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A Runaway Trains

Post by Marcelocooper » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:50 am

Dennis posted on his facebook page:

It's great to see that "A Runaway Train" is getting radio play. Thanks Alice, Michael, Neal, Bob, Steve, Shep, Vince Gill & DDP.

I asked about how it was going, and he said this:

Alice told me that it was the single and my royalties reflect that it's doing nearly as well as "Elected" which is going pretty strong right now.

So, I guess this is kind of good news, great to see a new song playing almost as much as a total classic like Elected.
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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by scotty » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:30 am

good to hear! wish I would start hearing it on my stations! the only coop I've heard on the radio the past few months is "no more mr. nice guy" and "welcome to my nightmare"

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by Mr. Skull » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:57 am

The only song I hear regularly in the Netherlands is how you gonna see me now and 9 out of 10 times that's in the supermarket !

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Post by scotty » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:02 pm

last coope song I heard in a store is "I never cry"..at halloween time I've heard "welcome to my nightmare"

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by Marcelocooper » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:04 pm

There's one Radio Station here in São Paulo that plays some Cooper songs. The last one i heard was School's Out, last week. But no other station play rock music.
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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by dadascot » Tue Apr 03, 2012 9:04 pm

I heard Poison on Radio two the other day, brought a big smile. I've been off line for a few days, did I miss runnaway train being the new single??

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by A_MichaelUK » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:04 am

>did I miss runnaway train being the new single??

It was released late last year to radio only, as far as I know.

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by Marcelocooper » Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:16 pm

I asked Dennis about it, and the answer is the one he says it's going nearly as well as Elected.
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Post by mestreech » Wed Apr 04, 2012 3:58 pm

Marcelocooper wrote:I asked Dennis about it, and the answer is the one he says it's going nearly as well as Elected.
for me that is hard to believe.
No airplay at all and Elected that was a worldwide hit!!!

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by Mr. Skull » Wed Apr 04, 2012 5:42 pm

At the moment most likely ...

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by GNDM » Wed Apr 04, 2012 6:55 pm

Dennis based his opinion about airplay on "Train" and "Elected" by referring to his royalties and talking to Alice.

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by Marcelocooper » Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:18 pm

GNDM wrote:Dennis based his opinion about airplay on "Train" and "Elected" by referring to his royalties and talking to Alice.
Exactly! And he is comparing how they are both going today, not with 1973, when Elected was a worldwide hit played all day long.
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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by recoop » Wed Apr 04, 2012 8:17 pm

,,exactly and of course Elected is probably generating more than normal for an old song with a forthcoming election in US..I am sure Dennis will be happy with the well earned royalties
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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by mestreech » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:29 pm

I also hope that Dennis gets his well earned royalties but I know for sure that Elected nowadays gets more airplay and so more royalties than Runaway train. Elected can be heard on all the radiostations with the so called Classic/oldies . At least here in Holland.
And I personali never heard Runaway train on any radiostation at all.
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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by dadascot » Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:13 pm

I've never heard Runaway train played anywhere, maybe this is an American thing, although I did hear 'No More Mr Nice guy' played today...God that's a great single.

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by steven15322 » Thu Apr 05, 2012 2:23 am

I have never heard Runaway Train here in the U.S on the radio. But I don't listen to the radio except for classic rock stations so ??
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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by A_MichaelUK » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:00 am

>maybe this is an American thing,

Yes.

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by darkmenace » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:48 pm

I hate to be a Doubting Thomas but I see absolutely no evidence that A Runaway Train is getting airplay beyond possibly a couple spins here and there. To compare it to Elected, a Top 40 hit, is wishful thinking. I'd like to be wrong: Can someone provide a radio playlist or rankings of rock songs from Billboard or something that mentions A Runaway Train?

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Re: A Runaway Trains

Post by GNDM » Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:30 pm

Perhaps you can go to Dennis Dunaway's facebook page and ask him? Maybe he can double check his royalty listings.

BTW....I don't think anyone is "comparing" it to Elected. AND, I have no idea (and probably no one else does) as to the time frame we are talking about. Weeks? Months? One day? Go to the Dunaway Family page and ask. And let us know.

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