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The Saturday Surveys (2-8)
Three charts from the '60's this week ... all with some unusual "charters" worth mentioning!First up, WKLO from Kentucky ... LOTS of local and regional hits on this one ... Look at Billy Joe Royal at...
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The Sunday Comments ( 02 - 09 - 14 )
Of course today (finally!) is the big day ... so a LOT of your comments this past week have been somewhat Beatles-centric ... but we'll squeeze a few other British Invasion tidbits in here as well!re:...
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Hey kk,I have been enjoying reading about all the controversy surrounding today's radio or lack of. The old saying “don’t fix it if it aint broke” comes to mind. It’s definatley broke as far as I’m...
View ArticleIt Was 50 Years Ago Today ...
Are you Beatle'd out yet? With the big anniversary now behind us, I think things will start to settle down a little bit. (Of course here in Forgotten Hits we'll continue to look back at the onslaught...
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Some Of Your Mid-Week Comments
I don't know if I've EVER been this far behind before!!!Crazy work hours (again) so VERY little time at the computer ... as of this morning I'm officially NINE DAYS BEHIND opening mail (well MOST mail...
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re: It's A Small World After All:This is just WILD! After running the letter below from Jerry Kamper on Monday as part of our "Radio" feature, I was SHOCKED to receive the following letter from...
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50 Years Ago This Weekend ( February 14 - 15 - 16 )
The Beatles made their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan on Sunday, February 16th ... this time they performed SIX tracks: "This Boy" and "From Me To You" ... along with repeat performances of "I...
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The Saturday Surveys (2-15)
Here's a vintage chart from 1962. Eddie Fisher tops the chart with "Milk And Honey", a record that didn't even chart in Billboard!Sausage King Jimmy Dean had THREE Top Ten Hits this week in '62 with...
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A Sunday Chart Bonus
Clark Besch (the guy behind most of the charts we run in our new Saturday Surveys feature) sent me this chart and asked if there was any way I could squeeze it in over the weekend. Check out the date...
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Recent Concert Reviews and Up-Coming Shows
We turn it over to our readers today for updates on some recent and up-coming shows. Enjoy!***** The other day we saluted the anniversary of The Beatles' first performance on U.S. soil at The...
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More Concert Reviews
FH Reader Shelley Sweet-Tufano hit us recently with THREE concert reviews ... and we wanted to share ALL of them with our readers ... so you'll find a couple more up on the site this morning. (Her...
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Some Of Your Mid-Week Comments
re: The Hit Parade Hall Of Fame: Hi Kent -I am happy to announce the 2014 nominees to the Hit Parade Hall of Fame.AlabamaThe CoastersJoe CockerJim CroceBill Haley & CometsHerman’s HermitsThe...
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This And That
Ron Smith just sent me this bit of news ...“The Wrecking Crew,” a documentary film about the studio musicians behind some of the biggest hits in the 1960s and ‘70s. From “Be My Baby” to “California...
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50 Years Ago This Weekend
50 Years ago this weekend (February 23rd, 1964), The Beatles made their third and final appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show as part of the initial deal made between Sullivan and Beatles Manager Brian...
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The Saturday Survey (2-22)
Looks like the K-Men were having some fun with the recent invasion of The Beatles back in 1964 ... they revamped their entire survey to be (shall we say) "insectuous"!!! Clever titles abound ... but...
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The Sunday Comments ( 02 - 23 - 14 )
re: The Saturday Surveys: Hi ya Kent,Got a kick out of that west coast chart from back in '65 that had "Andrea" by the SunRays listed at #5. I played the living daylights out of that song. But as...
View ArticleMight We Suggest ...
If you're like many of us out there, you've grown tired of what today can only be described as "Groundhog Day" programming in radio ... the same set of artists and songs, all day, every day, without...
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Some of you enjoyed our suggestions yesterday ... others felt it's a losing battle ... and (as Billy Joel tells us at least nine or ten times a day) you may be right ... we can't change this by...
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I consider it a crime against nature that the ONLY song you're guaranteed to hear today by Elvis Presley is "Suspicious Minds".Granted, it was a HUGE #1 Hit ... and it's a GREAT song ... but this means...
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Forgotten Hits continues its look back at The British Invasion ... BILLBOARD: Being a leap year, there was a chart for February 29th this year … and on it, The Beatles had THREE Top Ten Hits: I...
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