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She could have been playing "You Light Up My Life" over and over.
Florida woman attacks roommate for playing the same song over and over.
Florida woman attacks roommate for playing the same song over and over.
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Will never forget back in Shreveport, when a new radio station was being started up, they played one song on an endless loop. 24/7 for days - and I mean DAYS! The station was hyped to be new and different, with an emphasis on fun. The song? "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha HAAAA!"
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Napoleon XIV ! I have the 45! the flip side has the label printed in mirror image and the song plays backwards!
I imagine there were a few local padded cells with folks rocking back and forth mumbling that tune after a week or two of that!
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Oh yeah - forgot about the B-side! Used to think it was a cute song...
From the Wikipedia website:
"KTUX began life on April 1, 1985, debuting as a contemporary hit radio station, "Fun Radio Tux 99." The month before Tux 99 officially debuted, the 98.9 frequency continuously played the 1966 novelty song by Napoleon XIV "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" The first official song played on Tux 99 was "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince. The KTUX studios were originally located at the transmitter site near Greenwood, LA. The original on-air lineup included Bobby Cook on the AM Drive, Cornstock at Middays, John Steel on the PM Drive, Machine Gun Dave 7pm to midnight, and The Moondog on overnights.
Within the bounds of Top 40 hits, TUX99 occasionally altered the ratios of its playlist through the early 1990s; each of these "format changes" was preceded by a stunting event, with the station playing the Napoleon XIV novelty song on constant repeat for several days. The song was occasionally played on normal rotation as well, acting as a sort of theme song for the station."
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Changing the subject somewhat I miss DJs with names like Machine Gun and Moondog. I listen to two rock stations in particular and they're fine but not fun if you know what I mean. I suspect part of that is our age - and advertizing etc - I suspect another part is that rock and roll is old now (yes and sigh so are we) - when Sir Mick is 77 years old - and a sir! it was bound to happen. Oh and Rock stations never tell you what time it is.
crawls back under rock.
crawls back under rock.
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Shouldn't you roll back under that rock?
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Was listening to our local station (CJBQ am 800) one night and they had a contest for a Donny Osmond album to the 10th caller. After 45 minutes they still hadn't got to 10.
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Had they gotten to 2?
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I know!
Actually I look back and realize just how different the world was. Yes we have had a million conversations about this, but, just a huge lack of homogeneity. Growing up in Belleville (2 hours east of Toronto) CJBQ AM was really our only radio choice. At night I could sometime listen to CHUM and CFTR am out of Toronto - and in my mid teen years I got a stereo for my room (quadrophonic!) and could pick up FM from Rochester.
When I was 14 my father and I built a boat over the winter (a lifeboat conversion) in a friend's garage. Every Saturday we would go, turn on the heaters and I would turn on the tube am radio to you guessed it CJBQ. As a teenager the talk radio was so annoying (still is mostly come to that) but, as Doug has pointed out the play list was really short. And covered a number of Genre's.
It also meant that if you went somewhere else you got to hear songs that weren't part of the local market. I still remember going to Toronto to visit my aunt and uncle and purchasing the 45 A Fifth of Beethoven - it didn't show up on local radio for three more months and I felt like a trend setting savant.
There is so much that is good about instantaneous communication, the interweb and this world (especially thing like this forum) but the price is that uniqueness - which has its own good and bad.
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Well, I think that with or without the internet that loss of diversity would occur as entertainment business like every other heads for the bottom line, Modern communications and networking just make it easier. Why have multiple playlists if in multiple markets when paying for the use of one might be a bit cheaper. Or have now national hosts and programs rather than individual market driven ones. And so on.
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"Cops arrested Mary Ann for domestic battery, and she's not allowed to have any contact with the cousin for now."
I have to wonder if that is really punishment or relief?
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If we're talking Dj's, we gotta mention this guy.... 
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The World Boyscout Jamboree in 2019 was held in West Virginia. Take Me Home, Country Roads was on constant repeat.
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Love the wolfman!If we're talking Dj's, we gotta mention this guy....
OH YOU THOUGHT SHE WAS DIGGIN’ YOU BUT SHE WAS DIGGIN’ ME
seriously he was before my time - but the perfect example
maybe Johnny Fever?
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All right fellow babies!!! Give it to me straight doctor, I can take it!!....
Used to listen to shortwave at night on my Telefunken Rondo - Radio Moscow had Moscow mailbag. I can still hear the theme song. Would also listen to Jean Shepherd and hockey games from Montreal with Roger Doucet singing the Canadian National Anthem (much better than ours) and Foster Hewitt from Toronto. Guess what? I still have that Telefunken downstairs in the playroom. Still works.