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Grex > Music3 > #36: Clearchannel? Doesn't seem so clear to me |  |
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keesan
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response 28 of 47:
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Sep 20 23:19 UTC 2001 |
I once flew on a plane that played the Buddy Holly Story during supper. (It
was rather amusing without headphones - most of the action consisted of people
opening their mouths and waving their arms around).
Peace Train might conceivably hurt airline revenues by reminding people that
it is safer to take the train. Amtrak got a lot of extra business recently.
Was 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' on the list?
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ea
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response 29 of 47:
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Sep 21 00:58 UTC 2001 |
yes, "Leavin on a Jet Plane" was on the list. But only the Peter, Paul,
and Mary version, not the John Denver version.
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keesan
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response 30 of 47:
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Sep 21 01:38 UTC 2001 |
Jim is cracking up over this last response and asks 'Huh?'.
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mcnally
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response 31 of 47:
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Sep 21 01:46 UTC 2001 |
Presumably John Denver is considered more likely to be in solidarity
with airplane-crash victims.. :-O
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brighn
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response 32 of 47:
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Sep 21 03:18 UTC 2001 |
Yeah, nothin' by Ricky Nelson, then, either...
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dbratman
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response 33 of 47:
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Sep 21 03:53 UTC 2001 |
resp:28 - does the film "The Buddy Holly Story" include his death?
Kind of an odd choice to play on an airplane if so ...
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dbratman
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response 34 of 47:
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Sep 21 03:55 UTC 2001 |
Oh, and re watching movies without the sound - I saw "A Walk in the
Clouds" that way, and I didn't miss a thing.
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brighn
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response 35 of 47:
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Sep 21 05:21 UTC 2001 |
#33> In "Airplane!", the inflight movie is one of the Airport movies, I
believe.
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bruin
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response 36 of 47:
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Sep 21 15:17 UTC 2001 |
I have not seen "The Buddy Holly Story", but in "La Bamba" (the movie
about Ritchie Valens), there were some scenes of planes exploding in
mid-air. However, the plane crash in which Holly, Valens, and the Big
Bopper, was depicted by showing the ill-fated plane taking off and then
switching back to Valens' family in California hearing the sad news on
the radio.
BTW, were any Otis Redding and/or Jim Croce songs
deemed "inappropriate"? They also died in plane crashes.
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scott
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response 37 of 47:
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Sep 21 16:46 UTC 2001 |
"The Buddy Holly Story" ends at the final concert, and shows some text on the
screen about the crash.
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brighn
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response 38 of 47:
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Sep 21 19:22 UTC 2001 |
He was bad, bad Osama bin Laden
Baddest Muslim in the whole damn Afghan
Badder than old Saddam
Badder than Khomeini was...
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brighn
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response 39 of 47:
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Sep 21 19:24 UTC 2001 |
Since we're getting absurd, how about banning Marshall Crenshaw songs because
he played Buddy Holly in La Bamba?
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ea
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response 40 of 47:
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Sep 22 04:12 UTC 2001 |
They did not ban any Big Bopper songs (he died in the same plane crash
as Buddy Holly). I didn't see any Jim Croce or Otis Redding on the
list.
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gelinas
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response 41 of 47:
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Sep 22 04:16 UTC 2001 |
I heard Cat Stevens' "Morning Has Broken" at Meijers this evening. Don't
know who was playing it, though.
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brighn
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response 42 of 47:
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Sep 23 03:10 UTC 2001 |
#40> they didn't "ban" *any* songs.
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bdh3
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response 43 of 47:
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Sep 23 03:29 UTC 2001 |
re#42: I've heard that.
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ea
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response 44 of 47:
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Sep 23 21:29 UTC 2001 |
Revised version of #40:
They did not place any Big Bopper songs on the list that was
distributed. (he died in the same plane crash as Buddy Holly). I
didn't see any Jim Croce or Otis Redding on the list either.
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russ
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response 45 of 47:
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Sep 24 05:18 UTC 2001 |
Re #44: Are there any Big Bopper songs that get regular airplay today?
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mcnally
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response 46 of 47:
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Sep 24 07:17 UTC 2001 |
"regular" might be stretching it a bit, but "Chantilly Lace" still
gets play on oldies stations.. my guess is that many of the people
programming Clear Channel stations probably don't know enough about
music to make the connection..
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jaklumen
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response 47 of 47:
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Jan 8 04:06 UTC 2002 |
The overreaction in general over Sept. 11 seems a bit extreme to me.
If I may digress from the topic of music for a moment, I work at
Toys 'R Us, and the original Planet of the Apes model sets were pulled
from the shelves because of the picture of the Statue of Liberty in
ruins. Cliff (a co-worker) and I were quite surprised to see that we
were eventually putting them back, albeit on an overstock shelf.
It doesn't surprise me that some execs or some administrators at Clear
Channel contemplated censoring their rotation list. The corporation
dominates much of our airwaves here too.
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