Lots of schlock on the CHUM 30 fifty years ago today! 

RadioActive wrote:

It's now lost to history and collectors like yours truly, but on August 11, 1976, the 1,000th edition of the iconic CHUM Chart was released. Both the CHUM many of us knew and the charts themselves are long gone, but on that summer day half a century ago, the Toronto Sun thought it was important enough to do an article on it, including having reporter Jerry Gladman dress up as typical 50s teenager in a classic pic for the story. 

By that time, of course, the Sun was the only place to see this remarkable chart, with CHUM having long since discontinued printing them anywhere but in the pages of the newspaper itself. I'm not sure how long they lasted in that format, but what is now TSN1050 is a shadow of its former 60s hit music station, generally coming in near the bottom of the ratings.

How the mighty have fallen. 

So what was #1 in edition 1,000? Take a look for yourself.



  

In Ron Hall's "The CHUM Chart Book", the author mentions that the issue numbers were five behind the actual total, an error that was never corrected and continued until the last chart. So this is Official Issue #995.