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FormerDJMike wrote:A bit of trivia, I worked at WOKI in Knoxville, TN where the "Desert Storm Mix" originated. Ray Edwards took sound bytes and put them into the song on a reel to reel. It was then dubbed to a cart (much like an 8-track tape). Most of our music was played from CD and this was the only song (at the time) that was played on an analog cart. I made a copy of it and mailed it to Glen (I don't remember how I got his address). He wrote me a letter back a few weeks later and thanked me for sharing it and that they had already been made aware of it. I believe it was eventually released (for radio only) on CD on a compilation disc sent out to radio stations at the time (for the life of me I cannot remember the service that sent them out, I know when I worked in Country radio in the mid 90's they were made by Jones Radio Network). It then appeared on the "Rick Dees Weekly Top 40". At that time I was a part timer working the weekend early mornings playing Rick Dees and Casey's Top 40. I remember hearing it when it was on Rick Dees and I ended up keeping the disc (I don't know where it is now).

The song was huge for us, we had a "Top 9 at 9" and it stayed #1 for months on end and ended up breaking some records for the longest #1 requested song on our station. We still had Ritual in a light rotation and only played it in the evenings or the weekend since the song was already done. We also played Love At First Sight very sparingly. I remember the CD single being there but I remember only hearing it one or two times.

Around 1992 WOKI changed formats to country. The last song they played was Show Me The Way, which went right into Dolly Parton "I WIll Always Love You".

masque wrote:

very cool story....and what makes it super cool is that I was a huge fan of WOKI growing up as I lived in southern KY and WOKI was the only cool rock station we could pick up.....WKQQ in Lexington could only be picked up on rare occasion......at one point I had hours of WOKI recorded to tape so I could hear my favorite songs anytime I wanted.

were you there when the DJ locked himself in the room and played "orange blooded" for like 24 straight hours? or hell, it could have been your ass that did it!!!!! HA!!!

Toph wrote:I have to disagree. It was a superior song that connected people to a bigger idea. It actually should have been the first release as a single as it sounds like classic Styx. I think that the dubbed voices might have sped up the charts and into the top 5, but I think it would have done a slow and steady climb and still landed in the top 10.

ManOfMiracles wrote:I remember that Show Me The Way was racing the chart pretty tightly neck-in-neck with High Enough from Damn Yankees. You couldn't turn on the radio in Chicago without hearing on or the other (or both) as they were hitting their peaks.
Are you sure about 'Ritual's chart position? I'm a little less clear on that one, but I could have sworn I saw it almost but not quite hit top 40 on Billboard. I don't recall it stalling out as high as #80 at all...