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THE WEEKEND COMMENTS
The Ides Of March Christmas Show is tonight at The Arcada Theatre …And there are still plenty of great seats available.(We’ve seen this show several timeS over the years and I can highly recommend...
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THE 1971 SUPER CHARTS: Week Ending December 25th
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!Today's Super Chart reflects The Top 100 Songs for the Week Ending December 25th ... which just happens to be Christmas Day!(We're going to run one more chart next week to wrap...
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A Monday Morning Quickie!
For decades now we’ve been hearing about how Elvis Presley was offered the lead role, playing opposite Barbra Streisand, in her production of the remake of “A Star Is Born” … but that Colonel Parker...
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Another 2022 Sneak Peek!
One of the things you can look forward to next year is the return of the weekly surveys from coast to coast ... That's right ...Every week we'll be featuring a Top 40 Chart from a different radio...
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Christmas Wishes
Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" broke a 60-year chart record this week when it returned to the #1 spot for the THIRD time, thus eclipsing Chubby Checker's long-standing record for "The...
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Insights Into ... Herman's Hermits
Insights into … Herman’s Hermits[19 Billboard Hot 100 singles, 1964 – 68, and three RIAA-certified gold singles]Most American teenagers who were British Invasion fans in the mid-1960s likely are...
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THE 1971 SUPER CHARTS: Week Ending December 4th
The year is winding down as we reach the December 4th Chart for 1971.Sly and the Family Stone hold on to the #1 spot for a second week ... as Bread inches ever closer, moving from #4 to #2 with "Baby...
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The 1971 SUPER CHARTS: Week Ending January 1, 1972
With six days of this week falling in 1971, we just HAD to do one more chart to wrap up the year!As we anticipated, "American Pie" moves into the #1 spot this week ... making it the last #1 of 1971 and...
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Another New Feature for 2022
I am so excited about some of the things we'll be bringing you next year in Forgotten Hits.One extremely rare and unique feature will be glimpses into the journals and photo collections of Henry Diltz,...
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Tuesday This And That
It just may be my favorite week of radio all year …The polls are closed … and the votes have been tabulated … And all week long Rewound Radio will be playing back your 2021 All-Time Favorites (in no...
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Top TV Shows and Movies of 1971
According to the Nielsen Ratings, these were The Top 30 TV Shows of 1971: 1. ALL IN THE FAMILY (CBS) 34.0 2. THE FLIP WILSON SHOW (NBC) 28.2 3. MARCUS WELBY, M.D. (ABC)...
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The Henry Diltz Archives #1 - It's A Runaway Smash!
BRAND NEW for 2022 ...THE HENRY DILTZ ARCHIVES ...Running EXCLUSIVELY in FORGOTTEN HITS!!! (photos and original journal entries, courtesy of Henry Diltz and Gary Strobl, The Keeper of the Castle ......
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Based on a compilation of year end chart information gathered from all three major music trade publications (Billboard, Cash Box and Record World) along with Joel Whitburn's Record Research 1971 Pop...
View ArticlePHIL NEE: Those Were The Days - featuring BURTON CUMMINGS
Another new Forgotten Hits feature for 2022 will be weekly interview clips provided by WRCO Disc Jockey Phil Nee, who has been hosting "Those Were The Days" for decades now.It's a weekly oldies show...
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The Sunday Comments ( 01 - 02 - 22 )
We lost TV Icon Betty White on New Year’s Eve, less than three weeks shy of what would have been her 100th birthday. (Plans for a TV birthday special will now likely turn into more of a tribute to...
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1972 Survey ... January 1st ... North Dakota
We begin our cross-country trek across America, circa 1972, in Fargo, North Dakota, with this January 1st chart from KQWB ...Every week this year we'll examine the biggest hits in all fifty states...
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Tuesday This And That
David Bowie’s catalog is the latest to go up for sale … his estate just sold his global publishing rights to Warner Chappell Music in a deal estimated to be worth more than $250 million. (The company...
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Everything is Status Quo ... with Status Quo
We've been teasing this one for a while now ...Most of us here in The States were first introduced to the British Group Status Quo in 1968 thanks to their psychedelic pop hit "Pictures Of Matchstick...
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Thursday This And That
From:Today is January 6, 2022. Sixty-four years ago today in 1958, Chuck Berry was in the Recording Studio of Chess Records in Chicago and recorded one of his most famous and quite possibly one of the...
View ArticleAnalyzing This Year's REWOUND RADIO Countdown
REWOUND RADIO COUNTDOWN ANALYSIS:Welcome to our first ever analysis of the Annual Rewound Radio Countdown of Fan Favorites.I have been listening to (and highly recommending) Rewound Radio for nearly...
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