Re: WODS Music Screw Ups

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@bit-net.com>]

Mark Watson wrote:
>
>    A couple of weeks ago, on a Saturday night, while "Harper Valley PTA" by
>Jeanne C. Riley was playing, song just disappeared half way through,
>followed by several seconds of dead air, then a jingle and another song.


Sure seems like an odd song for a tight-listed oldies station to play.  (1) 
it's country, & (2) it's more or less a novelty song.  I wonder what kind 
of research told them to play that one.  Certainly not a song I'd ever want 
to hear again.




>Later that same night, "Knock 3 Times" by Dawn met a similar fate, except
>after the several seconds of dead air, Jim Clark did his chatter into the
>scheduled stop set before the next "12 in a row" as if nothing happened.
>
>     This past Thursday night, on the "Thursday Night Countdown"  Patrick
>Callahan came out of "Just Dropped In" by Kenny Rogers/1st Edition, and read
>his intro and tidbit about the #3 song this week in 1968, "Simple Simon" by
>1910 Fruitgum Company. The first few seconds of "Just Dropped In" started to
>play, quickly disappearing as Callahan kept on chatting as if all was OK,
>then "Simon Says" started. In the middle of second verse, it sudeenly dumps,
>a few seconds of dead air, and Callahan jumps in wondering what happened,
>and starts the song over again. There have been a few other similar flubs
>that I have heard over the past few weeks also.
>
>    Does anyone know what WODS is using for their music playback system in
>their new studios? Too many screw ups for a major market station, IMHO.
>
>  Mark Watson