Number 1 hit in December 1939 was Scatterbrain Benny Goodman with Louis Tobin, vocal.

In December 1938 you might have had the chance to experience The Royal Duo!



These are the big radio winners from December 1937.

number 1 - Tommy Dorsey

number 2 Bing Crosby

number 3 Gail Reese, voice.

number 4 - Blossoms on Broadway - Dick Robertson

 

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Nice! Too few classic magazines are fully archived (in downloadable PDF, not just images or some moronic proprietary formats).

Now, if someone were to do the same for Rolling Stone. I’m mostly interested in the 80’s and 90’s issues. There is an old CD-ROM that has them (you can easily find it), but the contents can’t be extracted and it only works on old computers.

 

December 1945
number 1 - Chickery Chick, Sammy Kaye

December 1945 review of Spike Jones latest.

 

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Billboard - March 28, 1970



Quincy Jones - Walking In Space (1969) {Full Album}

 

I was born in 1959 and this Johnny Horton song was the Billboard #1 chart topper for the year. I've listened to it perhaps over 400 times because when I was a kid at sleepyaway camp in the Catskills of NY they used to wake us up every single morning with this song...crazy as that seems!

 

great find, thanks for sharing

 

Today's music would probably be very different
if lithography hadn't been invented 1796 by Alois Senefelder.

The GAME CHANGER for every Producer and Manager in the entertainment industry....
They called it God's Paste Brush. The M O S T important PLUG-IN ever created.

In 1899 town criers used this plug-in to take their trade to the next level!!
A Billposter, or Flyposter, could use it with any length of stick.
If you're short or tall... you're good to go!

 

At least when I was still in NYC there were people that would physically post posters around the city (seemingly mostly downtown where I lived off of Bowery, LOL). They all had that type of brush and as well carried around a bucket of oatmeal slime. There were walls plastered with many, many years of bills that if you peeled off an edge there was sometimes almost a half an inch thick of years worth of paper. There were signs everywhere that stated "Post No Bills" but of course were completely ignored.

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Billboard - Nov 3, 1979 [Money , Money, Money)

 

As seen in the January 1, 1966 edition...

 

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last issue of 1959

 

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Billboard - December 20, 1975

 

 

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#3...Les Paul just killing it on guitar with Bing doing his best Bing Crosby.

 

ah man I love Bert

 

Great track, I don't think they used the Wurlitzer Humanizer on this one!

 

#1 CONVOY!!!

Directed by Sam Peckinpah!!!

 

Billboard-Country-Music-Source-Book-1982



"Big" Al Downing - The Story Of My Life 1962 45rpm

Alexander Downing (January 9, 1940[2] – July 4, 2005), better known as Big Al Downing, was an American musician and entertainer. He received the Billboard's New Artist of the Year and the Single of the Year Award in 1979. He was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame and was a frequent performer at the Grand Ole Opry. Downing was also nominated for the Best New Artist Award of the Academy of Country Music and appeared on Hee Haw, Nashville Now, and Dick Clark's American Bandstand television programs.

 

Ha! Convoy was a huge song 50 years ago and inspired a rollocking anti-establishment "outlaw" film of the same name directed by Sam Peckenpah and starring Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine and the late great Seymour Cassel in a minor part. There was a CB radio craze going on back then thanks to this and other films, and trucker lingo like "10-4" (affirmative) and "what's your handle?" (what's your CB radio call identify?) became everyday terminology. My dad like so many others bought a CB radio for our van and one for the house. My handle was Joker which I pulled from the great Steve Miller song The Joker.

 

Yea The song was big even in chicago. CB radios are all we really need. that was a great era I never saw most of the film it came out when I was 12... I'm downloading it from Ru as I write without glasses...