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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: Speaking of "Goodbye To Love" |
| Date | Sun, 03 Jul 2005 02:02:37 -0400 |
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From: "Michael McCartney" <michaelmccartney@yahoo.com>
To: <audities@smoe.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 1:29 AM
Subject: Re: Speaking of "Goodbye To Love"
> Speaking of "Goodbye To Love" from The Carpenters...there was a
> beautiful music station (the classic "elevator music" that no longer
> exists where I live) that played a few songs with vocals and that
> pop rock classic song had Tony's guitar solo edited out for (what
> seemed like) fifteen years!
Take heart: a revised version of this format has been undergoing a
kind of underground AM resurgence, and it might eventually make it out
to Hawaii. Here's a recent article from the Weekly Dig about Boston's
version, which includes the remarkable information that the station
broadcasts out of a 14'x14' unit in a self-storage facility in North
Cambridge!
http://tinyurl.com/bh4dn
WJIB has an astonishingly deep and idiosyncratic catalogue. Late one
night a few weeks ago, I heard, in the course of about an hour, Benny
Goodman's "You Turned the Tables On Me," Chad and Jeremy's "A Summer
Song" and -- shockingly, for me -- the Neon Philharmonic's "Forever
Hold Your Peace," a song I have never heard before on the radio.
My very first radio job was at an easy-listening station in San
Angelo, Texas in the late '80s, when I was just out of high school.
Because I was the overnight guy and no one in management ever listened
to me, I would do things like play the Durutti Column alongside Ray
Conniff and collect every version of Francis Lai's "A Man And A Woman"
(you know, "da-daaaaaaa-da, numma-numma-na, numma-numma-na *ping!*
nah-nah-nah-numma-numma-na, numma-numma-na") in the station's
library -- there were at least a couple dozen -- and play them all in
a row. I love that song. Even more so since my friend Tim Walters
taught me his version:
A man, a woman and a duck, woman and a duck
Inside my Datsun pickup truck, Datsun pickup truck
For you I'll only charge a buck, only charge a buck
To see a man, woman and a duck...
S
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