"Swayin’ To The Music" - Johnny Rivers

Paul, your special order has shipped. ;)

Paul Haney wrote: Too bad I can't recall which version I heard on KDWB back in the day:)

That's actually an interesting question, Paul. When the KDWB-FM studios moved from the AM transmitter site in Woodbury to downtown Minneapolis in 1988, followed by the AM eight months later, the 45s library was left behind in "suburban Eau Claire." The library comprised original promo and stock 45s, dating back to the 1969 fire, as well as reissue 45s acquired circa 1985 for the AM's oldies format. Because the library's 45s covered both stations' formats, I asked my FM counterpart if he needed them, and he said to take 'em. He didn't have to ask twice. :) (The Sheriff and Moving Pictures retro-hits were the only two needed for re-dubbing, anyway.)

Along with the 45s came two card file boxes, containing index cards for each title, and the one for the Rivers tune lists the title as "Slow Dancin" under #2632. Was it the Soul City mono promo? Well, some of the file numbers were used twice, and, unfortunately, the "other" #2632 (Terry Stafford's "Suspicion," on the pink Collectables label...ugh) was the only one still on the shelves. Just before we moved the AM out, several FM jocks came to pick through the 45s for a 1976 class reunion dance they were emceeing, and those never made it back in the stacks. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where the Rivers record ended up. :(

It's possible KDWB might have played the Soul City mono promo I mailed to them... if they ever "got it." I lost count of the number of times I pulled fifty copies of one of our top albums from warehouse stock at Heilichers, cut the corners and sent them to KDWB for giveaways and received "we never got them" replies. If they ended up beating the competition by actually giving them all away, fine, but c'mon. The labels knew what was really going on and began requiring purchase authorizations in advance before accepting promotional chargebacks from stock.

So I don't know which Rivers version those scoundrels aired, either. ;)

Edited by Yah Shure