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Haha, that was a pretty good one-hit wonder. The radio stations picked it up in early 1980. By the summer time it seemed like every radio station was playing it every hour. By the end of the year, it was gone, never to be heard again. But I liked it. I still had it recorded on a cassette tape and listened to it for a while after that.
Thanks. I bought the 45 rpm record and ground it into an MP3. I can email you a copy if you'd like, with the opening "p" on the word "Pilot" cropped off.
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The lyrics are from the point of view of a woman who frequently listens, late at night, to a radio disc jockey whom she calls a "pilot of the airwaves," keeping what has often been called the "dawn patrol." She admits that she has few real-life friends and that the DJ keeps her as much company as she believes she needs, describing her life and the feelings she has surrounding the fact that she considers the radio DJ her only true friend. The DJ does not need to play the selection she has requested; she does hope the DJ will do his best along those lines, adding:
I've been listening to your show on the radio,
And you seem like a friend to me.
For a while, during December 1972-much of Spring 1973 when I was 15-16, with my Dad's passing on January 5, 1973, Allison Steele and to a lesser extent other WNEW-FM DJ's fulfilled that role. They event told me the approximate time of airplay so I could tape my requests onto my reel-to-reel. Those songs are now largely MP3's, courtesy of a NYC studio who transcribed them in 2003.
I can't believe I remember all this with my poor memory.
Thanks. I bought the 45 rpm record and ground it into an MP3. I can email you a copy if you'd like, with the opening "p" on the word "Pilot" cropped off.
For a while, during December 1972-much of Spring 1973 when I was 15-16, with my Dad's passing on January 5, 1973, Allison Steele and to a lesser extent other WNEW-FM DJ's fulfilled that role. They event told me the approximate time of airplay so I could tape my requests onto my reel-to-reel. Those songs are now largely MP3's, courtesy of a NYC studio who transcribed them in 2003.
I can't believe I remember all this with my poor memory.
Thanks, but I have MP3 of pretty much everything from the 1950s to the 2000s. Those were good times.
I have noticed these days they now charge you $ for removal of an appliance or piece of furniture if you buy a a replacement. And that included a refrigerator folks.
So................I'm so old I remember when you bought a replacement for a piece of furniture/appliance they would remove the old one for free.
during the WW11 war i lived on kenilworth ave down the street from a army camp east of the cnr train tracks in hamilton ont, would ride my bike or walk pass there many times.
I remember watching "Dallas" on tv, as a child, late 70s. Saturday at 8 PM, if I remember correctly.
Sometimes I would want to go outside and play at that hour but no one was outside, no children, no people, everybody was in front of their tv set, watching "Dallas". I used to tell my mom that outside it looks like an atomic bomb was dropped earlier and all people desintegrated on the spot and disappeared.
My favorite was Sue Ellen (Linda Gray, she's 81 now!).
I remember good food, good customer service and professionalism.
What got me thinking about this, I was just watching a YouTuber vlogging her anniversary trip with her husband. They stayed in a beautifly lake lakefront resort. It was a hundred year old inn, with upgraded rooms and all the modern conveniences. Definitely 5 stars for the room and the facilities. Zero stars for customer service which appeared to be horrible to non-existent.
Their first problem they wanted a seafood dinner, which the resort didn't have any option for. So they went to a nearby seafood restaurant. She had a few video clips of the food, which didn't look particularly appetizing. You could see a couple of sloppy looking teenage employees lounging against the wall in the background, not doing much of anything. They walked out without finishing the food. Which her husband then described as gas station quality food.
They went back to the resort and had dessert. Which was a nice looking cheesecake and ice cream. Nothing spectacular, but it looked good and they seemed to enjoy it. Since they were still hungry they decided to take the hotel food offering which was a box pizza that they took back to their room. The pizza looked better then Domino's or Pizza Hut, but not as good as many other fast food pizzas.
The next morning they had the breakfast buffet. Which looked like a typical hotel breakfast buffet. Crispy bacon, scrambled eggs and hashbrowns out of warmers. The guy running the buffet was wearing jeans and a t-shirt with the word "STAFF" in big faded letters on the back.
Can you imagine staying a five star resort 50, 60, 70 years ago and having a customer service experience like that? Hell the waitresses at a Woolworth's Lunch Counter would have been neeter and more professional than anybody they ran into on that trip.
Times have changed and not for the better.
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