Re: Thursday Night Countdown Chart)

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 16 Mar 00,  Martin J. Waters wrote:

>         Basically, I agree that it's a problem. But just blame it on the
> people who were responsible for making and liking all those bad recordings
> (oh, that would be, ahhh, all of us!). 

I kinda miss "My Boomerang Won't Come Back!" and "Purple People Eater."

>         Gee, I wonder if WBZ has thrown out its records <g>? Actually, WBZ
> always was an odd duck. A lot less rocky in its music than WMEX, although
> another way to say it is that their music was a broader range. They had the
> Rolling Stones and Frank Sinatra both on there. There were some songs WBZ
> never played that were hits on WMEX. For no special reason, other than it's
> one of my favorite songs, I seem to remember that, for example, "Ask the
> Lonely," an early Four Tops, was either not on at all or barely on WBZ.

I remember WBZ censoring "When I think of all the crap I learned in high 
school..."  I would't have known what the song really said if I hadn't 
heard it on WMEX.


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