I remember visiting a Zellers (or maybe it was Kresge’s) in 1960 or so in Montreal. In their ‘record section’, there was usually a Survey Chart. It wasn’t from a local radio station and it wasn’t Billboard or Cashbox. It was Canadian. Does anyone else remember the chart?

Damian wrote:

I remember visiting a Zellers (or maybe it was Kresge’s) in 1960 or so in Montreal. In their ‘record section’, there was usually a Survey Chart. It wasn’t from a local radio station and it wasn’t Billboard or Cashbox. It was Canadian. Does anyone else remember the chart?

That's odd the chart wasn't from a local radio station, or even Billboard or Cashbox.  RPM's chart didn't happen until  June 1964.  Could be that Zeller's had their own in house Survey Chart for the stores.  Zeller's sold a ton of singles and albums, and did have locations everywhere, so it could have been their own chart. 

One thing that Roger Ashby does occasionally on his show is play old radio commercials.  In the past he has played the old Dominion grocery jingle, Wrigley's gum, Coke, Pepsi and other's that escape me right now.  This morning at about 20 minutes into the first hour he played on old Simpsons-Sears radio jingle likely from the mid 60's.  The old radio commercials bring back lots of memories too.  On his show this week he is saluting John Lennon, October 9th would have been John's 81st birthday.
 

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paterson1 wrote:

One thing that Roger Ashby does occasionally on his show is play old radio commercials.  In the past he has played the old Dominion grocery jingle, Wrigley's gum, Coke, Pepsi and other's that escape me right now.  This morning at about 20 minutes into the first hour he played on old Simpsons-Sears radio jingle likely from the mid 60's.  The old radio commercials bring back lots of memories too.  On his show this week he is saluting John Lennon, October 9th would have been John's 81st birthday.
 

Somewhere I have a reel of old Simsons commercials. At least I think it was Simsons and not Eaton's and I hope I did not record over that tape or sell it.. Perhaps one day I will find it again. Was a production reel.

Here's a Coke commercial from CJBQ that I luckily digitized some years ago:

Coke 1962



 

Last edited by Fitz (October 9, 2021 10:54 am)

Apparently, there's more nostalgia than bargains. 

Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law