Songs that are typically cued for radio

Does any one remember how radio treated Kim Carnes "Crazy
In The Night" when it was on the charts? I would think
stations would have cued past the knocking and "who is it?"
right to the synths.

Hykker wrote: "The Way" - Fastball (cued past sfx)

There is an official radio edit that omits the radio tuning sound effects during the intro.

And many stations cut off the acapella intro from Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You", in addition to the shortened ending of the official radio edit. When they were told to play it that way, some DJs joked "We now join Whitney Houston, already in progress".

And a more recent example -- on Passenger's "Let Her Go", some stations shortened the long pause before the final phrase, or just ended the song at that point.

Hykker wrote:    [QUOTE=995wlol] We mostly played the shortened version of the Whitney Houston song. Don't know if it was an official edit, we used TM Hitdiscs, and that was on one of them. I absolutely HATED that song (still do), and anything that made it shorter was fine by me!

Hi Steve, somewhere on the forum, I seem to recall a
discussion that the edit on the Hitdiscs was a TM edit and
not official.

I don't know if it was "typically cued" but I cut off the "hit" and audience" from the
beginning of "We Didn't Start the Fire", starting the song when the actual "music"
started.
                                                   
The intro point on any "fade in" song was different everywhere, like "More Than a
Feeling", Elton's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" or Anne Murray's "You Won't See Me".
Sometimes a station would just crank up the volume on the intro so it wasn't a fade it
at all and ride the gain. Again, it varied station by station.

Another song with a frequent cut off intro: Black Water by the Doobie Brothers. Often
starting when the guitars came in. It was a great example of a station's turntable
rumble when they didn't!