Jody Thornton wrote:

Just one other thing that irks me, so Classic Rock stations which have Pink Floyd's "... Brick in the Wall" on their system:  please source the single version (you can get it from "... Collection of Dance Songs" easily enough).  Then you can tack on the LP version ending using your editing system.  Now you'd have a track that wouldn't sound cludgy on the start of the vocal.  The single intro is not on the Wall of course, so it sounds horrible on the radio.

100% Agree.

1050 CHUM used to play the very tail end of "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" segueing into "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" back in the day. Boom 97.3 plays that exact same edit (and so do I on ClassicHitsOnline.com  )

Just a footnote: the version on "A Collection of Great Dance Songs" isn't the official single version. Although that version starts the same, it goes longer than the single version, which fades during the closing guitar solo before the old man starts screaming about meat and pudding. (I actually just discovered this myself a few months ago).

Another one that bugs me is "Jet Airliner" by The Steve Miller Band. Most stations appear to be playing it from Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits 1974-78, and you can hear the few remaining notes from the previous segueing track, "Threshold". It takes only a few seconds to do a nice clean edit of that song, but I guess a lot of stations can't be bothered.


PJ

 

How about "Listen to the Radio", originally performed and co-written by Tom Robinson, which would later become a hit in Canada with its cover by the Pukka Orchestra.

Then there's also "Song on the Radio" by Al Stewart, a song he wrote as kind of a lark, as his label Arista Records wanted another hit single, another song on the radio.


PJ

Chrisphen wrote:

All of those are insignificant in the light of this classic.

Good ol' Elmer and Bugs. That's how most of us Generation Xers and Boomers became exposed to opera music! 


PJ

 

RadioActive wrote:

paterson1 wrote:

CBLFT hasn't been used on air as the call letters for decades.  Radio-Canada is on channel 1101 on Bell Fibe.

Most stations - with the exception of City - do not use their call letters. But that doesn't mean they're not there. CTV Toronto is still CFTO, Global's local signal remains CIII and the CBC has officially been CBLT since their Sept. 8, 1952 sign-on. 

As for it changing to CBLF, I haven't been able to find any confirmation of it. All the info I looked at still has it officially registered as CBLFT.

You're probably right. Wikipedia still has the station listed as CBLFT, although I seem to remember seeing a test pattern on the station a few years back that said CBLF. 

Maybe they couldn't fit all five call letters on it. 


PJ
 

andysradio wrote:

Interesting! The only other ex AM sites I can think that is still standing in the area are CJTN Trenton and CHML. Others?

I believe CHML's towers were taken down about a couple of months ago. I seem to remember someone posting the pictures here a little while back.


PJ
 

RadioActive wrote:

Not that the U.S. rules are better - you can say what it's for, but you have to list every single potential side effect from headaches and diarrhea to death.

"Might include side effects, such as hallucinations of The Grim Reaper or The Headless Horseman coming to get you."  



PJ
 

Reminds me of a station ID that 97.7 HTZ-FM used to run during the 1990s:

"Vote now for the Top 9 at 9...or we'll play Michael Bolton!!!"   



PJ

paterson1 wrote:

I have heard that CFOS could flip to FM sometime later in the summer, but no firm date.  CFOS generally plays a wide swath of music as well, but tends to be a bit more jarring with more rock cuts

A sampling of yesterday's playlist included the likes of "Teacher Teacher" by 38 Special and "Jump in Line (Shake, Senora)" by Harry Belafonte.

Mind you, a lot of Gen-Xers are probably familiar with the latter from its usage in the movie Beetlejuice. 



PJ
 

I listened to Zoomer 92.3 online the other night and I noticed the playlist on their overnight show, The All-Night Jukebox, differed from that of the Toronto Zoomer. I don't know if that's just temporary, although I don't suppose it costs that much more to run your own overnight show if it's going jockless. 

The Owen Sound station doesn't show recently played songs (as of yet), but I assume their playlist is as broad as their Toronto counterpart. I don't know the market, but I'm thinking wide playlists work better in smaller communities than they do in places like metropolitan Toronto, judging by the likes of CJBQ Belleville, which seems to play every damn thing under the sun.

Good on Moses to decry stations that play the same 40 songs "over and over and over". (Hmm, that tagline sounds kinda familiar...  )



PJ

mace wrote:

Personally, I think the City of Toronto will get plain boring rain. However areas to the west of the city and anywhere north of Hwy 7, freezing rain is much more likely.

According to The Weather Network app, the daytime temperatures in the GTHA are supposed to be in the plus range for the next several days, so that sounds accurate.


PJ