Duran Duran-"Hungry Like The Wolf"

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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