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Post by tico on Apr 6, 2006 9:35:21 GMT -5
Now on XM's 90s channel, "Show Me the Way" by Styx. On the 80s channel, "19" by Paul Hardcastle.
Also on the 90s channel, "Prayer For the Dying" by Seal, followed by "All For Love" by Color Me Badd.
This post just keeps growing. The 80s channel is now playing "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" by the Moody Blues.
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Post by tico on Apr 6, 2006 10:31:45 GMT -5
Seduction, "It Takes Two" on XM's 90s channel now.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 6, 2006 12:50:47 GMT -5
Not to be nitpicky, but satellite stations as a rule tend to play a wider mix of music than conventional stations.
My original point in starting this thread was to note times when your average radio station threw on a song you really hadn't heard in ages. (Unlike the ones they tell you you haven't heard in ages, but in fact they just played three days ago...)
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Post by tico on Apr 7, 2006 1:10:18 GMT -5
I'll probably put a self-imposed moratorium of listing songs heard on XM unless I hear something really obscure, like "Beat So Lonely" by Charlie Sexton (1986).
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Post by Hervard on Apr 7, 2006 10:22:43 GMT -5
This morning, I heard "Hopefully" by Rick Astley on WEFM. A few songs later, they played "Only A Lonely Heart Sees" by Felix Cavaliere (of course that song isn't very obscure to me, since it's on the Barry Scott Lost 45's that I have and I listen to that CD a lot.
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Post by tico on Apr 7, 2006 12:06:11 GMT -5
Last night, my radio managed to pick up some extra signals from far-away places and I heard "Jesus He Knows Me" by Genesis. The station was on 104.5, which I'm guessing is either KBYO Tallulah, LA or WXRR Hattiesburg-Laurel. JHKM isn't obscure to me since I have this on a Genesis greatest hits CD.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 7, 2006 12:52:20 GMT -5
This morning, I heard "Hopefully" by Rick Astley on WEFM. Was this released before or after "Hopelessly?" WHCN, a "classic hits" station out of Hartford, has an "80's at 8" show weekday mornings, and once in a while they play something way out of the ordinary. Today I heard Joe Jackson's "You Can't Get What You Want."
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Post by Hervard on Apr 7, 2006 15:07:38 GMT -5
LOL, I meant "Hopelessly"
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Post by mst3k on Apr 7, 2006 17:29:27 GMT -5
Heard two songs today on WDUV that aren't really obscure (at least on Soft AC), but it was interesting hearing them programmed back-to-back since they're from the same soundtrack album: "Look What You've Done To Me" by Boz Scaggs and "Love The World Away" by Kenny Rogers.
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Post by tico on Apr 7, 2006 23:47:59 GMT -5
Today on urban AC WKXI-FM: "Run To You" by Whitney Houston.
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Post by Libra on Apr 8, 2006 11:58:56 GMT -5
I hear "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp very often on Joe FM. Of Supertramp's catalogue, it's the song they play the most, and yet it didn't even go Top 40!
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Post by Moonshadow on Apr 8, 2006 12:48:21 GMT -5
I hear "Breakfast in America" by Supertramp very often on Joe FM. Of Supertramp's catalogue, it's the song they play the most, and yet it didn't even go Top 40! That song is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, though those guys sure did love their Wurlitzer.
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Post by Libra on Apr 8, 2006 13:24:44 GMT -5
A few minutes ago I heard "Waiting For Tonight" by Tom Petty on WIDL, a semi-local Hot AC.
I find it hard to believe that a song that sounds like that one does would only hit #33 on the pop chart.
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Post by jdcfan on Apr 8, 2006 23:08:31 GMT -5
I don't know if people here are listing songs heard on speciality shows, but tonight I heard a lot of obscure songs on Todd Michael's Saturday Night 80s, so I'm going to list some of them... Here is a sample of some obscure songs I heard in the past 2 hours:
Donna Allen - Serious Olivia Newton John - Xanadu The Fixx - Are We Ourselves Kenny Loggins - I'm Free (Heaven Help The Man) Haircut One Hundred - Love Plus One Linda Ronstadt - Get Closer
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Post by derek on Apr 9, 2006 14:54:54 GMT -5
I heard Amber's "This Is Your Night" on Q102 a few days/weeks ago. The song isn't obsure to me, but it was obscure actually hearing it on Q102, lol.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 10, 2006 20:20:36 GMT -5
Right now, on WEFM, they're playing "Your Secret's Safe With Me" by Michael Frank, an AC-only hit from the fall of 1985.
I've heard tons of obscure hits on that station tonight. Actually, I'm surprised that they're even playing music, as they're usually running some ball game or other at night.
Anyway, I tried to put together a sample hour of the station, but the only problem is, they play about three or four jazz pieces every hour and, since I don't really know my smooth jazz music (and I can't very well do a Google Search for the lyrics for obvious reasons!), that left a few holes:
7:00 - Too Much Heaven/The Bee Gees 7:05 - (jazz piece) 7:10 - The One You Love/Glenn Frey 7:14 - (jazz piece) 7:18 - Sharing The Night Together/Dr. Hook 7:20 - The Power Of Love/Celine Dion 7:25 - Commercials 7:28 - (Dance With The) Guitar Man/Duane Eddy 7:30 - You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine/Lou Rawls 7:35 - (jazz piece) 7:38 - Just Remember I Love You/Firefall 7:42 - Cupid/I've Loved You For A Long Time/The Spinners 7:45 - (jazz piece) 7:49 - Something Better To Do/Olivia Newton-John 7:52 - Willing To Forgive/Aretha Franklin 7:56 - Commercials 7:59 - Thank You Fallettin' Me Be Mice Elf Again/Sly & The Family Stone
Several of those hits are songs that most radio stations no longer touch. Also, in the last fifteen minutes of the 6:00 hour alone, I heard "Sometimes It's Only Love" by Luther Vandross, "Without Your Love" by Roger Daltrey, and "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel. So it goes without saying that WEFM has an extensive library of music.
And now, they're playing "All I Ask Of You" by Barbra Streisand, from early 1989. When was the last time you heard that song on radio?
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Post by tico on Apr 10, 2006 20:28:49 GMT -5
Is that the song Barbra did with her then-boyfriend Don Johnson?
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Post by Hervard on Apr 10, 2006 20:42:42 GMT -5
Is that the song Barbra did with her then-boyfriend Don Johnson? Nope, that was "'Til I Loved You", another great song (who knows, they might play it on WEFM someday). Since my last post, I've heard "Him" by Rupert Holmes and "I Will" by Ben Taylor, two other songs that you never hear anymore.
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Post by mst3k on Apr 10, 2006 21:17:01 GMT -5
Urgghh... just reading that, I've got it stuck in my head now. Today I heard "Breathe Your Name" by Sixpence None The Richer at CVS (different one than I usually go to, but I assume they all use the same piped-in music).
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Post by tico on Apr 11, 2006 1:20:21 GMT -5
On Jack FM today, I heard "Born To Be My Baby" from Bon Jovi.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 11, 2006 13:17:28 GMT -5
Right now, on WEFM, they're playing "Your Secret's Safe With Me" by Michael Frank, an AC-only hit from the fall of 1985. Wow, I remember this song and thought for years I'd only imagined it, since I could never find evidence of it having charted. I would have guessed it was much older than 1985. This WEFM you describe reminds me of the Long Island station WBAZ, which is one of the few AC stations that still really sounds like the old-school AC format, especially in the evenings.
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Post by jimmy74747 on Apr 11, 2006 13:27:44 GMT -5
On Jack FM today, I heard "Born To Be My Baby" from Bon Jovi. The fact that you consider that song obscure shows how playlists differ in different areas of the country. Along the Hartford/NYC/Philly corrdior, that song is still played on Hot AC stations quite frequently.
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Post by mst3k on Apr 11, 2006 17:27:39 GMT -5
Today I heard "Breathe Your Name" by Sixpence None The Richer at CVS (different one than I usually go to, but I assume they all use the same piped-in music). LOL... I posted this in the wrong thread.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 11, 2006 18:03:48 GMT -5
Today I heard "Breathe Your Name" by Sixpence None The Richer at CVS (different one than I usually go to, but I assume they all use the same piped-in music). LOL... I posted this in the wrong thread. Unless the CVS that you were shopping at was playing the radio instead of piped-in music.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 12, 2006 13:48:16 GMT -5
This isn't such an obscure song, but I felt it worth mentioning here. Yesterday afternoon, I heard "I Want You Back" by the Jackson Five on two AC stations at the exact same time. What are the odds?
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Post by tico on Apr 14, 2006 22:03:14 GMT -5
Today on WYOY: "If I Had A Million Dollars" from the Barenaked Ladies. Y101 has an 80s/90s retro hour at noon and that's when they played it. It's the first time I've heard it.
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Post by Michael1973 on Apr 15, 2006 8:18:33 GMT -5
One afternoon this week, I heard Paul McCartney's "Take It Away" on the local Lite FM.
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Post by tico on Apr 18, 2006 10:12:17 GMT -5
We interrupt this moratorium on XM-listed songs to report that they played "Hole Hearted" by Extreme on their Flight 26 channel.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 18, 2006 10:40:27 GMT -5
I forgot to mention that I heard "Shine A Little Love" by Electric Light Orchestra on WEFM the other day. That was their only #1 hit (on R&R anyway).
I heard several obscure songs on WEFM last night, including "Somewhere In The Night" by Barry Manilow.
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Post by Hervard on Apr 20, 2006 10:39:59 GMT -5
It also seems to me that I recently heard "Somebody's Knockin'" by Terri Gibbs and "Can't Smile Without You" by Barry Manilow on the same station recently.
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