Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!stuart From: stuart@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stuart Lewis) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Albums and 45's in Top 40 stations - there aren't any! Message-ID: <186@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 11:29:16 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.186 Posted: Thu Jun 7 11:29:16 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:06:04 EDT Organization: Boeing Aerospace, Seattle Lines: 17 One more (only one?!?!) comment concerning albums at top 40 stations. Very true that A.M. Top 40 stations rarely use albums. They don't use 45's either! WHAT? Yes! Immediatly upon recieving an album, a production manager will put the choice "current" hot cuts onto a cart. A cart is simply a modified 8-track cartridge. Stations buy empty carts buy the thousands, and reels of blank tape buy the hundreds of yards. Then each cart is custom filled with just the right time amount of tape (within 5 to 10 seconds of the song length to be put on it). Then the songs are put on it. Ergo, the record library of the station is brand new so that they can play the hell out of a cart and then make a new copy of it from a once played original. Walk in to any top 40 station and you won't see any records. (Large market that is). Play it 'til you vomit!! Stuart Lewis ssc-vax!stuart