[BC] Talking about automation taking you off the air

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

Or, if you we're good with a blade, you could make your own "custom" 
version of a shorter song and play them back off reel-to-reel. In most 
cases, it was a little more reliable than a 10.5 min cart. I recall 
making an 8 minute version of Locomotion (grand funk version). The intro 
alone was 1:02).
While it didn't set a record on length, I also had the pleasure of 
un-rhyming Paul Simon's 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover. There were a couple 
of versions of that floating around the industry. One, I'm proud to say, 
was mine.

  Mike McCarthy wrote:

> Pretty much any popular song over 6 minutes...  And even then, with 
> carts being as stubborn as they can be, the longer carts would bind 
> up. Or the record would skip. So you still needed to be back in the 
> studio as fast as possible just in case that happened.


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Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
dpritchett1 at comcast.net