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RE: Lyric edits/insertions



At 07:03 PM 5/9/97 -0400, Roger Kirk wrote:
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>Donna Halper wrote:
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>>..record promoters would do almost anything for the PDs of those   
>stations...
>
>When RKO passed on "Crocodile Rock" to add "The Relay" to their chart,   
>MCA was crushed.  Reasoning: the Who were more hip and two adds from one   
>label would upset other labels.

I don't ever remember hearing "The Relay" on 'RKO, but if I'm not mistaken
that was around the time they were trying to sound like an AOR and, frankly,
I didn't like them much in that period.  Kind of ironic that "Crocodile
Rock" was one of Elton John's biggest hits and "The Relay" was a stiff.

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