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crapfromthepast 
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 Posted: 29 August 2016 at 8:33pm |
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Just to see what would happen, I played a Casey Kasem talk break from American Top 40 into my iPhone SE, to see if the voice recognition would work. It does, but it wrote the title of the Nena song as "Knowing Annoying Sake Blue Balloons". Outstanding!
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There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one Crap From The Past.
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Yah Shure
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Posted: 29 August 2016 at 9:04pm |
Oh, man... that's a keeper of the highest order! I am now re-filing my copies of Toto's "99" under the letter "K." ;) |
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MMathews
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Posted: 29 August 2016 at 10:37pm |
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LOLOL ... i love that title.
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radiofan16
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Posted: 30 August 2016 at 1:46am |
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When the late Philly Hot AC station Star 104.5 used to do 80s weekends, they
always played the English version "Red Balloons". I had no idea that there was a German version until years later. |
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Brian W.
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Posted: 30 August 2016 at 4:53pm |
My roommate is from Pennsauken, NJ, right outside of Philly, and he doesn't remember hearing anything but the English version on the radio back in the day. Edited by Brian W. |
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Paul Haney
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It seems I only hear the English version on the radio these days (at least here in the Milwaukee area). That was NOT the case back when the song was first popular. Depends on where you lived of course, but in my area (the Twin Cities), I heard the all German version the most, followed by the mixed version and least of all, the all English version. I do remember hearing all three at the time and am still partial to the all German version. I had 6 years of German in junior/senior high school, so I've always understood the German lyrics and they pack more of a punch than the English ones, at least to my ears.
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