https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:01:20 +0000 Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:47:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=2175 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum//images/Top-40-Music-on-CD-Forum-Logo.png https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59900&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59900 Author: aaronk
Subject: 2175
Posted: 29 December 2021 at 7:47pm

Nope, "How Will I Know" goes on for 5 pages. There may be other longer ones, but the Whitney thread was recently resurrected.]]> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:47:38 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59900&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59900 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59898&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59898 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 2175
Posted: 29 December 2021 at 7:30pm

Jody Thornton wrote: I think ever since that "Hits" package came out in the late 90s, the 3:23 has been opted for.

It's revisionist history I tell ya. The 4:03 and 5:14 are both a bit too racy or long for radio nowadays. Almost all various artist comps seem to have made it the defacto version.

PS I wonder if this song is the biggest one song specific thread on this board. It always seems to come back up at least once a year!

Edited by PopArchivist]]> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:30:55 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59898&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59898 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59896&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59896 Author: NightAire
Subject: 2175
Posted: 29 December 2021 at 9:32am

(More derailment)

I think the fastest weather I ever did was five seconds:

"45 overnight, 72 tomorrow, 55 now at Z104.5!"

(Rain chances would add a second... bleah.)]]> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 09:32:03 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59896&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59896 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59895&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59895 Author: Hykker
Subject: 2175
Posted: 28 December 2021 at 9:03am

Jody Thornton wrote: Yes to me, the 4:03 remix WAS the definitive hit version, plus it had the loud yell/groan at the end during the fade.

We played the 4:03 version where I worked in 1983. This station was a bit unique in where everything was on cart (not even any turntables in the
control room!), and the board was wired in such a way that the tertiary tone on one cart would fire the next machine. Our music director liked tight
segues, and he put the tone on HLTW about 2/3 of the way thru that final scream to make that the segue point, I think he may have ridden gain on the
fade so it was still at full volume there. Sounded great on the air.
Don't think I've ever seen another station with that setup...it was great during stopsets, bathroom runs, tend to the FM automation, or any of the
other stuff DJs had to do during their shift. IIRC there were 5 cart machines and it cycled thru them sequentially. It was that way when I started
working there in early '74. The mini-mation (as we called it) could be disabled if you wanted to run the board manually. Most of us did a mix of the
two. The only thing it didn't do was to reset the timer, not sure why.

crapfromthepast wrote: The 5:14 version has a 78-second intro, so that the first vocals kick in at 1:18. This is pure torture! Unless you plan on reading the weather forecast or doing a traffic report, there's no conceivable way you can consistently get though 1:18 of banter to hit the post. It's just awful. (As a 12-inch single, it's great! But there's a reason that not many top 40 stations played lots of 12-inch singles on the air.) So I'd be really curious to hear how on-air folks handled the 5:14 version of the song back then. If I were programming back then, I would have certainly used the 4:03 version, at least during the daytime hours. (The 5:14 version could work in overnights, when there was less chatter.)

Well, we didn't play the long version so I can't comment on that, but our station wasn't so high intensity that jocks felt they had to post every
single song. Say what you had/wanted to say and let the intro continue. Personally, I find Bill Lee's hit-every-single-post approach fatiguing at
best, and mildly annoying at worst. If it works for him, fine, but it's not 1972 anymore.
As far as posting a :78 intro, you could almost do a full newscast in that time, any decent Top 40 jock could do the the weather in :10.
]]> Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:03:52 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59895&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59895 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59893&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59893 Author: Jody Thornton
Subject: 2175
Posted: 28 December 2021 at 6:00am

Jackinbox wrote: I grew up hearing the 4:03 remix single version on the radio (specifically WZPL Indianapolis). We certainly didn't get the Night Version as I would have remembered an into that long, and I definitely remember the "cries of passion" at the end. It was quite interesting to hear that again, as I'm pretty sure I've only heard the 3:23 mix aired for at least the last 20-30 years.

Yes to me, the 4:03 remix WAS the definitive hit version, plus it had the loud yell/groan at the end during the fade. I think ever since that "Hits" package came out in the late 90s, the 3:23 has been opted for.
]]> Tue, 28 Dec 2021 06:00:10 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59893&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59893 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59891&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59891 Author: Jackinbox
Subject: 2175
Posted: 27 December 2021 at 9:40pm

I grew up hearing the 4:03 remix single version on the
radio (specifically WZPL Indianapolis). We certainly
didn't get the Night Version as I would have remembered an
into that long, and I definitely remember the "cries of
passion" at the end.

It was quite interesting to hear that again, as I'm pretty
sure I've only heard the 3:23 mix aired for at least the
last 20-30 years.]]> Mon, 27 Dec 2021 21:40:58 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=59891&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#59891 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=56429&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#56429 Author: VWestlife
Subject: 2175
Posted: 11 November 2020 at 5:12pm

I'm too young to remember which version(s) of "Hungry Like the Wolf" were played on the radio when it was a current hit, but I have access to the music libraries of New York City radio stations WCBS-FM and WPLJ from the mid-2000s, and I can confirm that at least as of that time, WCBS-FM played the original UK album version, faded out a few seconds early to 3:35, while WPLJ played the original "non-hit" U.S. single version, again cut a little short to 3:21.

I certainly never recall hearing the prominent "cries of passion" that are on the "Night Version" and the 4:03 U.S. "hit" 45, at least since the 1990s, either because all the mainstream pop/rock stations I was listening to didn't play those versions, or because they faded it out early or had the DJ talk over the ending to cover it up.

Maybe Alternative/Album Rock stations played the "Night Version" in its entirety, especially after hours when they were less stringent about profanity and adult content (hence the name "Night Version"!), but I wasn't listening to them.

And as for talking over long intros, back in the '70s and early '80s when WPLJ was a Rock station, they played Al Stewart's "Year of the Cat" with a spoken introduction recorded by Al himself explaining what the song was all about, perfectly timed to end just before the vocals began.


Edited by VWestlife]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:12:59 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=56429&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#56429 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=54731&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#54731 Author: AdvprosD
Subject: 2175
Posted: 13 June 2020 at 2:50pm

You may be right Dan... I haven't got all the grey
matter I once had.

Also, Thank you PopArchivist! I appreciate the cheery
welcome! Dave from Saint louis.]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2020 14:50:22 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=54731&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#54731 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=54721&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#54721 Author: thecdguy
Subject: 2175
Posted: 13 June 2020 at 8:18am

AdvprosD wrote: Wasn't there a thriller type video made around the same time as "Hungry Like The Wolf?" I seem to weakly remember a script that had a female slasher who stalked her victims while singing or, maybe it was playing in the background while she um, slashed? I think it may have had an effect on the song's airplay run. I seem to remember folks being turned off by the song and the images of the slasher flick. Maybe I'm just mis-remembering?

Are you thinking of the Farrah Fawcett movie, "Small Sacrifices", which was based on a true story of a woman accused of killing her children? In the movie, the song is played at her trial. It was said to be her motivation for the murders. The movie came out in 1989, several years after the song was a hit, so it may not be what you're thinking of.

And welcome to the board!]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2020 08:18:36 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=54721&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#54721 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=54720&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#54720 Author: PopArchivist
Subject: 2175
Posted: 13 June 2020 at 6:54am

AdvprosD wrote: Wasn't there a thriller type video made around the same time as "Hungry Like The Wolf?" I seem to weakly remember a script that had a female slasher who stalked her victims while singing or, maybe it was playing in the background while she um, slashed? I think it may have had an effect on the song's airplay run. I seem to remember folks being turned off by the song and the images of the slasher flick. Maybe I'm just mis-remembering?

Welcome to the board!

Don't recall a video like that. Sounds interesting though!]]> Sat, 13 Jun 2020 06:54:04 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2175&PID=54720&title=duran-duranhungry-like-the-wolf#54720