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  1. So, #4BC seems to have revived the old top-9-at-9 that #4KQ used to do… but they're making us guess the theme.

    Songs so far featured:
    - Gordon Lightfoot -- Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald (was also the "lost classic", the event was on this day 48 years ago)
    - Ray Parker Jnr -- Ghostbusters
    - AC/DC -- Dirty Deeds, Done Dirt Cheap

    I wonder if they're poking fun at #Optus. (Their network went down, there was speculation about all sorts of superstitions, then finger-pointing about sacking staff and using contractors…)

  2. #4BC each morning do a "lost classic" where they play a hit song from the music top 40 past, that doesn't get a lot of air play. It's a carry-over from what the group there did on #4KQ.

    One recurring theme I hear each time I catch that segment, is the artist (or their record company) saying: "My song was popular in ${COUNTRY}? I had no idea!"

    Seems to me, the thing that is killing #music is NOT people copying CDs/LPs/tapes, far and above the bulk of the blame over the _past 8 decades_, lays at the feet of the record company #executives in the recording industry, who were too greedy to be _honest_ with their artists.