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 / AUGUST 1976 ♪  
 
As I've mentioned, it's a B-100 West Coast Summer, with San Diego's Stereo Favorites, August 5, 1976 chart, Volume Two / Number Three. Along with the Top 30, up-and-coming new music includes "Shake Your Booty" (KC & Sunshine Band), "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine" (Lou Rawls) and our Song of the Month, "A Fifth of Beethoven" (Walter Murphy)--already in the Top 20 at WKTQ/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...  ♪ 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 30 ~ August 5, 1976 


1.  Afternoon Delight 
       Starland Vocal Band
 2. Kiss & Say Goodbye
        Manhattans
 3. More, More, More 
        Andrea True Connection
 4.  Sara Smile 
        Hall & Oates
 5. Moonlight Feels Right 
        Starbuck
 6.  Tear the Roof Off the Sucker
        Parliament
 7. Shop Around  
        Captain & Tennille
8. Misty Blue 
       Dorothy Moore
9. Take the Money & Run         
       Steve Miller Band
10. Let 'Em In
       Wings

♪ **August's Monthly Song of Note ♪
~ #11 ~ "A Fifth of Beethoven" ~ Walter Murphy
     On the WKTQ/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania chart. 
 
Shotgun Tom Kelly is a lifelong people-pleaser. Always a favorite with Radio listeners, TV fans, and his working cronies, Tom's type of enthusiasm for life is something we should all aspire to ... so let's Get Up & Boogie!
























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