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Does anyone have old music logs they can post?

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MrJohn

I would be beyond fascinated if anyone had any old music logs they could post. I found some of mine from the mid 2010s and it was such a cool time capsule - which song was in which rotation, and all that.
I know this might be a tough ask, as most music logs go right into the trash or recycling after the shift. But I used the backs of mine for scratch paper, etc. If anyone did something similar, or saved them for nostalgic purposes, feel free to upload! I'd love to see them.

Any format. Any decade.
 
Great idea! One thing that I used to enjoy is looking online at old Billboard magazines and checking out what the reporting stations had sent in. I guess that wouldn't be as easy, or at least as inexpensive, now that Billboard has put up a paywall. (I'm not knocking the paywall, I'm just saying...)
 
Cordelia Chase said:
Great idea! One thing that I used to enjoy is looking online at old Billboard magazines and checking out what the reporting stations had sent in. I guess that wouldn't be as easy, or at least as inexpensive, now that Billboard has put up a paywall. (I'm not knocking the paywall, I'm just saying...)
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Billboard issues: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard-Magazine.htm
Radio & Records issues: https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Radio_and_Records.htm

Also there: Cash Box, Record World and many "Tip Sheets" like Gavin and FMQB.
 
Thanks to Shazam, I was able to put this together:

WNBC-AM 660
Monday April 1, 1975
1:25pm-2:19pm
"Just Plain" Al Brady

Sam Cooke - Twisting The Night Away
Carpenters - Only Yesterday
The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & Other Things
Simon & Garfunkell - A Hazy Shade Of Winter
Barry Manilow - It's A Miracle
Benny Bell - Shaving Cream (A 1946 tune re-released in 1975!)
Marie Osmond - Paper Roses
NBC News
Jay & The Techniques - Keep The Ball Rollin'
Barry White - What Am I Gonna Do With You
Lesley Gore - She's A Fool
Helen Reddy - Ruby Red Dress (Leave Me Alone)
Elvis Presley - My Boy
Candy & The Kisses - The 81

The aircheck posted below jumps to just after 3 pm at this point. "Vernon With A V" takes over.

The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tracks Of My Tears

 
I doubt there are few real music logs from the pre computer days except for the top markets and possibly a "Billboard" reporting station. The labor to type the logs would be expensive. In a real completive market, they were most likely destroyed or secured to keep the "other" station(s) from getting them. I personally worked the 3 by 5 index card system where each different colors (or categories) on the hot clock had set of matching cards with a cart number. When you played a song on cart you put that card in the back of the pile. (I worked with a person who thought putting carts in in just any open slot was OK but that is a topic of another thread.) A couple of stations had bins with 45's and a "dot" on the sleeve to match up the category on the clock. Later on CDs either had "dots" in bins or were in racks (oldies).

What would be really interesting would be access to the "BMI logs". Every station I ever worked at had a requirement by BMI (the music license people) that you would write down every song you played for a week. Every radio station I worked at did it.
 
CaliRadioFan said:
Thanks to Shazam, I was able to put this together:

WNBC-AM 660
Monday April 1, 1975
1:25pm-2:19pm
"Just Plain" Al Brady

Sam Cooke - Twisting The Night Away
Carpenters - Only Yesterday
The Cowsills - The Rain, The Park & Other Things
Simon & Garfunkell - A Hazy Shade Of Winter
Barry Manilow - It's A Miracle
Benny Bell - Shaving Cream (A 1946 tune re-released in 1975!)
Marie Osmond - Paper Roses
NBC News
Jay & The Techniques - Keep The Ball Rollin'
Barry White - What Am I Gonna Do With You
Lesley Gore - She's A Fool
Helen Reddy - Ruby Red Dress (Leave Me Alone)
Elvis Presley - My Boy
Candy & The Kisses - The 81

The aircheck posted below jumps to just after 3 pm at this point. "Vernon With A V" takes over.

The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tracks Of My Tears

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Strange thing just noticed on that aircheck. Brady comes out of Keep the Ball Rollin' by back-selling Paper Roses as if that was the song just ending, then saying "Jay and the Techniques up next!" After which What Am I Gonna Do With You plays! The sloppiness continues after that, really embarrassing for a top market station to put that on air. Primitive automation/voice tracking gone haywire?
 
secondchoice said:
What would be really interesting would be access to the "BMI logs". Every station I ever worked at had a requirement by BMI (the music license people) that you would write down every song you played for a week. Every radio station I worked at did it.
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Of course, that doesn't take place anymore. The music scheduling software outputs the music log, complete with songwriter credits, and that gets submitted to the music licensing entities (in addition to BMI, there are also ASCAP, SESAC and GMR).
 
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