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This is a little off topic but …

Do you sometimes get a song in your mind and can’t quite remember the lyrics or the name of  who sang it?

A Hitch in Your Giddyup

A Radio DJ will get this all the time. A call from a listener who knows a few lyrics and a part of the melody but can’t figure out the name of the song or the artist.

Blessed Relief

Chris Pirillo is on top of the latest web technology and how sites use it so I’ll let him explain this awesome website.

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This happens so often there should be a name for it. Like ‘tune dysnfunction’, or Looney Tune ( Ha), or Tip Tongue Tune. But with this new site hopefully the world can sleep a little sounder tonight with all those mind grabbing tunes brought home to rest.

Finally, A Good Use For The World Wide Web

Honestly radio producers get this daily from listeners who call and hum just a tiny bit of a song. When asked if the artist is a male or female and many times the listener doesn’t remember and often they are not even sure what radio station they heard the song on. I am the same way when I get a song stuck in my craw so I understand.

Remember back in the 80′s when  home answering machines were all the rage? Everybody had to have a novelty message as their greeting. From celebrity voices to whole families taking turns saying their names on the greeting.

Now a similar thing is happening with GPS devises. The Knight Rider voice guy, William Daniels has voiced a GPS device. That would be fun.

Plus there’s this GPS site with various celebrities impersonated telling you which way to turn.

Voice Commercial actors are having fun doing this, I am sure.

Here’s the video–

The changes in media have shuffled a lot of voice people around but it looks like many of them are getting new jobs doing things like these announcements.

New markets opening up include

• podcasting
• online radio
• books on tape (on kindle)
• video games
• good old radio automation
• satellite radio
• websites

New media is exploding and there are new applications for commercial voices everyday.