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Post by mrjukebox on Dec 29, 2008 19:45:02 GMT -5
I remember listening to the "US Music Survey" in the mid-90's-It used to be on WHUD in Peekskill,NY every Sunday morning-The chart Dick used was from Radio & Records-In fact,it was the same listings Casey Kasem used for "Casey's Countdown"/"American Top 20".
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Post by jedijake on Dec 29, 2008 19:58:51 GMT -5
It's interesting that Clark used Cashbox surveys for the first couple of years of his survey. Cashbox was very much like Billboard's Hot 100 (almost identical) until 1983-around the time when he switched over to R&R. The sales emphasis started to play a much bigger role in Cashbox's chart starting mid-1983.
On the flipside, R&R had been a very Adult Contemporary chart through 1982. Songs hit the top 3 on R&R's pop chart in the early 1980's that never even cracked the top 10 or even top 20 on the Billboard chart. By mid-1983, R&R more paralleled Billboard. I don't think it's any irony that Dick went from using Cashbox to R&R when he did.
Then, of course, countdown shows fell by the wayside when Billboard moved to Soundscan. There was no real market for using the Billboard chart and R&R really became the only reliable radio chart around. (and both Rick Dees and Casey were already using it).
In other words, by the 90's, sales and airplay became long-lost cousins rather than close-knit sibilings.
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Post by BrettVW on Jan 11, 2022 22:33:32 GMT -5
Resurrecting this old thread as I am currently listening to a recently acquired National Music Survey from May 24/25, 1986. The host? Bill St. James. At this point he seems to have been the regular host, as the jingles all have his name in them.
He sounds younger and a lot lighter than the "voice of God" sound his voiceover work has, and what I am used to hearing on Time Warp. But after hearing him play classic rock and do his Time Warp and Flashback schtick all these decades, it's fun to hear him execute such a different style and format so effortlessly.
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Post by Mike on Jan 12, 2022 14:42:20 GMT -5
Worth noting: In 1994, Dick Clark and Nick Verbitsky decided to do it all over again. They took the United Stations name out of mothballs to form the United Stations Radio Networks. The first move for the new company was the purchase of DB Communications, a radio comedy services company with five programs and services on the air. By the end of 1994, a lineup of weekend programming was introduced including two of Dick Clark's existing radio programs along with the company’s first Rock, Country and Urban shows. As of now (almost 30 years later!), Verbitsky is still CEO at USRN.
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