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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Is Springsteen losing it?
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Date: Thu, 24-May-84 02:29:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 24 02:29:31 1984
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First off, WROR is not a HitRadio station.  It is a Muzak station.  They
play easy listening and adult contemporary. (that's what Muzak is, isn't
it?)  I'm not surprised to hear that they played Air Supply on near
one-hour rotation.  (They played Spandau Ballet's "True" a whole lot --
I remember)

Secondly, Springsteen's new single "Dancing in the Dark" was aired
*immediately* on Boston's HitRadio station, WHTZ.  It was a Pick of the
Week and landed in WHTZ's Top 40 at number 40 simultaneously, and was
the most played song I heard for a few days (until the Cars' new song
came out).  However, I read in Billboard that DitD was not aired right
off the bat everywhere -- WPLJ in NYC was either waiting on the album's
release or some other stations to pick it up first.  (Is WHTZ playing it
yet?)  I guess now everybody'll be playing it, since it's coming onto
the nation's Top 40 at number 36.

Lastly, true, Springsteen is not a top40 artist.  One of my favorite
Springsteen tunes (Prove it All Night) died at number 33 and I was
mortified, since they had been playing it for over a month in NYC before
that (late spring '78) and it seemed to be a real hit.  (Sigh.
Sometimes, top40 could have more taste ...)

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