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 / APRIL 1976 ♪
WPEZ/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, went for sexy (again) in their FM Stereo music chart, in Volume 3 #13, for April 16, 1976. DJ Dennis Elliot is shown giving away $1,000--something Radio stations of the era loved to do. A life-long broadcaster, Dennis spent much of the '70s at WPEZ. Check out the lyrics to last month's Song of Note, "Right Back Where We Started From" and more now-classic hits ... ♪ 50 Years Ago this Month ... Enjoy the Moment Again!
*Top Ten songs are posted here just as they appear on surveys, misspellings and all (tho I don't use all caps) ...
Top 10 tunes of 25 ~ April 16, 1976
Four Seasons
2. Sara Smile
Daryl Hall and John Oates
Daryl Hall and John Oates
3. Lonely Night (Angel Face)
Captain and Tennille
Captain and Tennille
4. Right Back Where We Started From
Maxine Nightengale
Maxine Nightengale
5. Disco Lady
Johnnie Taylor
Johnnie Taylor
6. Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
Queen
7. Dream Weaver
Gary Wright
Gary Wright
8. Theme From S.W.A.T.
Rhythm Heritage
Rhythm Heritage
9. Welcome Back Kotter
John Sebastian
John Sebastian
10. Fanny
Bee Gees
Bee Gees
**Monthly Song(s) of Note ♪
~ #6~ Bohemian Rhapsody ~
Yep, if you visited this page a few months ago, you'll notice the graphics are basically the same ... different featured photo. WPEZ used the same cool, but eventually stale, art for the best of at least two years. Ah, well.
