April 14, 2009
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What are the odds?
Yesterday I was listing to the radio. 93.9 WLIT FM in Chicago. I have been so out of the music scene for the past 20 years that I figured I’d break back in with a light radio station that plays both pop and country (so I can hear things like “Love Song” from Sarah Bareilles as well as “Breathe” from Faith Hill.) It’s also where I get some of my “learn new karaoke songs” ideas.
So anyway, there are three stations I keep on my car radio that I listen to a lot. Besides WLIT, I listen to 97.1 WDRV which plays music mostly from the 70s. And I listen to 94.7 WLS FM which is billed as “Chicago’s True Oldies Station” which plays mostly songs from the 50s and 60s.
None of these stations are affiliated with each other.
So, I was listening to 93. 9 and the song “If I can’t Have You, I don’t Want Nobody Baby” (whatever the name is) by Yvonne Elliman (I think it might have been from the movie Saturday Night Fever). Well, during the disco era, I liked disco, but I really don’t much care for it now, unless it’s something by Donna Summer. So I thought I would just change the station because I didn’t want to hear it.I flipped to 97.1 but they were talking. I wanted music.
I flipped to 94.7 and guess what they were playing? The same song 93.7 was playing!
I would have thought it was a simulcast except they were not synced (94.7 was in the middle of the song and 93.9 was near the end)
That creeped me out about as much as when I was 17 and listened to my Inna Gadda Da Vida album 5 times in a row, got tired of it, then turned on Detroit’s WRIF station and they were having their 5th anniversary show, and were playing….you guessed it….Inna Gadda Da Vida.
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Ooh, creepy weird.
One time we were driving down to Starkville, MS for spring break during
college. My friend Erin was driving. I was the navigator. Everyone else
in the van was sleeping. “God Only Knows…” by the Beach Boys was on
whatever station we flipped to. Came in mid-song, sang through the
ending…and then I thought it started over again. I hadn’t heard it in
awhile, but I was 98% positive. Erin wasn’t as sure. We continued to
listen. Played through the whole thing again. And then it started over.
Again. We felt like we were in the twilight zone! We kept listening to
that station until we stopped for breakfast at McDonald’s. I think it
played about 20 times before we went in. We ate inside. It was still on
when we came out. I don’t know what happened to that DJ, but I think
somebody wasn’t very good at their job.
@lauralen - Or it could have been some kind of promotional thing – to kick something off. A radio station in Florida when I lived there decided to change their format. All they would say is “It’s coming New Years Eve!” but wouldn’t tell us what. So of course I tuned in New Years Eve and they were playing Stairway to Heaven back to back to back – for 24 hours. The next day they announced they were going to an all Led Zeppelin format. I thought it was the coolest thing because Led Zeppelin is one of my all-time favorites and I really could listen to them all day. But that format only lasted about a month, then they went to classic rock. I wonder if it was a gimmick to segue into their classic rock format anyway. (BTW, I like the green hair LOL – if I ever had the nerve to do that, I think I’d dye mine either blue or purple.)
@Kallioph - Odd that you pick those colors…in college, I split my hair down the middle (like for pigtails) and dyed one half purple and the other blue. It was fabulous.