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WCBS-FM Top 500 Countdown - Memorial Day Weekend 2014

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pjc1961

Results posted on the station website:

May 2014 -> http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/top-lists/the-2014-memorial-day-top-500/

For comparison:

September 2013 -> http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/2013/09/01/cbs-fms-complete-top-500-labor-day-weekend-countdown-for-2013/

May 2013 -> http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/top-lists/top-500-song-memorial-day-countdown/

A very slight reshuffling of the titles within the top 50-100 or so over these last three lists.

Some interesting entries on the current edition (the oldest/newest titles):

17. FOUR SEASONS | Big Girls Don’t Cry | 1962 (oldest selection)
101. FOUR SEASONS | Sherry | 1962 (oldest selection)
Newest entries:
36. DEF LEPPARD | Pour Some Sugar On Me | 1988
113. MADONNA | Like A Prayer | 1989
135. MADONNA | Vogue | 1990
144. BON JOVI | I’ll Be There For You | 1989
200. Miss You Much - Janet Jackson 1989
203. Free Fallin' - Tom Petty 1989
221. STEVE WINWOOD | Roll With It | 1988
262. FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS | She Drives Me Crazy | 1989
266. MARIAH CAREY | Dreamlover | 1993 *** How 'bout that?! (newest selection)
316. BON JOVI | Bad Medicine | 1988
322. PAULA ABDUL | Straight Up | 1989
397. JON SECADA | Just Another Day | 1992***(2nd newest selection)
405. WHITNEY HOUSTON| So Emotional | 1988

Former #1 overall titles:

348. MICHAEL JACKSON | Thriller | 1984
39. VAN MORRISON | Brown Eyed Girl | 1967
---. FOUR SEASONS | Ragdoll | 1964 (so much for "Jersey Boys" helping this particular song)

I could be wrong or missing some newer/older titles or otherwise interesting entries...fill in as needed.
 
The issue of radio station countdowns have been discussed on other message boards before. If a hit that is not consistent with the station's format gets enough votes, it wll not make the survey. For years In the Still of the Night was #1 on the WCBS-FM Top 500, but it is not listed in this survey. One must take these surveys with a grain of salt.

Bruce
 
It was a matter of time that some 90's would make an appearance on CBS-FM. It's great to still see a song like 1968's "Hey Jude" at the top!

Another poster on another board mentioned that radio is moving away from countdowns or making them really short, like K-Earth's "top 101", but I suppose WCBS is a rare exception.

Here's the top 101 for KRTH this weekend:

http://kearth101.cbslocal.com/k-earth-101s-summer-kickoff-countdown-top-101-songs/
 
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Correction to my earlier post:

The oldest song on the Top 500 is #197 "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King from 1961.
Of course, its use in the film of the same name in 1986 has kept the song in higher profile.
 
pjc1961 said:
Correction to my earlier post:

The oldest song on the Top 500 is #197 "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King from 1961.
Of course, its use in the film of the same name in 1986 has kept the song in higher profile.
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Yep! Over in the Hudson Valley, WGNY-FM's "Fox Oldies" also plays "Stand By Me" as well, because it's still an oldies station at 98.9 and up in Albany, WROW's "Magic 590" played it too and it was a hit for him in 1961, but it was later released in 1986 in conjunction with the film "Stand By Me" with River Phoenix. "Fox Oldies" and "Magic 590" also played songs that are from the "Dirty Dancing" soundtrack in 1987, but I heard "Do You Love Me" by the Contours which was also a big hut in 1962 and then released again in 1988, but you hear some oldies that can heard on the soundtrack. "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers was a big hit in 1965 and then it hit again in 1990 which was also from the movie "Ghost".
 
BruceS said:
The issue of radio station countdowns have been discussed on other message boards before. If a hit that is not consistent with the station's format gets enough votes, it wll not make the survey. For years In the Still of the Night was #1 on the WCBS-FM Top 500, but it is not listed in this survey. One must take these surveys with a grain of salt.
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If CBS-FM will start playing 90's music in the next year or two, Boyz II Men will put their version of "In the Still of the Nite" to #1, not the Five Satins original. I remember back on Christmas Eve of last year, "Fox Oldies" played the Five Satins song "In the Still of the Nite" by the Five Satins during Van Ritshie's show and that song was indeed the #1 oldie of all time in the original "Top 500", and it still remains as a favorite New York song.
 
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