An Appreciation of Jess Cain
The Seacoast
theseacoast@maine.rr.com
Sun Feb 17 18:08:29 EST 2008
Somewhere I around here, I have a cassette of Neil Cannon on 850 playing
Bohemian Rhapsody (edited) on yes, WHDK.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill O'Neill [mailto:billohno@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 3:53 PM
To: Donna Halper
Cc: Ed Forry; boston-radio-interest@lists.bostonradio.org
Subject: Re: An Appreciation of Jess Cain
Donna Halper wrote:
> The music was very soft top-40-- we even edited out guitar bridges in
> hit songs if they were perceived as too rock and roll sounding. Very
> much like what Magic 106.7 would have great success with.
I recall that in the combo booth where the music carts were located,
there was a section for songs edited for morning use with the same cart
number but with a "-M" after it. I always figured it was to keep the
element to around three minutes but I suppose it did serve to soften it up.
Bill O'Neill
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