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The 7 Radio Countdowns Every Boomer Listened To
I've heard of most of these but some - like the one involving The Grateful Dead - I don't remember airing here. Most were heard in Buffalo and I'm not sure how many crossed the border. But while Casey Kasem lives on in reruns, the rest are long gone.
7 radio countdowns every Boomer listened to religiously on Sunday nights
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Of course, locals will recall CHUM's weekly countdown of the latest chart songs. I can't recall what night it was on the radio. Was it Friday? Saturday? I remember listening to it, just not when! Did CKOC also do one?
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I remember listening to CHUM's show in the early 1970s and it was on Wednesday nights, as shown on the image below from the March 6, 1971 chart (with credit to Doug Thompson and his wonderful CHUM Tribute Site). But CHUM stopped doing their show at some point and I started listening to CKOC's, which I think aired on Wednesday nights as well. Eventually CHUM did bring their show back, but aired it on Saturday mornings instead.
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As a kid in Africa, our big countdown aired on Saturday morning from 11am to noon. It was sponsored by the local ice cream company, Lyon’s Maid, and it was pretty much the country’s top twenty. I remember getting pretty upset if I couldn’t tune in for some reason as it was my weekly dose of pop, usually my only dose being at a boarding school….!
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Shorty Wave wrote:
As a kid in Africa, our big countdown aired on Saturday morning from 11am to noon. It was sponsored by the local ice cream company, Lyon’s Maid, and it was pretty much the country’s top twenty. I remember getting pretty upset if I couldn’t tune in for some reason as it was my weekly dose of pop, usually my only dose being at a boarding school….!
Wow! Did you spend your childhood in Kenya?
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I remember listening to CHUM's show in the early 1970s and it was on Wednesday nights, as shown on the image below from the March 6, 1971 chart (with credit to Doug Thompson and his wonderful CHUM Tribute Site). But CHUM stopped doing their show at some point and I started listening to CKOC's, which I think aired on Wednesday nights as well. Eventually CHUM did bring their show back, but aired it on Saturday mornings instead.
Correct. The CKOC weekly countdown was Wednesday nights from 6-10 or maybe 7-11.
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Locally, CKOC always had their BIG 500 Countdown every year and in Buffalo 97ROCK did their Rock&Roll 500 countdown every Memorial Day weekend. And of course every top 40 station did their annual countdown of the previous year's top hits which usually aired New Year's Day.