For all you Dj',s what is your favorite song to talk up the ramp to?
Was there a specific song that was especially fun to talk up to?

"Love Train" - O'Jays (top of hour ID); "Hey Big Brother" - Rare Earth (about a dozen posts to hit...great for a weather set); "Maggie May" - Rod Stewart.

Oh man how many of these can I write down....

Lets see In my day it was a song with a lot of posts..so that you could catch one just right and tailor it easily to any variable length promo or talk set.

Uh ya, how bout....Someday We'll be together. Dianah Ross and the Supremes..comes to mind.

I will go to bed thinking on this right now and I am sure about 4am I will get up and channel something else to add tomorrow.

I wonder if when I die and go thru the pearly gates God will let me do ramp ups to the other minions. Be a gratifying gig , but not for eternity, just to sit at in a studio again , with the airconditioning on, the smell of the oxide on the electromagnetic tape, shuffling carts and CDs and Vinyl too AND NO COMPUTER. A mic switch and a larnyx connected to a brain with timing built in. Now there is HEAVEN....

HELL would be a computer and eternal voice tracking days into eternity over a cell phone and no air monitor.

>>I wonder if ... God will let me do ramp ups ...

Maybe, but remember The Real Don Steele, Wolfman Jack, Jackson Armstrong and Robert W Morgan might be in your audience.

- "Guilty" by Barbara Streisand/Barry Gibb
- "Smiling Faces Sometimes" by Undisputed Truth
- "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" by Temptations
- "Sweet Freedom" by Michael McDonald

- "What's Forever For" by Michael Martin Murphey - (just kidding!)

Tears of a clown.....Ride Captain Ride.....Anything by Mitch Ryder....
Hot Smoke......The Wonder of You by E.........Out of Time by Chris Farlow

None.

Build me up buttercup
always stole from captain don imus

My ipod never talks over the music. It assumes the guys who wrote the song wanted the first ten seconds to be heard and enjoyed too.

Sgtschultz:
Well LA DEE FREAKIN' DA! Aren't you better than the rest of us?

Go All The Way/Raspberries
Brandy/Lookinglass
Feelin' Stronger Everyday/Chicago
and I'll 2nd Smiling Faces/Undisputed Truth

> My ipod never talks over the music.

But where is the fun and excitement in that?? This is why live radio with DJs is better than any jukebox type device.

Michael Jackson - Bad

Travis Tritt -- TROUBLE

How about 867-5309 or Sausalito Summer?

Herb

By the way, you guys have much better memories than I do. In my last year or so of doing college radio, I was talking up the ramps of songs, but I can't remember any specific songs that really stood out as being the ultimate song to "post." Talking up music in that type of radio format was somewhat taboo, and very few other people did it, but there weren't any specific station policies against it. I didn't discover the art of the multiple post until many years later, when I had the opportunity to listen to some great early 1960s vintage KISN airchecks.

Adina Howard, "Freak Like Me"

Company B, "Fascinated"

Dr. Dre/Tupac, "California Love"

Expose, "Point of No Return"

Michael Jackson, "Leave Me Alone"

Def Leppard, "Photograph"

Mountain, "Mississippi Queen" Love that cowbell!

Rare Earth...I Just Want To Celebrate. Great one to nail the call letters with!

Alice Deejay- it had a 45 second intro. You could air any phoner on that! ;)

One song I always got a smack out of doing out of the top of the hour Music Bed and station positioner liner/Jingle....so you dont talk over this one, you slammed it in after the end of the Jingle and it was.... (More More More...Andrea True Connection). You know, with the big Piano thing in the beginning.

I never could make it sound as good as the aircheck I had of KFRC ( I think it was Dr.Don Rose ) doin' a talk up on their top of the hour music bed and then Jingle out K F R C San Fran Ciscohhhh...

KFRC had the audio processing, production technique and talent that 960 KALE didnt have, and oh yes a much better copy of the song to begin with, I am so sure

Most obscure: "One Way Ticket to Paradise" - David Loggins

Sister Golden Hair (America), Here Comes the Sun (The Beatles), Crazy Mama (JJ Kale), Love Will Find A Way (Pablo Cruise), Photograph (Ringo), Sundown (Gordon Lightfoot), Hi Hi Hi (Wings)

YES!
Rare Earth - "I Just Wanna Celebrate" - 2nd that!

RIGHT about using the calls - when he shouts out the 1-2-3-4 on that classic...

Even if you had THREE-LETTER calls for this, you could wait until after the '1' to say 'em!

Also:

- "Sweetheart" - Frankie and the Knockouts
- "Tunnel of Love" - Bruce Springsteen
- "Invisible Touch" - Genesis
- "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" - Jermaine Stewart
- "Money Too Tight To Mention" - Simply Red

"Put It Where You Want It" - Crusaders (heh -again,,,just kiddin')

China Grove by the Doobie Bros. is a great song to talk up. Here are 2 examples (KYTE & WQXI):

http://www.divshare.com/download/4296026-714

Thanks for the China Grove airchecks. Those, especially the second one, sound like the DJs were really having fun with the music.

What is the approximate date of these airchecks, and did they come from the AM or FM side of these radio stations? (Both KYTE and WQXI were AM-FM combos at one time, according to my copy of _White's_Radio_Log_.)

The China Grove airchecks reminds me of what listening to radio was like in the late 50's and early 60's. The DJ's projected enthusiasm and excitement. Much unlike radio today. But would it work today?

I dunno.

Yes! I just Want to Celebrate.

Also, any early Van Morrison/Them song. Yes I'm that old.

I have a niece who is now 17. Born in 1991. I let her hear some of my airchecks a few months ago. She didnt live in the market where I worked , so she never did hear me on the air at all.

Her comment was " You sound like some guy doing a commercial for an amusement park or a circus " . I can tell its you, but you sound too happy and enthusiastic all the time !

So maybe these days you need to sound like you been eatin' Xanax. You tell me?

> Her comment was " You sound like some guy doing a
> commercial for an amusement park or a circus " . I
> can tell its you, but you sound too happy and
> enthusiastic all the time !

Ha ha ha ha! "You sound too happy..." I like that. Perhaps the "happiness" of a really lively delivery sounds "fake" to younger people?

Without getting too far off topic, my brother, who studied marketing in college, described to me a parallel trend in the world of visual advertising. In the 1980s, some advertising agency people got the idea that if people in advertisements looked more like the the target audience, rather than models, ads would seem more genuine and have a greater impact. Eventually, the result was billboards and signs with people who look like hillbilies. On the radio side, you have guys like Ira Glass who sound like nerds that should be on the Internet and not on the radio.

The KYTE aircheck was 970AM from 8/78. The WQXI aircheck I believe was around 76 or 77. Not sure if it was WQXI AM or FM.

"Riders On The Storm" by The Doors, especially if it is late on a dark stormy night

Not sure if it was WQXI AM or FM.

Most of the insipid flash-player-based audio-sharing websites don't work on my connection (dial-up), but if it's the same China Grove intro that I once heard in Jeff Young's class, IIRC it starts out with a liner that says something similar to 'The Summer Prize Patrol rolls along all summer long at 79 WQXI.'

There is also a download link on the right, and the file is only 1.3MB.

Somebody's Been Sleeping In My Bed,
100 Proof, Aged In Soul.

Bailey