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From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant)
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Subject: Re: Is Springsteen losing it?
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 08:55:06 EDT
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{ Taste Me, Taste Me... }
 
A "Hit Radio" station is not NECESSARILY Top 40.  All it means is that they
play the hell out of popular songs.  I never listened to WROR, I'll admit,
however a friend of mine who was an engineer there gave me a tour through
the place to give me a chance to drool over their studios.  (Nice equipment)
 
Well, I guess you may be right.  Not ALL radio stations jumped on "Dancing
in the Dark", but it was in Billboard's "Most Added Records" section (128
adds this week), 129 reporting record.  Also, there seems to be a lawsuit
with CBS records and a radio station in Chicago.  It seems that a stations
competitors (I can't remember the call letters) beat them to playing the
single by about four hours.  So, to get revenge, the radio station in question
SOMEHOW got ahold of the entire album and played the whole album with a 
couple of commercial breaks in the middle.  CBS is sueing, I think.
 
As to Top 40 tastes, you may be right.  What may have happened is that
the record company in question released the single too late and everyone
was sick of it because it was played so much off the album.  They did not
"Strike While The Iron Was Hot", per se.
 
More amusement:  "Radio & Records", a magazine devoted almost entirely to
radio, debuted "Dancing in the Dark" at #4.  The Police didn't even debut
so high with "Wrapped Around My Finger", I don't think.  The highest I had
ever seen was Asia's "Don't Cry" at #9.  (Made some money off that one from
a friend who insisted that the song would go nowhere.)
 
--
"We'd be listening to the radio so loud and so strong..." -- Jim Steinman
                                     Peter Merchant