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I like your music selections. Speaking for myself, I log on and off in short order. Sometimes I linger longer. I suspect some others do. I try read and listen to each post that reply. I was never a DJ, but had some friends that were, and they were quite intelligent. You have great taste and post all the songs that you love, but, please for this old fart's sake, post them one, two, or maybe three at a time. Believe me, for this format, that's enough.
Rick--Help Me make It Thought the Night by Sammi whoever may have been a one hit wonder--for her-- but it was written by Kris Kristofferson who wrote many great songs:
When I was 10 years old, it was a summer August day in 1978, I was at the beach with my friends and this song came on the radio. I went to KMart that night and looked at the album cover and knew right then and there, there were other's just like me.
Why were songs so short in the late 60s - early 70s? Nearly all of the songs above are less than 3:10
Totally and unabashedly unqualified to answer your question, but here goes: the economy of marketing? Precursor to "news" soundbites? "They" do have the psychology nailed down.
By the time I was into music, 8-10 years old, disco was big and songs were hella long. McAuther Park by Donna Summer/Georgio Moroder was like 16 minutes long.
I was in heaven.
In the late 90s when I was really clubbing, I used to ask the DJ to stretch the song (two copies of the same song on two different turntables and mix them together to make the song longer).
He said I was spoiled.
When I DJ'd I would take the dub then mix in the vocal, used to end up with songs 16-20 minutes long. Crowds loved it because they knew the song but had 5-7 minutes of being tantalized before the lyrics came in.
And I believe the full version of MacArthur Park was closer to 23 minutes.
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