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Date Posted: 11:00:21 04/03/02 Wed
Author: Aaron McCracken
Subject: Re: Shows with edited songs
In reply to: Darren W. Alexander 's message, "Re: Shows with edited songs" on 02:37:40 04/03/02 Wed

>> Here is a question/observation I'd like to throw out
>>to everyone for comments.
>>
>> I was listening to the March 1976 shows and was
>>struck by the large number of songs in the countdown
>>that were edited down from their normal playing time.
>>It seemed at least 6 songs, perhaps more were. I
>>concluded that "Bohemian Rhapsody" had to be the
>>culprit. The song itself could not be viably edited so
>>AT40 played the entire 6 minute version but sacrificed
>>other songs to do it. "Baby Face" seemed to be edited
>>every week. So I am wondering if March 1976 might hold
>>a record for more edited songs.
>>
>> Also "It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next To Me" is a
>>victim of being edited most every week of its chart
>>run. The full version was played at least 3 times, but
>>its strange since the song really isn't all that
>>objectionable.
>>
>> I find it amusing that some songs seemed to be edited
>>almost all the time, while others never seemed to
>>suffer the fate.
>>
>> Christopher
>
>Good call on the edits! Another song that was edited
>every time it was on the chart was the Geto Boys,
>"Mind Playing Tricks on Me" in 1991. In fact, I
>believe that they only played like a minute and a half
>of the song during its chart run!

And of course there's Digital Underground's "The Humpty Dance", which was never aired in its entirety either! Rap also got shorted in the mid '90s on Casey's Top 40, one example being "Mo Money, Mo Problems" by Notorious BIG/Puff Daddy/Ma$e, which was shorted during its entire lengthy run (if I remember correctly they usually clipped Puff Daddy's verse, although I believe on one occasion they edited out Biggie's instead). And one oddity I remember clearly was 3rd Party's dance hit "Can U Feel It", which spent something like 6 or 7 weeks in the top 40 and always had the second verse cut out, despite the fact the song was short anyway and was in no way offensive. (During its last couple of years before morphing into the new AT40, CT40 tended to edit down songs that were in their first week on the countdown, something which I always found peculiar.)

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