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RE: Lyric edits/insertions
- Subject: RE: Lyric edits/insertions
- From: Steve Ordinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 11:10:58 -0400
At 07:03 PM 5/9/97 -0400, Roger Kirk wrote:
>
>Donna Halper wrote:
>
>>..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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