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Post by bandit73 on Feb 20, 2015 1:20:33 GMT -5
Say, does anyone remember this?
Years ago, I saw a big, thick book at a local library that dealt with a top 100 pop singles chart that existed in the '70s. It may have been Cashbox or Record World, but I don't remember. It definitely was not Billboard. I think the book covered the years 1971-75 (or thereabouts) and included a graph of the chart performance of each record that charted. The back of the book had a ranking of the top songs of that era based on this chart, and "Feelings" by Morris Albert was #1. (It didn't hit #1 on the weekly chart but spent a long time on the chart.)
Anyone else remember a book or a chart like this?
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Post by jlthorpe on Feb 21, 2015 8:54:16 GMT -5
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Post by bandit73 on Feb 23, 2015 23:09:30 GMT -5
Miles Chart Display sounds similar to what I'm talking about, except the book I'm talking about didn't use Billboard.
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Post by chadstevens on Feb 23, 2015 23:29:14 GMT -5
Cashbox had published anthologies of their various charts in the 1980s and 1990s.
RR has compiled the Cashbox pop and Looking Ahead charts in their entirety - rendering Cashbox's own compendiums obsolete - but the Country and R&B singles and LP charts remain uncompiled and incomplete.
I ordered them from Barnes and Noble back in the 1990s and they arrived apparently missing their dust jackets. All of these charts would benefit from being Whitburned.
Here's the books and their ISBN numbers in case you're looking for them: • Album Charts 1955-1974 ISBN 0-8108-2005-6 • Album Charts 1974-1985 ISBN 0-8108-1939-2 • Country Singles 1958-1982 ISBN 0-8108-1685-7 • Country Albums 1964-1988 ISBN 0-8108-2273-3 • Black Contemporary Singles 1960-1984 ISBN 0-8108-1853-1 • Black Contemporary Albums 1975-1987 ISBN 0-8108-2212-1 • Charts For The Post-Modern Age 1978-1987 (Compact Discs, Jukebox Programmer, Midline Albums, Music Videocassettes, Music Videos, Rap Albums/Singles, 12-Inch Singles, Video Games, Videocassettes) ISBN 0-8108-2850-2
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Post by doofus67 on Feb 10, 2018 2:59:27 GMT -5
"Whitburned"! I like that, Chad!
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Post by doofus67 on Aug 17, 2021 5:57:42 GMT -5
Yeah, "Whitburned." Maybe the true definition of success is when your name becomes a verb. ☺
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