https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Thu, 07 May 2026 22:27:00 +0000 Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:21:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.07 360 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=7990 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=7990&PID=46598&title=styx-lady#46598 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 7990
Posted: 16 December 2016 at 10:21am

That's what I figured but I thought I'd ask.

I was in radio in 1974, but it was as a 15 year
old volunteer for a closed circuit service for visually
handicapped individuals. Most of the listeners were in
their 60's. We played some music, but it was mostly Big
Band and Easy Listening as filler between reading
segments. That volunteer position was enough to propel
me into a 23 year radio career. 25, if you count the 2
years I voicetracked for a small AM station in Ohio from
2012-2014, co-owned by a former radio boss of mine.]]> Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:21:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46598&title=styx-lady#46598 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46596&title=styx-lady#46596 Author: Yah Shure
Subject: 7990
Posted: 15 December 2016 at 10:40pm

John, as you no doubt know, most stations had limited storage space in the MD's office for retaining new promo 45s until they either did or didn't prove themselves worthy of airplay. That usually meant the oldest ones that never made the grade were culled after three or four months and tossed or consigned to the reject pile.

The likelihood that any station that hadn't already played the original 1973 0116 (2:33) single would still have a copy on file nearly two years later was pretty slim. The revamped 10102 (2:58) promo 45s that hit MDs' desks in November '74 was the one that got the airplay when it finally hit.]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 22:40:54 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46596&title=styx-lady#46596 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46588&title=styx-lady#46588 Author: eriejwg
Subject: 7990
Posted: 14 December 2016 at 1:39am

Once the song was a hit in 1975, did all stations play
the 2:58 version or did some play the 2:33 edit?]]> Wed, 14 Dec 2016 01:39:59 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46588&title=styx-lady#46588 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46580&title=styx-lady#46580 Author: Hykker
Subject: 7990
Posted: 12 December 2016 at 7:06am

Huh. Learn something new every day. Never knew there was
a short version (hardly expected one given that the "long"
version is less than 3 minutes). Checked my Wooden Nickel
promo, and it turned out to be the 2:33 one. I must be
losing it...40+ years and I'd never noticed.
My RCA reissue single has the 2:58 on it.
]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2016 07:06:38 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46580&title=styx-lady#46580 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46575&title=styx-lady#46575 Author: crapfromthepast
Subject: 7990
Posted: 11 December 2016 at 12:04pm

The sound on RCA's Nipper's Greatest Hits The '70s (1989) is quite nice. There's a digital clone on Simitar's Love Rocks 2 Tonight's The Night (1998; 1.684 dB louder).

Using Nipper's Greatest Hits The '70s as a source, you can create the non-hit 1973 45 version by removing 2:20.1 to 2:44.4. The edit is on the first syllable of the word "sparkling", as Aaron noted.]]> Sun, 11 Dec 2016 12:04:05 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=46575&title=styx-lady#46575 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40647&title=styx-lady#40647 Author: MPH711
Subject: 7990
Posted: 04 March 2014 at 7:59pm

I can tell that living in Chicago all this time it was a cool thing when
WLS started playing it. My friends and I all knew it should have been a
hit. I can't tell you how many great songs we knew that didn't get major
airplay that we all felt if WLS or another major station would just start
playing some of these songs that they would catch on.

Back to Aaron original comment about the promo edit of Lady. Now we
also know the original stock 45 had the edit. The original 45 also had a
different b-side (You Better Ask) than the later release.




]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:59:27 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40647&title=styx-lady#40647 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40643&title=styx-lady#40643 Author: jimct
Subject: 7990
Posted: 04 March 2014 at 5:27pm

Well that was quick!   :)

Thank you for answering my "gong", Lurch!!! You are now free to rejoin
Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Wednesday, Pugsley, Thing, Cousin Itt and
Grandmama, from my beloved, iconic "Addams Family" 60's b/w sitcom....

Edited by jimct]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 17:27:03 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40643&title=styx-lady#40643 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40642&title=styx-lady#40642 Author: sriv94
Subject: 7990
Posted: 04 March 2014 at 4:45pm

You rang? :)

Actually, it was then weekend disc jockey Jeff Davis who convinced
management to give the song a shot. Management agreed, and "Lady"
picked up steam from there. Believe it pretty much was confined to
nights at first. John Records Landecker was doing weeknights and
Saturday nights at that point.

Edited by sriv94]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:45:16 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40642&title=styx-lady#40642 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40641&title=styx-lady#40641 Author: jimct
Subject: 7990
Posted: 04 March 2014 at 4:06pm

MPH711 wrote: That would be a great story, but Dick Biondi was not on Chicago radio at that time. It is true that it became a hit from WLS playing the song. I'm not sure that they played it each night at 8pm but they did create a hit by playing it when no one else was at the time. It had gotten nice exposure on FM radio in Chicago on WBBM-FM when it was first released off the Styx 2 album. 'BBM-FM also played their earlier single, Best Thing prior to Lady.

                                                                                                         
  
  
Sorry for the apparent bad info, MPH711. I was doing a quick "soup to
nuts, overall research sweep" on the song this morning, after Aaron's
initial post. I did want to try to provide some background info on the
genesis of the 1973 & 1975 45 releases, since it was key to my "earlier,
non-hit 45" assertion. I had previously known that WLS was responsible
for the 1975 resurgence of "Lady". So when I saw its Wiki entry (which
currently does have the Biondi/8PM info on it), I just went with it (which I
normally wouldn't have, without a double/triple check), because it
basically jived with what I did know to be true. And also due to
its "basically FYI" nature. I've spent my life in CT, not Chicago, so I much
appreciate your personal WLS airstaff/timeline knowledge, MPH711, to
refute the info on Wiki.

Do any of our midwest "regulars", with good 70's knowledge (like my
buddy Doug, aka "sriv94", for example) have more accurate WLS/Lady
details? Like was there just one specific DJ who was playing it? Or was this
a decision made by the MD and/or PD at WLS? Doing things like this could
often cause positive buzz for a radio station-especially if the song catches
on. Knowing the inner workings of Top 40 radio myself, it was very
uncommon back in 1975 for a DJ of a 50,000 watt, major market station
to be playing a two-year old, stiff 45, on his own, and without prior
MD/PD approval. Doing things like that would usually get a DJ in big
trouble - if not fired.


Edited by jimct]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:06:49 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40641&title=styx-lady#40641 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40634&title=styx-lady#40634 Author: aaronk
Subject: 7990
Posted: 04 March 2014 at 10:12am

Yes, the edit cuts out 2:19 to 2:44 of the full version, with the edit on the beat where they sing "sparkling" in both places. (The edit leaves the "s" of the first "sparkling" and picks up with the "parkling" of the second instance.) I believe the short version also runs slightly faster in speed to get it to 2:32.]]> Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:12:32 +0000 https://top40musiconcd.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=7990&PID=40634&title=styx-lady#40634