In looking through playlists from my KCOU days, I'm puzzled by a notation I made. On one playlist, next to Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing," I wrote, "request, kind of." I'm trying to remember why I specified "kind of" on the playlist. Did a listener call the station and request it in a deadpan voice, as someone once did when asking to hear USA For Africa's "We Are The World?" Did another DJ walk past the studio and say, "I haven't heard 'Shadow Dancing' in a long time?" Did another DJ suggest, "It might be unexpected, but 'Shadow Dancing' would segue with the song playing now?" Or, maybe a listener actually wanted to hear the song but felt awkward requesting it.
"Kind of," in this case, could have meant several things. I'm still wondering.
