WLS Weekly Music Charts

Download or read book WLS Weekly Music Charts written by Frank W. Hoffmann and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WLS was a leading Top 40 AM radio outlet in the Chicago market - with a signal reaching much of North America at night - during the 1960s through the 1980s. This volume - the 4th dedicated to WLS - reproduces many of the station's pop music surveys from the 1980s. Also includes a tribute to Larry Lujack, a deejay employed by the station from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Like the other radio charts titles, my goal was to provide a convenient chronological compilation of weekly surveys with corrections of the considerable errors found in both the original sources and in translation to online sites. These radio charts - which exist in the public domain - can be found in a multitude of sources, including original published sheets distributed via retail outlets, mail inquiries, etc., notation of on-air broadcasts, back issues of area newspapers (where stations are located) and music trade periodicals, specialized reference books, and websites interested in historical documentation, most notably, Oldiesloon, musicradio77, and ARSA. I employed multiple sources in the compilation of each radio chart volume in order to provide the most accurate data possible.