RE: Brown Eyed Girl -- "Turn up the radio" (Was Re: Market Research)

["David Merrill" <dmerrill@exchange.com>]

Also of note from the NY Message Board, WABC never played "My Ding-A-Ling"
despite it being #1 on competitor 97 WWDJ.  WBOS's George Taylor Morris was
a jock on the great 97DJ.
- -Dave

> >
> > And probably badly hurt by silly airplay bans.
>
> I have not gone thru a complete scan, but checking every 6
> weeks apart on
> the WABC lists from 67-68, no sign of Van....
>
> White Rabbit, Light My Fire no problem, so either it was
> banned from WABC
>  and then probably WLS) or it just didn't play well in NY. Be
> curious if
> WMCA played it.
>
> I heard this 10-15 years ago, but at the time it was claimed
> that Brown Eye
> Girl was the most played song in the history of WBCN.
>
>

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