Did They Really Just Play That?

I have heard it on Rock Antenne Classic Perlen (Munich) as well, so it obviously gained traction in Europe.

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Interesting fact: “You’re The Voice” topped the charts in (what was then) West Germany for 2 weeks in April/May 1987 & also topped the charts in Sweden for 8 weeks around the same time. It also hit the Top 10 in the UK, Ireland, Austria, Denmark & Switzerland, as well as the Top 20 in Canada. Interestingly, it only got to #13 in NZ.

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You’re The Voice was also featured in this weeks Hot Dub Time Machine mix on Nova, repeated again today at 5pm.

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Be My Lover (Radio Edit #2) by La Bouche played on Mix 106.3 today during their “party mix”. Didn’t know they played 90s Eurodance…

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A fairly popular song though, and Eurodance dominated the charts for a while there in the mid 90s. Similar acts like the Real McCoy, Snap, Culture Beat etc. all get regular airplay.

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Heard the following song this morning on 2NUR FM, supposedly an easy listening station

Jump - Van Halen

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I just tuned into 2CH they are playing the Moody Blues in glorious 48k compressed stereo. A very preemptive track from their library.

Go Now - The Moody Blues

Quite appropriate given the current situation (see the 2CH thread for those who don’t know the context).
Here are the lyrics…

“We’ve already said “goodbye”
Since you gotta go, oh you’d better
Go now, go now, go now (go now, ooh)
Before you see me cry?”

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the whole song or parts of it?

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The whole lot from memory.

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Smoothfm decides to play some Old Skool DANCE music like “I Gotta Feeling” by Black Eyed Peas and “The Key The Secret” by Urban Cookie Collective from 7PM-9PM on Saturdays.

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There was one time on FOX FM last year, They played… Chris Franklin’s Bloke.

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Perhaps it’s my age, but I’m bemused that you (or the radio station) put a 2009 song and a 1993 song in the same category of “old skool dance”! 2009 seems like yesterday!

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A lot of the CHR/Hot AC stations we have now (like KIIS101.1/106.5 & the hit network prior to their rebrand) considered ‘old school’ to be vaguely 90s/00s and maybe late 80s. 2009 is 10 years ago now - shocking I know.

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Princes of The Universe by Queen played a few hours ago during Mix 106.3’s “Two-Up Tuesday”.

While this song was only picked as a single in a few countries [as per the band’s request] and didn’t fair well in the charts here, it only became a radio staple after the Highlander TV series [based on a film that used songs from the Kind Of Magic album] started airing, which infamously used it as the show’s theme song. Weird

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Wild Horses by Gino Vannelli on 2CH. Not a normal track they would play, but a good choice of song in my opinion. I hope they continue to expand the music playlist.

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I wish Wild Horses by Gino Vannelli was played on Smoothfm.

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Smoothfm UPDATE: Wannabe by Spice Girls and Justified and Ancient by KLF has been played.

UPDATE AGAIN Sorry for spamming but it’s real: Mel and Kim’s Respectable have been played too. The full list will be out on the Radio Log page.

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I also just heard Respectable (earlier in the arvo) on Easy Hits. I didn’t feel as easy then. I was ready to do a few somersaults after hearing it.

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Or make that cop shake and dance. Like in the music video.

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Hit Oldskool played Me Myself & I by Scandal’Us during Ten from Then from April 2001 this morning, the group created from Popstars Season 2, they were no where as successful as Season 1’s Bardot.

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