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What is a radio teaser?

What songs use the "song on the radio within the song" effect?

  • What songs use the "song on the radio within the song" effect? Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" begins with the sound of a radio cycling through stations until it lands on a guitar tune. The guitar proceeds for a few bars--through a tinny "radio" filter--until David Gilmour starts accompanying it on a higher fidelity "live" guitar. Then, of course, the song proper begins. Eventually, the band gives out to the "radio" guitar again. (At the moment, "Wish You Were Here" can be heard http://hype.non-standard.net/search/wish%20you%20were%20here/1/) Natalie Merchant's "Carnival" pulls a similar trick; after it ends, you can hear a snippet of the song playing on a radio in a busy urban soundscape. Have other songs used this "redundant radio" effect? Who was the first to use it?

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    "Guten Morgen" by Die Prinzen. Starts exactly as you described for the Pink Floyd song.

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The first one I ever heard was Taco's version of "Puttin' on the Ritz", in 1982. Ugh, I can't believe I remember this.

xil

Starship's "We Built This City" has a bridge that consists of a spoken word bit that's supposed to be a radio DJ. "I'm looking out over that Golden Gate Bridge on another gorgeous sunny Saturday, and I'm seein' that bumper to bumper traffic..."

Servo5678

Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy's "Television, the Drug of a Nation" starts with a similar effect, although I think it's the sound of a tv changing through the many channels...

hincandenza

Sweets For My Sweet by CJ Lewis does something similar. The first few bars sound like they are coming from a scratchy mono record player, followed by a needle scratching the record and then the full song.

forrest

Radio #1 by Air starts with a radio tuning, and also has the "DJ" cutting in over the end of the song and singing along with it. But it doesn't strictly have the song itself sounding like it's on the radio.

O9scar

"Cut My Hair" by the Who fades out over a fake news report on the radio.

martinX's bellbottoms

Crash and Burn by Sheryl Crow. Not sure if it was a single - it's on the Globe Sessions Album.

ganseki

Starship's "We Built This City" has a bridge that consists of a spoken word bit that's supposed to be a radio DJ. (please god kill me now for knowing that)

cosmicbandito

Aerosmith's Amazing ends with some old-timey radio sounds, and a voice-over Bouncing Souls' Private Radio starts with a dial scan and a bit of a song going "...it was allllll so grand..." Red Elvises have a few from the Six String Samurai soundtrack that have a DJ voice-over in the beginning or end this is all from memory, so I can't be too exact on these

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