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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 12:39:23 GMT -5
I'm a week behind and trying to get caught up so I heard the show from March 5, 1994 today. Well during the show Casey reads off a few stations airing the show as he does several times during the show each week. One of this weeks stations was by this time my former local affiliate as I had moved to the space coast in my hometown of Jacksonville, WAPE. The irony is no one in Jacksonville heard this station mention because it was given while he was about to intro #38 which was "Gin and Juice." WAPE was in their no rap/no hard rock phase and would have edited this song and all out and edited a previous, more acceptable (to them) #38 into the show.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Mar 11, 2014 16:20:40 GMT -5
No surprise another fake top 40 station was carrying a decent show. Thank God it was on Z100 in NYC where such a funky jam would still be heard.
It was such a travesty back then there were so pop radio stations like WAPE & WPLJ carrying these countdown shows in a chopped and screwed manner like this.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 16:27:39 GMT -5
I was always one that felt like 6 days and 20 hours a week ignore, eliminate, and play whatever you want. The 4 hours you were airing a countdown LEAVE IT ALONE!! But they didn't. They removed songs out and replaced them with ones they approved of (this created a ridiculous bush league sounding issue the first time David Perry sat in) and other times if they had a different version of the song on the chart, they'd edit in that version to replace the one on the show.
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Post by mkarns on Mar 11, 2014 16:51:46 GMT -5
If they hated "Gin and Juice" so much they should have played Rick Dees instead. He usually cut it, and similar songs, for them.
But substituting another song and pretending it was in the same position is ridiculous, and confusing to many listeners. At least when WRQX locally aired Shadoe's AT40 (until dropping it in August 1991) and deleted songs, they simply aired the show if their positions didn't exist, so when Shadoe appeared to skip a number I knew what was actually in that chart position.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Mar 11, 2014 17:09:36 GMT -5
Even better, I wonder what affiliates like WAPE would've done to AT40 when "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below..." was climbing the chart in early 1971.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2014 17:13:17 GMT -5
If they hated "Gin and Juice" so much they should have played Rick Dees instead. He usually cut it, and similar songs, for them. But substituting another song and pretending it was in the same position is ridiculous, and confusing to many listeners. At least when WRQX locally aired Shadoe's AT40 (until dropping it in August 1991) and deleted songs, they simply aired the show if their positions didn't exist, so when Shadoe appeared to skip a number I knew what was actually in that chart position. Funny you say this. I actually phoned the station and told them they should just air Dees instead. Rob in his book and even in the old chat days when he was in there stated that WW1 paid stations to air the show. Makes me wonder if WAPE was one of them. Seems odd though. I don't even think Jax was a top 50 market then so I don't know that they would have done that. |
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Post by mstgator on Mar 12, 2014 17:55:37 GMT -5
What's sad is that WAPE had been a decent station not too long before that (they were one of my go-to stations when I lived in Gainesville during the late '80s). They never pulled crap like that when I was a listener.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2014 18:12:33 GMT -5
They were good when they were Power 95. Then Jeff McCartney became PD, dropped the "power" and everything sucked. The station IDs became mundane and the entire feel of the station just seemed to take a gigantic step backwards when this happened. I became an avid listener of 99.9 FM out of Daytona Beach after this. Of course it wasn't long before I moved to the space coast and had WA1A, XL 106.7, and my all time favorite station Mix 105.1 to keep me entertained.
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Post by Scott Lakefield on Mar 18, 2014 8:48:52 GMT -5
No surprise another fake top 40 station was carrying a decent show. Thank God it was on Z100 in NYC where such a funky jam would still be heard. It was such a travesty back then there were so pop radio stations like WAPE & WPLJ carrying these countdown shows in a chopped and screwed manner like this. Z100 dropped the show entirely a few months later. NYC was then without Casey until Mix 105 started airing "Casey's Hot 20" in February 1995. |
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