pickett's hits. They charted some of his songs but they really underplayed them, compared to national airplay. Land Of A Thousand Dances for example, which they played in power rotation, but only by Cannibal. Those WABC charts (and most other stations of course) had a lot of "on paper only" songs, that almost never got played. It's fine, but I just wonder what the reason was with Pickett.
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Post by bobbo428 on Mar 2, 2013 21:21:26 GMT -5
I never heard "Jungle Fever" until 1984, when a local oldies station had a syndicated program called "Music and Memories." I've only heard it on the radio once or twice since.
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Post by robynwatts on Mar 2, 2013 21:21:45 GMT -5
I've wondered since the recent first time I heard it, how it got on the air. Any clue? How many times has this been asked? My local Top 40 station back in '72 (KTKT) played it, and I don't recall any backlash or controversy at the time. Same for the other two "orgasm songs" of the 70s: "Pillow Talk" and "Love To Love You Baby". And, up the road in Phoenix, KRIZ had a special edit that was played called "Jungle Krizz". Instead of the "orgasms", you would hear a bunch of drops (recordings taken from movies or TV shows) inserted in it's place (which made the song sound like one of the "Mod, Mod World" segments from "Laugh-In). Robyn
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