Re: Short Rotaion... (was: newspaper article)

["Greg Franklin" <franklig@earthlink.net>]

> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 14:45:09 +0000 (/etc/localtime)
> From: Jeremy Mixer <mixer@zoso.net>
>
> There was one time a Bangor jock went to play this song and he said "I bet
> it's been awhile since you heard this one! Yeah right! Here's Staind...."
>
> another time before playing U2's "Stuck in a moment..." I heard someone
> say "Lots of great music coming up, including this, that, this and that
> but first, let's get this U2 song out of the way"
>
> Maybe not the most professional approach, but extremely humerous of you
> ask me........the question is would I find it funny if I didn;t work in
> radio or know anything about it?

In the early 1980s Clarke Ingram (obligatory BRI reference) worked at KZZP,
the top Phoenix CHR station of that era. I remember when "The Reflex" by
Duran Duran was on super-hot rotation, being played about once every 1.5
hours.

As you may know, the song starts out a capella with a distinctive "da da da
da" echoey intro. After it had been cued for the umpteenth time that day,
the KZZP jocks (not Ingram) talked audibly over the intro between the "da da
da das", saying "Oh no! Oh no! Not again!" etc. Hilarious as hell.

I think everyone finds it funny when they (station and listener) recognize
that a song is being played to an early grave.

Greg