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22 March 2006

Radio 1981 in 30 minutes →[More:]With your tired host, WolfDaddy (at least I was tired when I recorded my voiceovers, tonight I'm feeling frisky).
post by: WolfDaddy at: 20:21 | 73 comments
i keep mixing up dog and daddy
posted by ethylene 22 March | 20:24
at least you're not otters
posted by ethylene 22 March | 20:25
woo!!!!

and Martha Quinnamberglow presents 1982 tomorrow night! : >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 20:26
i keep mixing up dog and daddy

isn't there a bandanna color that would help?
posted by jelly 22 March | 20:39
Hee hee, jelly ;-)
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 20:40
Here, this list will help.
posted by jelly 22 March | 20:49
TAKE IT AWAY!!!!!
posted by wendell 22 March | 20:50
AWAY IT HAS BEEN TAKEN!
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 20:51
lol!

I'd say -dog is paisley, and -daddy is sequined.

and the set starts with Queen too! ; >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 20:52
hehe

we need a hanky code for Mecha.
posted by jelly 22 March | 20:57
WolfDaddy, just wanted to let you know that you are providing an excellent soundtrack to my old-school Quake I deathmatching tonight.
posted by Zozo 22 March | 20:59
Give 'em some rocketlove for me zozo, and thanks!
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 21:00
After WD finishes his "chart extras" and begins the Official Top 40, it'll be significantly less rockin'...
OMG, there's a remake of one of the songs I played today on the list!!!
posted by wendell 22 March | 21:10
I need Destroyer, please.
posted by Eideteker 22 March | 21:11
Don't we all...
posted by wendell 22 March | 21:15
Lionel Richie in and out of the Commodores was just a plague on the 80s
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:24
Manhattan Transfers to Brooklyn!!!
posted by wendell 22 March | 21:30
c'mon kitty!
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:32
I feel the same thing about Streisand as you do about Richie amber.

BLEAH!
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 21:35
this song sucks...it's a snooze. After Enough is Enough, she was spent.
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:37
this is another snooze... zzzzz ... wake me when a beat is invented ; >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:38
i hope there's some dance music coming up, wolf...and Whip It.
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:40
With your tired host,

Truer words have never been spoken...this is tired ; >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:42
oh, are you gonna play Stars on 45?
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:43
No Devo, sadly. Ummmm, a 10 minute Stars on 45 medley? hee hee.
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 21:43
Not that it matters, but I'm loving it. This reminds me of what music was like before MTV destroyed it.
posted by jelly 22 March | 21:44
Popular music, that is.
posted by jelly 22 March | 21:45
Sheesh, my small hometown didn't even HAVE MTV til '87 or '88, and it was a huge political uproar when it got added. It was going to DESTROY THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN!

Actually, drunk driving on icy mountain road deaths of teenagers dropped dramatically after that.
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 21:47
now i'm just throwing up--country?????

We got MTV in 82 and that was late...i'm sorry you were so deprived but do you have to punish all of us?
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:52
So okay, it may have had it's up side but Elvira?! You just don't get gold like that anymore.
posted by jelly 22 March | 21:52
Go after Billboard hunnybunny. You can always tune out :-P
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 21:53
Well, i'll wake everyone up tomorrow night : >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:53
That was to amber, not jelly, who can stay forever :-P

And I'm probably going to veer away from Billboard in the early 90s, after soundscan became standard.
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 21:54
just use the singles charts, not the grandma charts ; >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:56
South Park's about chef and scientologypedophilia. (and it's using clips of his voice from older shows)
posted by amberglow 22 March | 21:57
Daddy . . . Shucks

posted by jelly 22 March | 21:59
I'm playing the Top 40 singles chart, or relatively close to it. Popular. Radio airplay. Not the club/dance charts. Don't know about what you Yankees were listening to, but in Houston, New Mexico, Arizona, and much of Southern California, you could hear all of these songs all over the dial all the time in 1981.

So there.

*stomps off to the angry room, changes his mind halfway, goes to the kitty box for pneumatically delivered Almond Roca instead*
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 22:04
everyone was listening to this stuff, wolfie (plus disco and new wave too)
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:07
Hay, if it's bad to love Wolfdaddy for the music he's playing, then, by God, I want to be bad. Very bad!
posted by jelly 22 March | 22:07
amber, my point being is that the WABC charts you post are remarkably similar to the national charts ... especially as you chart higher. I didn't hear much disco or new wave on the radio in 1981. In the clubs, oh very yes, but that's just not the point of my little 1965-2005 project here. So kwityerbitchin and play with jelly in the jello-pit. :-P
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 22:12
...and your Stars On 45 EXTENDED DISCO REMIX is after Juice here :-P
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 22:13
Stars on 45! (that's a start, but i'm watching you, grandma) ; >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:18
Stars on 45 with "How Many Times Can We Make John Lennon Turn Over In His Grave?"
posted by wendell 22 March | 22:26
i wonder who these people were, and why they were so popular (and got away with this)?
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:27
it was 81 when he was killed--call it a homage.
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:28
...wasn't this right before MJ bought most of the Beatles catalogue? Or no, that was late 80s. I don't know, but the full on medley is definitely Beatles-heavy.
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 22:29
he bought them much later....thriller hasn't even come out and made him the billions yet at this point.
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:31
That was not the 10 minute version StarsOnDope, that was the 16 minute version, you sadist.
posted by wendell 22 March | 22:34
of course he's a sadist--he's playing mostly slow music.
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:38
wendell, you of all people should know that Stars on 45 is a "take a dump song" yes? ;-)
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 22:39
yup...so were 12" versions of songs.
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:45
I had quit radio (the first time) when StarsOnMyNerves came out...

Where I worked was either "Stairway to Heaven" or "MacArthur Park" (the old old version). Obviously not both at the same station.
posted by wendell 22 March | 22:50
Hi, Mister Daddy with the slow hand!
posted by taz 22 March | 22:50
I think it was why KROQ played "Nowhere Girl" by B Movie when nobody else did... it was the longest song that fit their format.
posted by wendell 22 March | 22:52
the tide is high... : >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 22:56
Hi Taz!

In New Mexico the little local radio station's owner would liquid paper most of the tracks on an album, leaving very little for the DJs to play.

Until "We Are The World" came out ... he LOVED that song, and all the kids in town requested it because it was, at the very least, the chance to hear some pop artists on the local airwaves. And the DJs loved it for the chance to have a smoke break, or to run across the street to the local 7-11 for a bit to eat ... or for an extra long bathroom break.

That was all well and good, until one afternoon the record skipped on-air for about 10 minutes..........
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 22:57
a remix of Rapture? it's good tho : >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:04
yeah, i'm totally wasting my money on doing a blondie cover next, if you can think of one
posted by ethylene 22 March | 23:05
this is very advanced for 81 ; >

eth, how about sunday girl, or hanging on the telephone?
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:11
I will survive by Cake.
posted by jelly 22 March | 23:12
amber and i are jinxing
now i'm awhirl
posted by ethylene 22 March | 23:13
: >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:14
i miss Sheena--where'd she go?
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:17
she came inside my sugar walls and got lost forevermore........
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 23:18
eeeewwwww
*squeels like a litte girl*
posted by jelly 22 March | 23:19
ahhh!!!!!! Greatest American Hero!!!!!


believe it or not, i'm walking on air...
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:20
and what jelly said---ewwww
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:21
As I wander around this wreck of a town
Where people never speak aloud
With its ivory towers and its plastic flowers

I wish I was back in 1981...

posted by ipe 22 March | 23:22
Fantastic Set Wolf. Thanks!!
posted by jelly 22 March | 23:34
really, ipe?
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:34
(i always thought the short one was cute--Oates?)
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:35
when I was younger I always confused Oates w/Freddie Mercury. And then Darryl Hall was the first pop musician in my lifetime that I can recall that publicly revealed an "alternate lifestyle".......maneater indeed!
posted by WolfDaddy 22 March | 23:37
: >
posted by amberglow 22 March | 23:45
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