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87.75 WLFM-LP 50s 60s 70s 80s #1 Hits

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Schroedingers Cat

To test your radio to see if you are hearing 87.75 WLFM-LP, before they change it again:

They are playing short portions of #1 Hot 100 songs sequentially from the 50s to the 80s, and possibly beyond. They start at the beginning again after they finish the sequence. I assume it starts around 1955.
 
This station has a really good signal range. I have heard them on the Ohio Turnpike west of Toledo. How well can you get it up there in MI?
 
A huge percentage of the US population lives within 250 miles of the station, and with good high ceiling tropo you probably can hear it in the next few weeks early mornings and late nights.
 
Now I see why I have missed the 50s and 90s before. It starts sometime in the late 50s and ends sometime in the early 90s, and those years had relatively few #1s per year compared to other decades.
 
Yeah they are playing clips of the Billboard Top 100 hits from 1958 to 1992. For song from 1955 to 1957 they're using another list. I find it more entertaining than what's on the rest of the dial
 
How long does the cycle last on that from the begining of 1955 to the end of 1992? I'd like to hear that but I'm too far out to receive it, unless there's a chance they're streaming somewhere.
 
This kind of reminds me of how WLS in Chicago would play clips of the top songs of each year starting some time in the 50's up to some time in the 80's and add the latest year at Midnight on New Year's Eve until they changed to talk. I've seen clips of it on You Tube and if I can find it again I'll post it here.
 
It seems to begin in 1956. And it ends at the end of 1992. Then they ID the station.

When I hear "Wonderland By Night", I start thinking of the "One Week" line:

"Bert Kaemp-fert has the mad hits."

And then I realize that "One Week" is from much later in the 1990s, and that's why we haven't heard it.

Anyway, I wonder if anyone has strung together #2 and #3 hits, or how ever many it takes to get a similar number from each year. The most common peak is #1, because it can't go any higher. Back in the 70s, I looked at the charts and counted how many #1s were on the chart. It seems like there were as many as 10 #1s on a typical chart, and 30 some Top 10s. Considering that #1s spent close to half the year on the chart at that time, slightly less than half the #1s from that year were on the charts.
 
anotherguy said:
This kind of reminds me of how WLS in Chicago would play clips of the top songs of each year starting some time in the 50's up to some time in the 80's and add the latest year at Midnight on New Year's Eve until they changed to talk. I've seen clips of it on You Tube and if I can find it again I'll post it here.
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Also along the lines of the old WCFL "Mini Spins"
 
Actually, it's more like the WCFL Capsule Countdowns than the WCFL Mini Spins. I recorded the WLS New Years Day One Year In One Minute Presentations for several years. It never got through the whole thing without a major fade. There was a large number of complaints when they stopped airing it.

The lowest Hot 100 ranking that I can think of that hit #1 on Cash Box was a #4 Billboard. Maybe some of our chart experts can remember a bigger Cash Box or Record World discrepancy. And there's usually about as many #2 through #4 combined as there are #1.
 
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