No Radio Ga-Ga?

Other than that, not a terrible list.

"And everything I had to know,
I heard it on my radio."
Queen

I don't think this would make anyone's best radio list, but how about "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy? It's the Twilight Zone-like story of a weird woman who traps a guy in her radio as she turns the volume down. 

"Radio by her side, Angie Baby."


 

The Donna Summer, Joni Mitchell and Rush songs are the only ones I know. The others, I don't even recognize, let alone know of them.

RA WROTE: I don't think this would make anyone's best radio list, but how about "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy? It's the Twilight Zone-like story of a weird woman who traps a guy in her radio as she turns the volume down. 

"Angie Baby" was written by Alan O'Day, who also wrote "Undercover Angel" and co-wrote "Rock and Roll Heaven".

Last edited by Doug Thompson (April 19, 2025 12:48 pm)

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

And the song that ended it all, "Video Killed The Radio Star," by The Buggles.
The first tune played on MTV.

Also a long shot, but it did get play on top 40 radio... "Theme from "WKRP in Cincinnati."


 

Sorry, on a radio roll here. My all time favourite song about radio was created for the Radio Advertising Bureau in the U.S. by Stan Freberg. Released in 1964, it's sung by Sarah Vaughan with orchestra conducted by Quincy Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjAS4JcHVwg

Last edited by Doug Thompson (April 20, 2025 2:21 pm)

Also, "Mexican Radio" by Wall of Voodoo, "Pilot of the Airwaves" by Charlie Dore and "Magic Power" by Triumph.



PJ

Song on the Radio - Al Stewart

No huge issues with his list, I certainly didn't expect to see Alper putting up the top notch Left of the Dial by the Replacements or Border Radio by the Blasters on there.

Van's Caravan, or Around the Dial by the Kinks perhaps.

As an R.E.M. from near beginning ('84) to last tour, about a dozen times in all, I'm certainly not going to object to Radio Free Europe (but there's no indication that song is about the radio network, Stipe back then was very into the way words and syllables sounded or represented other ideas)

Last edited by Fleadh (April 23, 2025 8:16 pm)

I Bet You They Won’t Play This Song on the Radio - Monty Python


https://youtu.be/WTzM3NnjUuw