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- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: CD Legends
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.171213.61@gtewd.mtv.gsc.gte.com>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 17:12:13 -0800
- References: <1992Dec26.201931.21261@netcom.com> <1992Dec29.190128.19955@yenta.alb.nm.us> <1992Dec30.113751@orion.IntelliCorp.COM> <1992Dec31.235349.26112@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec31.235349.26112@samba.oit.unc.edu>, Bruce.Tindall@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Tindall) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec30.113751@orion.IntelliCorp.COM> pobermarck@intellicorp.com writes:
- >>Many radio stations have a policy that they will not play any song longer
- >>than <a certain length> (3.5 minutes?). This is, of course, because we, the
- >>listening public, have such short attention spans that if they play anything
- >>longer, we will change the station. ;-)
- >
- > Except for "Layla" and "In A Gadda Da Vida" , which were written
- > specifically for sale to the market consisting of disk jockeys who
- > often have to leave the studio to take a very difficult dump.
- >
- > Bruce "There's a lady who knows all that glycerines is gold" Tindall
- > --
- > The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of
- > North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information
- > Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.
- > internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80
-
- It goes back further than Layla or In A Gadda Da Vida. Light My Fire was pretty
- long for AM but it got played. Even earlier than that, according to disk jocky
- Gene Nelson of KSFO in San Francisco, was El Paso by Marty Robbins. He stated
- that this was one of the first songs where he could get up, go to the bathroom
- and come back before it was over.
-