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CHUM CHART August 31, 1968
What a year 1968 was. Some remember it as a turbulent year with civil unrest, assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, The Zodiac killer began his reign of terror in California. Jackie Kennedy married Greek millionaire Aristotle Onassis, Pierre Trudeau became PM of Canada, the winter Olympics in Grenoble France were broadcast in colour for the first time, and the first manned Apollo mission that left the earth's orbit and travelled to the moon's orbit launched on December 21st. Remember the Christmas Eve greeting from the Apollo 8 astronauts?
This is quite the CHUM CHART to wrap up the summer of 1968. The music was heavy, a little bubblegum, a huge country hit, a few one hit wonders, even some mom and pop music that Wally would have been playing on CFRB! All this date in 1968...
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From pg 173 of "My Life in Rock 'n Roll Radio" by Bruce Morrow:
"Everyone's dominant impression of the sixties is the British Invasion. Randy rock with questionable lyrics. Hard-hitting, get down-and-boogie guitar riffs. Drugs. Psychedelia"
Your chart shows the handwriting on the wall. 1050 CHUM's top 30 was paving the road to oblivion in 1968
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georgio1 wrote:
From pg 173 of "My Life in Rock 'n Roll Radio" by Bruce Morrow:
"Everyone's dominant impression of the sixties is the British Invasion. Randy rock with questionable lyrics. Hard-hitting, get down-and-boogie guitar riffs. Drugs. Psychedelia"
Your chart shows the handwriting on the wall. 1050 CHUM's top 30 was paving the road to oblivion in 1968
Oblivion? What oblivion?
"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
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Oblivion is admittedly too strong a word. However, your namesake's statement that some of the tunes that charted in Aug. of '68 were "heavy" begged a dramatic response
After 1967 1050 CHUM's audience increasingly looked to CHUM FM for entertainment. Jim Morison & the Doors, Janis Joplin/Big Brother, etc.
No doubt some who kept the dial set at 1050 CHUM, by habit, will disagree with my response. Bring 'em on!
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Well, CHUM-FM eventually did overtake CHUM but this wasn't until the '80s by which time CHUM-FM had long abandoned progressive rock.
Lots of tunes on that 1968 chart could be described as "heavy", including "Sunshine of Your Love", "Street Fighting Man", "Pictures of Matchstick Men", "Hush", "Back On The Road Again", "Time Has Come Again", "Revolution" to name a few.
I loved CHUM-FM back in the progressive rock days and in fact paid extra to get an FM radio installed in my car in the early '70s to hear it and the many other FMs like CKFM, CHFI, WGRQ, WPHD and WBEN-FM. Those were great days for radio both on the AM and FM side.
"Life without echo is really no life at all." - Dan Ingram
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Re: CHUM CHART August 31, 1968
"Time Has Come Today" by the Chambers Bros. shouldn't be overlooked while selecting now-rare gems, eh?
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"Time Has Come Today" by the Chambers Bros. shouldn't be overlooked while selecting now-rare gems, eh?
They also had a great followup called "I Can't Turn You Loose", which you almost never hear.
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Who would have believed, in the late 60s, that discussion such as this would become eclipsed by reports of the death of Kleenex, Bugles and Welch's grape juice?
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Re: CHUM CHART August 31, 1968
A different version of Time Has Come Today was originally released in 1966 by the Chambers Brothers which I think was quickly withdrawn:
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