The rest of the Hot 100 question

[MrGeno502]

I remember that sometime around 1985, WSAC 105.5 in Ft. Knox Ky.would have a local host count down the Top 50 from Billboard's Hot 100. I think it was on Sunday afternoons. (AT 40 was on WHAS 840 on Sunday evenings at the time)

[bandit73]

Another problem with this is that Billboard's chart data was copyrighted. You probably couldn't use the Hot 100 without paying Billboard a big royalty.

[donwa001]

I think most stations were more concerned with their own Top 40 (or Top 30/20) chart. I know, one night a week back sometime in the 70's, KJR in Seattle would take an hour in the evening and count down their current Top 10 songs. Then at the end of the year, KJR would print out their top songs of the year, available at numerous record stores.

[bestmusicexpert]

I don't see why someone couldn't count them down and claim it was that stations top whatever. Many people programmed according to what was in the hot 100 anyways.

[albe]

Nov 23, 2011 10:55:49 GMT -5 @paul said:

Nov 23, 2011 7:13:05 GMT -5 at40petebattistini said:

Paul,
While it would've been a well-received idea to most individuals who post here, I believe what you asked about likely never happened.

If you looked at it from a radio station perspective, large market stations would have never dedicated that much air time to unproven and unrecognizable music, even in the middle of the night. And small market stations would likely never have had access to all of the Hot 100 records on a weekly basis. Nor would there have be an audience. That leaves mid-sized market stations. In my opinion, it would've been possible there but not likely because of the reasons already mentioned and because of the amount of time needed to coordinate such a weekly production.

What might've been more realistic, a one-hour program just prior to AT40, filled with 'hitbound' recordings -- consisting of 10-12 of the number 41 to number 100 chart climbers. Did such a program as this ever exist? I'm not aware of it. But I believe it woud've been a great audience builder for American Top 40.

I didnt think anyone would have ever done it but just wondering. Perhaps maybe even as a 1 time gimmick for a station that aired the show later in the day.

As far as the hit bound show, "Joel Denver's Future Hits" is the only one I'm aware of. It played songs on the rise but was based on R&R not Billboard. It aired in Jax and Orlando an hour before Casey's Top 40 did.

Around the early 80s for about 10-15years 95.1FM the Best Mix...a station in Trinidad & Tobago counted down the Billboard Hot 100. It was hosted by a DJ Emmet Hennessy and the show was called Hennessy 100 (Surprise Surprise).

The show ran for 6 Hours on a Saturday from 12 noon to 6 pm. It came after a 9am-12pm show hosted by Rennie Bishop (Present PD at New York's WWRL 1600) who was Trinidad's top DJ at the time and his show had the highest listenship for a Saturday morning. This helped keep listeners locked on for the Hennessy Hot 100 which followed and also there was only one other FM station.....remember this country only had 1.2 million people.

Anyhow Emmet's show played all the new entries on the Hot 100, and because he was originally from England he also played extras from the UK Charts including the number 1. While he couldn't get in every song in the Hot 100 (70 on average and reading the songs he skipped) he did manage to play the top 20 within the last 2 hours of the show.

On his year end countdown/New Year Special which was really his first show for the first Saturday in the new year...he played every Number 1 Chronologically on the UK Chart, and Billboard's Hot 100, Soul, Disco, Country and Adult Contemporary Charts. This was really spectacular...wish his show was online then.

While he 's still on radio at another station, you can't deny with this kind of longevity counting down an abridge version of the Hot 100 this must have been a labor of love and certainly some kind of record.

Another piece of history for the Billboard Chart from around the world

[bestmusicexpert]

Thanks for that Albe. I didn't know about that and its quite interesting. I agree that I'd love to hear those shows and wish they were online somewhere.

I wouldn't want to hear current top 100 shows but 70's and 80's would be cool!

[Caseyfan4everRyanfanNever]

Don't know if this is relevant to the topic but there is a station at www.radioio.com called "Billboard Top 100". I'm listening to it right now to see what it includes, but if the name is any indication, there's a chance that it will play the Billboard Hot 100.

[albe]

Yeah BME I would gave an arm and a leg to hear those shows myself.

I gave radioio.com a listen caseyfan4ever but the playlist seems to be a random playing of songs from the Hot 100 as best as I can figure.

[tarobe]

Nov 24, 2011 8:22:59 GMT -5 bestmusicexpert said:

I don't see why someone couldn't count them down and claim it was that stations top whatever. Many people programmed according to what was in the hot 100 anyways.

In the summer of 1973 a DJ named Johnny G (Grider), who had a Top 40 show on mostly country 1460 WRVK in Renfro Valley, KY, did just that. He played the top 12 or 13 songs (the same songs as Casey played in the last hour of AT40). But he never mentioned that they were from Billboard. the station didn't air American Top 40, so that may have been why he did it. He only did this for about six or seven weeks or so. Occasionally he went one better and played the flipsides of the top singles instead.