Songs that are typically cued for radio

AutumnAarilyn wrote: My local station now plays "Don't stop til you get enough" by MJ with the vocal part edited out and begins on the wail.

Which is how the short side of the promo 45 was issued. The long side had the vocal intact, as did a
later reservice of the short version.

Any station I worked at from 1974 on either played music from carts or a digital playout, so these
decisions were made my the PD/MD, not the jocks.

"Freeze Frame" - J. Geils (cued past "freeze frame" and camera sfx)
"Higher And Higher" - Rita Coolidge (cold intro removed, cued to bass notes)
"I Don't Wanna Wait" - Paula Cole (same idea as Rita)
"Killer Queen" - Queen (finger snaps bypassed)
"The Way" - Fastball (cued past sfx)

I'm sure there were more, but that's all I can think of off-hand. Most of these were done to make things
flow better, or to bypass something that would be barely audible on-air. Likewise, fade-in intros were
often tightened.

At the other end of things, we faded the Cranberries' "Dreams" early (before the yodeling).


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AutumnAarilyn wrote: George Michael "Faith" edited out that organ.

I was always surprised that there was no cd promo edit for Faith put out that deletes the organ. After all what radio station wanted to play 40 seconds of organ before a song? I remember getting the album in 1988 to listen to and going like "what's this organ at the beginning?, where is the version I heard on the radio?"

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aaronk wrote: TM Century issued "Faith" on a GoldDisc without the intro.

Yes, but the studio itself never issued an "official" promo for it to the masses. I don't think TM Century was available for purchase by consumers, that is what I meant. Sorry I did not clarify.

Was the flapamba intro included on the 45 version of Ricky Don't Lose That Number? I highly suspect it wasn't.

I might have to listen to the "Citizen" collection to be sure it was there as well, and not only on the album version.

aaronk wrote: TM Century issued "Faith" on a GoldDisc without the intro.

As you know, listed in their database as Faith [Intro Edit]