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WCBS-FM TOP 20 COUNTDOWN-8/25/1985 (AIRS 8/25/2008 SUN. NIGHT 9:55PM ET)

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pjc1961

This will be the most "current" (latest dated) Top 20 countdown ever on WCBS-FM's main channel (previous countdowns have featured weeks from 1983 & 1984), as the station inches further into the 1980's. Most likely one of the two WHTZ-FM "Z100" survey lists (links below) will be used as a playlist:

http://www.ct30.com/Z100/1985/850819w.txt

http://www.ct30.com/Z100/1985/850826w.txt

Remember the days of the "Brat Pack": "The Breakfast Club" & "St. Elmo's Fire"!
And "Back to the Future", too!
 
I think they have played "You Spin Me Round", just not very often. I know a clip of it was featured in one of the "Turntable Tuesday" sweepers.
 
PJC1961,

CBS-FM's Top 20 Countdown last night sounded more like an AC countdown than one you would hear on Z-100.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Kevin L. Sealy said:
PJC1961,

CBS-FM's Top 20 Countdown last night sounded more like an AC countdown than one you would hear on Z-100.





Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
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I agree. This was a pretty "safe" list from an A/C-Hot A/C perspective. I would assume that WCBS-FM is pretty careful about which playlists/weeks they pick from the 1980's...I'm sure they try to pick something that most closely "fits the format" rather than anything random...(if only; we could only fantasize!). With most (but not all) of the sixties & seventies playlists, it's fairly smooth sailing as most of the songs "fit". With some of the eighties songs that seemed "hard/edgy" at the time, most songs "soften" over time so as to be accepted at A/C-Hot A/C today (listen to any eighties retrospective shows or special weekends on an A/C station & you'd be mildly surprised at what you hear now vs. what you would have heard on the same stations 20-25 years ago). Another consideration is: for just two hours a week, late on a Sunday evening, within a show clearly labeled as something special/different, what's wrong with a few tunes that may seem a bit out of place? Having said that, WCBS-FM still will be selective about which playlists to use (from any era).
 
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