Featured Surveys

Welcome! Let's reminisce and enjoy a few minutes cruisin' down Memory Lane to the tunes of our youth. You're on Blast from Your Past's Featured Radio Surveys page! Enjoy the moment ... again.

Every month--50 Years Ago--a cool vintage radio survey, or music chart (depending on how you know them), Top 40, Top 30, Top whatever, is featured here to coincide with BFYP's "50 Years Ago this Month" nostalgic blog. All surveys are from the Blast from Your Past Collection unless noted as radio surveys from other great sites.
  * Artist names and song titles listed as printed on original survey.

Featured Survey / MARCH 1974:

It's another "Q" station! This time, moving East, St. Louis, Missouri, went Q with the Bartells to establish KSLQ in 1972. By 1974 they had The Red Baron (Mike Jeffries) as DJ and topped all the other stations in town. Of course, like last month's KCBQ/San Diego, they still couldn't go by the radio book for a Top 30 or 40 ... Enjoy their Top 26 tunes ... cheers to the memories and Rock On ... 50 Years Ago this Month ... Enjoy the Moment Again!

*Top Ten songs are posted here just as they appear on surveys, misspellings and all ...

Top 10 of 26 ~ MARCH 1974

1. Bennie & The Jets
       - Elton John
2.  Seasons in the Sun
       - Terry Jacks
3.  Very Special Love Song

      
- Charlie Rich
4. 
Hooked on a Feeling
        - Blue Swede
5.  Mockingbird
        - Carly Simon/James Taylor
6.  Sunshine
        - John Denver
7.  Jet
        - Paul McCartney
8.  TSOP
        - MFSB
9.  Spiders & Snakes
        - Jim Stafford
10. Best Thing That Ever Happened
        - Gladys Knight

*🎵 Monthly Song of Note
#6: Sunshine ~ John Denver

KCBQ's dynamic DJ, Rich Bro Robbin made a long and exuberant career of life behind the mic, for which listeners coast-to-coast are forever grateful. We don't know who "Young" was on the chart's back cover took over afternoons, but knowing "Q" he was a good 'un!



The Red Baron and Chucker were spinning your top tunes at the Super Q this month 50 Years Ago. Radio window stickers were hot items back in the day ...

Some interesting radio trivia about “changing of the guards” back in the day. As WIKI tells it, “In 1972, the station was purchased by Bartell Media Corporation, the owner of legendary AM Top 40 stations KCBQ in San Diego and WOKY in Milwaukee, and was enjoying high ratings with WDRQ in Detroit as more people were tuning to FM stations for contemporary hits in the 1970s. Bartell turned KRCH into [St. Louis’] Top 40 outlet KSLQ. Around 1981, KSLQ adjusted its format to adult contemporary. In October 1982, the call letters were changed to the current KYKY . [And eventually into a hot adult contemporary radio format, owned by Audacy, Inc.]