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 / JULY 1976 ♪
From a Brick Shirt House ad to a Rolling Stones song not many outside of the West liked, B-100 FM/San Diego, California, made our Summer sizzle in 1976. Good-looking DJ Gary Kelley on the cover of Chart #64 July 8th, sported his trippin' surfer hair style, while the tunes inside Rocked us all Summer long ... ♪ 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 ~ July 8, 1976
1. Hot Stuff **
Rolling Stones
2. Good Vibrations
Todd Rundgren
Todd Rundgren
3. Boogie Fever
Sylvers
Sylvers
4. Movin'
Brass Construction
Brass Construction
5. Moonlight Feels Right
Starbuck
Starbuck
6. Crazy On You
Heart
Heart
7. Get Closer
Seals & Crofts
Seals & Crofts
8. Misty Blue **
Dorothy Moore
Dorothy Moore
9. Sara Smile
Hall & Oates
Hall & Oates
10. Get Up & Boogie
Silver Convention
Silver Convention
♪ **July's Monthly Song(s) of Note ♪
~ #17~ RED: Cherry Bomb ~ Runaways
~ # 1 ~ WHITE-Hot Stuff ~ Rolling Stones
~ # 1 ~ WHITE-Hot Stuff ~ Rolling Stones
~ # 8 ~ Misty BLUE ~ Dorothy Moore
I purchased my collection of vintage Radio surveys as much as ten years ago, so didn't at first, connect San Diego's Brick Shirt House shop (long defunct) with the B-100 ad. What a fun find!
