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Nick wrote:

> My guess is that it would be futile to request anything that's not a hit song and/or recognizable to at least a slight perceived majority of the listening audience.  Corporate radio simply will not stray from that path.

You're probably right. WCMF has been around at least 30 years, but they're also owned by Infinity Broadcasting. I just went to their website, and they're letting people vote for their "top 500" songs, which will be played as a special show. Each visitor gets to vote for 10 songs from a list provided by the station. Counting my votes, BOC has 3 votes for DFtR and BFY, and 2 votes for Godzilla. There aren't any other BOC songs to choose from. Bob Segar has 18 songs....

The current leader in the voting is Dokken's
"Alone Again" with 2061 votes! A friend of mine once told me that she and her friends used to use "Dokken" as an insult in high school. If something was really heinous, it was "Suckin' like Dokken." Oh well.

> As for a station actually having a copy of "Agents of Fortune", I doubt it.  If "Reaper" isn't saved on a station hard drive as a solo track, I just about guarantee it exists on either one of BOC's many unnecessary comps, or on some kind of "Super HIts of the '70s" crap disc.

I've heard the Cult Classic version of Reaper many times on the radio. I wonder if they even realize the songs are re-recorded and not just a straight best-of. Hmmm, now that I think of it, if they have CC then they also have "Summer of Love," albeit the 1994 version.

> My local "classic rock" station plays "Boys of Summer" and "Invisible Touch" without irony or apology.  Shameful.

On the top 500 voting list:
No "Invisible Touch," but at least 3 Phil Collins' Genesis songs. No "Boys of Summer," but Henley's "Dirty Laundry" is listed.

Brian