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(More customer reviews)As a broadcaster for the past 30 years, I know that a set of Joel Whitburn's Billboard chart books are indispensible. But often, it was the local and regional hits that drove popular music. For example, twenty times in the 60's, a song reached the top ten on WLS in Chicago without ever appearing on the Billboard Hot 100. In Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969, I identify every tune to reach the WLS Silver Dollar Survey by title and artist, along with their debut and peak dates, highest position reached and weeks on the survey. I've attempted to bring to a local music chart, the professional research Joel brings to his Billboard books. In the early sixties, WLS in Chicago called itself 'One of America's two great radio stations'. Though they never identified, the other, there's little doubt this was true. For record collectors or radio enthusiasts, this book should bring back incredible music memories.
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Music charts have been around as long as recorded music and radio programs from Your Hit Parade to American Top 40 have capitalized on the idea of counting down the day's top hits.Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 documents those songs that dominated the Midwestern airwaves during that decade- considered by many to be top 40's "golden age." Many of the songs listed did not appear at all on the national charts. Others, including local acts, fared much better in Chicago than in the rest of the country. Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 contains an alphabetical listing by title and by artist of every tune listed on the WLS Silver Dollar Surveys during those years. It also lists the top 40 songs of each year and for the entire decade, as well as a supplemental listing of songs on the station's Rhythm-and-Blues chart of 1964.For those who grew up listening to radio in the Windy City as well as for record collectors from anywhere, Chicago Top 40 Charts 1960-1969 will be a valued addition to any music reference library.
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