Many, many, many years ago…
I was a professional DJ. I’d say I paid my way thru college but to be honest… we’re talking minimum wage and part time hours.
It was enjoyable. I pulled several stunts. One favourite got me temporarily fired by the Station Manager. Now to be honest… this pr*#k was looking for any reason to fire me… because he was sleeping with a 20 yr old girl that he wanted to give my job to. None-the-less this was a temporary firing because I had the Asst. SM’s permission while the SM was out of town.
It was DST overnight. My 7 hour shift. Midnight – 6 am. I took requests from midnight to 2am. Any request we’d not only play… but when the clocks turned at 2:59 to 2:00 am … we’d play the whole hour again. Breaking only for updates in news and weather. Which overnight… really only changed insofar as the temperature.
So I played an hour of requests… recording my hour… and after an hour… I played it back. The listeners were amused. The Station Manager… not so much. He demanded that the ASM fire me. The ASM told him that he’d blessed the stunt and wasn’t about to fire me.
A few months later the bas&%#d would frame me for theft and I’d be quietly released. Four months later he tried the stunt on another DJ and got caught. I got my job back with a raise at the cost of his… (and promising not to sue)… but by then.. the light of Top-40 professional radio… just didn’t burn as brightly.
I am reminded of this.. partially because dear faerievixen2 wished me a happy DST tonight. (REMEMBER… NOT ALL YOUR CLOCKS HAVE COMPUTERS THAT UNDERSTAND THE NEW DATES!!!!)
But also because I’ve managed to unpack something that I didn’t unpack in Sno’mish. And let me tell you… Vinyl in good condition can still sound better than anything you might buy on iTunes or Amazon’s download service.
When princekermit gets back.. I have a certain London cast album to play for him 😉
This will create minutes of entertainment for aiden_freeman at some point…
I asked on Friday… What song do you really love despite being philosophically opposed to the lyrics.
I promised to post mine, but first a recap of the ones already offered:
“Ain’t No Way” – Aretha Franklin
I know that a woman’s duty is to help and love a man
“I Got A Woman” – Ray Charles
She knows a womans place is right there now in her home
“House of the Rising Sun” – The Animals
“Son of a Preacher Man” – Dusty Springfield
Most things by Janis Joplin.
“I Know My Love” – The Chieftans
“OPP” – Naughty By Nature.
“Before He Cheats” – Carrie Underwood
“Spirit in the Sky.” – Norman Greenbaum
“Build Me Up, Buttercup” – The Foundations.
And my personal list:
“Always A Woman” – Billy Joel
“Jessie’s Girl” – Rick Springfield
And thanks to Rob Paravonian
“Every Morning” – Sugar Ray
I don’t remember who I was discussing “Split Enz” with this past weekend.
With the Horizon Temple Dedication, OLO, ATC, and Mass I think I saw about 200 people.
Anyway.. I was discussing Split Enz with someone and the question of the group that Tim Finn was with before Split Enz came up.
Neither I nor the person I was talking to (who I also can’t remember) could come up with it.
In case anyone remembers this conversation with me this weekend.
The group I was thinking of was called: Schnell Fenster:
Except they didn’t pre-date Split Enz, they were the group that formed after Split Enz split up.
Who was talking to about this?
