Re: Custom Versions of Songs (was Some WBUR history)

["Brian Vita" <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

Um, guys, we lost track of something starting with the WOLD post last
week...these are SONGS.  Lots of artistic license used.  I don't think that
anyone actually flew Tony Bennett to the moon or left a cake out in the rain
either!

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Glazer" <hmglaz@webtv.net>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Cc: <dib9@gwi.net>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Custom Versions of Songs (was Some WBUR history)


> Dan Billings wrote:
>
> >>--- Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>
> >> wrote:
>
> >>Anyone remember the custom versions
> >> of this song that he did for different
> >> makets?
>
> >Has anyone heard custom versions of
> > the current country hit "Private Malone"
> > by David Ball. WPOR has a version that
> > replaces a line that says something
> > about that oldies station comes in strong
> > with the WPOR comes in strong.
>
> That makes no sense at all. The song is about a guy who buys a '66
> Corvette that belonged to a soldier who died in Vietnam and finds that
> the ghost of Pvt. Malone is riding with him. According to the song, the
> radio doesn't work very well, but it picks up the late night oldies show
> just fine. That makes sense, since Malone would be listening to music
> from 1966 and before. Why would the radio work especially well with a
> contemporary country station, which probably doesn't play anything from
> before _1996_?
>
> The customized versions of "Fire" (I was in the Mid-South at the time,
> and the one I heard had the call letters of Memphis' legendary
> W-H-B-Q.), "We Built this City on Rock and Roll" and "Heart of Rock and
> Roll" never bothered me. But you don't ruin a country song that tells a
> story (a rarity these days) just to get your call letters in.
>
> Howard
>