cledussnow

Not wrong, just different.

I would lay money that there are "radio staples" you grew up hearing that never got airplay on some of the other stations around the country.

For instance, I grew up in New Orleans and one of my favorite tunes was "Love is Like Oxygen" by The Sweet.

When I moved to central Florida in the early eighties, I NEVER heard that song even once on the radio. One time about 1987 or so I called to specifically request that tune and the DJ was like "Oh, man I haven't heard that song since I left Seattle back in 1981. I'll see if I can get it on for you". Still didn't get played...


Another great example are the "twofer sets" that get played on Classic Rock stations. Like in Orlando they always played:

Heartbreaker/Livin' Lovin' Maid - Led Zeppelin
Waitin' on the Bus/Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top
Feeling That Way/Anytime - Journey

Without fail these songs were played together. BUT in other cities they'd have different twofer pairs like:

Bye Bye Love/Moving in Stereo - Cars (on a Tacoma, WASH station)
Silver Wheels/Crazy on You - Heart (from??)
Sailing Shoes/Hey Julia/Sneakin' Sally - Robert Palmer (on a Boston station)

These three pairs were NEVER played on WDIZ. In fact, not song from the Robert Palmer set were even played individually.

Just neat to me how that works.

Chula Vista

And now with "I Heart Radio" the major stations all over the country all play the same damn thing. Sad.

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Hey, you guys don't get stuck with CanCon.

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